Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases

Immunology, Inflammation and Infectious diseases :

from basic to translational research

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The gut-immune-brain axis in neurodegenerative diseases
Thursday, January 29, 2026, at 1.30 PM - Green Meeting Room - Dr Sebatiaan de Schepper - Contact : Roland Liblau
The gut-immune-brain axis in neurodegenerative diseases
Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 1.30 PM - Green Meeting Room - Dr Nathalie Pagés - Contact : Nicolas Fazilleau
Petite introduction à la sociologie des inégalités sociales de santé
Friday, February 20, 2026, at 3 PM - Baudot Meeting Room - Dr Muriel Darmon - Contact : Julie Tabiasco Friday, February 20, 2026, at 3 PM - Green Meeting Room - Dr Muriel Darmon - Contact : Julie Tabiasco

Follicular regulatory T cells promote experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by supporting B cell egress from germinal centers

Fanny Martinez, Coline Cotineau, Julien Novarino, Cyrielle Bories, Louis Culie, Stephane Rodriguez, Corine Pérals, Simon Lachambre, Valérie Duplan-Eche, Florence Bucciarelli, Béatrice Pignolet, Roland S. Liblau, Laure Michel, Meryem Aloulou*#, Nicolas Fazilleau*#
Science Translational Medicine
27 Aug 2025, Vol 17, Issue 813

Maternal stress triggers early-life eczema through fetal mast cell programming

Serhan N, Abdullah NS, Gheziel N, Loste A, Ekren R, Labit E, Gonzalez AA, Oliva G, Tarot P, Petitfils C, Payros G, D’Avino P, Voisin A, Tinsley HFG, Gentek R, Brosseau C, Bodinier M, Reber L, Val P, Akdis CA, Mitamura Y, Andiappan AK, Chan JKY, Ginhoux F, François A, Cénac N, Basso L, Gaudenzio N
Nature. 2025 Aug 27. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09419-8. PMID: 40866704
Caption: skin apendages in grey, sensory neurons in cyan and activated mast cells in red
Copyright: ©Nadine Serhan

Toxoplasma gondii infection and chronic IL-1 elevation drive hippocampal DNA double-strand break signaling, leading to cognitive deficits

Authors: Marcy Belloy#, Benjamin A M Schmitt#, Florent H Marty , Charlotte Paut , Emilie Bassot , Amel Aïda , Marine Alis , Margot Zahm , Adeline Chaubet, Hugo Garnier , Thelma Flores-Aguilar , Elisa Roitg , Renzo Gutierrez-Loli , Sophie Allart , Romain Ecalard, Raphaël Boursereau , Gaëtan Ligat , Daniel Gonzalez-Dunia, Nicolas Blanchard , Elsa Suberbielle
Nat Neurosci, 2025 Aug 21.doi: 10.1038/s41593-025-02041-x. Online ahead of print.

Copyright : ©Benjamin Schmitt & Elsa Suberbielle

Tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells infiltrate the CNS in progressive multiple sclerosis and contribute to chronic autoimmunity in mice

Authors: Aurora Pignata, David Frieser, Carmen Gonzalez-Fierro, Cheng-Chih Hsiao, Hendrik J. Engelenburg, Marine Alis, Ilan Fijalkow, Vincent Cazaentre, Lucie Nozeran, Romain Miranda-Capet, Eloïse Dufourd, Thaïs Vermeulen, Amel Aïda, Carole Le Coz, Klaas Van Gisbergen, Nicolas Blanchard, Jörg Hamann, Joost Smolders, Roland S. Liblau*, Frederick Masson*
23 July 2025, Sci. Transl. Med. 17, eadp8109 (2025)
Copyright : ©Cheng-Chih Hsiao, Hendrik J. Engelenburg, Joost Smolders

The Roland Garigou Foundation for Culture and Health awards two prizes to INFINITy

The Fonroga Foundation, which supports initiatives and achievements in the fields of culture and health in the Toulouse region, has awarded two prizes to two INFINTy researchers.

Two INFINITY researchers laureates of the BMS Foundation’s 2025 Call for Projects

Dr Isabelle LAMSOUL and Dr Sophie LAFFONT-PRADINES are winners of the BMS Foundation’s 2025 Call for Projects for research in immuno-oncology Congratulations to Isabelle and Sophie!

Charlène Martin wins a 2025 thesis prize from the Société Française de Virologie (French Virology Society)

Charlène Martin, a former doctoral student in the ViNeDys 7 team, was awarded a thesis prize (‘Other viruses’ category, 2nd prize) at the recent French-speaking virology days, held in Lyon from 23 to 25 April 2025. Congratulations to Charlène!

Toulouse researchers have identified a new target for treating asthma

© Photo DDM/Frédéric Scheiber Link to the article from La Dépêche du Midi Link to the scientific article from CNRS

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