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Romain Koszul

@rkoszul.bsky.social

#3Dgenome, #3R, #chromatin, #synbio, #microbiome... Opinions are my own.

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Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals Host body temperature can define a virus’s replicative profile—influenza A viruses (IAVs) adapted to 40° to 42°C in birds are less temperature sensitive in vitro compared with human isolates adapted t...

How does fever work?

Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.

This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

27.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 175    🔁 83    💬 5    📌 6

Given the example of qedscience, which - in my opinion and for the few papers I tested - has learned the worst reviewing practices imaginable and delivers reviewer 3 unrealistic and picky comments to the power 10, I still prefer an unmotivated human to an AI :-)

11.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alors si j'ai bien compris oui pour certains revenus, mais seulement si on paie moins d'impôts localement que ce qu'on aurait payé aux USA.
On est pas imposé 2 fois.

30.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life

Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

29.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 974    🔁 212    💬 134    📌 352
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#JobOffer

💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod

➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...

28.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 6    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2
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Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

15.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 123    🔁 67    💬 1    📌 4
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Manipulations génétiques, virus créés par l’IA, bactéries miroirs : quelles limites à la recherche scientifique ? Elles pourraient aider à lutter contre les cancers… mais aussi détruire toute trace de vie sur Terre ! Ce sont les bactéries miroirs. En avez-vous déjà entendu parler ? Et la vie miroir, ça vous dit q...

Entretien pour Brut sur la vie Miroir, l'ingénierie génétique et l'éthique de ces recherches: www.brut.media/fr/videos/sc...

11.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

09.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 135    🔁 112    💬 1    📌 18
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How do SMC complexes load onto DNA to get ready for loop extrusion?

@roisnehamelinf.bsky.social & co discovered that Wadjet, an SMC complex involved in bacterial DNA immunity, performs some impressive molecular gymnastics 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️.

Check out the new paper: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

09.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 95    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 7
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

07.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 62    🔁 80    💬 2    📌 8

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

03.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 49    🔁 88    💬 0    📌 4
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Dynamics and interplay of gene expression and chromosome organization across a predatory lifecycle The obligate predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus alternates between a motile attack phase and a growth phase inside another bacterium, during which it undergoes multiple rounds of DNA repli...

📝New preprint! #MicroSky

🕰️We chart the full, synchronized lifecycle of a predatory bacterium using Hi-C, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq & microscopy.

🧬We uncover dramatic shifts in nucleoid architecture & transcription, tightly coordinated with predation.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

25.09.2025 07:12 — 👍 63    🔁 38    💬 1    📌 1

Pour un licencié en droit on aurait pu espérer plus de discernement...

25.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

20.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 25703    🔁 6929    💬 1877    📌 653

ceci dit 40 avec les gros mollets c'est vraiment de plus en plus rare à Paris... par contre du motorisé débridé ou pas qui s'impatiente collé à ton siège enfant quand tu montes une côte avec un gamin...

20.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New paper!
We generated and/or (re)analyzed ~100 #metagenomics Hi-C datasets to provide a comprehensive analysis of bacterial and viral metagenomes across VERY different environments.
Congratulations to all authors especially Amaury Bignaud and @mmarbout.bsky.social for the huge work!
#metaHiC

19.09.2025 12:49 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution Evolutionary transitions in mating strategy have profound consequences for genetic variation and adaptation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is a central feature of the life cycle t...

New preprint from the lab: we show that the ability to switch mating type was lost at least 13 times independently in the evolution of S. cerevisiae. At least 27% of isolates are heterothallic with a strong association with polyploidy and heterozygosity
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

16.09.2025 18:42 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

17.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 112    🔁 51    💬 4    📌 5

aucun pb aux USA pour ce genre de discours, c'est bien la différence majeure avec l'Europe que Vance essaie de supprimer en menaçant à tout va.

17.09.2025 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

Please re-post:

Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September

08.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 81    🔁 62    💬 0    📌 4
Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Programme, The call for enrollment of students in October 2026 will be open from September 1st to October 20th, 2025

Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Programme, The call for enrollment of students in October 2026 will be open from September 1st to October 20th, 2025

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry.

Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬

Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

01.09.2025 09:44 — 👍 33    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 6

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

08.09.2025 08:56 — 👍 45    🔁 58    💬 0    📌 0

🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance

07.09.2025 10:49 — 👍 24    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 2
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Uridine as a potentiator of aminoglycosides through activation of carbohydrate transporters Uridine boosts aminoglycoside treatment efficiency against antibiotic-susceptible as well as antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains.

So excited our antibiotic potentiation story is out 🤩 Led by the extraordinary @manonlang.bsky.social with @fox-science.bsky.social & @amazeld.bsky.social +amazing collaborators @immunobladder.bsky.social @imaneelmeouche.bsky.social 🦠 We believe it can make a difference in #AMR infections!

06.09.2025 09:35 — 👍 98    🔁 47    💬 7    📌 4

C'était la zone dès la moyenne section de maternelle si je me souviens bien...

05.09.2025 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Le gars semble a 2 doigts de découvrir le doctorat.

01.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

(Suite) en tapant votre nom dans la barre de recherche de cette database : www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... (hésitez pas à checker plusieurs versions de votre nom, à intervertir nom et prénom etc.) pour voir si une ou plusieurs de vos oeuvres y sont.
Et si vous êtes effectivement concerné-es (2/)

28.08.2025 12:34 — 👍 38    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 15

C'est exactement ça.
Idem pour sa base qui a même pas l'excuse d'avoir gardé un schéma mental d'etudiant UNEF bloqué en 1971...

25.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But still better I think than being cited but only to state you did not find what you find, and use that false claim to support your results as new (and eventually push them into Nature)

21.08.2025 13:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NIPBL dosage shapes genome folding by tuning the rate of cohesin loop extrusion Cohesin loop extrusion is a major driver of chromosome folding, but how its dynamics are controlled to shape the genome remains elusive. Here we disentangle the contributions of the cohesin cofactors ...

New preprint with @gfudenberg.bsky.social

We find the rate of cohesin loop extrusion in cells is set by NIPBL dosage and tunes many aspects of chromosome folding.

This provides a molecular basis for NIPBL haploinsufficiency in humans. 🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

16.08.2025 03:03 — 👍 113    🔁 52    💬 1    📌 6

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