Michael White

Anopheles mosquito.

1/6 Our paper today – www.nature.com/articles/s41... work from Kenya - shows protective antibodies against falciparum malaria sporozoites work against sporozoites injected into the skin, not against sporozoites injected into veins. Why does this matter?

Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

🔬 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

A fun collaboration with Makhtar Niang from Institut Pasteur de Dakar.

We've also included the code for these methods.

A person is seropositive to an infectious disease if their antibody level is above some cutoff. But selecting this cutoff is surprisingly trickly.

Our thoughts in this article.

Whose Line Is it Anyway? Defining Seropositivity Cutoffs for Infectious Disease Surveillance

doi.org/10.1093/infd...

Just to draw your attention to the HPSC's
truly excellent data hub for respiratory illnesses. A great investment in disease surveillance capacity paying off.

@hpscireland.bsky.social

respiratoryvirus.hpsc.ie

👩‍🔬 Cette semaine, 5 chercheuses de l’Institut Pasteur font la Une des médias !

De la santé des femmes au cancer, de la psychiatrie à l'intelligence artificielle... Leurs recherches font avancer la science.
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Delighted to be back in Institut Pasteur de Dakar for the kick-off of our EDCTP3 supported PvSeroRDT consortium. We will develop a new diagnostic test for detecting P. vivax malaria hypnozoites and set up manufacturing capacity with Diatropix in Senegal.

Enormous thanks to our Senegalese hosts 🇸🇳

Pour chaque vie, la science agit. Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant ! Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer. Faites un don sur pasteurdon.fr

Pour chaque vie, la science agit.
Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant !
Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer ↘️ pasteurdon.fr
#Pasteurdon

Beautiful beasts: excited to see our first volume electron microscopy study on malaria parasites published: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... revealing new insights into Plasmodium ookinete development. Thanks for great EMBL-Umea-Heidelberg collaboration.

A great opportunity to work with the excellent Amy Thomas in Bristol.

After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

The minutes noted that “everyone was searched, including their vehicles, on the grounds that researchers might be carrying mosquitoes in their pockets.”
#IDsky #malaria 🧪

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📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Paperback publication day! Have a good read. Things changing far too slowly for #womeninSTEM

Researchers in the Infection and Global Health division, with co-heads Professor Ivo Mueller (front left) and Associate Professor Chris Tonkin (front right).

Immunoparasitology lab researchers in 1977, left to right: Colin Chapman, Karen Day, Russell Howard, Emanuela Handman and lab head Graham Mitchell.

WEHI’s Graham Brown with locals in Papua New Guinea, in the 1980s.

Glory Mzembe (left) from the Training and Research Unit of Excellence in Malawi, came to WEHI to advance her skills in data analysis as part of her work with Dr Rebecca Harding (right) on a world-first anaemia trial.

🧬50 years of impact 🌍

From #malaria breakthroughs to global collaborations, our researchers have transformed the field of #parasitology – and they’re not done yet.

Find out more: www.wehi.edu.au/news/from-a-...

We're hiring a modelling postdoc at PSI Oxford for two exciting projects: 1) modelling the early immune responses to Nipah vaccination, and 2) joining the PRESTO team working on immunobridging in vaccine evaluation studies.

tinyurl.com/5abbxrjh

Get in touch for more info! Deadline 4th August.

Dads deserve a better paternity deal – so does the economy New fathers who want to bond with their babies are treated in a derisory way in the UK – and that harms us all

The UK's paternity leave is the worst in Europe. It frustrates dads, burdens mums, and impoverishes us all. The fight for better parental leave is not just a demand for common decency, but for common sense.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Institut Pasteur To Host International Meeting on Mirror Biology The Institut Pasteur will host an international conference on June 12-13, 2025 addressing the potentially unprecedented risks of mirror life, organized in partnership with the Mirror Biology Dialogues...

Today and tomorrow: International Meeting on Mirror Biology at the Pasteur Institute

www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese...

Bluetorial to follow

Evaluating the impact of the Malakit intervention on malaria transmission in the Guiana Shield: a mathematical modelling study Malakit had a significant impact on malaria transmission by improving the access to treatment for the population working in illegal gold mining in French Guiana. Building on the regional efforts of th...

Between 2018 and 2020, the www.malakit-project.org distributed kits for malaria self-diagnosis and self-treatment to gold miners in French Guiana

In this work out on ‪@lancetrh-americ.bsky.social‬ we have used modelling to assess the impact of the intervention

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This work began in 2019 during my PhD, with the help of @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social. After navigating a pandemic, finishing my PhD, and changing labs, I am pleased to share our work on a modest #ampseq panel for #P.vivax. This panel is designed to facilitate molecular corrections in clinical trials

Respect to Krishnan Guru-Murthy here.

Postdoctoral positions in epidemic mathematical/statistical modelling - Research Job description We are recruiting postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The candidates will be expected t...

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Women’s leadership in Yellow4FLAVI We’d like to shine a spotlight on Dr. Giovanna Barba-Spaeth, Coordinator of the Yellow4FLAVI Horizon Europe funded project and Head of the Flavimmunity Group at Institut Pasteur. 1️⃣ What is your back...

🔬Spotlight on women’s leadership in Yellow4FLAVI!
Dr. Barba-Spaeth @giobarbaspaeth.bsky.social, a molecular & structural virologist, coordinates research on how YF17D vaccine structure drives immunity, unlocking new paths for next-gen vaccines.💉🧠
More on our site: www.yellow4flavi.eu/post/women-s...

This is for a new EDCTP project called PvSeroRDT where we are developing a multiplex serological diagnostic test for P. vivax malaria

Calling diagnostics developers.

If you know any companies in your network that can develop portable readers for RDTs, please check out the following request for proposals coordinated by FIND.

Can include standalone readers or mobile-phone based systems.

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Powerful new tool against Malaria (𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦)

Instead of killing mosquitoes, bed nets coated with ELQs (endochin-like quinolones) KILL THE MALARIA PARASITES INSIDE THE INSECTS. Infected mosquitoes land, absorb the drug through their legs, and are rendered parasite-free

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ms. Rachel is braver than the troops.

Reduced microbe abundance in an urban larval development container increases Aedes aegypti susceptibility to Zika virus Author summary Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread viruses like dengue and Zika, inhabit different environments within Africa. Ancestral forms of Ae. aegypti occupy forested habitats, while domesti...

Great new study from the Dickson lab @utmb.bsky.social reveals how the microbial environment of Aedes aegypti larvae affects #ZIKV transmission. #Mosquitoes raised in urban containers (plastic buckets) are more susceptible than those from forest habitats (coconut husks) dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Not Just for the Boys by Athene Donald

Delighted to announce the paperback edition of my book Not Just for the Boys: Why we need more women in science, will be published in July

Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease? Researchers at GSK have high hopes Exclusive: Next-generation jab could be three times as effective as the best currently available

Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease?

In @telegraphnews.bsky.social, Chris Drakeley comments on efficacy of first-generation #malaria vaccines as GSK say they want to develop a jab that's 3 times as effective by 2035. @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

So excited today as we launch the Sorbonne Université Modeling Outbreaks Center (SUMOC) - a hub dedicated to strengthening our ability to understand, anticipate, and respond to infectious disease threats.
@sorbonne-universite.fr @fac-sante-sorbonne.bsky.social @inserm.fr @anrs-mie.bsky.social