Dr. Nolwenn M. Dheilly
@nmdheilly.bsky.social
PhD, HDR, Research Director @ Institut Pasteur Paris. The pathogen Discovery Lab uses Metagenomics to discover novel viruses for improved diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention. #virology #NGS #microbiome #emergence #parasite #holobiont #surveillance
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#holobiont parasite: from descriptive studies towards experimental and clinical tangible evidence that parasites are not alone and that it matters!
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎
First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎
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It might be worth providing a little more background on what the NIH signature pandemic preparedness programs actually were, because everything in the article is false - e.g., none of the programs had anything to do with "dangerous gain-of-function" research.
A little more below.
A little more below.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It might be worth providing a little more background on what the NIH signature pandemic preparedness programs actually were, because everything in the article is false - e.g., none of the programs had anything to do with "dangerous gain-of-function" research.
A little more below.
A little more below.
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Guess the news is officially out! Extremely excited to announce that I will be starting my own laboratory at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr this coming spring!
Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷
Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Guess the news is officially out! Extremely excited to announce that I will be starting my own laboratory at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr this coming spring!
Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷
Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷
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Fluke-borne viruses are a risk factor for diseases caused by carcinogenic trematodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683923v1
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Fluke-borne viruses are a risk factor for diseases caused by carcinogenic trematodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683923v1
#holobiont parasite: from descriptive studies towards experimental and clinical tangible evidence that parasites are not alone and that it matters!
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
#holobiont parasite: from descriptive studies towards experimental and clinical tangible evidence that parasites are not alone and that it matters!
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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“A big challenge is that the governments themselves, whether center-right or center-left, were losing touch with people and weren’t delivering on some of the basic hopes and dreams of people, so you get frustrated with government, period”
-yeah, no kidding
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
-yeah, no kidding
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
Obama’s warnings about democracy fading increasingly sound directed toward the US | CNN Politics
“We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale as...
edition.cnn.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“A big challenge is that the governments themselves, whether center-right or center-left, were losing touch with people and weren’t delivering on some of the basic hopes and dreams of people, so you get frustrated with government, period”
-yeah, no kidding
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
-yeah, no kidding
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
Interested in joining @pasteur.fr Pathogen Discovery Lab for a PhD ? Check out www.pasteur.fr/en/education.... I am looking for candidates with interests in metagenomics, vector-borne emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic effects to contribute to @prezode.bsky.social funded AMAZED Project.
Pasteur-Paris University International doctoral program (PPU)
OverviewIn 2009, the Institut Pasteur, the world leading biomedical research institute founded by Louis Pasteur in 1887, inaugurated the Pasteur Paris-University (PPU) international doctoral program i...
www.pasteur.fr
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Interested in joining @pasteur.fr Pathogen Discovery Lab for a PhD ? Check out www.pasteur.fr/en/education.... I am looking for candidates with interests in metagenomics, vector-borne emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic effects to contribute to @prezode.bsky.social funded AMAZED Project.
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Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
nyti.ms
September 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
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I wrote a new thing about the conspiracy theory that helped kill the CREID network, and will kill other people as a result.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
June 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I wrote a new thing about the conspiracy theory that helped kill the CREID network, and will kill other people as a result.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
NIH NIAID funded PICREID picreid.org has been terminated. We will do our very best to finalize on-going work and find ways to pursue this critical international collaborative endeavour for global human health benefice.
June 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
NIH NIAID funded PICREID picreid.org has been terminated. We will do our very best to finalize on-going work and find ways to pursue this critical international collaborative endeavour for global human health benefice.
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Sorry, but that's not the gift link. This is: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sorry, but that's not the gift link. This is: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I would be happy to host a M-C postdoctoral fellow in the Pathogen Discovery Lab. Topics of interest: virus discovery, impact of urbanisation on the virome of arthropods, viruses of trematodes and role in pathogenicity, oncogenicity, Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I would be happy to host a M-C postdoctoral fellow in the Pathogen Discovery Lab. Topics of interest: virus discovery, impact of urbanisation on the virome of arthropods, viruses of trematodes and role in pathogenicity, oncogenicity, Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
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Import read sorry to say.
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Import read sorry to say.
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Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs
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“All funding is on hold,” an NIH official told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday, according to audio. “The bottom line is no one is getting any money right now. But they don’t know they’re not getting any money because it just says that it’s ‘in transit.’”
DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“All funding is on hold,” an NIH official told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday, according to audio. “The bottom line is no one is getting any money right now. But they don’t know they’re not getting any money because it just says that it’s ‘in transit.’”
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What is China really covering up in Wuhan?
I reconstructed the WHO mission with testimony from primary sources, and what I learned might surprise you.
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
I reconstructed the WHO mission with testimony from primary sources, and what I learned might surprise you.
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
Exclusive: Inside the WHO mission to Wuhan
An exclusive excerpt from "Lab Leak Fever", the inside story behind the search for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the manipulation campaigns around it
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
What is China really covering up in Wuhan?
I reconstructed the WHO mission with testimony from primary sources, and what I learned might surprise you.
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
I reconstructed the WHO mission with testimony from primary sources, and what I learned might surprise you.
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
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For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...
Coping with Upheaval: Support for Terminated/Defunded Scientists
If you're a US scientist feeling demoralized, burned out, or anxious in this unprecedented political moment--you are not alone. (Free event)
www.eventbrite.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...
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My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy
Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information
christinapagel.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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Chikungunya, dengue, paludisme... Il existe autant de risques de contamination que de pays à visiter.
Afin de voyager en toute sérénité cet été, nous vous invitons à faire le point dès maintenant sur vos vaccins et à consulter les mesures de prévention existantes :
pasteur-lille.fr/centre-preve...
Afin de voyager en toute sérénité cet été, nous vous invitons à faire le point dès maintenant sur vos vaccins et à consulter les mesures de prévention existantes :
pasteur-lille.fr/centre-preve...
Vaccinations voyages - Paludisme, Zika...
L'application Métis vous permet de visualiser sur une carte dynamique les risques sanitaires spécifiques à votre destination de voyage.
pasteur-lille.fr
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Chikungunya, dengue, paludisme... Il existe autant de risques de contamination que de pays à visiter.
Afin de voyager en toute sérénité cet été, nous vous invitons à faire le point dès maintenant sur vos vaccins et à consulter les mesures de prévention existantes :
pasteur-lille.fr/centre-preve...
Afin de voyager en toute sérénité cet été, nous vous invitons à faire le point dès maintenant sur vos vaccins et à consulter les mesures de prévention existantes :
pasteur-lille.fr/centre-preve...
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New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers.
❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*
*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.
HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*
*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.
HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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March 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers.
❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*
*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.
HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*
*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.
HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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We are recruiting a Principal Investigator in Computational Biology at @oicr.on.ca: oicr.bamboohr.com/careers/378. This position is in downtown Toronto, adjacent to the University of Toronto where your university appointment would be. Please contact me if you have any questions!
Mid-Career to Senior Principal Investigator
About OICR
OICR is Ontario’s cancer research institute. We bring together people from across the province and around the world to improve the lives of everyone affected by cancer. We take on the big...
oicr.bamboohr.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We are recruiting a Principal Investigator in Computational Biology at @oicr.on.ca: oicr.bamboohr.com/careers/378. This position is in downtown Toronto, adjacent to the University of Toronto where your university appointment would be. Please contact me if you have any questions!