Belkaid to Deliver Paul Lecture
Dr. Yasmine Belkaid of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France will deliver the annual William E. Paul Lecture as part of the NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS). Her talk, titled, “Immune Control of Host Physiology” will take place on Wednesday, January 7 at 2 p.m. E.T. in Bldg. 10’s Lipsett Amphitheater and online at videocast.nih.gov.
Belkaid is president of the Institut Pasteur and the head of the Metaorganism laboratory at the Institut Pasteur. Her work explores fundamental mechanisms that regulate tissue homeostasis and host immune responses and uncovered key roles for the microbiota and dietary factors in the control of immunity and protection to pathogens. It also explores the role of the immune system in organismal remodeling and the impact of infections on the mother-child dyad.
Following a postdoctoral fellowship at NIH on immune regulation during infection, Belkaid started her research program at the Children’s Hospital Research Foundation in Cincinnati. In 2005, she joined NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) where she served as department chair of the Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome, Director of the trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology and founder and director of the NIAID Microbiome Program prior to joining the Institut Pasteur in 2024.
Belkaid is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and she is the recipient of numerous awards including the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, the Emil von Behring Prize, the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award, the Robert Koch Award and the AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award.
The annual Paul lecture was established in 2016 in honor of the late Dr. William E. Paul, who led the NIH immunology community.
For more information or to request reasonable accommodation, email WALSoffice@od.nih.gov.