🏆 Congrats to Valentina Venzin, first French researcher to win the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship 2026! (8 selected from 609 candidates) 🎉 She's investigating why men & women have different immune responses, unlocking precision medicine tailored to biological sex. @valentinavenzin.bsky.social
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Meta-organism lab @pasteur.fr https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/meta-organism/
Huge congratulations to our colleague @valentinavenzin.bsky.social on being awarded a Branco Weiss Fellowship 2026 - one of the most prestigious and selective postdoctoral programs in the world!! 👏 brancoweissfellowship.org/fellow/venzin/
Fellow Profiles - The Branco Weiss Fellowship
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Dear #Microbiota lovers, please consider joining us for the international symposium marking the official launch of the @pasteur.fr Integrative Microbiome Program (IM2P), Nov30 / Dec1 2026, Institut Pasteur Paris !!! A exceptional panel of speakers in a vibrant environment!
Congratulations to both postdoctoral fellows @marianapdc.bsky.social and Madeline in the lab who both were awarded an @embo.org postdoctoral fellowship!! 🎉👏
Beautiful and interesting story by @aiinglim.bsky.social lab just out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 👇 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Maternal helminths rewire the microbiota to promote offspring antiviral immunity
Fernandes et al. show that maternal helminths, long-standing mammalian partners, confer antiviral immunity to offspring via the microbiota-derived metabolite indole-3-propionic acid (IPA). This work r...
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Sex effects on gene expression across the human cerebral cortex at cell type resolution | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sex effects on gene expression across the human cerebral cortex at cell type resolution
Sex differences in neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disease susceptibility may arise from sex chromosome and hormonal influences on cell type–specific gene expression. We present...
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Congratulations to @lguenin.bsky.social for her new publication! Check it out! 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A skin colonizer disrupts inflammatory and humoral immune defenses in hidradenitis suppurativa - EMBO Molecular Medicine
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease associated with a polybacterial dysbiosis devoid of a known pathogen. Here, we report that HS patients mount IgA and IgG responses ...
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Excited, grateful, and proud to share our latest research published in Immunity. None of this would have been possible without contributions from all our co-authors, across institutions. Shoutout to @scharschmidtlab.bsky.social for her unwavering support over the years! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Big news! We’re thrilled to welcome Pr. Sophie Hüe to the team, bringing her clinical and scientific expertise in inflammatory skin diseases. Excited for what’s ahead! 🔬✨
We’re delighted to welcome Adrien Sprumont as a new postdoc in the lab! 🎊 Looking forward to exciting research, collaborations, and discoveries ahead. 🔬
📣 Job opening in our lab! We're looking for a technician with experience in murine models. More details about the job description here 👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4353643662/
Institut Pasteur hiring Technicien supérieur de recherche - H/F in Paris, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn
Posted 9:26:59 AM. 🔬L'Institut Pasteur conduit des recherches biomédicales de pointe et avant-gardistes depuis plus…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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🧠🧬 Psoriasis: Unraveling the Causes of Chronic Itching @belkaidlab.bsky.social and Institut Pasteur researchers show that an excessive immune response to skin microbes activates the IL‑17A pathway in nerves, leading to chronic itch and nerve regrowth. 👉 www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese...
Psoriasis: Unraveling the Causes of Chronic Itching
In psoriasis and other inflammatory skin diseases, chronic itching or pruritus is a particularly distressing symptom for patients which remains difficult to treat today. Scientists at the Institut Pas...
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Congratulations to our mentor, Pr. Yasmine Belkaid, for receiving the 2026 Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine!
📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2026 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to YASMINE BELKAID @pasteur.fr and to FIONA DOETSCH @doetschlab.bsky.social hlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch CONGRATULATIONS!!! 👉 jeantet.ch/en 👇 follow thread
We're excited to welcome @marianapdc.bsky.social to the lab as our newest postdoctoral fellow! We're thrilled to have her expertise in the study of dendritic cells and her energy join the team. 😊 Welcome aboard!
Now online @pnas.org, our latest study, led by @eduardansaldo.bsky.social, reveals how dietary signals drive T-bet–expressing Tr1 cells to dominate the small intestinal immune landscape. Check it out! 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org , led by @jdllkss.bsky.social in collaboration with @michelenamorado.bsky.social! We show how the immune system’s response to skin microbes can cause nerve overgrowth and chronic itch, via the molecule IL-17A. ow.ly/LfyU50XQ16y
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Busy experiment day in the Belkaid lab today - lots happening!
Congratulations to @belkaidlab.bsky.social alumni, Jérémie @jdllkss.bsky.social, for a brilliant PhD defense! 🎉
Want to learn all there is to know about IL-27? Read the review written by @valentinavenzin.bsky.social et al. dlvr.it/TPMYD7
Reframing IL-27: a central regulator of CD8+ T cell immunity
Interleukin-27 (IL-27), a member of the IL-12 cytokine family, was long viewed primarily as a regulator of CD4+ T cell immunity. Subsequent studies revealed that IL-27 also directly modulates CD8+ T c...
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Incredible science was shared at the #TeamPROSPECT scientific retreat this week bringing together experts in epidemiology, oncology, immunology, computational biology & more. A global effort to understand and reverse the rapid rise of early-onset colorectal cancer. #CancerResearch #ColorectalCancer
We’re thrilled to have Madeline Edwards joining our team from the US to start her postdoctoral journey. Welcome aboard Madeline!
Thrilled to share that my mentor Prof. Yasmine Belkaid received the “Women in Skin Science” prize by Almirall & #ESDR 🌟👏. At the round table, she rightly reminded us: “Life is too short to be boring, take risks.” 💡💪 #WomenInScience #Skin @esdrorg.bsky.social @belkaidlab.bsky.social
The causes of early-life eczema have been unclear, but evidence indicates that changes to fetal immune cells and sensory neurons during pregnancy play a key part go.nature.com/45Y9aUQ
Childhood eczema linked to mother’s stress during pregnancy
The causes of early-life eczema have been unclear, but evidence indicates that changes to fetal immune cells and sensory neurons during pregnancy play a key part.
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Our team is growing! We're happy to welcome @valentinavenzin.bsky.social in the team, joining us from Milan (Italy 🇮🇹). Benvenuto ! 🙂
🌈 United for diversity in science 🌈 Researchers from Institut Pasteur joined the 2025 Pride March alongside @institutcurie.bsky.social, Les Cordeliers Research Center, @institutcochin.bsky.social @institutimagine.bsky.social 👩🔬 Because diverse labs make better science. #DiversityInScience
Congratulations to our mentor Yasmine Belkaid on becoming a member of the French Academy of Sciences! @belkaidlab.bsky.social
I am beyond excited 🎉 to share my first post on Bluesky 🩵 to tell you that I have been awarded a MSCA @horizoneu.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowship in the @belkaidlab.bsky.social ✨ at @pasteur.fr 🔬.
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