May 12, 2017
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, May 12, 2017
During a wave of expansion that began 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking populations – today some 310 million people – gradually left their original homeland of West-Central Africa and traveled to the eastern and southern regions of the continent.
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) and Inserm* have successfully filmed the infection of human cells by the Zika virus, using video microscopy.
The election to replace outgoing members of the Institut Pasteur's General Meeting board will take place on May 19 for scientific, administrative, technical, health and clinical research managers and engineers.
The Workshops at the Center for Translational Science are bimonthly two-hour events...
The Center for Translational Science and the Medical Affairs and Public Health Department are launching a call for proposals for "partnership contracts for hospital professionals".
Just under a year ago, the Institut Pasteur launched a quantitative biology program...
Following the success of the sessions held in February-March, the training center in the Talent and Organization Development Department has teamed up with the Scientific Secretariat General to offer two new sessions of the biology for non-biologists course in November-December.
The speaker of this session will be David Bikard, head of the Synthetic Biology G5 lab at the Institut Pasteur and co-founder of Eligo Bioscience, a start-up created in 2014 and incubated at the institute.
The Vaccinology MOOC, produced by Frédéric Tangy and Armelle Phalipon, is now available on demand via the FUN platform. This course was previously run in 2015 and in late 2016/early 2017, with the content being made available for six weeks each time.
To meet new regulatory requirements, the Quality, Environment and Sustainable Development Department needs to make changes to its hazardous packaging waste disposal system.
With its profit-sharing agreement signed in 2015, the Institut Pasteur offers a remuneration scheme that rewards the individual and collective performance of its employees when all the conditions are fulfilled.
Set up in 2011 by the French Ministry of Culture and Communications...