Come work on exciting AI for biology projects in Paris!! 🇫🇷 Details and application below, deadline sept 1st!

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨! Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷 Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd... Deadline: Sep 1st

The Serology Puzzle: Untangling Cross-Reactivity in Arbovirus Diagnostics #arbovirus #surveillance #serology #modelling #epidemiology @vyman.bsky.social @mtwhite.bsky.social http://dlvr.it/TTVCNH

New blood test can distinguish between similar mosquito-borne viruses, thus contributing to better surveillance of how these infections spread #dengue #Zika #chikungunya @vyman.bsky.social @mtwhite.bsky.social

New blood test may improve mapping of mosquito-borne viruses

Mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya are spreading to new regions as the climate becomes warmer. A new study from Karolinska Institutet and Institut Pasteur, published in Nature Communications, shows that a newly developed blood test can distinguish between similar viruses and thereby contribute to better surveillance of how these infections spread.

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Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.

It's out! The LIN code approach for genomic taxonomy of microbial strains and its applications in genomic epidemiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Life Identification Numbers: A strain nomenclature approach to aid epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens

Unified bacterial strain taxonomies are needed for coherent communication of findings in microbiological research. This Essay provides an overview of a novel bacterial strain taxonomy and describes ho...

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OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

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How have UK social contact patterns changed post-pandemic? How assortative are they by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? Pleased to share our new @plosmedicine.org paper, jointly led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and myself, with @kevinvzandvoort.bsky.social and John Edmunds. #IDSky

Excited to share our new paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com Combining multiplex serology, mathematical modelling, and experimental validation reveals arbovirus transmission dynamics despite cross-reactivity. (1/2)

Investigating antibody cross-reactivity and transmission dynamics of alphaviruses and flaviviruses using a multiplex serological assay - Nature Communications

Arboviruses often co-circulate, but cross-reactivity hampers serological diagnostics. Here, the authors paired multiplex serology with competitive immunoassays and Bayesian modelling to quantify antib...

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Work led by me, @jjrosados.bsky.social , and @mtwhite.bsky.social. A great collaboration with @noeochida.bsky.social, @scauchemez.bsky.social , and colleagues across the @pasteur.fr network. (2/2)

Solidarity with our colleagues in Institut Pasteur Iran. These are dedicated professionals doing their best for science and public health in challenging times.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute “Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...

1/6 Our paper today – www.nature.com/articles/s41... work from Kenya - shows protective antibodies against falciparum malaria sporozoites work against sporozoites injected into the skin, not against sporozoites injected into veins. Why does this matter?

🔬 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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A person is seropositive to an infectious disease if their antibody level is above some cutoff. But selecting this cutoff is surprisingly trickly. Our thoughts in this article. Whose Line Is it Anyway? Defining Seropositivity Cutoffs for Infectious Disease Surveillance doi.org/10.1093/infd...

Just to draw your attention to the HPSC's truly excellent data hub for respiratory illnesses. A great investment in disease surveillance capacity paying off. @hpscireland.bsky.social respiratoryvirus.hpsc.ie

👩‍🔬 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. Thread ⤵️ 1/6

Delighted to be back in Institut Pasteur de Dakar for the kick-off of our EDCTP3 supported PvSeroRDT consortium. We will develop a new diagnostic test for detecting P. vivax malaria hypnozoites and set up manufacturing capacity with Diatropix in Senegal. Enormous thanks to our Senegalese hosts 🇸🇳

Pour chaque vie, la science agit. Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant ! Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer ↘️ pasteurdon.fr #Pasteurdon

Beautiful beasts: excited to see our first volume electron microscopy study on malaria parasites published: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... revealing new insights into Plasmodium ookinete development. Thanks for great EMBL-Umea-Heidelberg collaboration.

A great opportunity to work with the excellent Amy Thomas in Bristol.

🐦 GW4 MRC funded PhD position on Modelling and communicating Avian Influenza spillover at the human-wild bird interface 🐦 Interdisciplinary One Health project! Infection histories, contacts and behavioural science. @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social @3113n.bsky.social @mtwhite.bsky.social, Louise Smith

The minutes noted that “everyone was searched, including their vehicles, on the grounds that researchers might be carrying mosquitoes in their pockets.” #IDsky #malaria 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria

Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

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📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Paperback publication day! Have a good read. Things changing far too slowly for #womeninSTEM

🧬50 years of impact 🌍 From #malaria breakthroughs to global collaborations, our researchers have transformed the field of #parasitology – and they’re not done yet. Find out more: www.wehi.edu.au/news/from-a-...

We're hiring a modelling postdoc at PSI Oxford for two exciting projects: 1) modelling the early immune responses to Nipah vaccination, and 2) joining the PRESTO team working on immunobridging in vaccine evaluation studies. tinyurl.com/5abbxrjh Get in touch for more info! Deadline 4th August.

The UK's paternity leave is the worst in Europe. It frustrates dads, burdens mums, and impoverishes us all. The fight for better parental leave is not just a demand for common decency, but for common sense. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Dads deserve a better paternity deal – so does the economy

New fathers who want to bond with their babies are treated in a derisory way in the UK – and that harms us all

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Today and tomorrow: International Meeting on Mirror Biology at the Pasteur Institute www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese... Bluetorial to follow

Institut Pasteur To Host International Meeting on Mirror Biology

The Institut Pasteur will host an international conference on June 12-13, 2025 addressing the potentially unprecedented risks of mirror life, organized in partnership with the Mirror Biology Dialogues...

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Between 2018 and 2020, the www.malakit-project.org distributed kits for malaria self-diagnosis and self-treatment to gold miners in French Guiana In this work out on ‪@lancetrh-americ.bsky.social‬ we have used modelling to assess the impact of the intervention www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Evaluating the impact of the Malakit intervention on malaria transmission in the Guiana Shield: a mathematical modelling study

Malakit had a significant impact on malaria transmission by improving the access to treatment for the population working in illegal gold mining in French Guiana. Building on the regional efforts of th...

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This work began in 2019 during my PhD, with the help of @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social. After navigating a pandemic, finishing my PhD, and changing labs, I am pleased to share our work on a modest #ampseq panel for #P.vivax. This panel is designed to facilitate molecular corrections in clinical trials

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.

Understanding Plasmodium vivax recurrent infections using an amplicon deep sequencing assay, PvAmpSeq, identity-by-descent and model-based classification https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.26.25327775v1

Respect to Krishnan Guru-Murthy here.

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June. research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Postdoctoral positions in epidemic mathematical/statistical modelling - Research

Job description We are recruiting postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The candidates will be expected t...

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