Lab bunny 🦠🇨🇴
@bohorquezalejo.bsky.social
Virologist @Pasteur
Bacteriophage, bacterium, host group
Views are my own and whatnot
Bacteriophage, bacterium, host group
Views are my own and whatnot
My boss is in a new documentary!!!
You should check it out because, I don't know if you've heard but phages are pretty cool 😎😎
#phagesky
You should check it out because, I don't know if you've heard but phages are pretty cool 😎😎
#phagesky
THIS WAS GREAT FUN!! The team was watching last night and we really enjoyed getting to be a part of it
Thanks to the production team for highlighting the BBH lab work, among other @pasteur.fr groups
If you missed it last night, no worries, you can check it out here
www.france.tv/documentaire...
Thanks to the production team for highlighting the BBH lab work, among other @pasteur.fr groups
If you missed it last night, no worries, you can check it out here
www.france.tv/documentaire...
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
My boss is in a new documentary!!!
You should check it out because, I don't know if you've heard but phages are pretty cool 😎😎
#phagesky
You should check it out because, I don't know if you've heard but phages are pretty cool 😎😎
#phagesky
Well, I know what I'm doing the rest of the week @matthewcobb.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Well, I know what I'm doing the rest of the week @matthewcobb.bsky.social
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We were at the "Phages in Nancy" meeting last week and had a very fun time!
You can read all about it on this tread 🧵
#phagesky
You can read all about it on this tread 🧵
#phagesky
We were glad to take part in the "Phages in Nancy" meeting last week, organized by site.phages.fr and hosted by Xavier Bellanger
We'll share some of the highlights in this thread 🧵
We'll share some of the highlights in this thread 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We were at the "Phages in Nancy" meeting last week and had a very fun time!
You can read all about it on this tread 🧵
#phagesky
You can read all about it on this tread 🧵
#phagesky
Vented a little, might delete later 🤷🏻
Just don't shit on the double helix, ok? (The discovery, not the book ...... you can shit on the book, that's up to you)
Just don't shit on the double helix, ok? (The discovery, not the book ...... you can shit on the book, that's up to you)
I really dislike that I feel like I have to "stick up" or whatever for a reprehensible human being like Watson (maybe that's on me and I should just keep quiet) BUT, repeatedly seeing the man described as a failure is CRAAAAZY revisionism and a serious case of "what have you done for me lately"
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Vented a little, might delete later 🤷🏻
Just don't shit on the double helix, ok? (The discovery, not the book ...... you can shit on the book, that's up to you)
Just don't shit on the double helix, ok? (The discovery, not the book ...... you can shit on the book, that's up to you)
I really dislike that I feel like I have to "stick up" or whatever for a reprehensible human being like Watson (maybe that's on me and I should just keep quiet) BUT, repeatedly seeing the man described as a failure is CRAAAAZY revisionism and a serious case of "what have you done for me lately"
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I really dislike that I feel like I have to "stick up" or whatever for a reprehensible human being like Watson (maybe that's on me and I should just keep quiet) BUT, repeatedly seeing the man described as a failure is CRAAAAZY revisionism and a serious case of "what have you done for me lately"
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TL,DR We had a good time visiting some of our Portuguese colleagues this week, where we talked #phage and ran into some old and new faces
Our visit had it all: good science, good food and even an unexpected seismic drill
You can read all about it on this thread 🧵
Our visit had it all: good science, good food and even an unexpected seismic drill
You can read all about it on this thread 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
TL,DR We had a good time visiting some of our Portuguese colleagues this week, where we talked #phage and ran into some old and new faces
Our visit had it all: good science, good food and even an unexpected seismic drill
You can read all about it on this thread 🧵
Our visit had it all: good science, good food and even an unexpected seismic drill
You can read all about it on this thread 🧵
Look, they gave your boy a mic and a captive audience, they should've known it was gonna get pretty silly, pretty fast 🤷🏻
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Look, they gave your boy a mic and a captive audience, they should've known it was gonna get pretty silly, pretty fast 🤷🏻
In which we offer our comment on a cool work and (hopefully) start some conversation ✌🏼✌🏼
We saw this doing the rounds and we thought we'd share with you some of our thoughts and questions on it, since it's likely to be a highly impactful (and cool) work.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📝-Premise
✅-Pros
🚫-Cons
❓-Questions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📝-Premise
✅-Pros
🚫-Cons
❓-Questions
Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models
Many important biological functions arise not from single genes, but from complex interactions encoded by entire genomes. Genome language models have emerged as a promising strategy for designing biol...
www.biorxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In which we offer our comment on a cool work and (hopefully) start some conversation ✌🏼✌🏼
Happy Nobel prize day!!!
