July 09, 2015
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
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BIP: The Institut Pasteur newsletter - July 10, 2015
The human body is inhabited by billions of symbiotic bacteria, carrying a diversity that is unique to each individual. The microbiota is involved in many mechanisms, including digestion, vitamin synthesis and host defense. It is well established that a loss of bacterial symbionts promotes the development of allergies. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have succeeded in explaining this phenomenon, and demonstrate how the microbiota acts on the balance of the immune system: the presence of microbes specifically blocks the immune cells responsible for triggering allergies. These results are published in Science on July 9, 2015.
To improve the visibility and update information about each Institute from the Institut Pasteur International Network, a Database RIIP has been performed as an extranet site.
This site is a unique reference base accessible to all scientific and institutional partners wishing to contact each institute. All institutes supply and update the information in this Database RIIP.
The website Database RIIP in English is available at the following...
Welcome to the interns on the Amgen Scholars Program.
Check out the second issue of the Education Department newsletter.
From July 21 to August 4, 2015, the science media library will be screening a variety of films on campus.
The following films will be shown:
• Tuesday, July 21: Pavillon 10, au cœur de l’épidémie [Pavilion 10, at the heart of the epidemic]
• Tuesday, July 28: La maladie de Lyme, quand les tiques attaquent ! [Lyme disease - attack of the ticks!]
• Tuesday, August 4: Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ? [Why are women smaller than men?]
Various training courses are available as part of the in-house training plan
• Basic statistics
• Introduction to R software
• Databases and multiple alignment in phylogenetics
• Introduction to molecular phylogenetics
• Current sequencing methods...
Watch the June 29th meeting and find out more about the Jobs and Skills Framework !
The annual appraisals for staff of categories 1 to 6 and executive administrative and technical staff have begun.
The "Roulons solidaires" campaign, organized in partnership with AG2R La Mondiale and held for the fourth year running, kicked off on the Institut Pasteur campus on July 6. Two stationary bikes have been set up in the cafeteria to clock up the kilometers. The target is to reach 500km each week.
So far you have cycled an impressive 285km and left us some great souvenirs of your energy and support on the special photo wall. A big thank you...
View the summer timetable for laundry, the Enzymes Shop, and the reception service for biological products.