BIP: The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, December 8, 2017

130TH ANNIVERSARY

On December 4, 2017, the Institut Pasteur officially opened the redesigned exhibition in the Salle des Actes. This room, a place that is steeped in history, still has all its original display cases containing a selection of items that once belonged to Louis Pasteur, artifacts, medals, certificates, and historical and more recent accounts from those with a link to the Institut Pasteur. The founder and director of the International Museum of Modest Arts in Sète, Hervé Di Rosa, who attended the opening ceremony, was commissioned by the Institut Pasteur to use his artistic talents to redesign this display area.

130TH ANNIVERSARY

The exhibition "Pasteur, the experimenter", curated by Universcience in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, will run from December 14, 2017 until August 19, 2018 at the Palais de la découverte in Paris.

Agenda

Make sure you save the date of January 12, 2018, at 11.30am, to come along to the traditional Institut Pasteur New Year ceremony. This event, open to all staff, will take place at the CIS.

Press

1% of all newborns – approximately 8,000 babies a year in France – are affected by a heart defect. 15% of these defects can be linked to a known genetic cause, but many remain unexplained. Defects affecting the alignment of cardiac chambers represent approximately 20% of heart defects in infants.

career

On Thursday December 14, the MAASCC welcome, support and career development structure for scientists will be running a conference on recruitment and careers in academic research, featuring speakers who have sat on interview boards or panels and scientists who have recently been recruited as research associates or unit heads...

education

As part of the ongoing development of its online training, the Institut Pasteur has set up a MOOC on tuberculosis...

CeRIS

For the past two years, the Scientific Information Resources Center has been holding...

responsible campus

Following on from the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR), the Quality, Environment and Sustainable Development Department is launching a voluntary pen recycling scheme.