BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, January 13, 2017

News

In December 2015 a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Angola, subsequently giving rise to 7,300 suspected cases and nearly 400 deaths. A group of scientists from Oxford University and the Institut Pasteur conducted research into the geographical spread of this epidemic, with the aim of containing this outbreak and optimizing the use of the limited available vaccine stock.

award

The Jung Foundation for Science and Research has awarded its 2017 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine to Pascale Cossart...

International

The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and Institut Pasteur wish to strengthen...

Center

The Institut Pasteur has decided to set up a "quality control of purified proteins" service to enhance the quality of your protein samples and improve your results.

Web

On January 6, the new pasteur.fr website was officially launched with the objective to target two separate communities within a single website and to bring the website into line with new trends in Internet usage. In addition, since it was launched back in October 2015, the research.pasteur.fr website has continued to be developed to take account of user feedback. Its second version has also been launch on January 6.  

education

From March 20 to 25, the Institut Pasteur will be offering an "Introduction to R software" training course.

Human resources

The 2016 leave sheet is now available on the intranet. The completed document should be returned to the HR Department after the end of the month and before the 10th of the following month, together with any leave requests for core hours.

Information

The Technical Department (part of the Technical Resources and Environment Department) would like to inform you that all maintenance of...