Excited to share our new work in @natcomms.nature.com on GCN5b in Toxoplasma gondii! 🧬🦠 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this work! Specially Dominique and the amazing @hakimi.bsky.social 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toxoplasma didn't inherit SAGA from us 🧬 it rebuilt it from a 🌱 plant blueprint. Evolution loves a remix. Huge congrats to Dominique Cannella, an outstanding CNRS assistant engineer et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @inserm.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social

🥳 Congratulations on your first paper and on such a promising trajectory! Congrats to all the collaborators and team members. a special bravo to your outstanding mentor @cristelcarles.bsky.social

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Happy to finally see this out in a peer-reviewed form 🧬🌱 Congrats to everyone who contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Generative AI can make it quicker and easier to write scientific research papers. But as Lucas Bietti & Adrian Bangerter argue in this Perspective, unchecked #AI use risks decoupling #writing from #thinking, undermining the foundation of scientific knowledge. 🧪 #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 Save the date! Join us on July 2, 2026, at IAB (#Grenoble) for: 🔬 Parasite Life Cycles Unveiled: Sex, Regulation and Host Adaptation 4 leading scientists will discuss parasite development and host–parasite interactions. 🥙 Free attendance + Lebanese lunch Register: forms.gle/a5fdoVPqgNq3...

few days in Turino felt like walking through an open-air museum. between royal palaces, hidden courtyards and incredible archaeological pieces, every street had its own story to tell (great italian food too 😋). this town has this rare atmosphere: elegant, historic and alive at the same time. ☺️

New Preprint alert! Excited to share our latest work on the #MAPKinases from stellar PhD student Jill von Velsen. First structures of the MAP2K MEK1 activating its substrate MAPK between 2.9 and 3.6A - amazing resolutions for such a small and mobile complex! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A huge thank you to @inserm.fr 😄 for the visit, for the interest in our vibrant #Grenoble ecosystem, and for shining a light on our research in this short film 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkej...

Toxoplasmose : la découverte de Mohamed-Ali Hakimi qui change la prévention entre chats et humains

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Les lauréats des Prix Inserm 2025 : découvrez l'excellence de la recherche

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La cérémonie des Prix Inserm 2025 a récompensé 5 lauréates et lauréats !

👏👏👏 Bravo @hakimi.bsky.social on winning the 2025 @inserm.fr Research Prize and the @fondationdefrance.bsky.social Allianz Prize! Hakimi's team is cracking #Toxoplasma's secrets, and developing innovative therapies to block transmission. @academiesciences.bsky.social ©Inserm/François Guénet

Huge congratulations to @hakimi.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 INSERM Research Award! 🎉 We’re extremely proud to have him as part of LabEx ParaFrap. 👉 : presse.inserm.fr/prix-inserm-...

Prix Inserm 2025 : l’innovation au cœur de la santé - Salle de presse de l'Inserm

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What an exceptional week! At the Collège de France, surrounded by my family 🥰 and part of my Dream Team, I was honored with the 2025 Inserm Research Prize! Truly proud. 🙏 INSERM This award goes to an outstanding team and to my loved ones who have carried me through this scientific journey.

What a day at the Académie des Sciences! 🎉 Honored to receive the Allianz Prize / Institut de France. Huge shoutout to my dream team — none of this happens without you. 🙏🏽💥 @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social @inserm.fr @cnrs.fr

By any means necessary

James Watson’s passing marks the loss of a major figure whose work profoundly shaped modern biology. He is also a man whose racist and misogynistic remarks can’t be separated from his legacy. Science isn’t just about discovery; it’s about upholding universal human dignity. Rest in peace.

