July 20, 2018
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, July 20 2018
July 12 saw the official opening of the newly installed Titan Krios™ microscope on the Institut Pasteur's Paris campus at a ceremony attended by Frédérique Vidal, French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Alongside the Institut Pasteur Board of Directors’ Chairman Christian Vigouroux, the President Stewart Cole, the head of the Structural Studies of Macromolecular Machines in cellula unit Dorit Hanein, and the Institut Pasteur ambassador Erik Orsenna, the minister headed the official delegation in charge of unveiling the remarkable new microscope located in the Edmond Nocard building.
Each week, in this section entitled "Scientific events" and written by Scientific Secretariat General, you will find upcoming scientific events to note in your diaries, calls for proposals and funding opportunities that might interest you – along with tools and databases specially designed to help you identify funding possibilities...
Several Pasteurians recently received honors from several institutions, foundations and organizations for their contribution to advancing research and knowledge from the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), the French National Academy of Medicine and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine.
For the past two weeks, the "Vivons Vélo" campaign in aid of the Institut Pasteur, organized in partnership with AG2R La Mondiale and held for the seventh year running, has been taking place on the Institut Pasteur campus, with three stationary bikes set up in the atrium of the François Jacob building. You all now know the main objective: to clock up 600km each week... and we have far exceeded our objective!
