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Profil officiel de la Faculté de biologie et de médecine de l’Université de Lausanne (Suisse) @unil.bsky.social
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Francesco Ceppi conduit plusieurs projets de #thérapie #cellulaire contre la leucémie et d’autres #cancers #pédiatriques. Avec un double objectif: augmenter l’efficacité du traitement & diminuer ses effets secondaires à long terme.
www.unil.ch/news/fr/1763...

@unil.bsky.social #chuv #immunothérapie
L’immunothérapie, « moindre mal » pour les jeunes patients
Francesco Ceppi conduit plusieurs projets de thérapie cellulaire contre la leucémie et d’autres cancers pédiatriques. Avec un double objectif : augmenter l’efficacité du traitement et diminuer ses eff...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Publication alert 🚨
on #bisphenols, including #BPA (bisphenol A) and its analogues

Published in the journal Chemosphere @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessing bisphenols migration from children's products on the Swiss market: simulated oral exposure and risk implications
Bisphenols, including bisphenol A (BPA) and its analogues, are widely used in consumer plastics and are known endocrine disruptors. Despite increasing…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Save the date!

𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲́ 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
L'Unil, l'EPFL, Unisanté et le CHUV lancent un grand événement pour comprendre, débattre et imaginer la #santé de #demain vendredi 28 novembre et samedi 29 novembre 2025.

🔗 Programme complet & inscription sur www.horizon-sante.ch

@unil.bsky.social #horizonsanté
Horizon Santé 2025 – UNIL • EPFL • CHUV • Unisanté
Le nouveau rendez-vous romand dédié à la recherche, à l’innovation et aux grands défis de la santé. UNIL, EPFL, CHUV et Unisanté unis pour la santé de demain.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🔦 Flash #Recherche

🧬🦀 Des scientifiques @dib-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social identifient un nouveau #mécanisme susceptible de faire dérailler certains #traitements du #cancer. En jeu ? La perte du gène 𝘕𝘜𝘋𝘛5.
🔗 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1762...

@jourdainlab.bsky.social
Ce gène qui sauve les chimiothérapies
Des scientifiques du Département d’immunobiologie de l’Unil mettent en évidence un nouveau mécanisme susceptible de faire dérailler certains traitements du cancer.
www.unil.ch
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Very excited to share the published version of our #uridine #CRISPR screen in naturemetabolism.bsky.social! 🎉

Led by Abigail Strefeler with @pagliarini-lab.bsky.social @zakbaker.bsky.social and team!

#NUDT5 #DMQ @dib-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Uridine-sensitized screening identifies demethoxy-coenzyme Q and NUDT5 as regulators of nucleotide synthesis - Nature Metabolism
A uridine-sensitized CRISPR-Cas9 screening identifies demethoxy-CoQ as an alternative electron acceptor in the absence of CoQ, and NUDT5 as a regulator of de novo pyrimidine synthesis via its interact...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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💡 A new study in @cp-iscience.bsky.social led by @johannajoyce.bsky.social (@fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @ludwigcancer.bsky.social) & Jean Hausser (@scilifelab.se @ki.se) tracks how #breast #tumors change over time, cell by cell.
➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1762789...
Time in the tumor: how cancer and immunity evolve together
By tracking thousands of cells over time, a study in iScience from Johanna Joyce and Jean Hausser exposes how cancer and immunity evolve together and where therapy might strike most effectively. This ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Congratulations 👏
labluthi.bsky.social Sleep Research Lab at University of Lausanne @labluthi.bsky.social · 9d
@labluthi.bsky.social congratulates Lila Banterle for her successful PhD thesis - an excellent defense was followed by excellent festivities! @anitaluthi.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Save the date!
𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
The NCCR Microbiomes presents the third edition of the #Swiss #Microbiomes #Forum
🗓️ Thursday, Feb 5th 2026
🕑 14h00
📍 EPFL Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne
🎟️ Free to attend, but registration is required.
🔗 nccr-microbiomes.ch/tech-transfe...
Third edition - 2026 - NCCR
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November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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📣 The call for tutorials & workshops at #ECCB2026 is now open! Share your tools, methods or expertise with the community.
🗓️ Deadline: 5 January 2026
👉 Submit: tinyurl.com/tw-eccb26

💡 ECCB will take place on 31 Aug–4 Sept in Geneva, gathering 1,000+ scientists from academia, industry, & healthcare.
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A
Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications
Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Nouveau programme doctoral en oncologie! Plus que quelques jours pour candidater.

@uofg-civis.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
spaxio.bsky.social spaXio - MSCA doctoral network @spaxio.bsky.social · Oct 17
Join spaXio, an EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network exploring how cancer spreads & interacts with its surroundings using spatial multi-omics, 3D tumoroids, advanced imaging & AI.