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James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97

Nature Com. now live! 🎉 Silvia’s amazing PhD supervised by Alex “the Greatest” & Christopher’s big-bang contribution. Huge thanks to our stellar team & collaborators. We went fishing in the FDA pond and hooked LY2090314 🎣 Blocks GSK3 🎯in #Toxoplasma & #Crypto www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural and functional characterization of TgGSK3, a druggable kinase in Toxoplasma gondii - Nature Communications

Researchers identify the cancer drug LY2090314 as a potent inhibitor of Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium and report the first crystal structure of the parasite kinase TgGSK3 bound to it, validati...

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A fantastic week in Grenoble hosting my friend Amit Sharma for our @inserm.fr IRP project. With Christopher Swale on board, they pulled off a cryo-EM structure in just a few days! A great reminder that science thrives on teamwork — and friendship. Grateful to @inserm.fr for the support!

Christopher Swale just nailed his HDR — the top academic milestone in France 🎓He can now supervise PhD students on his own. Stellar talk, razor-sharp answers, the jury was impressed. Proud of you, Chris. 👏

Winter’s first snow over Grenoble, straight from the office view.

On Friday, I had the privilege of speaking with a remarkable line-up of Artur Scherf alumni at a symposium devoted to his stellar contributions to parasitology in general and malaria specifically. It was wonderful to pay tribute to a friend and visionary whose legacy continues to inspire.

So proud of my PhD student Martina Shahinas 🌟 She gave a stellar talk and shared her latest results—still chasing the sexual stages of Toxoplasma. embo.org Conference / parafrap.bsky.social was a success with an amazing speaker lineup on the ☀️Île des Embiez, Côte d’Azur.

Oh how fantastic evolution is… every day it drops a new plot twist. 🤯🧬 Nature, who coded you?! 🤩 t.co/yXmctCX6PA

Congrats Dr. Silvia DIAZ MARTIN on a brilliant PhD defense. 🙏to jury Maryse, Thierry, Matthew, Ludovic & Diego for their sharp eval. Shout-out to Alexandre and Christopher for their steady mentorship. You made us proud Silvia and I saw the whole galaxy of family pride reflected in your dad’s eyes.

🙏 @inserm.fr de promouvoir nos travaux récemment publiés dans EMBO Mol. Med doi.org/10.1038/s443... www.inserm.fr/actualite/to...

Toxoplasmose : un tandem de biomarqueurs pour diagnostiquer les infections chroniques · Inserm, La science pour la santé

Une équipe Inserm a identifié deux protéines du parasite responsable de la toxoplasmose dont le dosage combiné aiderait à identifier les infections chroniques dormantes. Ce test pourrait apporter des ...

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Zeus had his Hydra ⚔️, now Toxoplasma has its own. Meet Hydra: not a monster, but a brand-new protein domain. It multimerizes like crazy & rewrites the chromatin landscape 🧬 in Toxoplasma. Our team and colleagues from @embl.org #Grenoble just dropped the preprint 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share our latest review! 🎉 It captures the ideas and discussions that have shaped our work in recent years. Big shoutout to the amazing authors 👏 @hakimi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decoding the epigenetic blueprint behind Toxoplasma (pre)sexual commitment and chronic persistence

Toxoplasma gondii, a widespread apicomplexan parasite, navigates a complex life cycle in which it switches back and forth between tachyzoites and brad…

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Toxoplasma facing career options: 🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life) 😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper) 🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready) Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call. Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...

Our July issue is online 👉 www.embopress.org/toc/17574684... The cover highlights the article by M Robert, C Swale, MP Brenier-Pinchart, @hakimi.bsky.social‬ & al. that identifies BSM & BCLA as #biomarkers for chronic #ToxoplasmaGondii infection Scientific image by @hakimi.bsky.social @inserm.fr

EMBO Molecular Medicine: Vol 17, No 7

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Thrilled to see our work featured on the cover of @embomolmed.org 🎉We identify new biomarkers to track chronic toxoplasmosis—paving the way for improved diagnosis and patient care. doi.org/10.1038/s443... It’s time to bring such tools to the clinic—let’s encourage biotech to take it from here.