
Message from the President: 200 days
" Dear Colleagues, I trust that you have all had an excellent vacation and been able to relax and enjoy this splendid summer, which, occasionally, was too warm for some of us. The hot weather was also an operational challenge for a research institute like ours with a campus that reflects nearly 130 years of architecture with styles ranging from the most modern, the "Omics" building to be inaugurated ...

A closer look at your daily scientific activities – "Scientific events": September 7, 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 ...

Joint discussions to be held at the Institut Pasteur on the relationship between science and society
The relationship between research and society is becoming increasingly complex. Society's expectations of scientific research are broadening in a frequently challenging environment, leading to both concerns and opportunities, long-term commitments and new departures. In November 2017, aware of this context and committed to reflection in this area, a working group composed of several Institut Pasteur ...

Preview screening of the documentary "Pasteur and Koch: A duel of giants in the world of microbes" on the Institut Pasteur campus
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 the Institut ...

Make a green start to the academic year!
For the past year, the Institut Pasteur has adopted a circular economy strategy to encourage recycling of used pens. A collection box has been set up at the entrance of the company restaurant for any used writing instruments – pens, felt-tips, mechanical pencils, erasers, markers, highlighters and corrector pens – regardless of brand. The collected pens will be transferred to the recycling program ...