BIP: the Institut Pasteur Newsletter, January 22, 2016

ceremony

The New Year address given by Christian Bréchot on January 13, 2016, the video recording and the retrospective of 2015 that followed his address are now available for consultation. In his address, Christian Bréchot has outline the Institut Pasteur's progress and successes in 2015 and the main achievements made under the 2014-2018 strategic plan. This event has been also an opportunity to present the plan to set up an Institut Pasteur Saclay Center.

Press

When modern humans met Neanderthals in Europe and the two species began interbreeding many thousands of years ago...

appointments

At its session on December 15, 2015, following the favorable opinions delivered by the COMESP and the Scientific Council and upon the proposal of the management team, the Board of Directors appointed three Professors...

award

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the results of the 2015 Consolidator Grant call for proposals. Two Institut Pasteur scientists were successful.

International

On January 19, 2016 in Dakar a € 6.5 million financing agreement was signed, for the construction and equipment of an over 3000 m2 new yellow fever vaccine production facility, in the presence of His Excellency Jean-Félix- Paganon, French Ambassador to Senegal; Laurence Hart, Director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Senegal and Professor André Spiegel, Director of the Institut Pasteur Foundation in Dakar (FIPD).

International

The AUF and the Institut Pasteur are launching a joint international call for applications for the directors of new four-year groups (G4s) in the Institut Pasteur International Network.

Research

The Institut Pasteur has embarked on a reflection regarding the potential setup of an Institut Pasteur center at the Saclay research cluster. So far, this reflection is in the initial stages...

Center

A new version of the directory of the bioinformatics resources published by the Center of Informatics for Biology (CIB) is now available.

Center

The 3rd edition of the Citech newsletter is a Tech Lab Special Edition. It recounts the successful Open House and Inauguration of the Tech Lab, including a reiteration of the Emerging Technologies Open Call that was announced at the same time

Carreers

Since December 2015, the Education Department, the MAASCC and the DARRI have been running a new monthly event offering scientists interested in business development the chance to meet a leading entrepreneur in the area of biotechnology.

Campus training

The Central Animal Facility and the training center in the Talent and Organization Development Department has organized the following in-house training sessions.

Media Library

• New search engine for all media library resources
• Training session: EndNote

Practical

The reception service for biological products would like to inform you that new purchase orders for listed French Blood Service agencies are now available.