April 08, 2016
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, April 8, 2016
Understanding the mechanisms underpinning the establishment of cell polarity is a major line of research on the process of carcinogenesis. The Membrane Trafficking and Cell Division Unit, directed at the Institut Pasteur by Arnaud Echard (Institut Pasteur/CNRS UMR 3691), is looking into apical-basal polarity acquisition mechanisms during cell division when organs are formed. As part of this research, the team has recently discovered the crucial role of a GTPase-type enzyme known as Rab35.
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the results of the 2015 Advanced Grant call for proposals.
Scientists from the team led by Jean-Paul Latgé, Director of the Aspergillus Unit at the Institut Pasteur, have discovered a new communication pathway between two pathogens...
The Institut Pasteur's association for young researchers, StaPa, is running a seminar entitled "Are we all ecosystems? Host-symbiont interactions, development and immunity".
The next lecture organized by the Scientific Council - "NMR: a tool for Biology" - will be held on Thursday April 14, 2016 at 4.30pm in the Émile Duclaux lecture hall. The lecture will be given by Muriel Delepierre, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Biomolecules Unit.
The aim of this call for interest is to fund projects in vaccinology and create a network of interest, by encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and by promoting academic/industrial partnerships.
Founded in 2007, Institut Pasteur and the Cnam have pooled their expertise to create the Pasteur/Cnam School of Public Health.
The staff of the science media library are delighted to announce that the new reading room on the second floor of the CIS will be reopening on Monday April 18 at 10am.
In connection with its scientific coordination activities, Aviesan (the French National Alliance for Life Sciences and Health) has recently issued guidelines on how to cite addresses and affiliations of joint laboratories for authors of scientific articles.
In autumn 2015, the Communications Department launched a new strategy to increase its visibility on social media.
Institut Pasteur organizes an information meeting about the French income tax system.
The board of members of the Works Council and staff representatives will be meeting on Friday April 15, 2016 at 9.30am to appoint new members of the Institut Pasteur Hygiene, Safety and Working Conditions Committee.
The next major stage in the preparation of the building site for the OMICS Center is the delivery of the Algeco® portable cabins that will serve as temporary facilities for the builders.