This year we celebrate all the PhD candidates who had to learn intracellular staining by looking for foxP3 in their samples 🥲🥲😂😂
This year we celebrate all the PhD candidates who had to learn intracellular staining by looking for foxP3 in their samples 🥲🥲😂😂
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues. #medsky 🧪
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
go.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Happy Nobel prize day!!!
This year we celebrate all the PhD candidates who had to learn intracellular staining by looking for foxP3 in their samples 🥲🥲😂😂
This year we celebrate all the PhD candidates who had to learn intracellular staining by looking for foxP3 in their samples 🥲🥲😂😂
Camera crews in the lab today ..... 💁🏻
September 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Camera crews in the lab today ..... 💁🏻
I like that we posted a real photo of my boss in the office and not a fake one in the lab looking at some nonsensical microscope or something 🤷🏻
NORMALIZE SHOWING REAL SCIENCE!!!
NORMALIZE SHOWING REAL SCIENCE!!!
ENG- Last, but definitely not least, in our #meettheteam series, it's the one you've all been waiting for ........... THE BOSS!!
Laurent Debarbieux has reignited a phage therapy research lab at @pasteur.fr since 2006 and it's been quite the ride (if we may say so ourselves)
Laurent Debarbieux has reignited a phage therapy research lab at @pasteur.fr since 2006 and it's been quite the ride (if we may say so ourselves)
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I like that we posted a real photo of my boss in the office and not a fake one in the lab looking at some nonsensical microscope or something 🤷🏻
NORMALIZE SHOWING REAL SCIENCE!!!
NORMALIZE SHOWING REAL SCIENCE!!!
Next time someone asks me if I'm enjoying my time at @pasteur.fr I'm just gonna show them this flyer that I got on my inbox today
They're announcing the presentation of a new flow cytometer like it's Bad Bunny dates or something
This place is run by nerds and I love it so much 🤓🤓😍😍
They're announcing the presentation of a new flow cytometer like it's Bad Bunny dates or something
This place is run by nerds and I love it so much 🤓🤓😍😍
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Next time someone asks me if I'm enjoying my time at @pasteur.fr I'm just gonna show them this flyer that I got on my inbox today
They're announcing the presentation of a new flow cytometer like it's Bad Bunny dates or something
This place is run by nerds and I love it so much 🤓🤓😍😍
They're announcing the presentation of a new flow cytometer like it's Bad Bunny dates or something
This place is run by nerds and I love it so much 🤓🤓😍😍
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#meettheteam If you've been following us for a bit, you might recognize this member of our team, who was featured on our very first post
Nicolas Dufour is an associated researcher who splits his time between the BBH lab and his clinical work at an intensive care unit
Nicolas Dufour is an associated researcher who splits his time between the BBH lab and his clinical work at an intensive care unit
September 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#meettheteam If you've been following us for a bit, you might recognize this member of our team, who was featured on our very first post
Nicolas Dufour is an associated researcher who splits his time between the BBH lab and his clinical work at an intensive care unit
Nicolas Dufour is an associated researcher who splits his time between the BBH lab and his clinical work at an intensive care unit
Drop a like for your boy
It's not like my job depends on it, but it doesn't NOT depend on it 🤷🏻
It's not like my job depends on it, but it doesn't NOT depend on it 🤷🏻
ENG- #meettheteam Did you know that there are >480 Postdocs working at @pasteur.fr ??? Today you get to meet one of them!