🎓 14 fully funded PhD positions across Europe!
🌐 www.spaXio.eu
📝 Apply: civis.smapply.io/prog/spaxio_...
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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👏 Congratulations to all the authors from the Department of Biomedical Sciences @unil.bsky.social on this new publication in European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Monitoring endosomal escape of fluorescent cell-penetrating peptides
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have the capacity to transport cargos into cells either through endocytosis or direct translocation across the plasma…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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So proud of our UNILausanne iGEM team! 🏆🥇 Best Entrepreneurship, placed in the Top 10 Overgrad teams, won a Gold Medal, and were nominated for Best Education, Best Wiki, and Best Biomanufacturing Project. Incredible achievement! #iGEM
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November 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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📢 Applications still open for an 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 in #dermatopathology
📍 within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology
❗ Apply before November 30th, 2025 (deadline extended!)
More info 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

#joboffer @unil.bsky.social #chuv #fbm
DM/DER: Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in dermatopathology - Site des postulations FBM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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🥊 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇: Teaching immune cells to “listen” and fight smarter
By Caroline Arber & Patrick Barth and their colleagues at @unil.bsky.social #CHUV & #EPFL.
➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1761667...

#cancer #immune #cells #Tcell #therapy
Teaching immune cells to “listen” and fight smarter
By sensing tumour-specific environmental cues, newly designed synthetic receptors empower T cells to fight cancers more effectively, offering a promising strategy to overcome key resistance mechanisms...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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📢 Applications open for a 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 in #plant-organism #interactions
at the Department of Plant Molecular Biology
❗ Deadline: November 30th

More info 👉 career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

#joboffer @unil.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social
Opportunités de carrière : DBMV: Professeur-e assist. en PTC à PAS en interactions plantes-organismes (22484)
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October 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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dessimoz.bsky.social
Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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📲𝐍𝐄𝐖 study shows that #adenine base #editing (ABE) can safely and efficiently reprogram tumor-infiltrating #lymphocytes (TILs) to better attack #cancer.

🔗 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CRISPR-Cas9 #ABE #TILs
Highly efficient gene knockout in tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes by adenine base editing
The disruption of immune checkpoints in T cells is a promising tool for improving the efficacy of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy. While C…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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👏 Congratulations on this new publication in @plosbiology.org
vedranaslipogor.bsky.social Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · 29d
📢 New article out in PLOS BIology!

It was truly a pleasure and honour be a part of the core team members to lead this study and work alongside 129 collaborators from 82 institutions across 24 countries - the largest ever comparative study of neophobia in 🐦! 🥰
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🐜 New publication on #invasive #insects in @ecography.bsky.social journal
by Aymeric Bonnamour, Cleo Bertelsmeier @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
European colonial empires accelerated ant invasions
Between the 16th and the 20th centuries, European countries established vast colonial empires on all continents. These empires triggered profound environmental, demographic and economic transformatio...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Publiée dans @wildlifebiology.bsky.social, une étude @dee-unil.bsky.social & @korafoundation.bsky.social révèle que les #loups présents dans les #Alpes du Nord & le #Jura consomment majoritairement des cerfs, chevreuils & chamois.
www.unil.ch/news/fr/1759...

#Suisse #alimentation @unil.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🤕⚡ News recherche
Une intervention chirurgicale entraîne une #douleur #chronique dans 40% des cas, en moyenne. Ce qui en fait un problème de santé publique. Une étude récente du #CHUV et de l’UNIL révèle un nouveau mécanisme impliqué dans ce phénomène.
www.unil.ch/news/fr/1760...

@unil.bsky.social
Un nouvel espoir pour les douleurs chroniques post-opératoires
Une intervention chirurgicale entraîne une douleur persistante dans 40% des cas, en moyenne. Ce qui en fait un problème de santé publique. Une étude récente du CHUV et de l’UNIL révèle un nouveau méca...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇
Evolution of gut microbiota across honeybee species revealed by comparative metagenomics
Nature Communications - Here, the authors perform metagenomic analysis of honeybee gut microbes, uncovering many previously unidentified species and host specific differences in composition and...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Happy that the final version of our Lamassu work @yli18smc.bsky.social is now out:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks again to our awesome collaborators @mblokesch.bsky.social and David and co and Mark Szczelkun and @steven-shaw.bsky.social and the DCI Lausanne @fbm-unil.bsky.social
gruberlab.bsky.social Stephan Gruber @gruberlab.bsky.social · Mar 16
Glad to share the work of @yli18smc.bsky.social and co on Lamassu, a bacterial defense system related to Rad50/Mre11 (RM). While RM carefully trims DNA ends for repair, Lamassu chops up the host chromosome. Our study reveals how it is regulated to minimize damage, activating only during infection.
Alt : Structure of the apo Lamassu protein complex. Schematic model of the active LmuA tetramer nuclease (top right). Lamassu icon (top left).
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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marcrr.bsky.social
Excellente lettre par mes collègues de l'Institut des humanités en médecine au CHUV et @fbm-unil.bsky.social
www.letemps.ch/opinions/tru...
Trump «annule» les savoirs (en santé), produisons-en! - Le Temps
OPINION. Les attaques répétées de l’administration Trump sur les données et les productions scientifiques ne seront pas sans conséquences, notamment sur la santé. Elles affectent déjà nos propres rech...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM