BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, August 31 2018

130TH ANNIVERSARY

The Institut Pasteur is pleased to invite you to the inauguration of the Omics buildings. This latest event in the Institut Pasteur's 130th anniversary celebrations will take place on September 13 at 5pm in the CIS auditorium. These new facilities have been specially designed for the scientific teams working in the fields of "omics", in other words genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metagenomics, as well as bioinformatics, integrative biology and biostatistics.

 

Scientific events

Each week, in this section entitled "Scientific events" and written by Scientific Secretariat General, you will find upcoming scientific events to note in your diaries, calls for proposals and funding opportunities that might interest you – along with tools and databases specially designed to help you identify funding possibilities...

Training

The third session of the "Biology for non-biologists" (BNB) course again proved to be a resounding success: 50 staff members took part in the program in spring 2018, and the autumn 2018 session is already full. The course is geared towards support staff and assistants based in research units and departments who are keen to improve their understanding of scientists working environment.

Donors

The latest issue of the quarterly newsletter for Institut Pasteur donors – the "Lettre de l'Institut Pasteur" (LIP) – contains a special feature on big data, a revolutionary development for health research. Recent technological progress means that phenomenal quantities of information are now being generated in biomedical research and medicine...