Professional wine tasters aim to identify key aromas in the wines they sample and are often guided by expectations about grape variety, region, maker and vintage. But do the resulting perceptions identify the presence […]
Joost Wauters- Ziekenhuis University (Leuven, Belgium) Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) typically occurs in a severely immunocompromised host and isolation of Aspergillus species in the immunocompetent host is mostly considered colonization. Overall, the six-week mortality […]
NMR is a powerful and versatile tool for biology that is well know for its use in structure determination and dynamics of macromolecules. In the context of the future creation of a biological NMR […]
Icy basic training – Hands on. The Image Analysis Hub of the Institut Pasteur and the Bioimage Analysis group organize a day dedicated to a hands-on introduction to Icy. Icy is the software for […]
Neuronal circuits are constantly refined and remodeled in response to activity. Activity-induced plasticity is responsible for the brain’s ability to adjust to changing conditions, as in the sculpting of circuits during development, adaptation after […]
“The intricate world of Inter-organ communication” Organ-to-organ communications are critical to living systems and play major roles in homeostasis. Drosophila is a prime system for systematically identifying mechanisms involved in organ communication because libraries of transgenic RNAi lines are […]
Organizers : Hugo MOUQUET and Lisa CHAKRABARTI Pasteur Institute, Paris Speakers : Guillemette MASSE-RANSON Innate Immunity Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris Combining immunotherapies in HIV-infected Human Immune System (HIS) mice Yu Chun LONE Lwoff Institute, Paris South University and INSERM UMR1197, […]
“Brain, Barriers, and Behavior in Drosophila” Abstract: Glial cells are an essential component required for the functionality of all complex nervous systems. In lower vertebrates and invertebrates, glial cells establish the blood-brain barrier and […]