This is Jose Alejandro Bohorquez (@bohorquezalejo.bsky.social), he's been at our lab for 6 months, studying the effect of immunity on phage therapy for lung bacterial infections
This is Jose Alejandro Bohorquez (@bohorquezalejo.bsky.social), he's been at our lab for 6 months, studying the effect of immunity on phage therapy for lung bacterial infections
September 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Drop a like for your boy
It's not like my job depends on it, but it doesn't NOT depend on it 🤷🏻
It's not like my job depends on it, but it doesn't NOT depend on it 🤷🏻
👏 PROPHAGES 👏 ARE 👏 COOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
#meettheteam Meet Caroline Henrot, another member of our "Gut" team
She's a 3rd year PhD candidate, working between the BBH and MICALIS @inrae-france.bsky.social
Her research focuses on signaling involved in sustained prophage induction in the gut
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Have we mentioned prophages are COOL???😎
She's a 3rd year PhD candidate, working between the BBH and MICALIS @inrae-france.bsky.social
Her research focuses on signaling involved in sustained prophage induction in the gut
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Have we mentioned prophages are COOL???😎
August 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
👏 PROPHAGES 👏 ARE 👏 COOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
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#meettheteam A lot of the work for a research lab is not ACTUALLY performed on the bench, that's why it helps to have a good administrative assistant!!
At the BBH we're lucky to have Eric Figueroa-Acosta helping us out with the (many) administrative tasks needed for the daily functioning of the lab
At the BBH we're lucky to have Eric Figueroa-Acosta helping us out with the (many) administrative tasks needed for the daily functioning of the lab
August 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
#meettheteam A lot of the work for a research lab is not ACTUALLY performed on the bench, that's why it helps to have a good administrative assistant!!
At the BBH we're lucky to have Eric Figueroa-Acosta helping us out with the (many) administrative tasks needed for the daily functioning of the lab
At the BBH we're lucky to have Eric Figueroa-Acosta helping us out with the (many) administrative tasks needed for the daily functioning of the lab
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It's fair to say that the subject of today's #meettheteam spotlight, Marie Messika, performs some of the most eye-catching work in the lab
We don't have enough characters to ellaborate so we'll just summarize it with emojis for now
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#BBHPasteur
We don't have enough characters to ellaborate so we'll just summarize it with emojis for now
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#BBHPasteur
August 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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ENG #meettheteam 📢TECHNICIANS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF ANY RESEARCH LAB!! 📢, so we're glad to introduce you to Céline Mulet
She's been working at @pasteur.fr for over 30 years and for the past 3 she's been at the BBH, helping us out with our in vivo models 🐭 and histopathology 🔬 among other things
She's been working at @pasteur.fr for over 30 years and for the past 3 she's been at the BBH, helping us out with our in vivo models 🐭 and histopathology 🔬 among other things
July 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
ENG #meettheteam 📢TECHNICIANS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF ANY RESEARCH LAB!! 📢, so we're glad to introduce you to Céline Mulet
She's been working at @pasteur.fr for over 30 years and for the past 3 she's been at the BBH, helping us out with our in vivo models 🐭 and histopathology 🔬 among other things
She's been working at @pasteur.fr for over 30 years and for the past 3 she's been at the BBH, helping us out with our in vivo models 🐭 and histopathology 🔬 among other things
📢📢📢 PROPHAGES ARE COOL!!! 📢📢📢
#meettheteam Today our spotlight is on prophages!
.... Or at least on our prophage guy. Meet Luis Tanoeiro (@ltanoeiro.bsky.social) a PhD candidate splitting his time between our lab and Bioisi (U. of Lisbon @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social) working with Filipa Vale's team
Prophages are COOL!!!
.... Or at least on our prophage guy. Meet Luis Tanoeiro (@ltanoeiro.bsky.social) a PhD candidate splitting his time between our lab and Bioisi (U. of Lisbon @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social) working with Filipa Vale's team
Prophages are COOL!!!
July 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📢📢📢 PROPHAGES ARE COOL!!! 📢📢📢
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Look who showed up at our lab today 👀
None other than @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and Jérémy Seurat
We had a mini reunion with some of the authors in our recent Nature comm paper (sadly missing Sophia, one of the lead authors)
Thanks for the visit, exciting things coming from our collaboration!!
None other than @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and Jérémy Seurat
We had a mini reunion with some of the authors in our recent Nature comm paper (sadly missing Sophia, one of the lead authors)
Thanks for the visit, exciting things coming from our collaboration!!
July 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Look who showed up at our lab today 👀
None other than @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and Jérémy Seurat
We had a mini reunion with some of the authors in our recent Nature comm paper (sadly missing Sophia, one of the lead authors)
Thanks for the visit, exciting things coming from our collaboration!!
None other than @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and Jérémy Seurat
We had a mini reunion with some of the authors in our recent Nature comm paper (sadly missing Sophia, one of the lead authors)
Thanks for the visit, exciting things coming from our collaboration!!
