05/12/2025. Meningococci drive host membrane tubulation to recruit their signaling receptors Audrey Laurent-Granger, Kévin Sollier, Bruno Saubamea, Virginie Mignon, Nicolas Goudin, Yaëlle Wormser, Morgane Wuckelt, Mahmoud Rifai, Thomas Heng, Lya …
01/10/2025. It’s time to welcome Five new lab members: Anne-Aurélie Lopes, MD, PhD, HDR. Anne Aurélie join the lab and she will work on Staphylococcus aureus with Anne Jamet Eliska …
01/07/2025. Structure of the virulence-associated Neisseria meningitidis filamentous bacteriophage MDAΦ Jan Böhning, Miles Graham, Mathieu Coureuil , Abul K. Tarafder , Julie Meyer, Xavier Nassif, Emmanuelle Bille, and Tanmay A. …
01/07/2025. Lison Reboul is a PhD student in our team. She joined us in October 2024. She expresses her talents at the bench and also with her tablet ! Lison …
01/01/2025. Neisseria meningitidis. Emmanuelle Bille, Alexandra Schubert-Unkmeir and Mathieu Coureuil, Trends Microbiology 2025
01/10/2024. We are delighted to welcome three new members: Lison Reboul for a thesis with Emmanuelle Bille on phage biologyRomina Mehrabdollahi for a Master 2 internship with Mathieu Coureuil on …
14/08/2024. Expanding the genetic toolbox for Neisseria meningitidis with efficient tools for unmarked gene editing, complementation, and labelingMorgane Wuckelt et al Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2024 ABSTRACT The efficient natural transformation of Neisseria …
24/07/2024. Mathieu Coureuil was granted ANR PRC for two project Deciphering the role of Endothelial MicroParticles in CARdiovascular Dysfunctions in bacterial sepsis (EMPCard) — Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of action …
24/07/2023. Emmanuelle Bille was granted ANR PRME for her project on N. meningitidis and filamentous phage biology. The Neisseria group was also granted ANR PRC in collaboration with Sandrine Bourdoulous. …
24/07/2023 .Morgane Wuckelt and Elif Uyar have been awarded a PhD Track Grant from BioSPC. We are all very proud and very excited about the science to come. Morgane will …
27/03/2023 . Implantation of engineered human microvasculature to study human infectious diseases in mouse models.Sophia Schönherr-Hellec et al iScience 2023 Animal models for studying human pathogens are crucially lacking. We …
02/05/2022 .Mechanical Activation of the β2-Adrenergic Receptor by Meningococcus: A Historical and Future Perspective Analysis of How a Bacterial Probe Can Reveal Signalling Pathways in Endothelial Cells, and a Unique …
12/11/2021 .The minor pilin PilV provides a conserved adhesion site throughout the antigenically variable meningococcal type IV pilus Jean-Philippe Barnier et al PNAS 2021 Neisseria meningitidis utilizes type IV pili (T4P) …
02/08/2021 .Audrey LAURENT and Clémence MOUVILLE have been awarded a PhD Track Grant from BioSPC. Xiali FU has been awarded a PhD Track Grant from China Scholarship Council. We are …
Le 19/02/2021 .Type IV pilus retraction enables sustained bacteremia and plays a key role in the outcome of meningococcal sepsis in a humanized mouse model. Jean-Philippe Barnier et al PLOS …
Receptor Recognition by Meningococcal Type IV Pili Relies on a Specific Complex N-glycan. Leguennec et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 117 (5), 2606-2612 2020 Feb 4 News linked to Mathieu …
Sialic Acid Mediated Mechanical Activation of β 2 Adrenergic Receptors by Bacterial Pili. Virion et al, Nat Commun, 10 (1), 4752 2019 Oct 18 News linked to Mathieu Coureuil & Xavier Nassif …
