Take part in the best name competition for the refurbished OMICS Center building

In 2013, the Institut Pasteur embarked on an ambitious infrastructure modernization program based on a master plan that runs up to 2025. This plan is designed to support and underpin the Institut Pasteur's strategic priorities, with one overriding aim: to give scientists and students the working conditions, resources and premises they need for open, collaborative research, facilitating the pooling of practices and knowledge and encouraging the flow of energy, talent and projects. The Institut Pasteur wants to take full advantage of its campus dynamic, while also strengthening links with its International Network and with industrial and research partners in France and abroad.

One of the large-scale building projects is the creation of a new OMICS Center, a building that will house cutting-edge research activities in the areas of bioinformatics and genomics, as well as new teams specializing in the field of integrative and quantitative biology. The new building, which incorporates the former Genopole and intern building, will be home to the teams in the Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology (C3BI).

The first stage of work on the OMICS Center will be completed in September. To mark this major architectural and technical milestone, we are inviting staff to get their creative juices flowing and come up with a name that will encapsulate the exciting research dynamic that will be created in this building from the first quarter of 2018.

The competition will run until July 21. You can submit your suggestions in the box that will be placed in the corridor between the cafeteria and the staff restaurant from June 19. You can also send your ideas by email to webcampus@pasteur.fr. The new name will be revealed in September at a general staff event.