Genomic taxonomy of bacterial strains and emergence of antibiotic resistance Abstract: Infectious diseases are a global public health concern, particularly due to antimicrobial-resistance in some pathogenic bacteria. Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most worrying […]
The bladder mucosa is in contact with the outside environment, which can expose it to a variety of pathogens, including uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). The result of pathogen colonization is urinary tract infection, which […]
Grant: Projet de recherche clinique ANRS Prevalence of invasive fungal infection –Histoplasma spp., Talaromyces marneffei, Cryptococcus spp.- in severe immunocompromised HIV-infected patients in Cambodia (FUNgi-Cam) Histoplasmosis, talaromycosis and cryptococcosis are serious invasive fungal infections in patients with […]
How does the embryo build the variety of blood and immune cell types required later in life, from red cells to platelets, lymphocytes and macrophages? The team of Elisa Gomez Perdiguero works to better […]
In a recent issue of PLOS Pathogens, the team of Alexandre Alanio of the National reference center for invasive Mycoses and Antifungals describe how macrophages participate in the dissemination of the deadly fungus Cryptococcus […]
Thibaut Brunet, who arrived in November 2021 at Institut Pasteur as a group leader, received the European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant for his project EvoMorphoCell – From cell shape to organism shape: the […]
Laurent RENIA – Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) (Singapour – République de Singapour) The development of an effective malaria vaccine has remained elusive till today. This is in […]
Some HIV-positive patients off antiretroviral therapy can control their viremia on the long term. These so-called post-treatment controllers (PTCs) represent a unique opportunity to better understand how the human immune system can contain HIV-1 […]
How does the organism protect itself against potential pathogenic threats associated with food intake? In their latest work, the team of Gérard Eberl and their collaborators demonstrate a crosstalk between the nervous and immune […]
Integrons are genetic elements that play an important role in the evolution of bacteria and contribute to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. In their study published last month in NAR (Vit et […]
Restriction-modification (R-M) systems are often regarded as bacterial immune systems, protecting cells from infection by foreign mobile DNA. However, previous results from our group1 found more R-M systems in genomes carrying more mobile DNA […]
To escape predators or to acquire rewards, animals need to anticipate movements. How does the brain accomplish this task? Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have recorded the activity of neurons in the frontal cortex […]
Location Pasteur Institute Metchnikoff building, Ground Floor Room Jules Bordet Date Thursday, 17th november at 2:30 p.m Topic of the seminar : Live Imaging: How to preserve the fluorescence of your cells? How to […]
Listeria monocytogenes is the bacterium responsible for human listeriosis, a very severe foodborne infection. A study published in Nature Genetics reveals the high heterogeneity of the pathogenicity of L. monocytogenes strains. This work is based on the study […]
Joost Wauters- Ziekenhuis University (Leuven, Belgium) Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) typically occurs in a severely immunocompromised host and isolation of Aspergillus species in the immunocompetent host is mostly considered colonization. Overall, the six-week mortality […]
After such a long time without onsite-scientific meetings, what a great day that was ! The “Ancient DNA journey: from humans to human pathogens and microbiomes”meeting was an exciting event with great speakers sharing […]
