April 29, 2016
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, April 29, 2016
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur have assessed the transmission potential of four populations of Aedes mosquitoes in circulation on the island of Madeira and southern France with a view to examining various possible scenarios for the introduction of Zika virus to Europe. Their work suggests that the Aedes aegypti mosquito present in Madeira is more likely to promote local transmission of Zika virus than Aedes albopictus. Consequently, it appears that the risk of a Zika epidemic in continental Europe is still low.
Institut Pasteur hosted the two day International Zika Summit at the Institut Pasteur Paris campus.
Bacterial genomes generally contain a single chromosome and one or more extrachromosal elements such as plasmids.
Following the favorable opinion issued by the Scientific Council in March 2016, the Stroma, Inflammation and Tissue Repair Unit will be set up on May 2, 2016.
To help scientists at the Institut Pasteur's Paris campus find new funding and identify relevant opportunities offered by foreign funding bodies...
The Institut Pasteur's long-standing partner Sanofi is renewing its commitment in 2016 by organizing the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Awards for the fifth year running. These annual awards are given in recognition of innovative research that has the potential to generate real progress in life sciences. The "Senior" and "Mid-Career" awards are open to the international research community, while the two "Junior" prizes are awarded at national level.
The next lecture organized by the Scientific Council - "Plus-strand RNA virus macro-evolution: last stand of poliovirus, the bad guy of the gang" - will be held on Thursday, May 12, 2016.
Every year, several young researchers' organizations - including StaPa, the Institut Pasteur's association for young researchers - run the BIOTechno Forum in Paris.
The Hub of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology at the Institut Pasteur organizes thematic courses open to everybody.
As recently announced, the Institut Pasteur is in a position to award individual profit-sharing bonuses this year in respect of the financial year 2015. Payment of the bonuses was triggered when the Institut Pasteur met the performance criteria laid down in the agreement signed last year by the management and unions. Over the next few days, at the beginning of May, each beneficiary of the profit-sharing scheme will receive a personal letter at their home address from Natixis Interépargne...
On Tuesday, April 26, the Science Accueil organization ran an information session on the French income tax system.
The speaker will be Philippe Pouletty, co-founder and Managing Director of Truffle Capital, a leading European venture capital company.
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We'll look forward to seeing you again on May 13.