Institut Pasteur researchers describe LIN codes in PLOS Biology: a standardized numerical system for identifying bacterial strains from genome data, now used in BIGSdb-Pasteur and Pathogenwatch for outbreak surveillance. @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social ↘️ doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003781

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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France confirmed its first Ebola case today. 1,094 cases in DRC. 277 dead. The second largest outbreak ever. www.thetrendswire.com/blog/france-... #Ebola #France #DRC #PublicHealth #Bundibugyo #WHOAlert #OutbreakNews #GlobalHealth

France Confirms First Ebola Case Linked to DRC Outbreak

France confirmed its first Ebola case after a doctor returning from DRC tested positive. The outbreak has now passed 1,094 cases.

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🥵 72 départements en vigilance rouge #canicule à partir de demain midi, c'est totalement dingue

Quel enfer ! L’anomalie thermique moyenne sur une semaine continue de pulvériser tous les plafonds, atteignant désormais +10.00°C à l’échelle nationale. C’est très largement au-dessus de la canicule d’ordre millénaire de mai 2026. 1/2

7 000 patients en France ont déjà reçu des CAR-T cells, sorte de cellules "tueuses de cancers" : "Même au stade d’une maladie réfractaire, on est désormais capable de guérir. Une révolution thérapeutique." ⤵️ Le Parisien (Et vive la science !) 1/10 www.leparisien.fr/so...

#Microbiology research requires a stable, unified #taxonomy of bacterial strains. In this Essay, Federica Palma, @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social and co-authors discuss the LIN system, resolving communication issues for precise strain definitions and epidemiological tracking. 🧪 #AcademicSky bit.ly/4xrMs4r

👉 Only 2 weeks to go for registrations to the famous ICARe course on #antimicrobials and #resistance in #Annecy, France: www.icarecourse.org Great course, great venue, great networking opportunity with @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social and other huge legends in the field

🌟 Very proud of the newest Dr. in the team , Dr. @julielebris.bsky.social 👩‍🎓! She brilliantly defended her PhD last Friday @pasteur.fr Excellent thesis in terms of output & quality! Thanks to the jury @lucyweinert.bsky.social @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social @edfeil.bsky.social Maria Halima Laaberki

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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Here a summary of the #Klebs2024 meeting hosted by @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social @ @institutpasteur.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The 1st Klebsiella Epidemiology and Biology Symposium in 2024 was much needed and a great event, so I'm really looking forward to the 2nd in 2027.

Great to see the progress made by @dndi.org against #Chagas disease! dndi.org/news/2026/20...

2025 R&D programmes in review: Chagas disease | DNDi

DNDi and our partners are searching for shorter, safer, more effective treatments to stop a silent killer.

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Aujourd’hui, @standupforscience.bsky.social fête son anniversaire. Signataire de la tribune "un an après". Une mobilisation mondiale autour d'une évidence qui ne devrait jamais être discutée : la science n’est pas une opinion. C’est un pilier de la démocratie. 🧵👇🏻 www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Un an après Stand Up for Science, défendons l’université et les sciences, piliers de la démocratie

Le mouvement Stand Up for Science, issu de la mobilisation inédite des universitaires français en solidarité avec leurs homologues américains, rappelle que les campus français aussi sont malmenés par ...

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Meet Molly Ingersoll, microbiologist & immunologist. Her work shows how women and men can respond very differently to infections, and why sex-specific treatments are urgently needed. She also speaks up about the invisible hurdles women face in science. Follow her here @immunobladder.bsky.social

Molly Ingersoll: advocating for women's health and women's rights

Molly Ingersoll has been head of a research team at the Institut Pasteur in Paris since 2012. This unfailingly optimistic microbiologist and immunologist is committed to revolutionizing our approach t...

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➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔 🧵👇

Institut Pasteur of Guinea is looking for a head of virology www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Improving the detection of #diphtheria toxin production by Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans, our latest work @pasteur.fr is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A novel version of diphtOscan is available at gitlab.pasteur.fr/BEBP/diphtos.... v2.2.0 makes it easy to install on local computers. diphtOscan scans genomes and extracts information including #diphtheria toxin and antimicrobial resistance genes, biovar, species and subtyping information.

I couldn’t agree more! Help support Wikipedia. It has been a pillar of high-quality knowledge sharing since the early web, and it’s more relevant than ever in the fuzzy age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

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Outbreak of anti-#Klebsiella grants from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social and novonordisk! gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grants/JTdCJ...

All Awards

We challenge innovators around the world to work on urgent priorities in global health and development. We issue new challenges regularly and award the most promising proposals with grant funding.&nbs...

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🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Postdoctoral position - Synthetic Biology / Bacterial Immunity - Research

The Bikard lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris is seeking to hire postdoctoral researchers. We are investigating bacteria / bacteriophages interactions, and the genetic innovation that happens at this in...

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great update on #Klebsiella research!

Chiara Crestani@chcrestani.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧫 Our publication,“Global perspectives on Klebsiella epidemiology and biology: conference report on the KLEBS 2024 symposium,” is now out! 📄 Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @kelwyres.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social @pasteur.fr

3 weeks left to submit an abstract for the Klebsiella Seminar Series! It is FREE, but registration is required. #AMR #Microsky #UTIsky sites.google.com/view/klebclu...

KlebClub - Seminar Series Registration

Klebsiella Virtual Seminar Series

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Klebsiella Club@klebclub.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re excited to kick off a new season of the Klebsiella Seminar Series, held on Thursdays in April 🧫🧬! We have 3 sessions on pathogenesis, pediatric Klebsiella & translational approaches. We will also have an open session. Registration is mandatory & FREE in this link forms.gle/LhJu11WQN6Yy... 🔁

First paper of this year is out now! 📢 Very happy to present work with my collaborators Andrew Whitelaw and Mae Newton-Foot and especially great work from PhD student Kedisaletse Moloto at Stellenbosch University: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, are dominated by specific local clones rather than previously described international lineages

Author summary Carbapenem resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP) have emerged as a cause of hospital and community acquired infections, posing a significant threat to public health, and have hence been listed...

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Dermatose nodulaire contagieuse en France: épidémiologie, microbiologie et contrôle: www.sfm-microbiologie.org/2026/01/16/e... @sfmicrobiologie.bsky.social @baptistedemey.bsky.social #LumpySkinDisease

Deadline is approaching (Feb 9) to apply for a PI position at Institut Pasteur. Come join us and contribute to an amazing scientific environment!!!

Dear #AMR #genomics and big data community: please be informed that the programme of the Wellcome AMR conference in Hinxton on March 23-26th is now online: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimi... - please register before Feb 24th for onsite participation

Wasting money and resources to investigate a conspiracy theory about Lyme Disease, despite the known mechanism of how it infects humans. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease

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