BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, December 14, 2018

130TH ANNIVERSARY

All Institut Pasteur employees are cordially invited to the international scientific conference entitled “130 years of Institut Pasteur: celebrating Science” to be held from May 15-17, 2019 at the Institut Pasteur. This conference will be an occasion to present the exciting research undertaken at the Institut Pasteur, resulting from 130 years of excellence.

Press

By closely studying CCR5, one of HIV's gateways into cells, scientists from Inserm, the Institut Pasteur, Toulouse III/Paul Sabatier University and the CNRS have demonstrated that its morphology determines the propensity of the virus to infect the body.

Scientific events

The Scientific Secretariat General compiles information on the week’s conferences and publications, patents, funding opportunities, job vacancies, training and events that you may find useful for your career...

conferences

Each month, the Institut Pasteur Scientific Council organizes a lecture by a scientist on campus. This regular event, open to all, is an opportunity to find out how research and knowledge are progressing in a specific field. It is also a way of establishing links between research issues and the broad scientific topics that are explored during the events.

Research

The Nagoya Protocol sets out the principle that each country is the « owner » of the genetic resources collected on its territory and therefore, the latter may control the access and use of such genetic resources. As such, the research projects conducted by Institut Pasteur scientists fall within the scope of the Nagoya Protocol and an internal process has been conceived.

guide

As announced in September by Stewart Cole, President of the Institut Pasteur, all Institut Pasteur staff members are invited to attend the upcoming sessions on interests and conflicts of interest.

Security

 Following Wednesday’s announcement by France's Interior Minister that the national Vigipirate security system is to be stepped up to the level Urgence attentat ("Attack emergency"), the Institut Pasteur management has introduced a number of measures.