November 06, 2020
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, November 6, 2020
Further to the staff memo of October 29 regarding the new lockdown measures introduced in France, the BCP Committee (which is reverting to its initial name, the Business Continuity Plan Committee) would like to outline the following additional measures.
Since it was made available to the entire campus in early April by the Information Systems Department, Teams has been used for countless meetings and conferences, helping keep the Institut Pasteur's activities going. The Information Systems Department wants to offer extra guidance to all Microsoft Teams users, at all levels, to help them use the tool more confidently and get the most out of it.
On November 2, 2020, Senlis Criminal Court convicted the author of a misleading video claiming that the Institut Pasteur invented COVID-19, posted online on March 17, 2020, of public defamation towards the Institut Pasteur.
The Institut Pasteur's outstanding collection of bacterial strains has played a key role in research at the University of California. The collection was used in a study exploring how the modification of group A streptogramins, a class of antibiotics discovered and isolated in France in the 1960s, can restore their efficacy by enabling them to overcome the resistance mechanisms employed by the bacteria they are intended to destroy.
The Scientific Secretariat General compiles information on the week’s conferences and publications, patents, funding opportunities, job vacancies, training and events that you may find useful for your career...
With the support of the Institut Pasteur senior management team, we are moving to a new system that reflects the realities of invoicing this type of service offered to campus. We will now be offering 100TB of free storage to all PIs, with a new funding/invoicing model and a service that is more closely aligned with the needs of the scientific community.
