Born and bred in Alsace, France, I did my PhD at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire of Strasbourg, in the laboratory of Prof. Jules Hoffmann under the supervision of Dr. Dominique Ferrandon. […]
I currently lead a junior group in the Virology department of Institut Pasteur. My research interests lie in RNA virus discovery, emergence, transmission, and evolution. Within the group, we use viral genomics to study […]
Philippe J. Sansonetti, MS, MD, is a microbiologist, Professor at the Pasteur Institute and the Collège de France in Paris. He is the Director of the Inserm Unit 1202 and of the Institut Pasteur […]
Intracellular traffic and cell compartmentalization Eukaryotic cells contain extensive internal membranes defining many compartments having each specific functions. However these organelles are constantly moving and reshaping, still retaining their identity. The maintenance of cell […]
Since the beginning of my career, my goal has been to understand the mechanisms of effector immune responses to viruses and the related viral countermeasures. During my thesis, I studied the origin of type […]
My interest is to investigate the pathogenesis of infectious diseases induced by bacteria in respiratory and reproductive systems. Particularly, I focus on pathogen-host interaction and try to understand the mechanisms by which host responses […]
Pascale Pescher is a research engineer in the unit ‘Parasitologie moléculaire et signalisation’. She started her career working on host-mycobacteria interactions and since 2006 joined the field of Leishmania research studying the molecular basis […]