Results of the Seed-Grants call dedicated to Institut Pasteur postdoctoral fellows – 2024 edition

The Department for Scientific Programming and Incentive Actions (SPAIS) and the Postdoc Office
are pleased to announce the successful outcomes of their inaugural joint Postdoc Seed Grants Call - 2024 Edition.

This initiative was established in direct response to the desires voiced by the postdoctoral community on campus. Recognizing a real need for more opportunities to explore new research avenues, which are crucial for their career development, postdocs advocated for a program that would support short-term, interdisciplinary, and exploratory projects. The Institut Pasteur, along with the SPAIS and the Postdoc Office, listened carefully and took action, highlighting the real importance of fostering innovative research pathways for the postdoctoral community.

With the generous financial backing of the Institut Pasteur and Pasteur Microbes & Health Carnot Institute, we are proud to announce that the following 12 collaborative projects have been selected for funding:

•    “Adapting CRISPR/Cas13 as an antiviral tool in insects (REINFORCING)”
Eugenia Soledad Bardossy & Cara Picciotto
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Carla Saleh & François Schweisguth
 
•    “Plasmid Phage Satellites (pSats): A novel type of mobile genetic elements”
Beatriz Beamud Aranguren & Manuel Ares Arroyo
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively David Bikard & Eduardo P.C. Rocha
 
•    “Deciphering the spatiotemporal cGMP modulation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoY in infected living cells”
Elif Begum Gokerkucuk & Vincent Deruelle*
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Jost Enninga & Daniel Ladant
 
•    “Shedding light into anti-viral mechanisms across domains of life”
Alba Herrero del Valle & Ignacio Fernandez
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Aude Bernheim & Félix Rey
 
•     “Lysosomal and mitochondrial dysfunction in progeroid and ageing-related degenerative diseases”
Francesca Palese & Chiara Cimmaruta*
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Chiara Zurzolo & Miria Ricchetti
 
•    “Quantitative Force Measurements in a 3D Vessel-on-Chip”
Léa Pinon & Arthur Michaut*
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Guillaume Duménil & Jérôme Gros
 
•    “Unlocking the respiratory epithelial microenvironment: investigating the role of AhR pathway in respiratory viral pathogenesis”
Delphine Planas & Bárbara de Faria da Fonseca
 Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Olivier Schwartz & Samy Gobaa

•    “Mitochondria, Stem cell and Macrophages (MSM)”
Marielle Saclier & Juan Diego Hernández Camacho*
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Han Li & Timothy Wai
 
•    “Building a CryoET/lift-out workflow to study vertical structures in cell monolayer”
Gautham Hari Sankara Narayana* & Johannes Groen
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Guillaume Duménil & Anna Sartori-Rupp
 
•    “Impact of Peripheral Gene Therapy on Central Sound Signal Processing in the DFNB9 Mouse Model: Murine versus Human Therapeutic Sequences”
Ara Schorscher-Petcu & Maxence Cornille
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Jérémie Barral & Saaid Saffiedine
 
•     “Advancing Single-Cell Multi-Omics in Protozoan Parasites: Methanol Fixation in CITE-seq for T. brucei”
Parul Singh* & Fernando Batista*
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Jessica Bryant & Lucy Glover
 
•    “Characterization of infection traits and intracellular niche formation of clinically relevant invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella strains in host-cells”
Camila Valenzuela Montenegro & Francisco Garcia Rodriguez
Their initiative was supported by their supervisors, respectively Jost Enninga & Carmen Buchrieser

*Pasteur-Roux-Cantarini Fellowship laureates