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👩‍🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.

🔬 Explore with us the frontiers of biomedical research
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📢 Save the Date!

The 2nd Nanopore Users Day will take place 🗓️10 March 2026 at the Duclaux Amphitheater, Institut Pasteur (Paris). This edition will be open to external participants!

👉 More details and registration info coming soon!

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November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Hello mosquito 🦟 and microbiota 🧫 🦠 aficionados, we are looking for a postdoc to join our team (Saleh's lab @salehlabparis.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr ) to investigate the interplay between the mosquito, its microbiota, and arboviruses. More information here 👇
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🚨 Only 2 weeks left to apply! Pasteur Course: The Last Mile – Towards Elimination of Major Infectious Diseases

Join a unique intensive course tackling the current challenges and critical advances in the fight against infectious diseases.

👉 Register now before November 22! bit.ly/4r1RpxE
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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and the English version. Thanks @pasteur.fr for highlighting this study. 🦠 #AMR
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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🇬🇧🇫🇷 "By working together we can overcome challenges faster"

Pasteur Foundation UK launched the formal @institutpasteur x @ox.ac.uk partnership in London.

From climate to AMR, cross-border collaboration is science's engine.
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In Conversation "science knows no country": Professor Sir Stewart Cole and Professor Dame Angela McLean. ©Pasteur Foundation UK
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Happy to share STORIES out now on Nature Methods

STORIES learns cell fate landscapes from spatial tramscripromics data profiled at several time points, thus allowing prediction of future cell states.

Led by Geert-Jan Huizing and Jules Samaran

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

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STORIES: learning cell fate landscapes from spatial transcriptomics using optimal transport - Nature Methods
By learning a differentiation potential using an optimal transport-based approach, STORIES models and infers cell fate trajectories using spatiotemporal omics data.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Curious about the top methane-maker in your gut? Meet this month's featured microbe and find out! 🦠💨🔥 in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social #archaeasky
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🔗 Full article linked in reply👇
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Methanobrevibacter smithii
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November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🦠💊 L’Institut @pasteur.fr vient de publier un communiqué de presse sur nos récents travaux, qui décrivent une nouvelle piste pour augmenter l’efficacité des antibiotiques. #Pasteurdon #Recherche #Science #AMR

Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui ont contribué.

📘 English version coming soon!
Une piste prometteuse pour augmenter l’efficacité des antibiotiques
Les aminosides sont des antibiotiques efficaces contre de très nombreuses bactéries telles que Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ou Staphylococcus aureus. Mais jusqu’à présent, personne ne sava...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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🎓🏆 Two Institut Pasteur PhD students honored at the 2025 Chancellerie des Universités de Paris Prizes!

👏 @nellsaunders.bsky.social – coronavirus research

👏 Antonin Verdier – optogenetic implant for hearing restoration

Excellence in doctoral research 🌟

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Prix Universitaires - Chancellerie des Universités de Paris - Sorbonne
Les Prix Universitaires de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris - Sorbonne : prix solennels, prix de thèse en droit et en sciences économiques.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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🎓 This month, we welcomed our new PPU PhD students to the Institut Pasteur campus. During their Orientation Day, students got an introduction to the program, met their peers and mentors, and discovered all the opportunities ahead.

👏 We are excited to see them embark on their journey!
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Thanks @maxjtelford.bsky.social for this nice write-up of our Hippo signaling paper
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Daniel Abbühl, Philippe Bastin @bastinlab.bsky.social and colleagues use a novel approach for tagging tubulin to dissect microtubule assembly dynamics of the axoneme in Trypanosoma brucei.
#JCSciliaSI
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Figure showing that tagged tubulin is frequently incorporated into the OF tip in cells that are in G1-phase.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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5 raisons de suivre la formation « HIV Sciences »
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5 raisons de suivre la formation « HIV Sciences »
Quelle est l’origine du virus du VIH ? Quelles sont les perspectives actuelles pour l’éradication du VIH ? Quelles sont les dernières avancées en matière de traitement et de prévention ?
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October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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🇪🇺 Major recognition for Institut Pasteur

Our National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses (led by Pr Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti) selected as EU Reference Laboratory by @ecdc.europa.eu 🔬
Part of an 8-country consortium to strengthen EU's capacity against respiratory viral pathogens.
#PublicHealth
Professor Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti. Head of the National Research Center for Respiratory Infections and the Molecular Mechanisms of Pneumovirus Multiplication Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris. ©Institut Pasteur / François Gardy
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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👩‍🔬 Cette semaine, 5 chercheuses de l’Institut Pasteur font la Une des médias !

