Timeline
Simonetta Gribaldo
Head of Structure
11 Nov 2024
publication
Identification of Veillonella parvula and Streptococcus gordonii adhesins mediating co-aggregation and its impact on physiology and mixed biofilm structure.
Read more10 Oct 2024
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Identification of V. parvula and S. gordonii adhesins mediating co-agregation and its impact on physiology and mixedbiofilm structure.
Read more04 Sep 2024
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Stable coexistence between an archaeal virus and the dominant methanogen of the human gut.
Read more28 Aug 2024
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Terrabacteria: redefining bacterial envelope diversity, biogenesis and evolution.
Read more26 Jun 2024
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Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires
Read more19 Mar 2024
project
Elucidating envelope evolution and the diderm-to-monoderm transition in Bacteria (ENVOL)
Read more01 Mar 2024
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Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division.
Read more01 Feb 2024
08 Jan 2024
02 Dec 2023
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Diversification of division mechanisms in endospore-forming bacteria revealed by analyses of peptidoglycan synthesis in Clostridioides difficile.
Read more24 Nov 2023
news
Congratulation to Simonetta Gribaldo winner of an Impulscience program of the Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller.
Read more23 Nov 2023
publication
The Mla system of diderm Firmicute Veillonella parvula reveals an ancestral transenvelope bridge for phospholipid trafficking.
Read more06 Nov 2023
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Dual function of OmpM as outer membrane tether and nutrient uptake channel in diderm Firmicutes.
Read more01 Nov 2023
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A compendium of viruses from methanogenic archaea reveals their diversity and adaptations to the gut environment.
Read more01 Nov 2023
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Components of iron-Sulfur cluster assembly machineries are robust phylogenetic markers to trace the origin of mitochondria and plastids.
Read more13 Aug 2023
13 Aug 2023
08 Aug 2023
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Analyses of cell wall synthesis in Clostridioides difficile reveal a diversification in cell division mechanisms in endospore-forming bacteria.
Read more10 Mar 2023
project
Labex GIL: Methanobrevibacter and Veillonella crosstalk with the intestinal mucosa in the context of health and inflammation
Read more01 Feb 2023
publication
Publisher Correction: Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria.
Read more01 Dec 2022
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Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria.
Read more01 Dec 2022
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Cryptosporulation in Kurthia spp. forces a rethinking of asporogenesis in Firmicutes.
Read more01 Nov 2022
01 Nov 2022
26 Oct 2022
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Genetic Screens Identify Additional Genes Implicated in Envelope Remodeling during the Engulfment Stage of Bacillus subtilis Sporulation.
Read more24 Oct 2022
event
Dept Microbiology | Seminar “Cyclic nucleotide signaling in prokaryotic immune defenceGenome wide identification of functions essential for bypass of PBPs by L,D-transpeptidases in Escherichia coli”
Read more01 Oct 2022
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An early origin of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis machineries before Earth oxygenation.
Read more20 Sep 2022
event
Seminar Dept Microbiology “The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes ”
Read more08 Sep 2022
01 Jul 2022
01 Jul 2022
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Localization and functional characterization of the alternative oxidase in Naegleria.
Read more10 Jun 2022
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Factors shaping the abundance and diversity of the gut archaeome across the animal kingdom.
Read more06 Apr 2022
04 Mar 2022
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Cellular assays identify barriers impeding iron-sulfur enzyme activity in a non-native prokaryotic host.
Read more01 Mar 2022
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An ancient divide in outer membrane tethering systems in bacteria suggests a mechanism for the diderm-to-monoderm transition.
Read more01 Feb 2022
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Publisher Correction: A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome.
