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Document de presse | 2022.02.21
Death of Professor François Gros, on February 18, 2022
It was with very great sadness that the Institut Pasteur learned of the death of François Gros, Professor at the Institut Pasteur and Director of Research at the CNRS, on February 18, 2022.François Gros, President of the Institut Pasteur between 1976 and 1981, made a major contribution to the discovery of messenger RNA and protein synthesis initiation factors, remarkable scientific achievements...
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Article | 2021.10.18
Lwoff Class (2012-2015)
Ph.D. StudentUndergraduate studiesLaboratoryThesis AdvisorLab HeadDoctoral SchoolPh.D. projectEva Christina BORITSCHKarl-Franzens-University, Graz, AustriaIntegrated Mycobacterial PathogenomicsRoland BroschRoland BroschB3MIExploring the evolutionary success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent of TBIsidro CORTES CIRIANOUniversity of Zaragoza, SpainStructural BioinformaticsThérèse...
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News | 2021.02.15
Discovery of messenger RNA in 1961
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, words that just a year ago would have been the preserve of scientists have entered everyday language. One example is PCR, used for diagnostic tests. Another term that was once unfamiliar and is now on everyone's lips is messenger RNA, the miraculous molecule that has led to vaccines being administered to the general population less than a year after...
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News | 2018.09.14
Omics: Biology in the digital age at the Institut Pasteur
On September 13, 2018, the Institut Pasteur inaugurated its "Omics" buildings, which will serve to explore the myriad possibilities offered by the development of computational biology. The buildings will house scientists from a wide range of disciplines together with state-of-the-art technologies.The OMICS Center inauguration ceremony was attended by Christian Vigouroux and Stewart Cole,...
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Report | 2018.05.25
From Molecular Biology to Stem Cells
May 1968… While students took to the streets of Paris, Jacques Monod and François Jacob were getting ready for what would prove to be a decisive turning point for the Institut Pasteur: the opening of a new department dedicated to molecular biology—in other words the study of the molecular mechanisms governing cell behavior. The venture, which included plans for purpose-built premises, had...
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Article | 2016.12.20
Pasteur-Weizmann Council
The Pasteur-Weizmann Council is an association which collects funds aimed at promoting scientific exchanges between the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Rehovot, Israel.
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Article | 2016.12.20
Microbiology
Bacteria have always been important research models at the Institut Pasteur. The Department of Microbiology studies bacteria, archaea and their viruses, through multidisciplinary approaches.
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Article | 2016.11.15
François Jacob (1920-2013)
François Jacob worked closely with Jacques Monod, developing the concept of genetic regulation considered revolutionary for the time. The two men were awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with André Lwoff "for their discovery relating to the genetic regulation of enzyme and virus synthesis."
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Article | 2016.11.15
Jacques Monod (1910-1976)
For Jacques Monod molecular biology was a way to piece together the puzzle explaining the mechanisms shared throughout the living world, from bacteria to complex animals. Inspired by André Lwoff, Jacques Monod worked closely with François Jacob to discover the first genetic regulation system, for which they coined the name operon. Four years after publication of the discovery the three scientists...
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Article | 2016.11.15
André Lwoff (1902-1994)
The scientific work of André Lwoff was dominated by two major discoveries: bacterial growth factors and dormant forms of bacterial viruses called prophages. With François Jacob and Jacques Monod he was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for their discovery relating to the genetic regulation of enzyme and virus synthesis."