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Guillaume Frasca @gfrasca.bsky.social · 14h

Soutenez la science qui agit et toutes les équipes de recherche de l’institut @pasteur.fr ! #PasteurDon

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 15h

Pour chaque vie, la science agit.
Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant !
Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer ↘️ pasteurdon.fr
#Pasteurdon

Pour chaque vie, la science agit. Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant ! Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer. Faites un don sur pasteurdon.fr

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to Bluesky Martina!

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Inserm @inserm.fr · 5d

Les inscriptions pour la campagne ATIP-Avenir 2026 ouvrent aujourd'hui !

Toutes les informations ici ⬇️

Inserm @inserm.fr · 12d

La campagne 2026 ATIP-Avenir est ouverte ! Issu d'un partenariat entre l'Inserm et le @cnrs.fr, ce programme permet à de jeunes chercheurs de constituer leur propre équipe de recherche en sciences de la vie et de la santé.

Inscriptions dès le 3 octobre 2025 : pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/ap...

Atip-Avenir 2026

Vous souhaitez démarrer votre équipe de recherche et porter des projets de haut niveau, ambitieux et novateurs ? L'Inserm et le CNRS vous soutiennent pendant cinq ans.

pro.inserm.fr

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 7d

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

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Dewar Lab @dewarlab.bsky.social · 7d

🔬Fascinated by the unique mitochondrial biology that keeps deadly parasites alive?
🥼We have a fully funded NorthWestBio PhD just for you‼️
🌎 @blslancasteruni.bsky.social
📍Co-supervisor Kostas Tokatlidis @uofglasgow.bsky.social
⏰Deadline 21st Nov
📮Info and to apply👇
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Caroline Dewar

www.gla.ac.uk

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations! 👏👏👏

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to Brice @gloverlab.bsky.social and the whole team for a great piece of work!

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 15d

SHERLOCK4HAT: a CRISPR-RNA test rapidly spots animal trypanosomes, boosting sleeping-sickness surveillance and protecting herds. Led by Institut Pasteur & partners, study in eLife.

Details: www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese...

Forme sanguine de Trypanosoma brucei, parasite flagellé responsable de la maladie du sommeil en l'Afrique Centrale. Microscopie électronique à balayage.

Crédit :
Institut Pasteur/Thierry Blisnick, unité Biologie cellulaire des Trypanosomes. Acquisition à la Plate-Forme de Microscopie Ultrastructurale

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 14d

Outstanding work from Prof Hiroshi Hamada @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on the contribution of cilia to the definition of left-right asymmetry in multiple organisms, fascinating data on snails. Many thanks to @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social for the organisation @pasteur.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social

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Nature @nature.com · 22d

Brazil hopes to turn the tide of dengue with a home-grown vaccine and an army of mosquitoes

go.nature.com/41VWT1V

How billions of hacked mosquitoes and a vaccine could beat the deadly dengue virus

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands of people in South America each year and getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a home-grown vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria.

go.nature.com

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you @jcb.org Cynthia and Yameng for this commentary on our IFT paper!

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 23d

Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

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The Lambrechts Lab @lambrechtslab.bsky.social · 26d

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe

Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

www.science.org

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 28d

Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced:

It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026.

This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇

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Lotte B. Pedersen @lottepedersen.bsky.social · 28d

KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia

Rezi et al. show that kinesin-3 KIF13B regulates ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and small extracellular vesicle (EV) release of ciliary proteins while suppressing their relea...

www.cell.com

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Aug 6

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky

Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 28d

Learn more about our dear colleague @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social !

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 29d

🌊🦠 From coral reefs to malaria parasites

Sebastian Baumgarten swapped his diving gear for a computer keyboard, moving from marine biology to studying how Plasmodium adapts to climate change at the Institut Pasteur.

@sebbaumgarten.bsky.social #Research #Malaria #ClimateChange

Sebastian Baumgarten: understanding the impact of climate change, from the Arctic to malaria

Sebastian Baumgarten is a scientist with a fascination for marine and molecular biology, and more recently the huge potential of bioinformatics. At the Institut Pasteur, his research focuses on the in...

www.pasteur.fr

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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Dunn School PhD programme is live! 🎉

Two projects in our labs:
1) How the motor protein giant dynein-2 works
2) How signalling-essential membrane proteins get into cilia

Cryo-EM/ET, single mol & live-cell fluor microscopy, CRISPR-based genetic tools & more!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

How to Apply - Dunn School

Here you can find more information on how to apply for our PhD programme, including deadlines and application requirements.

www.path.ox.ac.uk

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 29d

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

www.cell.com

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(GIRISH)MALI LAB @dyneinassembly.bsky.social · 29d

The annual Dunn School DPhil studentship competition for 2026 is open for applications.

We have a project aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of ciliary dynein transport. See details below and please pass on to anyone who might be interested.

www.path.ox.ac.uk/project/mech...

Mechanistic studies on axonemal dynein transport to motile cilia - Dunn School

Over 30 groups work at the Dunn School to uncover the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying disease. Discover which research groups are accepting students for our next round of applications.

www.path.ox.ac.uk

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lovely front cover!

Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our 2025 Sep issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews species sanitation & structural resilience in malaria control, animal trypanosomosis control, parasite genome organization, Leishmania attachment in sandflies, nonchemotherapeutic nematode control, tick & host microbiotas, parasitic neural manipulation &more

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great and efficient system!

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Sep 4

This article is a @reviewcommons.org transfer.
You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including JCS here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/

Guidelines for Authors

Note: a version-controlled version of these guidelines is maintained at https://github.com/review-commons Table of Content Initial submission Scope and editorial assessment The peer-r...

www.reviewcommons.org

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Manuela Aguirre-Botero @maguirreb.bsky.social · Sep 2

Curious about how antibodies can target Plasmodium sporozoites?

Very happy to see this review out, it means a lot to me to finish my PhD research topic with a nice overview of what is known about how anti-CSP Abs neutralize the parasite in the mammalian host.

Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Aug 31

New Review alert! Tissue-dependent protection mechanisms of #antibodies targeting #Plasmodium #sporozoites, authored by @maguirreb.bsky.social & Rogerio Amino. #malaria #circumsporozoiteprotein #CSP @pasteur.fr‬ @upcite.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lhKa5Eb1x...

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The Lambrechts Lab @lambrechtslab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Does #dengue virus hijack #mosquitoes' brain? Study led by Felix Hol @pasteur.fr discovered that infected mosquitoes take smaller blood meals. As a result, they bite more often, and potentially infect infect more people.

(video in French with English subtitles available)
youtu.be/2u_qckfAQa4?...

La dengue aux commandes

YouTube video by Institut Pasteur

youtu.be

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congratulations! 👍

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations! 👏👏👏

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