Read more19 Jan 2022
05 Jan 2022
publication
A divide-and-conquer phylogenomic approach based on character supermatrices resolves early steps in the evolution of the Archaea
Read more01 Jan 2022
29 Sep 2021
event
Seminar DEPT Microbiology “Bacillus anthracis’ S-layer is a cell envelope load-bearing component” – Dr. Antonella Fioravanti
Read more28 Sep 2021
project
ANR OM-LipAsy: Outer membrane lipid asymmetry in Veillonella parvula, an atypical diderm Firmicute
Read more21 Sep 2021
event
Microbiology Dept Seminar “Chromosome segregation and peptidoglycan remodeling are coordinated at a highly stabilized septal pore to maintain bacterial spore development”, Dr. Christopher Rodrigues
Read more09 Sep 2021
publication
Comparative genomic analysis of Methanimicrococcus blatticola provides insights into host adaptation in archaea and the evolution of methanogenesis
Read more02 Sep 2021
event
Seminar Dept Microbiology “Orientia tsutsugamushi and the obligate intracellular bacterial lifestyle”, Jeanne Salje
Read more01 Sep 2021
publication
Comparative genomic analysis of Methanimicrococcus blatticola provides insights into host adaptation in archaea and the evolution of methanogenesis
Read more01 Sep 2021
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Comparative genomic analysis of Methanimicrococcus blatticola provides insights into host adaptation in archaea and the evolution of methanogenesis
Read more04 Jun 2021
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SepF is the FtsZ anchor in archaea, with features of an ancestral cell division system
Read more19 May 2021
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A Comprehensive Evolutionary Scenario of Cell Division and Associated Processes in the Firmicutes.
Read more30 Apr 2021
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A third purine biosynthetic pathway encoded by aminoadenine-based viral DNA genomes
Read more01 Jan 2021
01 Jan 2021
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Resolving phylogenetic and biochemical barriers to functional expression of heterologous iron-sulphur cluster enzymes
Read more01 Jan 2021
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Resolving phylogenetic and biochemical barriers to functional expression of heterologous iron-sulphur cluster enzymes
Read more01 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020
publication
Histone variants in archaea and the evolution of combinatorial chromatin complexity.
Read more19 Oct 2020
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Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition.
Read more15 Oct 2020
17 Aug 2020
publication
Autotransporters Drive Biofilm Formation and Autoaggregation in the Diderm Firmicute Veillonella parvula.
Read more17 Aug 2020
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Autotransporters drive biofilm formation and auto-aggregation in the diderm Firmicute Veillonella parvula
Read more01 Aug 2020
20 Jul 2020
19 Jun 2020
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The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation
Read more01 Apr 2020
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Resource availability drives bacterial succession during leaf-litter decomposition in a bromeliad ecosystem.
Read more23 Jan 2020
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One or two membranes? Diderm Firmicutes challenge the Gram-positive/Gram-negative divide.
Read more01 Jan 2020
01 Jan 2020
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A dynamic, ring-forming MucB / RseB-like protein influences spore shape in Bacillus subtilis
Read more01 Nov 2019
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An archaeal origin of the Wood-Ljungdahl H4MPT branch and the emergence of bacterial methylotrophy
Read more01 Aug 2019
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The SUF system: an ABC ATPase-dependent protein complex with a role in Fe–S cluster biogenesis
Read more04 Mar 2019
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Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea
Read more25 Feb 2019
01 May 2018
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Simulated drought regimes reveal community resilience and hydrological thresholds for altered decomposition.
Read more01 Feb 2018
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Evolutionary history of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase, one of the oldest enzymatic complexes
Read more30 Jun 2017
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Outer Membrane Proteome of Veillonella parvula: A Diderm Firmicute of the Human Microbiome.
