🚨 We're hiring ! We are looking for a postdoc to decipher the molecular mechanisms of antiviral immunity from bacteria to eukaryotes. Brand new lab spaces🥼 + interdisciplinary environment🧑‍🔬 + 2-min away from the beautiful Gerland park 🌳 rousset-lab.com/_downloads/fd8…

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best

Wow 🥹 so proud to be French right now 🇫🇷

I'm not so often proud of my country but tonight it was the case. This ceremony pictured very well the French spirit - if there's any. Now, let's wish a quick recovery to all athletes. #Paris2024 #Olympics

Germany tried this. It is a disaster. Pushes ppl out of research. The positions they are supposed to transition into don't exist. I can't keep my research team here because of arbitrary contract limits like this. Tragic and demoralizing for all of us. #WissZeitVG #IchbinHanna

It took more than a DECADE... but finally it’s published!!! It started as a CRAZY idea but after tons of hard work we built it: We hijacked the endogenous secretion systems of Toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite, to deliver active proteins to neurons 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Today a new doctor has come out of the FrunzkeLab! 🎓🎉🍾 Congrats Sebastian&the_plants - the coffee-powered wizard of plant-bacteria-phage tripartite interactions!! PS I've already said it but I'll say it again : decorated hats + carts are one the best things about academia in 🇩🇪

Congratulations Sebastian&the_plants for a successful PhD defense! Great collaborative project with Borjana Arsova and Uli Schurr on the establishment of phage-based biocontrol of plant pathogens. Root Dynamics Group - IBG2 Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected] , Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

I am glad I can finally share this: Non-genetic mRNA silencing reveals essential genes in phage-host interplay. Enabled discovery of new important genes of Pseudomonas jumbo phage phiKZ. Also works for defense systems, clinical isolates. Read here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Same here, I intend to change my profile only when Ukraine has won this war. 🌻🇺🇦

What a day, what a day...🥹🥹🥹 As a grumpy French, it's become almost impossible to keep being negative about the Olympics in France.

madeline odent I agree with you! Business Insider tracked Rick down: businessinsider.com/jd-vance-couch…

Bitter-sweet result. Our paper is out in Nature, but sometimes you're forced to hide your affiliation to make it happen. Viruses encode tRNAs to circumvent tRNA-targeting immune systems, like PARIS. Thanks to David Bikard, Wiedenheft Lab and the teams. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Really proud to see this work published -- a thrilling detective story I was lucky to be a part of. Big kudos to Stephen Tang and the entire team for an impressive collaborative effort. See Stephen's thread below to learn more... (and read the paper!). drive.google.com/file/d/1_paZuA…

Excited to introduce AntiDefenseFinder - a free, open source tool that detects anti-defense systems in any genomic sequence. Available here to toggle on/off: defensefinder.mdmlab.fr. Read below for our insights into the >47K detectable systems📈 tiny.cc/8xrizz

It was fun to bring together this special issue as editor with Rob Lavigne! Lucky to be part of a research community "...driven by curiosity and fellowships of phage researchers looking for someone to share in an adventure." sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction

We are happy to share our recent preprint on (first ever CRISPR paper in my life😅): "CRISPR/dCas-mediated counter-silencing – Reprogramming dCas proteins into antagonists of xenogeneic silencers" #CRISPRcosi 🧵(1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected], Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, MibiNet

No one: Absolutely no one: French medical textbook: hey here is a mnemonic to help you remember complications of obesity : "fat sow"

Almost two years ago I joined MDMLab and Poirier Lab to study the conservation of immunity between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and our paper is out! While I didn't move country between PhD lab and postdoc lab, I did move from a bacteria-focused lab (hi Eduardo Rocha ) to...

In a new study, we report the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of mammalian innate immunity!! Co-led with Enzo Poirier lab, in collab with Ben Morehouse biorxiv.org/content/10.110…