Publications by authors named "Pierre Raymond"
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- Fimbriae are crucial for bacterial adhesion and interaction with their environments, but many are not well-characterized due to challenges in understanding their expression.
- This study focuses on the silencing of plasmid-encoded fimbriae (Pef) in the pathogen Typhimurium, revealing that nucleoid-associated proteins like H-NS and Hha regulate their transcription depending on pH levels.
- The findings highlight H-NS as the primary repressor of Pef expression, with implications for further research on bacterial adhesion proteins and their role in pathogen virulence.
The pig is one of the main reservoirs of Yersinia enterocolitica strains pathogenic to humans. A description of the Y. enterocolitica population in this reservoir, and accurate discriminatory techniques for typing isolates are needed for prevention, outbreak investigation, and surveillance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent advances in neuroscience allow us to envisage the creation of an artificial brain (BAB, for Big Artificial Brain) in order to reproduce cerebral functions without having to copy individual neurons, the complex properties of which are largely beyond our present technological capabilities. As in the human brain, we intend to combine inputs, a black box ("mentipulator") and expressive outputs. The ZISC and NeuroMem neuronal chips designed by Guy Paillet, Anne Ménendez and IBM have been used to built a BAB of 1 million transversally and vertically interconnected neurons with a parallel architecture, as in the human cerebral cortex.
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