Read more01 Jan 2017
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The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology
Read more19 Dec 2016
project
ANR Fir-OM: Firmicutes with an outer membrane: toward new models to study the diderm/monoderm cell envelope transition
Read more24 Nov 2016
publication
Genome-wide analyses of chitin synthases identify horizontal gene transfers towards bacteria and allow a robust and unifying classification into fungi
Read more15 Oct 2016
project
ANR-Arch-Evol: Phylogenomic approaches to investigate the origin and evolution of the Archaea
Read more27 Sep 2016
project
PTR OmNega: A multi-disciplinary investigation of the Negativicutes: atypical Firmicutes with LPS-outer membranes that inhabit the human gut
Read more26 Sep 2016
publication
The changing view of eukaryogenesis – fossils, cells, lineages and how they all come together
Read more31 Aug 2016
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Phylogenomic analysis supports the ancestral presence of LPS-outer membranes in the Firmicutes.
Read more01 Mar 2016
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Transcriptional Analysis and Subcellular Protein Localization Reveal Specific Features of the Essential WalKR System in Staphylococcus aureus
Read more01 Jan 2016
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Methanogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association
Read more01 Nov 2015
25 Sep 2015
15 Sep 2015
28 Jul 2015
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The Flagellar Arginine Kinase in Trypanosoma brucei Is Important for Infection in Tsetse Flies
Read more16 Jul 2015
11 May 2015
02 Feb 2015
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Corrigendum to “unique characteristics of the pyrrolysine system in the 7th order of methanogens: implications for the evolution of a genetic code expansion cassette”
Read more01 Jan 2015
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Toward more accurate ancestral protein genotype-phenotype reconstructions with the use of species tree-aware gene trees
Read more01 Jan 2015
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S-layers at second glance? Altiarchaeal grappling hooks (hami) resemble archaeal S-layer proteins in structure and sequence
Read more26 Nov 2014
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Biology of a widespread uncultivated archaeon that contributes to carbon fixation in the subsurface.
Read more01 Nov 2014
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Comparative analyses of Legionella species identifies genetic features of strains causing Legionnaires’ disease
Read more07 Oct 2014
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The TET2 and TET3 aminopeptidases from Pyrococcus horikoshii form a hetero-subunit peptidasome with enhanced peptide destruction properties
Read more15 Aug 2014
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Deciphering the role of the chitin synthase families 1 and 2 in the in vivo and in vitro growth of Aspergillus fumigatus by multiple gene targeting deletion
Read more13 Aug 2014
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Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine
Read more18 Jul 2014
27 Jan 2014
publication
Unique characteristics of the pyrrolysine system in the 7th order of methanogens: implications for the evolution of a genetic code expansion cassette
Read more01 Jan 2014
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Global phylogenomic analysis disentangles the complex evolutionary history of DNA replication in archaea
Read more01 Oct 2013
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Phylogenomic Data Support a Seventh Order of Methylotrophic Methanogens and Provide Insights into the Evolution of Methanogenesis
Read more11 Jul 2013
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Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Methanomassiliicoccus intestinalis” Issoire-Mx1, a Third Thermoplasmatales-Related Methanogenic Archaeon from Human Feces
Read more01 Mar 2013
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A genomic survey of Reb homologs suggests widespread occurrence of R-bodies in proteobacteria
Read more01 Dec 2012
publication
Genome sequence of “Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus” Mx1201, a methanogenic archaeon from the human gut belonging to a seventh order of methanogens
Read more20 Mar 2012
10 Nov 2011
01 Nov 2011
publication
Taxonomic and functional prokaryote diversity in mildly arsenic-contaminated sediments
Read more08 Jul 2011
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Crenarchaeal CdvA forms double-helical filaments containing DNA and interacts with ESCRT-III-like CdvB
Read more07 Jun 2011
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Large-scale phylogenomic analyses indicate a deep origin of primary plastids within cyanobacteria
Read more01 Jun 2011
20 May 2011
publication
Phylogenetic and functional analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus MGTC, a fungal protein homologous to a bacterial virulence factor
Read more01 Jan 2011
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A thaumarchaeal provirus testifies for an ancient association of tailed viruses with archaea
Read more01 Jan 2011
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An rpoB signature sequence provides unique resolution for the molecular typing of cyanobacteria
Read more10 Dec 2010
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Ribonucleotide reduction – horizontal transfer of a required function spans all three domains
Read more08 Dec 2010
27 Oct 2010
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On the last common ancestor and early evolution of eukaryotes: reconstructing the history of mitochondrial ribosomes
Read more21 Oct 2010
01 Oct 2010
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The origin of eukaryotes and their relationship with the Archaea: are we at a phylogenomic impasse?
