Celebrating Jules Bordet in March: exhibition and symposium

"Revisiting Bordet's legacy in light of today's immunology and microbiology" – symposium on March 13 in the Émile Duclaux lecture hall

Reminder: On Friday March 13, 2020, as one of a series of events to mark the centenary of Jules Bordet's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on immunity (1919), the Institut Pasteur will be holding a symposium entitled "Revisiting Bordet's legacy in light of today's immunology and microbiology" in the Émile Duclaux lecture hall.

As Jules Bordet was born in Belgium and his eminent scientific career was spent in both Paris and Brussels, the symposium is being organized jointly with colleagues in Belgium.

As well as presentations by Nathalie Devroey and Jean-Marc Cavaillon on the family background and history, respectively, of Jules Bordet's remarkable scientific discoveries, Nicole Guiso, Hamida Hammad, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Christophe Legendre, Camille Locht, Sophie Lucas, Alberto Mantovani, Arnaud Marchant, Lubka Roumanina, Christos Sotiriou, Beth Stevens and Alain Vanderplasschen will look back at Bordet's significant contributions to immunology and microbiology in the light of how the two disciplines have developed up to the present day.

Symposium organizing committee:
Institut Pasteur Paris (France): Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Jean François Chambon, Gérard Eberl, Nicole Guiso, Geneviève Milon, Philippe Sansonetti (President of the organizing committee)
Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgique): Pierre Coulie
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgique): Michel Goldman

Exhibition from March 5 to 25 in the Salle des Actes

Reminder: From March 5 to 25, 2020, an exhibition on the life and scientific achievements of Jules Bordet, organized by the Pasteur Museum and the Scientific Information Resources Center (CeRIS), will be on display in the Salle des Actes.

The exhibition, developed in partnership with the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), shows how Jules Bordet, a young medical graduate from the ULB who was working in Ilya Mechnikov's laboratory at the Institut Pasteur, discovered the importance of humoral immunity in the body's defenses against infectious diseases, via an experimental approach drawing on physiology, chemistry and microbiology. Visitors will see how Bordet's scientific achievements continue to influence immunology and microbiology today.

Visiting the exhibition:

Institut Pasteur staff and their guests are free to visit the exhibition from Monday to Friday, any time from 1 to 3pm.

Group visits may be arranged by contacting the following address: musee@pasteur.fr