BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, September 8, 2017

Press

Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, in collaboration with scientific teams from IRD, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and CIRMF in Gabon, have demonstrated that differential bacterial exposure during the development of mosquito larvae (Aedes aegypti) can have “carry-over” effects on adult traits related to an insect’s ability to be a successful vector of arboviruses.

Scientific events

The Institut Pasteur and the Syndicat de l’Industrie du Médicament et Réactif Vétérinaires (SIMV) run a meeting between the Institut Pasteur scientists and the members of the SIMV...

Award

The annual Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Award, set up in 2006, provides support for Institut Pasteur scientists carrying out research in the field of infectious diseases. The aim of the award is to recognize talent, encourage creation and reward the achievements of scientists. The 12th edition of the Canetti Award goes to Javier Pizarro-Cerdá for his research on Listeria monocytogenes, the bacterium responsible for listeriosis.

Center

The Hub of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics helps you for your projects having some parts of bioinformatics, biostatistics, data analysis, software and web development…

CeRIS

The CeRIS is running a "HAL-Pasteur open archive" training session to help you self-archive your scientific publications and provide you with more information about open access.

International

The Institut Pasteur in Côte d'Ivoire will organize, in coordination with the Department of international Affairs of the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur International Network Directors council in Abidjan from 20 to 22 September. Nearly 80 people coming from the 33 member institutes of the network will be present at this major gathering for the Pasteurian community which allows each year to take stock of common actions and validate the major axes of development of the network.

Training

Training sessions for the use of the Bioanalyzer, organized at the Transcriptome and Epigenome platform of the Biomics pole, are  now replaced by a SPOC, available 24 hours a day on-line...

education

The iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition was set up to promote research in the area of synthetic biology. This annual competition was launched in 2004 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Teams from across the world compete each year to develop an innovative and effective synthetic biology project.

Human resources

As part of this year's annual appraisal and career development campaign, sessions were held...

Fundraising

On Sunday September 10, 2017, for the second year running, a group of women from the Institut Pasteur will take to the starting line for the "La Parisienne" road race.

Security

A series of training sessions on how to use fire extinguishers will be held in October.

restaurants

The "La Table" restaurant and the "Bien'fait" cafeteria reopened on Monday September 4. The Eurest team invites you to come along and check out these two spaces, which have both been given a complete makeover. You can also enjoy the special offer to mark the opening of "La Table", valid until September 22...