
Lydie Couturier
Virus and cellular stress
I joined the Institut Pasteur in 2008 as a fly research technician and currently holds a Pasteur engineer position. Prior to this, I was a CNRS technician working at the Fly Functional Genomics facility […]

I joined the Institut Pasteur in 2008 as a fly research technician and currently holds a Pasteur engineer position. Prior to this, I was a CNRS technician working at the Fly Functional Genomics facility […]
Olivier Leclercq started his career at the Institut Pasteur in 2005 working on mutation phenomena during somatic hypermutation in the unit of Biochemistry and Genetics of Development, headed by Pr F. Rougeon. In 2009, […]
Laura Piel is a PhD student that has started her scientific career with a master internship in Gerald Späth’s unit of Molecular Parasitology and Signalling working on the characterization of leishmanicidal activity of new […]

Patricia Jeannin is graduated in virology (Master of science in medical virology) She work in Pasteur Institute since 2003. Patricia Jeannin takes part to the diagnostic of flu viruses in influenza CNR (Immunology : ELISA… […]
Since 2018, Dr. Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz is the Head of the National Biobank of Microorganisms (CNCM), an International Depositary Authority (IDA), which holds microorganisms and cell lines deposited for purposes of French and international patent […]

After obtained my BTS in biotechnology in 2007, I received my Master degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 2012. Then I joined the Institut Pasteur as […]



Florence Larrous, Research Engineer in “Dynamic of Lyssavirus and adaptation to host” unit is involved in public health activities for animal and human rabies diagnosis but also in several research topics. She is responsible […]

In a globalized world heading for a post-antibiotic era, refined understanding of human, animal and environmental interactions with pathogenic bacteria is of utmost importance. The primary aim of our research is to discover bacterial […]

Sophie Bachellier-Bassi is a research assistant at Institut Pasteur. She obtained her PhD at Institut Pasteur, working on bacterial repetitive sequences, with Prof. Maurice Hofnung and Prof. Eric Gilson. She performed her post-doctoral training […]


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 […]

Dr. Najma Rachidi is a senior Researcher and the leader of the molecular parasitology team in the PARSIG unit. Her team investigates Host-pathogen interactions to (i) understand how Leishmania survives in immune cells, which […]