Benoit Marteyn
Team located on the University of Strasbourg campus (IBMC) with a remaining link with the Institut Pasteur.
Shigella, neutrophils, oxygen, RNA among other favorite research topics
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynJoin us for the upcoming innate immunity keystone. There’s a great lineup of speakers. @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social #InnateImmunity : Diversity in #HostDefense & Disease, this March! keysym.us/KSInnateImmune26 #KSInnateImmune26
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynTwo postdoc positions in way lab go live tomorrow......please pass the message along.......more details to follow.
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynCall for #poster #abstracts is open for the #Shigella meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social thru Feb! Secure your spot by #registering! #ShowUsYourScience #MicroSky #IDSky 🦠 🧫🔬 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynIRF2 regulates both GSDMD expression and NK cells antibacterial functions. Check the latest paper from the lab @ciri-lyon.bsky.social published in @emboreports.org. IRF2 as a key immune regulator against our favorite bug, #Francisella tularensis! #inflammasome link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynWe are looking for a junior group leader in RNA biology to join us in Würzburg at the @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social ! A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :) Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynPhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynThis is a cool paper "The targeting of CD44 by CMV reveals CD44 as a molecule that is essential to the functioning of the FRC network and uncovers a previously unrecognized stroma-based mechanism that is critical for the generation of effective T cell responses." #Immunology
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynMapping the ultrastructural topology of septin cage entrapment PhD studentship with @carolynmoores1.bsky.social Direct link here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968 #Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynDon't miss the opportunity to discover Raphael Valdivia's great research and to connect with the community!
- Happy New Year! Exciting announcement: Prof. Raphael H. Valdivia will be a key note speaker at the 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting! Join us 22nd - 23rd of June in Belfast to hear about his and share your exciting work on host-pathogen interactions. Stay tuned ! www.ukcellmicro.org
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynReally happy to see this paper come out! It's so long ago we started this that no one can remember the date...Congrats to all Contributors. A vessel on a chip model to study bacterial infections in the circulation, sepsis, meningitis. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynOur first paper is out today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. 🎉 #UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynOur lab is hiring a PhD student to investigate how glycans affect antitumor immune responses in metastases and how this can be modulated to improve immunotherapy! More info here 👇 #glycotime werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynHappy New Year Shigellophiles! There's only 105 days to go ... don't forget to get your abstract in!
- Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynA molecule designed to activate iron locked up in lysosomes and induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer go.nature.com/4oXWEvY
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynLooking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention 📅 April 20-24, 2026 📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home @embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynCome and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn🔬 Honoring Spencer Shorte's legacy Jan 28, 2026 Institut Pasteur symposium celebrating a pioneering figure in bioimaging & core facilities. Scientists worldwide will share how his visionary work continues to shape research. Free registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
- We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in our team at the @unistra @ibmc.bsky.social - 3 year ANR project in collaboration with the @dumenillab.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr focused on the survival of pathogenic bacteria upon plasma exposure Apply here : emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offr...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynAfter D2449 by rdsA, now new methylations in E.coli rRNA under stress 💫
- Hypoxia-induced D(5S)m2449 and Cm(5S)m2498 modifications in the 23S rRNA promotes protein synthesis #MicroSky #RNASky 🧪 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynPlease RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynWe have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in Würzburg, Germany. Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please spread the word.
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynAre you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn"Cell la vie!" meeting is back!📅 The French Society for Cell Biology is pleased to announce that the next edition will take place on October 21-23, 2026 in Paris. This year will focus on the needs & challenges to explore the life sciences with an highlight on the role of microscopy. 🔬 Stay tuned!
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynInternational Call: recruitment of an Early-Career Team Leader in Virology at CIRI! For further information: ciri.ens-lyon.fr/nous-rejoind...
