
Using light to tackle nicotine addition
Scientists from Inserm, the CNRS and Sorbonne University within the Neuroscience Paris-Seine laboratory, in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, New York University (NYU) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have successfully controlled the activity of nicotinic receptors in the brains of mice. They developed a strategy based on optogenetic pharmacology that uses light to block ...

A closer look at your daily scientific activities – "Scientific events": September 14, 2018 edition
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 –, training courses available on campus, internal vacancies and ...

The Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Program celebrates its 10th anniversary!
The team in charge of the Pasteur-Paris University International Program, PPU, in the Department of Education is pleased to invite you to a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this program, which has so far attracted 117 outstanding students from all over the world. We hope that you will be able to come along to the drinks reception held to mark this occasion. Several posters have been ...

Preview of the documentary "Pasteur and Koch: A duel of giants in the world of microbes" on the Institut Pasteur campus
Reminder: Make sure you save the date of September 20 to come along to a preview screening of the docudrama Pasteur et Koch, un duel de géants dans le monde des microbes (Pasteur and Koch: A duel of giants in the world of microbes), which will be broadcast on the TV channel Arte in October. Directed by Mathieu Schwartz on the basis of the book of the same name by Annick Perrot, honorary curator of ...

Migration of restaurant accounts to new badges
The badge change for staff restaurant accounts will take place on Tuesday September 18 and Wednesday September 19. To make sure this migration goes smoothly, we need your cooperation. Whatever your badge category (Institut Pasteur staff, Orex or permanent guests), if you want to continue using your badge for the restaurants on campus, you must comply with the following guidelines: How? Go to ...