De la santé des femmes au cancer, de la psychiatrie à l'intelligence artificielle... Leurs recherches font avancer la science.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Meet Mammar Khames, veterinarian and researcher at the University of Medea, Algeria.

He shares his experience of the 2025 edition of the Tuberculosis Pasteur Course, joining participants from 13 countries for 2 weeks of intensive training at the Institut Pasteur Education Center 🚀

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Tuberculosis Pasteur Course - Student testimonial 2 - 2025 edition
YouTube video by Institut Pasteur EDUCATION
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October 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🏆 Congrats Dr. Grégoire Davignon!

Honored with the Talent Award at Pasteur Network Annual Meeting (Vietnam) for outstanding research on leptospirosis & remarkable science outreach 🔬🌍

Inspiring the next generation of scientists from New Caledonia!

#TalentAward #PasteurNetwork
Congratulations to Dr. Grégoire Davignon! During the Pasteur Network Annual Meeting held last week in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Dr. Grégoire Davignon, Research Engineer at the Institut Pasteur of New Caledonia, was honored with the Talent Award. Funded by the Institut Pasteur Paris, this distinction celebrates young researchers from the Pasteur Network who demonstrate outstanding scientific potential and a remarkable sense of initiative in scientific dissemination. Dr. Davignon works on leptospiroses and has been deeply engaged in public outreach, sharing his research through television and radio programs, as well as presentations in schools to inspire the next generation of scientists.
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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How are auditory features represented across the #AuditoryPathway? @bathellierlab.bsky.social show that #auditory feature tuning emerges through a mix of gradual & stepwise changes, with early representation of simple features & later refinement of complex ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oi0XCY
Gosselin et al. observed that sound information is profoundly transformed from the ear to the central brain. This artwork by Wei Li (Institut de l’Audition, Paris) illustrates the complexity of processes underlying these transformations.
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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D’'Octobre rose' à l’endométriose, les pouvoirs publics se saisissent de plus en plus des enjeux liés à la santé des femmes.
Mais des inégalités de prise en charge et un manque d'écoute sont encore dénoncés par les patientes.
Série en 5 volets d'Héloïse Weisz 🎧
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October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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💚 Last night, the Institut Pasteur lit up its historic building in green: the color of Phelan‑McDermid syndrome.

This rare genetic disorder is linked to developmental & language challenges and autism.

It was here that researchers identified SHANK3, the gene behind the syndrome 🧬✨
October 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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🧬🩸 Cancer cells “tighten the belt” on their neighbors — Institut Pasteur, CNRS & Université Paris Cité uncover a mechanical killing strategy: tumor cells surround healthy ones and squeeze them to death via a contractile belt.

Read more 👉 research.pasteur.fr/en/news/canc...
Cancer cells tighten the belt around their neighbours forcing them to die - Research
Cancerous cells can expand in our tissues by killing neighbouring healthy cells. Researchers in Institut Pasteur, CNRS and the Université Paris Cité found a new mechanism used by cancerous cells to ki...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Enroll now our Online Course HIV Science! 🌐🦠
👉 www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/cours/hiv...

In this MOOC we will review different aspects of HIV infection: from its biological origin and its identification as the causative agent of AIDS to the perspectives of eradication.
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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💡🏆 The Institut Pasteur & startup BIOCELLIS honored at the 2025 Carnot Awards!

Their bioluminescence tech, born of partnership research, promises faster & more sensitive in vitro diagnostics — results in seconds, not hours.

Excellence in collaboration & innovation

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The Institut Pasteur and startup BIOCELLIS honored at the 2025 Carnot Awards: an illustration of excellence in collaborative research
The Carnot Prize for partnership-based research supporting the creation of startups was awarded to Thierry Rose and Sophie Goyard from the Institut Pasteur, which has been Carnot-certified since 2007,...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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New paper finally out on @natcomms.nature.com! Led by first author Maria Dramé with the collaboration of Francisco Garcia, @cbuch.bsky.social and @jytinevez.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr. Early mitochondrial signals in single human macrophages predict later Legionella replication. Link + details👇🧵
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🧬 The MOOC “Human Population & Evolutionary Genetics” is now open !
👉 Follow the course : bit.ly/4fw3Zje
💀🌍 Where do we come from? What was the migration history of our species? What role does the Neanderthal genome play in our genetic heritage? How has our species adapted to different environments?
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM