A study in Nature shows that the single-celled form of a tiny, aquatic organism can turn into a multicellular version by three different routes. The discovery adds insight to the possible origins of multicellular life, suggesting a previously unrecognized degree of flexibility. 🧪
Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature
The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental conditions.
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Institut Pasteur on the importance of vaccination
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 7mo agoOur statement on the U.S. administration’s attacks on biomedical research, public health & vaccination — undermining science and endangering lives. The Institut Pasteur reaffirms its commitment to defending science, evidence, and global health. www.pasteur.fr/en/press-are... #PublicHealth
Deadline is approaching (Feb 9) to apply for a PI position at Institut Pasteur. Come join us and contribute to an amazing scientific environment!!!
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 8mo ago🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
Une vidéo pour raconter nos recherches!👇👀 Merci à la direction de la communication pour leur soutien. www.facebook.com/reel/3759304...
3.7K views · 60 reactions | Plongée à l’intérieur d’un vaisseau sanguin infecté 🦠 Dans cette vidéo inédite, on voyage en 3D au cœur d’un vaisseau sanguin attaqué par une bactérie dangereuse : le méni...
Plongée à l’intérieur d’un vaisseau sanguin infecté 🦠 Dans cette vidéo inédite, on voyage en 3D au cœur d’un vaisseau sanguin attaqué par une bactérie dangereuse : le méningocoque. Cette bactérie...
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Really happy to see this paper come out! It's so long ago we started this that no one can remember the date...Congrats to all Contributors. A vessel on a chip model to study bacterial infections in the circulation, sepsis, meningitis. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
An in vitro human vessel model to study Neisseria meningitidis colonization and vascular damages
A vessel on a chip microfluidic device recapitulates the main features of meningococcal vascular colonization, providing high time and space microscopy resolution of the infection process in 3D.
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A great opportunity for young research groups in the field of infection and host pathogen interactions! Deadline coming up fast.
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 8mo ago🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research
The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...
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We have an ERC funded postdoc position open in the field of structural biology and drug discovery ! We have identified promising inhibitors and their targets in bacteria. Come and help us reveal the structural blueprints for tomorrow’s antibiotics.
I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
In Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Marching into spring with our March issue! 💡Considering microbes in microplastic research 🌍 Climate change and harmful microbes 🧬 CRISPRi-ART for functional genomics 🦀 Gut microbiota and cancer therapy response and much more! #MicroSky Read here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S. We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call. Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊ 📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu 🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience
Congratulations to H. Steven (Hank) Seifert, PhD, on receiving Northwestern’s 2025 Provost Award for Exemplary Faculty Service! This annual honor recognizes outstanding service and academic citizenship. @gcrox.bsky.social bit.ly/3XlaJZc
Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required. Please Repost 🙏 thanks !
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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L’Inserm est solidaire du mouvement Stand Up For Science presse.inserm.fr/cest-dans-la... #StandUpForScience2025
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L’Inserm solidaire du mouvement Stand Up For Science - Salle de presse de l'Inserm
L’Inserm est solidaire du mouvement Stand Up For Science et est solidaire de tous les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.
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