BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, March 3, 2017

Press

In a study published in the prestigious Immunity journal on February 21, 2017, researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and in Shanghai, Bicêtre Hospital (AP-HP), Paris-Sud University and the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) reported on the discovery of a new group of B-lymphocyte immune cells, which are only present in infants and form the preferred target of the bronchiolitis virus.

Press

By formally identifying the main player in the fusion between two male and female sex cells, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Paris Descartes University...

News

Zika virus infection is usually asymptomatic or mild.

Scientific events

The elections to replace two members of the Scientific Council will take place on Friday 31 March, 2017 in the Dedonder meeting room (4th floor, CIS building).  Information on the election process, the list of voters and the list of eligible research scientists are available ont the intranet.

Scientific events

Horizon 2020, the successor to the 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological Development, is the European Union's research and innovation...

Center

The Workshops at the Center for Translational Science are bimonthly two-hour events at which expert speakers are invited to give presentations suitable for...

Center

The Journée de la recherche translationnelle (JRT) is a full-day mini-symposium dedicated to translational research.

CeRIS

The Scientific Information Resources Center is running two new training sessions.

Book signing

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.

IT

The Information Systems Department has introduced a continuous integration platform for software developers in the Institut Pasteur scientific community, known as GitLab.

IT

All users will need to change their password.