2024's top 10 advances in biology (🧵)
1. Progress in longevity
Blocking the pro-inflammatory cytokine, IL11, extended healthspan and lifespan (in mice!)
Old mice without IL11 look healthier, they're stronger, and they live longer
https://t.co/Y0Raog12xk
Yasmine Belkaid, directrice générale de l'Institut Pasteur : "Il y a très peu de perspectives en France pour des chercheurs : la France n'investit pas assez dans son écosystème de recherche." #le710Inter
Our paper is finally out at Nature Microbiology. A team effort discovering Tailocin cell factories. Listeria monocytogenes bacteria produce and store ~6000 tailocins per cell in a remarkable way.
https://t.co/VrnD13KOgk
The second chapter of my PhD is out! We are bringing new elements for the potential use oof auranofin as a Clostridioides difficile treatment
https://t.co/TYr8HMP62H
I am very pleased to share my first PhD paper, where we studied the diverse roles of O2-reductases of C. difficile in presence of various physiological O2 tensions and the associated regulation. Thanks @ALotoux@Cyril_Anjou @KintNicolas @MorvanClaire2 https://t.co/WhBxX0yUGD
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 👇
https://t.co/I2j2pAel69
What are the various roles of Thioredoxin systems in bacterial physiology?
How did this ancestral system evolve among time?
Two of the questions that we tried to answer in our review that just came out!
https://t.co/Plmfv3xQ1V
Nous cherchons un technicien (biologie moléculaire, biologie cellulaire, microbiologie) pour rejoindre notre équipe et travailler sur le microbiote!!👩🔬👨🔬🧫🔬🧪
Toutes les infos sont là : https://t.co/bTfo0Yw5P4 #calameo@h_sokol@crsa_paris@InsermIDF@Sorbonne_Univ_
Really happy to share with you the first paper of my PhD work https://t.co/FLosavqYOi 🍾. Thanks a lot to my PI @BenoitChassaing for all the help and support and to all our collaborators. Looking forward to new collaborations with these amazing people.
1/2 #proudPI !! This week, @BonazziErica successfully defended her PhD in front of a stellar committee. Thanks to the @univ_paris_cite IDEX for supporting her fellowship. Such a beautiful day after 3 years of hard work at @InstitutCochin - and a manuscript soon to be released ;-)
📢 Happy to announce that my postdoc work @inrae_micalis, showing the natural formation of osmotically stable wall-deficient bacterial cells upon dormancy in an aquatic environment, is now available as a preprint @biorxiv_micrbio (1/15):
https://t.co/lg7UN6qhiO
What's better for Halloween than a vampire story! We're excited to showcase for the first time, the life cycle of an extracellular #predator that drains the contents out of its prey through the S-layer ! RT and feedback are appreciated! (1/5)
https://t.co/nzpfFDF8ZC
“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.”
Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges.
Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Listen now:
Really happy to have shared my work at #ClostPath2023 among so many great presentations!
Many thanks to Isabelle, @MorvanClaire2 @ALotoux@Cyril_Anjou and the rest of the LPBA for help and support!