Polard lab - Toulouse
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Polard lab - Toulouse
@polardlab.bsky.social
We study all aspects of competence and natural genetic transformation using the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae as a model organism.

CNRS research team housed in the LMGM at the CBI in Toulouse.

https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-polard
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New paper from our lab up on Biorxiv, showing how a toxin targets replication to induce competence. 👇
A toxin/antitoxin system targeting the replication sliding-clamp induces competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673660v1
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Here's a new preprint from our lab on the mechanism of DNA uptake during transformation. Collaboration with Guerois and Radicella labs.
May 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Happy to share a recent paper from our lab in collaboration with Rémi and his team 👇
December 2, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Hello Bluesky! As a first post on this platform, we are happy to share the latest paper from our lab exporing links between competence, homologous recombination and genotoxic stress.

Please like/repost/follow to get us going on this platform!
December 2, 2024 at 9:09 AM