Spotlight on…Pascale Cossart

International audienceBiographical summary:I was educated as a chemist at the University of Lille, France. After a Master of Science at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, I arrived at the Pasteur Institute in 1971, where I am still…I only interrupted this long period for 3 months in 1973 for the birth of my first daughter, 1 year to teach biochemistry in Laos in 1974 and during which my second daughter was born; my third daughter was born while I was a post doc in 1979. I am now the head of the Bacteria-Cell Interactions Unit in the Department of Cell Biology and Infection. I have just published a book entitled ‘La nouvelle Microbiology’ edited by Odile Jacob, Francois Jacob's daughter. I have also been elected Secretaire perpètuel at the Acadèmie des Sciences since January 2016