
July 26, 2024: ready, set, go for the Institut Pasteur's volunteers involved in the Olympics!
Since the start of the summer season, the newsletter team has presented some of the Institut Pasteur staff who are playing a role in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, whether in their capacity as an Institut Pasteur staff member, a volunteer or a sports person. These profiles have helped showcase the fantastic diversity of the Institut Pasteur community. This week, to mark the official opening of the Olympic ...

Progress report on the work for the building to house the future Vector-Borne Diseases Center (CMTV)
As work continues on the new building to house the research center for vector-borne diseases, please read on to find out more about how the work is progressing. "Dear all, Following the information email sent out on April 12 (reproduced in the newsletter on April 26, 2024) announcing the start of work on the new building that will house the research center for vector-borne diseases, we wanted to provide ...

A closer look at your daily scientific activities – ‘Scientific events’: July 26, 2024 edition
The Scientific Secretariat General compiles information on the week’s conferences and publications, patents, funding opportunities, job vacancies, training and events that you may find useful for your career... If you have any questions, please contact: scilife@pasteur.fr Download the PDF of the "Scientific events" edition from July 26, 2024 Consult the archives

Upcoming Scientific Council lecture on September 12
The lectures organized by the Scientific Council are an opportunity to find out about the latest developments in research and knowledge in a particular field. They are also a way of establishing links between specific research challenges and the broad scientific topics explored at each session. These unique lectures are aimed at the entire Institut Pasteur community. The upcoming lecture, entitled ...

GenEpiBioTrain/ Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Bioinformatics Training in the EU/EEA, the Western Balkans, and Türkiye
The Institut Pasteur is one of the 6 consortium members of GenEpi-BioTrain, an ECDC-funded interdisciplinary 4-year program to strengthen surveillance, preparedness, and response capabilities for outbreaks. This project includes others host institutes as consortium (Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), Statens Serum Institute (Denmark), Research Center Borstel (Germany), Karolinska University ...

Report on the Olympic-themed phishing simulation test
On Monday July 15, the Information Systems Security (SSI) team carried out a phishing simulation test on all Institut Pasteur email addresses on the topic of the Olympics. For this first phishing simulation campaign, all email addresses were targeted and the reactions were analyzed over 24 hours. The aims of the campaign were to: • Obtain general (anonymous) indicators for the Institut ...

Next edition of the newsletter on September 6
The Institut Pasteur newsletter team wishes you all a great summer! We look forward to seeing you again on September 6.