After 9 great years at Leiden University, I am excited to move my lab to the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the Fall!

Surfing Motility: A Novel Propulsion-Independent Mechanism for Surface Migration in Salmonella and E. coli biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Two open fully funded Postdoc positions in my lab in #cryoEM & #cryoET. See description below 👇Please share and spread the word. For all those interested in joining my group and work on exciting and collaborative projects please apply! drive.google.com/file/d/1Qs4roS…

Ready for the joint annual meeting of the Swiss society for microbiology! With the one and only Sonja-Verena Albers

Another great opportunity for an assistant professorship in our department. Please check the link for more information and spread the word! nature.com/naturecareers/…

Thinking back on good times with the Polara following @RubinsteinJohn post- here is a t-shirt we made for Jensen Lab for his tenure event! Good memories Morgan Beeby @ElitzaTocheva Pilhofer Lab Elizabeth Wright Yi-Wei Chang

Tardigrade army waiting to be packed for Paris ⁦Mark O. Martin⁩ !

Happy birthday Brun Lab ! 🎉🎁🍷

We have reviewed knowledge available on amino acid chemotaxis. “Bacterial amino acid chemotaxis: a widespread strategy with multiple physiological and ecological roles”. Miguel_Matilla BLAST Meetings SEM Microbiología Molecular SEM pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39330213/

The chocolate bowl has its new home at the Pasteur institute- I hope many of my new colleagues will come visit us and enjoy it!

We have arrived!

My very first visitor at Pasteur is ⁦Zhulin Lab⁩ ! Thanks for stopping by Igor!

Fall vibes

Lab moving day!

The couch is in! The office is ready at Pasteur 😊

CryoET enthusiasts! Are you going to the Asia pacific microscopy congress in February? Don’t forget to submit an abstract before November 15 to be considered for a talk in the ‘in situ cryoET’ session! I hope to see you at APMC 2025 apmc13-2025.org

The Institut Pasteur is looking for a Scientific Director | Research - Institut Pasteur research.pasteur.fr/en/job/institu…

The first Christmas tree hunt at Pasteur was a success! Thank you also to our new friends from the nanoimaging platform for playing along!

I will migrate fully to bluer skies- please find me there!

Using cryogenic electron microscopy methods to gain insight into structure and initial host attachment of the flagellotropic ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio