March 14, 2025
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, March 14, 2025
Recent events in the United States, with attacks against both scientific facts and scientists themselves, have highlighted the urgent need for collective action. On March 7, echoing the Stand Up for Science day in the United States, fifty scientists and academics called for demonstrations to be held in every university city in France.
The Scientific Support and Coordination Division 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...
Following the recent decisions by the Trump administration to ban research on certain topics and to take down entire pages of government websites related to research that is no longer permitted or goes against government policy, many people are expressing legitimate concerns about the future of the PubMed database.
The BNB course is geared towards support staff and assistants based in research units and departments, with the aim of improving their understanding of the working environment of scientists and introducing them to the basics of biology and the main research topics at the Institut Pasteur, while also familiarizing them with the workings of laboratories.
The Education Department is launching a new initiative to highlight the work of PhD students at the Institut Pasteur through a video series: "My PhD at the Institut Pasteur". To kick off this series, we invite you to discover the research of Yann Aquino, who completed his PhD in the Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit under the supervision of Prof. Lluis Quintana-Murci.
The Pasteur Museum is a partner of the exhibition "Louis Pasteur, the art of science," on display at the Villa du temps retrouvé in Cabourg. The exhibition features 46 cultural works and artifacts, some of which have never been seen by the public before. It focuses on Louis Pasteur's artistic side and also highlights other key figures in the Institut Pasteur's history such as Jean Binot (1867-1909), the first custodian of the Institut Pasteur's microbial collection.