IPBS-Toulouse

MIRA workshop 2025 – Invited Speakers

The 4-half-day workshop will be organised as a 5-session program, including scientific talks from both French and Indian partners originally involved in the International Research network MIRA (see the page about MIRA IRN) and additional identified speakers based on the scientific topics of the workshop.

2 Keynote speakers

Nagasuma Chandra

Biochemistry department, IISc Bangalore, India

Marie-Cécile Ploy

Laboratoire RESINFIT, Université de Limoges, France

42 Confirmed speakers and chairs:

  • 21 from India (12 men / 9 women)
  • 21 from France (12 men / 9 women)

among whom 11 young researchers (6 women and 5 men, 6 from France and 5 from India).

From India

  • Rachit Agarwal Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc, https://be.iisc.ac.in/~rachit/)
  • Anjana Badrinarayanan National Center for Biological Sciences of Bangalore (NCBS, https://www.ncbs.res.in/) – Chair Session 1
  • Harinath Chakrapani Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER, https://www.hclab.in/)
  • Nagasuma Chandra IISc, Bangalore (https://biochem.iisc.ac.in/nagasuma-chandra.php) – Keynote speaker
  • Sidhart Chopra CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (CSIR-CDRI, https://cdri.res.in/1826.aspx?id=1826)
  • Arunava Dasgupta CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow (https://cdri.res.in/1776.aspx?id=1776) – Chair Session 5
  • Sheetal Gandotra CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi (CSIR-IGIB, https://sites.google.com/site/gandotralab/people) – Chair Session 4
  • Asha Joseph postdoc in Anjana Badrinarayanan group, NCBS, Bangalore
  • Yogita Kapoor PhD Student in Vinay Nandicoori group, CCMB, Hyderabad
  • Parvinder Kaur FNRS assistant professor, Foundation for Neglected Disease Research, Bangalore (FNDR, https://www.fndr.in/)
  • Ashwani Kumar CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh (CSIR-IMTech, https://www.imtech.res.in/contact/staff/dr-ashwani-kumar/114)
  • Dhiraj Kumar International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi (ICGEB, https://www.icgeb.org/dhiraj-kumar/) – Chair Session 1
  • Debapriya Mukherjee PhD Student in Dipshikha Chakravortty group, IISc Bangalore (https://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/dclab/)
  • Vinay Kumar Nandicoori Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (CCMB, https://www.ccmb.res.in/People/Research-Group/Vinay-K-Nandicoori) – Chair Session 3
  • Avik Pathak PhD Student in Ranjana Pathania group in IIT Roorkee
    Ranjana Pathania Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT, https://bt.iitr.ac.in/~BT/rpathfbs)
  • Samay Pande IISc, Bangalore (https://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/samay-pande/)
    Vivek Rao CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi (https://www.igib.res.in/?q=VivekRao)
  • Amit Singh Center for infectious disease Research, IISc Bangalore, (https://cidr.iisc.ac.in/amit/) – Chair Session 2
  • Bhupesh Taneja CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi (https://www.igib.res.in/?q=BhupeshTaneja)
  • Vaishnavi Vijaya PhD Student in Rachit Aggarwal group, IISc, Bangalore

From France

  • Anne Boyeldieu Postdoc in Patrice Polard team, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Genetique Moleculaires (LMGM-CBI, https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-polard)
  • Helene Bottela PI in Christophe Guilhot team, Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (IPBS-Toulouse, https://www.ipbs.fr/molecular-mycobacterial-pathogenesis/
  • Nathalie Campo PI in Patrice Polard team, LMGM-CBI (https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/ Pneumococcal competence and transformation) – Chair Session 2
  • Martin Campoy PhD student in Hedia Marrakchi team IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/mycobacterial-envelopes-and-therapeutic-targets/)
  • Matthieu Chavent LMGM-CBI (https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-m3bi)
  • Saurabh Chugh Postdoc in Olivier Neyrolles team, IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/mycobacterial-interactions-with-host-cells/)
  • Romane Dusfour PhD student in Bouet/Cornet GEDY team LMGM-CBI (https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-gedy)
  • Pierre Genevaux LMGM-CBI (https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-genevaux) – Chair Session 1
  • Hugo Lebrette LMGM-CBI (https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-mycomet)
  • Olivier Neyrolles IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/index.php/mycobacterial-interactions-host-cells Mycobacterial) – Chair Session 5
  • Hedia Marrakchi IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/mycobacterial-envelopes-and-therapeutic-targets/) – Chair Session 3
  • Sarah Monard IPBS 4th yearPhD student cosuperside by C. Verollet and O. Neyrolles
  • Lionel Mourey IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/structural-biophysics/)
  • Eric Oswald Digestive Health Research Institute (IRSD, http://en.irsd.fr/) – Chair Session 4
  • Marie-Cécile Ploy https://www.unilim.fr/recherche/laboratoires/omegahealth/resinfit/ Keynote speaker
  • Olaya Rendueles-Garcia LMGM-CBI (https://cbi-toulouse.fr/eng/equipe-rendueles)
  • Julien Vaubourgeix PI in Eric Oswald team IRSD (IRSD, http://en.irsd.fr/)
  • Christel Verollet IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/index.php/phagocyte-architecture-and-dynamics)
  • Clément Viguier Postdoctoral fellow in Pierre Delobel team, Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (INFINITy, https://www.infinity.inserm.fr/en/)
  • Albertus Viljoen postdoctoral fellow in Jerome Nigou group, IPBS (https://www.ipbs.fr/immuno-modulation-by-mycobacterial-lipids-and-glycoconjugates/)
  • Xu Xibing Postdoc in Pierre Genevaux group, LMGM-CBI