Priscilla Branchu
@priscillabranchu.bsky.social
Working on microbes-host interactions and especially Gram-negative bacteria. I found that extracellular vesicles produced by bacteria are fascinating
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🚨I'm happy to share our latest review on outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a promising platform for vaccine development in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 💉
🔗 Read it here: isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🔗 Read it here: isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Outer Membrane Vesicles as a Versatile Platform for Vaccine Development: Engineering Strategies, Applications and Challenges
Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are nanosized vesicles naturally secreted by Gram-negative bacteria and represent a promising platform for vaccine development. OMVs possess inherent immunostimulatory ...
isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨I'm happy to share our latest review on outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a promising platform for vaccine development in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 💉
🔗 Read it here: isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🔗 Read it here: isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨 PhD POSITION ALERT! 🚨
Are you passionate about gut microbiota, immune modulation & functional foods?
Join a cutting-edge 3-year funded PhD project in Poland at a top research institute near Warsaw!
🔗 inpst.net/phd-student-...
🌐 #PhDposition #PhDOpportunity #INPST
Are you passionate about gut microbiota, immune modulation & functional foods?
Join a cutting-edge 3-year funded PhD project in Poland at a top research institute near Warsaw!
🔗 inpst.net/phd-student-...
🌐 #PhDposition #PhDOpportunity #INPST
June 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Join the 2025 #MIRA workshop, online or in Toulouse!
From emerging pathogens to global health solutions, connect with top 🇮🇳🇫🇷 researchers, explore funding, and spark new collaborations.
Keynotes by Nagasuma Chandra & Marie-Cécile Ploy!
Details & registration: shorturl.at/VMfwn
#GlobalHealth #MicroSky
From emerging pathogens to global health solutions, connect with top 🇮🇳🇫🇷 researchers, explore funding, and spark new collaborations.
Keynotes by Nagasuma Chandra & Marie-Cécile Ploy!
Details & registration: shorturl.at/VMfwn
#GlobalHealth #MicroSky
Franco-Indian MIRA workshop on infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance - IPBS-Toulouse
MIRA workshop 2025
www.ipbs.fr
April 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Join the 2025 #MIRA workshop, online or in Toulouse!
From emerging pathogens to global health solutions, connect with top 🇮🇳🇫🇷 researchers, explore funding, and spark new collaborations.
Keynotes by Nagasuma Chandra & Marie-Cécile Ploy!
Details & registration: shorturl.at/VMfwn
#GlobalHealth #MicroSky
From emerging pathogens to global health solutions, connect with top 🇮🇳🇫🇷 researchers, explore funding, and spark new collaborations.
Keynotes by Nagasuma Chandra & Marie-Cécile Ploy!
Details & registration: shorturl.at/VMfwn
#GlobalHealth #MicroSky
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Le LISM (lism.imm.cnrs.fr) propose une mobilité en NOEMI pour travailler sur des assemblages de l'enveloppe bactérienne. Profil microbiologie, biologie moléculaire, avec une envie de faire de la biochimie, de la microscopie ou de la biologie cellulaire ! Rejoignez une unité dynamique !!
Welcome - LISM
The research topics of the LISM today remain centered on biological membranes and in particular membranes of Gram-negative bacteria. Since […]
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May 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Le LISM (lism.imm.cnrs.fr) propose une mobilité en NOEMI pour travailler sur des assemblages de l'enveloppe bactérienne. Profil microbiologie, biologie moléculaire, avec une envie de faire de la biochimie, de la microscopie ou de la biologie cellulaire ! Rejoignez une unité dynamique !!
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Happy to share our last paper. We show that the inoculation of 4 commensal bacteria to chicks has both short- and long-term effects on immune response and microbiota composition and promoted the low-shedder phenotype thanks to a more fermentative microbiota.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The immune response modulated by inoculation of commensal bacteria at birth impacts the gut microbiota and prevents Salmonella colonization
Super- and low-shedding phenomena have been observed in genetically homogeneous hosts infected by a single bacterial strain. To decipher the mechanisms underlying these phenotypes, we conducted an ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happy to share our last paper. We show that the inoculation of 4 commensal bacteria to chicks has both short- and long-term effects on immune response and microbiota composition and promoted the low-shedder phenotype thanks to a more fermentative microbiota.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our latest paper is out ! We developed a vaccine to reduce the intestinal carriage of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, with a proof of concept on Citrobacter rodentium
Development of intimin-enriched outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a vaccine to control intestinal carriage of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) are foodborne pathogens causing severe human infections including hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic s…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Our latest paper is out ! We developed a vaccine to reduce the intestinal carriage of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, with a proof of concept on Citrobacter rodentium
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I am hiring! 2 year Post-Doc microbiologist to identify gut bacteria inhibiting fungal pathogens. Join new, expanding gut microbiome research group at @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social and @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social in Cork. Further details and apply here:
ore.ucc.ie
Job ID: 084031
ore.ucc.ie
Job ID: 084031
University College Cork Vacancies
ore.ucc.ie
February 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I am hiring! 2 year Post-Doc microbiologist to identify gut bacteria inhibiting fungal pathogens. Join new, expanding gut microbiome research group at @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social and @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social in Cork. Further details and apply here:
ore.ucc.ie
Job ID: 084031
ore.ucc.ie
Job ID: 084031
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Post-Doctoral Position available in our team!
