


Recurrently Breaking Genes in Brain Progenitor Cells may Contribute to Diversity and Disease
Frederick ALT Senior Investigator, Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard […]

“Insights into the B cell and Tfh cell biology underlying the inefficient acquisition of humoral immunity to malaria”
Peter CROMPTON – NIH, NIAID (Rockville – USA) Antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum infection and candidate malaria vaccines are generally short-lived in children, leaving them susceptible to repeated bouts of febrile malaria. Long-lived antibody […]

“Coat replacement dynamics in the African trypanosome”
Nina PAPAVASILIOU – The Rockefeller University (New York – USA) The African trypanosome (T.brucei spp) is a unicellular parasite native to sub-Saharan Africa, and the causative agent of sleeping sickness in humans and of […]

Symposium Bernard Dujon

“The impact of hotspot targeted interventions on malaria transmission: an example of different scientific disciplines investigating public health solutions”
Amrish BAIDJOE – Institut Pasteur, Département de Virologie (Paris – France) Although malaria is a disease that till date still causes significant mortality and morbidity mostly among children, impressive reductions in prevalence have been […]

“Study of human hepatotropic pathogens in mice with humanized live”
Philip MEULEMAN – Gent university, Department of Clinical chemistry, microbiology and immunology (Gent – Belgique) Contact : Sylvie GARCIA (sylvie.garcia@pasteur.fr – 89.92)

“Establishing a road map of the developmental program leading to infectivity in African trypanosomes”
Christian TSCHUDI – Yale University, School of Public Health (New Haven, USA) One of the fundamental steps in the life of a pathogen is the acquisition of infectivity. In the case of African trypanosomes, […]

“P.falciparum resistance to artemisinins: who cares?”
François NOSTEN – Mahidol Oxford University Research Unit, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (Mae Sot – Thaïlande) There is an on-going debate in the malaria community as to whether artemisinin resistance in P.falciparum is really […]

Milieu Intérieur Scientific Advisory Board
The Milieu Intérieur Scientific Advisory Board will take place on November 3rd, 2016 at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Our SAB 2016 is composed of: Dr J. Braun, University of California, USA Dr T. Joos, […]

“Protection against malaria is induced by blood stage-arresting Histamine Releasing Factor (HRF)-deficient Plasmodium parasites”
Claudia DEMARTA-GATSI – Unité de Biologie des interactions hôte-parasite (BIHP) Whole parasite vaccines such as genetically attenuated parasite (GAP) vaccines that induce cross-stage, long-lasting sterile protection have become the state-of-the-art to target malaria for […]

Trypanosomatid parasites: From the Field to the Lab. IV
We are happy to announce the next ‘Trypanosomatid parasites: from the field to the lab’ meeting which will take place on May 26th and 27th 2016 at the Auditorium François Jacob of the […]

“Trans-splicing and RNA modification regulate the life and death of Trypanosoma brucei”
Shulamit MICHAELI – Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan – Israel) In the seminar I will report on the discovery and the mechanism of the spliced leader silencing (SLS) pathway which is induced under ER […]

HDR defense
SOUTENANCE D’HABILITATION A DIRIGER DES RECHERCHES FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES FONDAMENTALES ET BIOMÉDICALES DE L’UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES Parasites trypanosomatidés : du terrain au laboratoire Par Brice ROTUREAU Le jeudi 10 mars 2016 à 14h à […]

“High throughput approaches to understanding Plasmodium erythrocyte invasion”
Julian RAYNER – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Cambridge – Royaume-Uni) More than a decade after the completion of the first Plasmodium genome, nearly a third of that genome remains annotated as hypothetical genes with […]

The first Citech retreat (Le Grand Hotel du Touquet)
On the 2nd of November 2015, 74 persons departing for the Grand Hotel of le Touquet met inside gare du Nord for the first retreat of Institut Pasteur’s Centre of innovation and technological research […]