Save the date for the Institut Pasteur Young Scientists Conference and the award ceremony on September 20

Following on from the 2021 edition, the senior management team and the Executive Scientific Division will be holding the Institut Pasteur Young Scientists Conference on September 20, from 10am to 12 noon. This in-person event chaired by Christophe d'Enfert will take place in the CIS auditorium.

The conference, only for internal scientists, will give several young heads of research units, especially U5s - Miria Ricchetti, Laurent Debarbieux, Darragh Duffy, Francesca Di Nunzio - and G5s - Camille Berthelot, Thibaut Brunet - the opportunity to present their teams, their research and the advances they have made in their respective areas of expertise.

• Miria Ricchetti: Accelerated and physiological ageing: links and molecular mechanisms

• Laurent Debarbieux: The powerful but complex use of bacteriophages to target bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

• Darragh Duffy: Understanding immune diversity in health and disease

• Francesca Di Nunzio: On the road of a new biological mechanism for the virus-host coexistence

• Camille Berthelot: Tracing the evolution of gene regulation and the emergence of new traits

• Thibaut Brunet: The evolutionary origin of animal shapes: insights from our closest unicellular relatives

The event on September 20 will also feature the award ceremony for the 2021 Institut Pasteur Young Scientist Prize, introduced in 2018 for the Institut Pasteur's 130th anniversary. The awards will be presented during the conference to a PhD student and a post-doctoral fellow who were first authors of high-level research papers published during the year.