February 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Post-Doctoral Position available in our team!
Last work from our lab, very nice work from @audrey-goman.bsky.social I am very proud of you and all the work behind👏
✨ Excited to share our work in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles! ✨ We reveal a new family of virulence factors in gram-negative bacteria like P. aeruginosa that drive harmful OMV production. 🦠
isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Uncovering a new family of conserved virulence factors that promote the production of host‐damaging outer membrane vesicles in gram‐negative bacteria
CprA is a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) that contributes to resistance against colistin and antimicrobial peptides. The cprA gene is conserved across Pseudomonas aeruginosa clades and its....
isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Last work from our lab, very nice work from @audrey-goman.bsky.social I am very proud of you and all the work behind👏
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We are recruiting one postdoc and one PhD student to join our lab on #Drosophila #innate immunity in Lausanne (Switzerland). More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...
Open Positions
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www.epfl.ch
January 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We are recruiting one postdoc and one PhD student to join our lab on #Drosophila #innate immunity in Lausanne (Switzerland). More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...
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The Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) is seeking to recruit new group leaders to join the Virology Department.
The application deadline is March 15th, 2025
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/I2BC-Virology-call_2025.pdf
The application deadline is March 15th, 2025
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/I2BC-Virology-call_2025.pdf
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) is seeking to recruit new group leaders to join the Virology Department.
The application deadline is March 15th, 2025
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/I2BC-Virology-call_2025.pdf
The application deadline is March 15th, 2025
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/I2BC-Virology-call_2025.pdf
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We have an open PhD position to work on bacterial secretion systems. Please RT, write us or apply through the CNRS job portal:
t.co/HxX23Od1oa
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7255-ERICAS-004/Default.aspx?lang=EN
t.co
January 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We have an open PhD position to work on bacterial secretion systems. Please RT, write us or apply through the CNRS job portal:
t.co/HxX23Od1oa
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#WeekendRead! Ahn, Arthur &co show @CellHost&Microbe that pathogenic E. coli produce a metallophore that sequesters zinc in macrophages, stabilizing HIF1a & driving fibrosis in #IBD mouse models and Crohn Disease patients! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Intestinal E. coli-produced yersiniabactin promotes profibrotic macrophages in Crohn’s disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated fibrosis causes significant morbidity. Mechanisms are poorly understood but implicate the microbiota, espe…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#WeekendRead! Ahn, Arthur &co show @CellHost&Microbe that pathogenic E. coli produce a metallophore that sequesters zinc in macrophages, stabilizing HIF1a & driving fibrosis in #IBD mouse models and Crohn Disease patients! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣 Postdoc position available in my group at Pitt to study how Klebsiella controls its cell surface and develop new projects. themikelab.com
Read more and apply here by Jan 12:
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Reposts are appreciated!
#klebclub
#newPI
Read more and apply here by Jan 12:
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Reposts are appreciated!
#klebclub
#newPI
December 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
📣 Postdoc position available in my group at Pitt to study how Klebsiella controls its cell surface and develop new projects. themikelab.com
Read more and apply here by Jan 12:
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Reposts are appreciated!
#klebclub
#newPI
Read more and apply here by Jan 12:
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Reposts are appreciated!
#klebclub
#newPI
À great project in a great team !!!
Please RT !
Perfect project for a post-doc! You will have access to a great set of data and we have already exciting hypotheses! Don’t hesitate to contact us.
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
À great project in a great team !!!
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Please RT !
Perfect project for a post-doc! You will have access to a great set of data and we have already exciting hypotheses! Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Looking for PostDoc - Metabolism/Salmonella. We are looking for candidates with excellent knowledge in bioinformatics and bacterial physiology / microbial ecology.
