February 17, 2017
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BIP: The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, February 17, 2017
The symposium on the Institut Pasteur's scientific prospects for 2025, held on Friday February 3, was attended by more than 250 people in the Émile Duclaux and François Jacob lecture halls. This day consisted of 14 high-level scientific presentations illustrating some of the major research areas that the Institut Pasteur will be focusing on between now and 2025. Two round tables were also held, giving rise to fruitful discussions with participants; the first looked at the links between fundamental research and public health, and the second explored the question of technology.
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and INRA have recently discovered a miniprotein in the listeriosis bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, also found in many other bacteria...
Given the immense complexity of brain organization, neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux has come up with a new research strategy that encourages a more comprehensive understanding of autism.
On February 2, the Fondation de France gave out 18 awards of more than €400,000 to medical research teams for their innovative work over the past year. Every year, the Fondation de France and several other foundations under its aegis award medical prizes in recognition of the work achieved by research teams and as a means of encouraging promising young researchers.
A new decision memo concerning the appointment of course directors for the 2016-2017 academic year has been issued.
The aim of this course is to investigate recent developments in the relationship between science and society and to provide answers...
The International Affairs Department funds each year several young researchers to promote...
On the African continent, diarrheal diseases are very frequent but their etiology is often unknown which does not allow an optimal care of the patients. Yersinia enterocolitica is a bacterium responsible for gastroenteritis whose natural reservoir is the pig. Well known in Europe, where it is the 3rd cause of bacterial diarrhea, it is, on the other hand, poorly diagnosed in Africa because of the frequency of other infections such as cholera and the difficulty to isolate it.
Within the Department of Development - Grant Office (DDGO), the Service of Partnerships and the incentive Programs (SPPI), is pleased to inform you the launch of two internal calls for proposals...
The MAASCC, the Research Applications and Industrial Relations Department and the Education Department are running a seminar on how to fund PhDs through the French CIFRE scheme...
The Scientific Information Resources Center team is running two training sessions...
Come and meet the Scientific Information Resources Center team.
At the request of the French security forces, the Technical Resources and Environment Department, which is responsible for security on campus, has amended the Institut Pasteur's security posture and adopted threat level "Vigipirate - Enhanced security / risk of attack".
On February 27, 2017, from 7pm, the Information Systems Department will carry out maintenance on the network.
The latest issue of the quarterly newsletter for Institut Pasteur donors - the "Lettre de l'Institut Pasteur" (LIP) - contains a special feature on aging.
To mark the publication of Philippe Sansonetti's new book Vaccins ("Vaccines"), you are all welcome to come and meet the author at a signing session held by the publisher Éditions Odile Jacob and the Institut Pasteur on Tuesday March 7, 2017. The book by Philippe Sansonetti, Head of the Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit and a professor at the Institut Pasteur and the Collège de France, looks back to a time without vaccines, less than a century ago, and reminds us of the human cost of diphtheria, polio, tuberculosis, measles and Spanish influenza.
The Institut Pasteur sports club runs 23 activities throughout the year, offering more than 30 hours of classes each week...
"La Parisienne" is a 6.7km women's road race through the streets of Paris. It is the second most popular running event in France and the largest all-female race in Europe.