October 23, 2015
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BIP: the Institut Pasteur Newsletter, October 16, 2015
The theme for this year's Scientific Symposium of the Institut Pasteur International Network, which took place from October 14 to 16, 2015, was "Global Health and One Health". The 710 participants focused their attention on the issues surrounding the development of a global approach to health research.
On October 13, a conference was held at the Institut Pasteur in honor of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. The event looked back over her outstanding scientific career.
Sanofi has renewed its commitment to the Institut Pasteur for the fourth year running by sponsoring the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Awards, which each year are presented to world-class scientists in recognition of their innovative work in life science and biomedical research.
At its session on October 5, the Board of Directors appointed Gérard Eberl, a professor at the Institut Pasteur, as Director of the Department of Immunology, with effect from October 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016.
The next lecture organized by the Scientific Council - "From chemical glycobiology and peptide chemistry to innovative vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostic tools" - will be held on Thursday, November 5, 2015.
On October 22, 2015 the Institut Pasteur hosted the Lithuanian Prime Minister, Mr. Algirdas Butkevicius.
The first round of elections for members of the Works Council and staff representatives will take place from November 26 to December 2, 2015. Electronic voting system is introduced this year. Information on how to vote will be sent to your home address by post, in accordance with legal requirements.
The science media library will be running Mendeley training session on Monday, November 2. Come and master Mendeley core features by attending this training.
The manager delegation system has new features and offers the possibility of granting validation rights on a unit as well as a project basis.
Last weekend, the 2015 "Défi Run" obstacle course took place in Paris in partnership with Assu 2000, which has chosen to support and promote the work of the Institut Pasteur.
La Pasteurale, Institut Pasteur’s Cultural Association, is back ! Come join one of our groups (free trial classes)
We'll look forward to seeing you again on November 6.