Thanks a lot to the organizers for a great meeting !!

See you all next year in Toulouse 😎

We mentioned that we had 5 posters, right?

Well, we saved this one for last because Ngoc-Minh-Chau Nguyen rocked the house and ended up leaving with a prize!!! 🏆

She was VERY lively while presenting her results so we were glad to see her work be recognized by the jury

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Eventually things got competitive, as we tried to assemble the lego phage

It took us a while to put the whole thing together but look, we're not structural virologists, ok?

Of course, not everything was work, the team also participated in the fun time at the gala dinner

Although, as soon as the boss saw this little lego phage, we were back to the classroom 🤓

We were also able to present two talks, one by Caroline Henrot and another by Nicolas Dufour (in the “Phages, MICI, Phagothérapie & Co” session)

Fun fact: Caroline is actually from Nancy so she had to represent in her hometown and she did a very good job!!

Our group was able to participate with 5 posters by members of our "gut" and "lung" teams

There was lively discussion around them and we were happy to share our results

You'll notice we only shared 4 posters in here ............ I wonder why🤔

This picture was taken right before The Boss' presentation at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social

We initially thought people were just a bit shy but, as it turned out, we were participating in the mandatory drills due to high seismic activity in the area 🤔

Safety first!!

We also visited Isabel Gordo's lab at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social (Oeiras) and ran into a familiar face, @martalourenco21.bsky.social former PhD candidate at our lab

We were happy to catch up with Luis @ltanoeiro.bsky.social, who's doing some of his PhD work over there under the supervision of Filipa and Jorge Vitor

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We also got to share some good times!

Thanks a lot to Profs. Jorge Vitor and Filipa Vale, as well as our own Luis Tanoeiro @ltanoeiro.bsky.social for your hospitality

Finally, our (former) M2 student Camille Sivelle was in charge of the lab's main presentation, showing her results regarding mechanisms for establishment of viral resistance in bacteria
She did a very good job at explaining a somewhat complicated experimental setup and results

Congrats, Camille!!

We got to finish the whole affair (on a high note, if we may say so ourselves) with two oral presentations

First up, the boss was showing off about the lab's work and its people

Gut team this ..... lung team that ....... but none of that would be possible without his leadership!

Alejandro, from our "lung" team and who clearly forgot to take a photo with his poster, got a very interesting phone call during his flash talk

He presented some of the work that was recently published by our group on the effect of innate immunity cell populations on phage therapy

We started up with the postdocs, both of whom had flash talks and posters

Nandita Sharma from our "gut" team presented her results of competition between Citrobacter rodentium and E. coli

She'll also be showing this during a "work in progress" talk in early december so be on the lookout for that!