The CrickConnect team are delighted to be able to invite community members to join us for the institute's regular Crick Lecture.

Crick Lectures provide a broad insight into biomedical research from leading scientists. Not to be missed, the one-hour lectures are the event of the week for the Crick community to come together. The lectures aim to be accessible to scientists across different disciplines, while also offering something for the specialist.

Professor Yasmine Belkaid, newly appointed President of the Institut Pasteur gives this week's Crick lecture.

There will also be an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends over refreshments after the Lecture from 17:00. If you are able to join us in person at the Crick please let us know at connect@crick.ac.uk so we can arrange access.

Yasmine Belkaid

Professor Yasmine Belkaid is an internationally renowned scientist who has focused her research on the relationship between microbes and the immune system. She began her scientific journey with training in infectious diseases at the Institut Pasteur, and her career has since encompassed a wide variety of fields including parasitology, microbiology, medical entomology and virology, as well as tissue immunity, the microbiome and human immunology.

Yasmine is currently Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Human Immunology, and founder and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Microbiome Program at NIH (Bethesda, Maryland, United States). Within NIAID, she has also developed the Department of Host Immunity and Microbiome.

In January 2024 she will take up her role as President of Institut Pasteur.

The decision to appoint Professor Yasmine Belkaid as Institut Pasteur President follows a lengthy selection process that began in June 2021, conducted by a search committee chaired by Edith Heard, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.