Imane Nasr is a master student of Université de Paris at the Necker-Enfants Malades Institute. She joined the Neisseria meningitidis team from January 2022. She studies the machinery of type IV pili, and the role of PilC in adhesion to endothelial cells, under the supervision of Mathieu Coureuil.
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The MDA promotes bacterial colonisation by selecting hyperadhesive pili variants
20/12/2025 Neisseria meningitidis filamentous phage MDA promotes colonisation by selecting hyperadhesive pili variants Clémence Mouville, Antoine Brizard, Morgane Wuckelt, Mélanie Montabord, Hervé Lécuyer, Julie Meyer, Anne ...
Meningococci reshape host membranes to recruit their own signaling receptors
05/12/2025. Meningococci drive host membrane tubulation to recruit their signaling receptors Audrey Laurent-Granger, Kévin Sollier, Bruno Saubamea, Virginie Mignon, Nicolas ...
Newcomers in the Lab
01/10/2025. It's time to welcome Five new lab members: Anne-Aurélie Lopes, MD, PhD, HDR. Anne Aurélie join the lab and ...
Structure of the MDAΦ
01/07/2025. Structure of the virulence-associated Neisseria meningitidis filamentous bacteriophage MDAΦ Jan Böhning, Miles Graham, Mathieu Coureuil , Abul K. Tarafder ...