One month ago, me and my partner finally got to see our best and most challenging 9-month project coming out! 🥰 We're super excited to see how the co-authored project develops!🐣

(Vilhena & Bouthillier, 2026)

#newPI #newMum #womeninSTEM #muminSTEM #muminScience

#VAAM2026 is kicking off today in Berlin!🦠
The #BIDlab will be represented by the fantastic Miriana Battista who will be presenting our latest work on Poster IB-024 on Tuesday 🙌🏻🙏🏻👌🏻😍 stop by!

#microbiology #streptococcuspneumoniae #extracellularvesicles

Happy new year!! Let's do the work to make this year better than the last.

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To celebrate the International day of #womenandgirlsinscience, I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Grace Androga! 🙌🏻

infectnet.org/en/archive/4...

Enjoy the reading and keep giving women the stage!
#womeninSTEM #womeninsience

@infect-net.bsky.social

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Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers - Nature An antiphage defence system has an activation mechanism that relies on the sensing of phage-encoded proteins that enforce geometry crucial to activation and are not typically present in non-infected cells.

Nature research paper: Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers

go.nature.com/4tmW9iw

The status of extracellular vesicles as drug carriers and therapeutics - Nature Reviews Bioengineering Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as biocompatible carriers for targeted drug delivery, yet challenges in yield, cargo loading and biodistribution persist. In this Review, key trends from over a decade of research are analysed, comparing EVs with lipid-based systems and outlining strategies for improving therapeutic translation and reporting standards.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as biocompatible carriers for targeted drug delivery. A Review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering compares EVs with lipid-based systems and outlining strategies for improving therapeutic translation and reporting standards. 🔒

Ein Park, der schneebedeckt ist. Eine Person geht in der Ferne durch den Schnee.

Heute am besten lieber mit Schlittenhunden zur Uni fahren 🐕‍🦺

Awesome!! Congrats Viola 😍😍

The #BIDlab had a super productive cookie-baking last workday with the PharmBio team 🍪 🎄

Closing the year extremely thankful for all the work and development we did as a small team👩🔬 🧪

Enjoy the holidays and see y'all in 2026! 🥳 🙏

#newPI #streptococcuspneumoniae #extracellularvesicles

Stilisierte Illustration einer Rakete, die aus einem dichten Netzwerk aus verbundenen Punkten in den Weltraum startet – Symbol für Weiterentwicklung, Vernetzung und Aufbruch von Infect-Net.

Homepage Relaunch 🚀 Wir haben ein paar Änderungen an unserer Website vorgenommen. Alle Änderungen und neuen Features auf infectnet.org haben wir hier für euch kompakt zusammengefasst: 👉 infectnet.org/archive/4096
#InfectNet #Version1.2 #Relaunch #Frauennetzwerk #Infektionsforschung

Thank youu💜

🧵2/2 In this work, we utilize a cocultivation platform to explore #extracellularvesicles formation at the interface between #bacteria and the human host and provide first insights into regulatory molecular mechanisms. 🧫 🦠

Mechanistic Insights into the Role of Extracellular Vesicles at the Bacterial–Host Interface Bacterial and human cells produce extracellular vesicles (EVs) in response to diverse stimuli, e.g., toxins, oxidative stress, nutrient depletion, or high cell density. Here, we describe a cocultivation platform that allows recovery of mixed extracellular vesicles (mix-EVs) produced simultaneously by both cell types. We investigated interactions between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria (Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Neisseria meningitidis) and human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). The production of the mix-EVs population decreased with higher bacterial concentrations. Exposing PBMCs to mix-EVs repressed the general transcriptomic signature, in contrast with a significant upregulation generated by single bacterial-EVs. However, mix-EVs-derived IL-1β upregulation was confirmed at the protein level. Inhibition experiments showed that IL-1β production involved TLR2 and TLR4 signaling, acting through IRAK-1 and TRAF6 related pathways. This approach provides a new platform for the study of EVs at the pathogen–host interface and presents mechanistic insights into the effect of EVs on an infected host.

🧵1/2- So so happy to share our very first publication from the #BIDlab! 🥳 🎉 🙏

A huge thanks to our super talented PhD student Miriana Battista and our amazing collaborators @appsysbio.bsky.social and Christoph Saffer for the work and support 👌 🙏

⏩ pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Today is #WorldPneumoniaDay 🫁🦠😷
Even though steps have been taken to tackle this deadly infectious disease, a long road still lies ahead.

To mark this day, I wrote a short article for @infect-net.bsky.social 📖 English version will come soon!

How jealous are you that your lab is not based in Germany on Nov. 11th? 🤤😋

#BIDlab

Super happy to see our interview out on Trillium EVs journal! 👌🏻🤩

Check out the full article ⏬
trillium.de/en/journals/tr…

#newPI #BIDlab #extracellularvesicles

Thanksss🥺🤩 we'll keep moving and pushing

🧵 #2 and 1 under revision, went to 4 conferences, integrated into the local research community and we're still enjoying the journey 🥂🍸🍹 it is very draining and frustrating at times, but we'll keep moving 🙌🏻
A huge Thank you to everyone that supported us along the way🙏🏻

The #BIDlab is 1 year old! 🎂🙏🏻👩🏻‍🔬🎉🥳👯
🧵#1 On Oct 1st 2024 we started this crazy journey: 1 junior group leader, 1 PhD student, a small office and a tiny budget.
Ups&downs and a lot of hard work later, we have enlarged the group, got funding in, have 1 accepted paper and

The #BIDlab got to show it's work at #GSEV2025 on a talk, flash talk and poster! 🧫🔬🙏🏻
Super proud of our PhD student Miriana for her first flash talk🙏🏻 great work 🙌🏻

@isev.org @gsevorg.bsky.social
#extracellularvesicles #streptococcuspneumoniae #newPI

Oh man such a great idea, wished I had thought of it before. unfortunately schedule is super tight 😫

The #BIDlab is already in Essen for the German Society of #extracellularvesicles autumn meeting!🦠🧫🔬
We'll be busy with a talk, poster, flash talk and loads of networking! #Pneumy will be just chillin'
@gsevorg.bsky.social

#streptococcuspneumoniae
#labmascot
#GSEV2025

The #BIDlab is very honored to have received funding from the Dr. Hertha und Helmut Schmauser-Stiftung to develop our projects on bacterial EVs lipidomics! 😍 🙏 stay tuned for next developments!
#extracellularvesices #bacteria #streptococcuspneumoniae #newPI

The first preprint of our #BIDlab!! 🤩
Short story on our favorite organism #streptococcuspneumoniae and our beloved #extracellularvesicles!
#newPI #fingerscrossed

Environmental cues shape extracellular vesicles biogenesis and function in Streptococcus pneumoniae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07....

It's a wrap! #EESMicrobiology #Pneumy #BIDlab

#Pneumy is ready for the poster session! 🤓🦠
Stop by #60 and #252 from the #BIDlab 🙌🏻

#EESMicrobiology
#streptococcuspneumoniae #extracellularvesicles #newPI

The #BIDlab made it to EMBL Heidelberg to attend the fantastic #EESMicrobiology conference! 😎 🦠🔬

We have 4 days, 2 poster presentations and countless good microbiological talks over rooftop drinks ahead!🍷
@events.embl.org

#streptococcuspneumoniae #extracellularvesicles #newPI #Pneumy #labmascot