- Thrilled to share that neutrophils produce extra long fibrillar components named proteoglycofili or PGF. PGF are released by living neutrophils and do not contain DNA. They might look like NETs but are not NETs… www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynWe'll bring the food, you bring the #science! Call for #abstracts - www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs... #Shigella #Microsky #IDsky
- Are you hungry for some Shigella news? Why not come to the 1st International Shigella meeting www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home 20-24 April 2026 Paris
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynSecreting bacteria undergo drastic changes. We found that in Yersinia, T3SS activation triggers rapid, large-scale reorganisation of chromosomal and plasmid DNA. This links secretion to growth inhibition-revealing a new connection between virulence and bacterial cell biology. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn#Abstract submissions are open for The #Shigella Meeting! If you would like to be considered for a #travel #grant, abstracts are due December 16, 2025. Regular submissions due January 14, 2026. Show us your #science! @shigellameeting.bsky.social 🦠 🧫🔬 #Microsky #IDsky
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynMy lab is recruiting a post-doc ! please share ! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynLondon interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @sergemostowylab.bsky.social, & @gmknght.bsky.social on #phage -bacteria-host immune dynamics for WHO priority bacterial pathogens #Klebsiella, #Shigella, and #Staph. Combines cellular microbiology, genomics, & mathematical modelling.
- See our neutrophil marker, Myelotracker www.bertin-technologies.com/product/bior...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynAn authoritative review on phagosome immunobiology by David Underhill and Kai Li. Highly recommend for anyone interested in innate immunity, antigen presentation, infection and host defense. @cedarssinai.bsky.social rdcu.be/eNIFY
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn🦠🔬🤖🧑💻 #mAIcrobe interface preview, a platform for #DeepLearning enabled bacterial image-based phenotyping. Check it out 💻: github.com/HenriquesLab... 📄: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 🦠🔬🤖🧑💻 #mAIcrobe is out! With @pinholab.bsky.social's lab, we launched an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. By rockstars A. Brito & B. Saraiva et al, making #DeepLearning for phenotyping accessible! Easy to use, plus model training 📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn#EveryCellIsAnImmuneCell! Luchetti @rauchlab.bksy.social Dixit &co show @nature.com that enteropathogenic bacteria evolved a virulence factor that degrades non-canonical #inflammasome & targets ROCKs necessary for luminal extrusion of infected intestinal #epithelial cells, favoring bacterial growth!
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynDon't let the bug's virulence fill you with dread, When gourmet French dining awaits you instead. So pack up your notes and your best, clever wits, To discuss all the bug's crafty cellular tricks! @ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social
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- Why attend the @shigellameeting.bsky.social in 6 months you ask? (🧵) 🦠 🧫 🔬 #Microsky #IDsky What a question and a grand request, To muse on why scientists should travel for a pest! Forget lonely lab benches and the pipette's cold song, There are better pursuits for which researchers long.
- Reposted by Benoit Marteyn#WeekendRead! #ToSenseOrNotToSense! #MysterySolved! Berouti, Wagner, Carell, @v-hornung.bsky.social &co show @cp-cell.bsky.social that RNase T2 & PLDs generate #TLR7 & #TLR8 agonistic ligands only if RNA does not contains pseudouridines explaining avoidance of self RNA sensing!
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynJoin us for this exciting meeting! @embo.org Workshop "Pathogen Immunity and Signalling", 8-12 June, 2026, Leiden, The Netherlands meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynWe are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynNew paper - MAPL strikes again! Interested in mitochondrial signalling, inflammation, lysosome biology, pyroptosis, and Parkinson's disease? Have a look, there's something for everyone! Feeling grateful! @mitocollier.bsky.social Funded by #CIHR, @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org. rdcu.be/eKKz1 🇨🇦
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynTwo group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynHope to see you in Belfast next June!
- SAVE THE DATE! The 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting will be held 22nd - 23rd of June at @wwiem-qub.bsky.social in Belfast. Researchers from the UK and beyond are invited to share exciting work on the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. Follow us to stay tuned! www.ukcellmicro.org
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynJob alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynA new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynA new study led by Sandrine Henri is out now in OncoImmunology. Authors characterized the prostate's immune landscape in healthy inidviduals and during cancer progression. Congratulations to 1st author Despoina Pervizou and all collaborators.
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynEXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩🔬🤓
- Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynOpen position !! Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social. To apply at the E level: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... To apply at the post-doc level: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynWhat an amazing accomplishment of my colleague/lab neighbor Andrea Ablasser & her team => Citation Laureate on their incredible work on the cGAS-STING pathway together w/ Zhijian ‘James’ Chen & Glen Barber. Big congrats 🥳!! clarivate.com/citation-lau...
- Reposted by Benoit MarteynWe are hiring a postdoc in bacterial genomics and evolution. research.pasteur.fr/wp-content/u...
