Philippe Bastin's Lab

Getting excited about the upcoming #centrosome conference in Lausanne!

Get your abstracts ready 👇

Remise d'un doctorat honoris causa à Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Prix Nobel de médecine 2008 pour la découverte du VIH, reçoit un doctorat honoris causa de l'Université de Montréal.

Cette scientifique d'exception continue d'inspirer la lutte mondiale contre le #VIH.

@umontreal.ca Crédit image : André Caty

Great work revealing the complexity and dynamics of antiviral defences in bacteria by our former @ibeidlabex.bsky.social S2I laureate @jmouradesousa.bsky.social

Spectacular study revealing multiple ways by which Choanoeca flexa forms monolayers! Congratulations to @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Núria Ros-Rocher @pasteur.fr and all partners involved 👏👏👏

Great journal, great philosophy ❤️❤️❤️

Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
Friday, Feb 27
Institut Jacques Monod

Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social (EMBL, Heidelberg) Evolution and diversity of mitosis

Exciting evolutionary cell biology: bridging genomics, experimental evolution, and stunning imaging across diverse protozoans
buff.ly/uCSfjgQ

Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to announce the upcoming Jacques Monod Conference on the mechanistic and evolutionary basis of programmed DNA elimination (Sept 21–25, 2026):
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
Organized by @laurarossevo.bsky.social and myself.

Nice work showing that T. congolense and T. brucei are very different!

Nouvelle percée en biologie parasitaire ! Une équipe française révèle comment RCC1-2 et APR8 orchestrent la construction de l’apical complex chez 𝘛𝘰𝘹𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘪.

✍️ @gissotlab.bsky.social @lebrunlab.bsky.social & coll.
📖 shorturl.at/4q68P

Fantastic talk of @lacarlson.bsky.social using great cryo-electron tomography to reveal how clever arboviruses are! @pasteur.fr @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Closing date is 19th Feb so why not go for it to enjoy the rain in London!

Fantastic talk of @sheinerlab.bsky.social today @pasteur.fr about these crazy ribosomal mitochondrial RNAs in #Toxoplasma!

🚀 Nous avons accueilli les étudiant·es de l'Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université & Université Paris-Saclay pour une session de présentation des Cours Pasteur qu’ils pourront choisir pour leur Master 2

Découvrez les Cours Pasteur accessibles en formation initiale et continue 👉 bit.ly/49WLi7c

Nice multiple-team effort shedding some light on the intriguing expression site body (ESB), the key to antigenic variation in trypanosomes
@fariatrypslab.bsky.social @zephyris-science.bsky.social @tiengwe-tryplab.bsky.social with Jack Sunter and Keith Gull among others

Very proud of the achievements of the consortium!
@pasteur.fr @inserm.fr @santepubliquefrance.fr @anses-fr.bsky.social ENVA AP-HP

One night in Hong-Kong... 15 years ago. RIP Spencer

IFT imaging in trypanosomes was made possible thanks to Spencer and his team who trained Johanna Buisson and many others, for example for FRAP development
See @jcellsci.bsky.social for more videos
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Very emotional symposium in memory of our dear Spencer Shorte @pasteur.fr His legacy will be with us for ever, many thanks to Nathalie Aulner and all speakers @krogersiooi.bsky.social @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social @jytinevez.bsky.social @yarareis-gbi.bsky.social @stratocore.bsky.social

JCS cover. The cover image is an expansion microscopy image of a Chromera velia flagellate labelled with anti-tubulin antibodies (cyan)

Issue 1 is complete

Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

On the cover: an expansion microscopy image of a Chromera velia flagellate labelled with anti-tubulin antibodies (cyan). See article by Tengganu & Hu.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

A full house for our roundtable on #expansion microscopy @pasteur.fr. Many thanks to coorganisers Gael Moneron & Serge Bonnefoy and to all participants for great talks &discussions @echardlab-pasteur.bsky.social @gloverlab.bsky.social @jessmbryant.bsky.social PBI facility @thibautbrunet.bsky.social

Three questions about autism: what are the symptoms? What are the causes? And why are so many people affected? The Trump administration has falsely suggested, with no scientific basis, that autism is linked to measles vaccination and paracetamol. Leaving aside these highly criticized claims, what are the actua...

🙅 No, autism is not caused by measles vaccine or paracetamol.

Autism has primarily genetic causes. 200+ genes identified since 2003.

Recent study (Nature, Oct 2025) shows genetic profiles differ by age at diagnosis.

Facts matter ↘️

www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...

#Autism #Science

YASMINE BELKAID @pasteur.fr is awarded the 2026 Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine for illuminating the complex interplay between the microbiota, nutrition, infection, and the immune system, transforming our understanding of host defence and tissue homeostasis.

BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia Network e-symposium series talk Sign-up to be on the rota of future speakers for the 2025 series!

We are back April 21 2026- volunteer or nominate yourself or someone with hot cilia and centrosome science to speak by dropping me an email or use the google doc forms.gle/9QoSvkmQ3gZL...! /FIN

BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

We must have been #ExtraNice this year- our #cilia & #centrosome 🧪 community- 🎅 Santa just dropped the 1st session of 2026 line-up @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposia- www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... See you on the other side! Happy Holidays!

Congratulations!

Happy New Year from the Trypanosome Cell Biology Unit! @pasteur.fr @inserm.fr

✨ Wishing you a wonderful 2026! ✨

In 2026, we’ll keep pursuing our mission: to understand, prevent, and cure - protecting health worldwide 🌍🧬

Thanks to everyone who supports our researchers and believes in the power of science.

Let’s keep science moving forward for life 💛

#HappyNewYear2026

🧬 Fancy a fully funded PhD at the cutting edge of parasitology? 🦠✨
We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍

@sebbaumgarten.bsky.social @jessmbryant.bsky.social @inserm.fr @embl.org @embl.org