We will help the candidate to build a successful application for
European grants such as EMBO and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
We will help the candidate to build a successful application for
European grants such as EMBO and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
December 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Please RT !
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Development of intimin-enriched outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a vaccine to control intestinal carriage of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627534v1
December 11, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Development of intimin-enriched outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a vaccine to control intestinal carriage of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627534v1
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📹 🔬🦠 Merci à @envt.bsky.social pour cette vidéo qui permet au grand public de découvrir une partie des travaux de recherche menée par l’équipe « Pathogénie et Commensalisme des Entérobactéries » à l’IRSD
: 🔗👉 youtu.be/Kz-iq7sFNQU?...
: 🔗👉 youtu.be/Kz-iq7sFNQU?...
Eschericha Coli, une bactérie pathogène pour l’homme et l’animal
YouTube video by Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse
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December 10, 2024 at 7:21 PM
📹 🔬🦠 Merci à @envt.bsky.social pour cette vidéo qui permet au grand public de découvrir une partie des travaux de recherche menée par l’équipe « Pathogénie et Commensalisme des Entérobactéries » à l’IRSD
: 🔗👉 youtu.be/Kz-iq7sFNQU?...
: 🔗👉 youtu.be/Kz-iq7sFNQU?...
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🚨🚨🚨 L'@ipbstoulouse.bsky.social est laboratoire d'accueil pour 4 postes de MCU en biochimie, biologie moléculaire, génétique et microbiologie qui vont ouvrir au concours en 2025 à l'Université de Toulouse
#Emploi #Université #Maitredeconférences
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#Emploi #Université #Maitredeconférences
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December 9, 2024 at 1:40 PM
🚨🚨🚨 L'@ipbstoulouse.bsky.social est laboratoire d'accueil pour 4 postes de MCU en biochimie, biologie moléculaire, génétique et microbiologie qui vont ouvrir au concours en 2025 à l'Université de Toulouse
#Emploi #Université #Maitredeconférences
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#Emploi #Université #Maitredeconférences
👇
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New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
November 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
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Let's start the Bsky adventure with a job post. Still about two weeks to apply to this postdoc position on "Molecular and Structural Biology of Membrane Biogenesis" in the labs @raffaeleieva.bsky.social ky.social and @fronzeslab.bsky.social slab.bsky.social in beautiful south-west of France!
November 29, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Let's start the Bsky adventure with a job post. Still about two weeks to apply to this postdoc position on "Molecular and Structural Biology of Membrane Biogenesis" in the labs @raffaeleieva.bsky.social ky.social and @fronzeslab.bsky.social slab.bsky.social in beautiful south-west of France!
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Thank you, @jayhinton.bsky.social ! We were inspired by your pioneering work in this area, and your SalCom resource was essential to find the right growth conditions for PgtE expression.
Wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium uses PgtE protease to evade C3-mediated serum killing:
Suggests that after escape from a macrophage, PgtE promotes systemic spread of the pathogen…
Elegant work from @manuelar.bsky.social’s team at UCSD…
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests that after escape from a macrophage, PgtE promotes systemic spread of the pathogen…
Elegant work from @manuelar.bsky.social’s team at UCSD…
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PgtE protease enables virulent Salmonella to evade C3-mediated serum and neutrophil killing
Non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars, such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (STm), are a leading cause of inflammatory diarrhea in otherwise healthy individuals. Among children, the elderly, an...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Thank you, @jayhinton.bsky.social ! We were inspired by your pioneering work in this area, and your SalCom resource was essential to find the right growth conditions for PgtE expression.
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Happy to share our last publication. Diclofenac and colistin synergistically act against colistin-resistant A baumannii in mice at low concentration. They repress expression of type IV pili, causing an antivirulence effect! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Diclofenac sensitizes multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii to colistin
Author summary Acinetobacter baumannii causes infections that are difficult to treat due to high rates of antibiotic resistance, leading the World Health Organization and CDC to classify this pathogen...
journals.plos.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Happy to share our last publication. Diclofenac and colistin synergistically act against colistin-resistant A baumannii in mice at low concentration. They repress expression of type IV pili, causing an antivirulence effect! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠
Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics.
There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you!
apply.interfolio.com/154339
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Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics.
There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you!
apply.interfolio.com/154339
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November 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠
Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics.
There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you!
apply.interfolio.com/154339
1/4
Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics.
There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you!
apply.interfolio.com/154339
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