Reposted by Lab bunny 🦠🇨🇴
#meettheteam Today you get to meet one of our PhD candidates, Ngoc-Minh-Chau Nguyen
She's been with the lab for >2 years, working on developing in vitro models to study bacterial infections in the lung.
If you've got questions about cell culture or fluorescence microscopy, she's your person!!!
She's been with the lab for >2 years, working on developing in vitro models to study bacterial infections in the lung.
If you've got questions about cell culture or fluorescence microscopy, she's your person!!!
July 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#meettheteam Today you get to meet one of our PhD candidates, Ngoc-Minh-Chau Nguyen
She's been with the lab for >2 years, working on developing in vitro models to study bacterial infections in the lung.
If you've got questions about cell culture or fluorescence microscopy, she's your person!!!
She's been with the lab for >2 years, working on developing in vitro models to study bacterial infections in the lung.
If you've got questions about cell culture or fluorescence microscopy, she's your person!!!
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#meettheteam Today we're introducing Nandita Sharma, a Postdoc on the BBH lab and a very important part of our "gut" team
She works mainly on Citrobacter (hence the Drigalski agar), using gnotobiotic mouse models and also has experience in CRISPR-Cas systems on Salmonella
She works mainly on Citrobacter (hence the Drigalski agar), using gnotobiotic mouse models and also has experience in CRISPR-Cas systems on Salmonella
July 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
#meettheteam Today we're introducing Nandita Sharma, a Postdoc on the BBH lab and a very important part of our "gut" team
She works mainly on Citrobacter (hence the Drigalski agar), using gnotobiotic mouse models and also has experience in CRISPR-Cas systems on Salmonella
She works mainly on Citrobacter (hence the Drigalski agar), using gnotobiotic mouse models and also has experience in CRISPR-Cas systems on Salmonella
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Today we're celebrating!
Summer is here and it came with a "Groot" grant from @pasteur.fr for Nicolas Dufour (pictured left and who may have hurt his finger during grant-writing by the looks of it) and Quentin Lamy-Besnier (on the right with the cool artsy shirt)
Congrats to both of you!!
Summer is here and it came with a "Groot" grant from @pasteur.fr for Nicolas Dufour (pictured left and who may have hurt his finger during grant-writing by the looks of it) and Quentin Lamy-Besnier (on the right with the cool artsy shirt)
Congrats to both of you!!
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Today we're celebrating!
Summer is here and it came with a "Groot" grant from @pasteur.fr for Nicolas Dufour (pictured left and who may have hurt his finger during grant-writing by the looks of it) and Quentin Lamy-Besnier (on the right with the cool artsy shirt)
Congrats to both of you!!
Summer is here and it came with a "Groot" grant from @pasteur.fr for Nicolas Dufour (pictured left and who may have hurt his finger during grant-writing by the looks of it) and Quentin Lamy-Besnier (on the right with the cool artsy shirt)
Congrats to both of you!!
You know what's great for a heatwave??? Reading some refreshing science (ba-dum-tss)
NEW PAPER FROM THE BBH Y'AAAAAALL
What's that? You don't f*ck with the scientific lingo? I got you
NEW PAPER FROM THE BBH Y'AAAAAALL
What's that? You don't f*ck with the scientific lingo? I got you
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!!!🚨 The BBH lab is proud to present the latest www.nature.com/articles/s41... from our collaboration with @joshuasweitz.bsky.social (now at UMaryland), evaluating the importance of alveolar macrophages (AM) for the efficacy of phage therapy against P. aeruginosa
Let's dig in (1/6)
Let's dig in (1/6)
Macrophage-induced reduction of bacteriophage density limits the efficacy of in vivo pulmonary phage therapy - Nature Communications
In vivo experiments and mathematical modelling in this work, show that alveolar macrophages lower phage densities and phage-bacteria contact rates, limiting the effectiveness of synergistic treatment ...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You know what's great for a heatwave??? Reading some refreshing science (ba-dum-tss)
NEW PAPER FROM THE BBH Y'AAAAAALL
What's that? You don't f*ck with the scientific lingo? I got you
NEW PAPER FROM THE BBH Y'AAAAAALL
What's that? You don't f*ck with the scientific lingo? I got you
Going from vet virology to human virology/bacteriology to Phage 🤷🏻
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Going from vet virology to human virology/bacteriology to Phage 🤷🏻