Read more25 Aug 2010
13 Jul 2010
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BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments
Read more12 Jul 2010
25 Jun 2010
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The evolutionary history of archaeal MCM helicases: a case study of vertical evolution combined with hitchhiking of mobile genetic elements.
Read more01 Jan 2010
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Geographic structuring of the Plasmodium falciparum sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (PfSERCA) gene diversity.
Read more03 Nov 2009
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The evolution of histidine biosynthesis in archaea: insights into the his genes structure and organization in LUCA
Read more10 Sep 2009
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Phylogenomics of sterol synthesis: insights into the origin, evolution, and diversity of a key eukaryotic feature
Read more31 Jul 2009
23 Jul 2009
16 Jun 2009
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A hidden reservoir of integrative elements is the major source of recently acquired foreign genes and ORFans in archaeal and bacterial genomes
Read more16 Feb 2009
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A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land
Read more23 Jan 2009
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Happy together: genomic insights into the unique Nanoarchaeum/Ignicoccus association
Read more01 Jan 2009
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Phylogenomics of Sterol Synthesis: Insights into the Origin, Evolution, and Diversity of a Key Eukaryotic Feature
Read more01 Jan 2009
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Phylogenomics of Sterol Synthesis: Insights into the Origin, Evolution, and Diversity of a Key Eukaryotic Feature
Read more23 Dec 2008
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A DNA topoisomerase IB in Thaumarchaeota testifies for the presence of this enzyme in the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eucarya
Read more29 Oct 2008
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The multiple evolutionary histories of dioxygen reductases: Implications for the origin and evolution of aerobic respiration
Read more05 Jun 2008
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Highly plastic genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806, a ubiquitous toxic freshwater cyanobacterium
Read more19 Mar 2008
01 Mar 2008
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Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota
Read more25 Jul 2007
02 Jul 2007
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Phylogenomics of the archaeal flagellum: rare horizontal gene transfer in a unique motility structure
Read more01 Jun 2007
04 Jan 2007
01 Nov 2006
29 Jun 2006
01 Oct 2005
02 Jun 2005
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An emerging phylogenetic core of Archaea: phylogenies of transcription and translation machineries converge following addition of new genome sequences
Read more14 Apr 2005
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Nanoarchaea: representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales?
Read more26 Feb 2004
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Archaeal phylogeny based on proteins of the transcription and translation machineries: tackling the Methanopyrus kandleri paradox
Read more01 Dec 2003
27 Jun 2003
publication
Functional divergence prediction from evolutionary analysis: a case study of vertebrate hemoglobin
Read more19 May 2003
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Identification, purification, and characterization of an eukaryotic-like phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase (coenzyme A biosynthetic pathway) in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi
Read more01 Jan 2003
01 Aug 2002
publication
Updating carbamoylphosphate synthase (CPS) phylogenies: occurrence and phylogenetic identity of archaeal CPS genes
Read more01 Jun 2002
01 Apr 2000
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Phylogenetic depth of the bacterial genera Aquifex and Thermotoga inferred from analysis of ribosomal protein, elongation factor, and RNA polymerase subunit sequences
Read more01 Jan 1999
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Discontinuous occurrence of the hsp70 (dnaK) gene among Archaea and sequence features of HSP70 suggest a novel outlook on phylogenies inferred from this protein
Read more01 Nov 1998
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The root of the universal tree of life inferred from anciently duplicated genes encoding components of the protein-targeting machinery
Read more01 Jan 1997
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Rapid identification by specific PCR of coagulase-negative staphylococcal species important in hospital infection
Read more01 Mar 1996