BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, September 2, 2016

Press

Several scientific studies have indicated that nicotine may be beneficial for memory function. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS set out to shed further light on the properties attributed to nicotine - which is known to have an adverse effect on health - by determining the precise structure of the nicotinic receptors in the hippocampus region of the brain.

Press

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, working in collaboration with a team from Italy, have published the results of their research into the action mechanisms of a promising...

News

The response to infection is highly variable from one individual to another.

News

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have demonstrated the role of lysosomal vesicles...

International

Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and Institut Pasteur are jointly launching an international call for applications for a future leader of 4-Year Group (G4) within the Institut Pasteur in Côte d’Ivoire. Chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and primary liver cancer (mostly hepatocellular carcinomas), related to chronic Hepatitis B and C infections or other etiological factors, represent a major public health problem in African countries at large and in Côte d'Ivoire in particular.

International

The Department of International Affairs and the Education Department are pleased to...

Scientific events

On september 8, the StaPa is running a seminar led by Thomas Boehm...

Center

At the Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour sessions, two doctors give a brief presentation to Institut Pasteur scientists on the diseases they are involved in treating.

Human resources

This year's annual appraisals and career development reviews are now under way and will run until September 30, 2016. They concern all Institut Pasteur staff and this year they will be conducted online via the new Career Portal.

Carreers

The next session will take place on Tuesday September 6, 2016. The speaker will be Antoine Prestat, founder and CEO of PEP-Therapy.

CeRIS

The HAL-Pasteur open archive is a platform that you can use to submit scientific articles and make them freely available for consultation.

Book signing

To mark the publication of Pascale Cossart's new book entitled La Nouvelle Microbiologie Des microbiotes aux CRISPR, you are all welcome to come and meet the author at a signing session...

Donors

The latest issue of the LIP contains a special feature on new vaccines.