IPBS-Toulouse

Tenth IPBS Student Symposium

We are pleased to welcome you to the 10th Symposium organized by the PhD students of IPBS.

This event will take place on November 4th and 5th at the Marthe Condat Auditorium (118 Rte de Narbonne, 31400, Toulouse, next to the “Université Paul Sabatier” Subway and bus station).

We are honored to host four distinguished professors and researchers in Biology:

– Dr. Fatima Metcha-Grigoriou, Curie Institut, France
– Dr. Melanie Blokesh, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
– Pr. Bernhard Küster, Technical University of Munich, Germany
– Pr. Eric Crubézy, Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse, France , Bordeaux University, France

Dowload the program HERE

For any further questions or problem, you can contact us at gsymposium2025@ipbs.fr

DAY 1 - November 4th

9:00 am: Opening and welcome by Dr. Olivier Neyrolles, Director of IPBS

1st SESSION : CANCER
(sponsored by fondation Toulouse Cancer Santé)

9:15 am: Sponsor Talk

9:30 am: Maelle Caroff – Ligand Stabilization of DNA Three-way junctions for targeted cancer therapy

9:45 am: Nicolas Mattei – Understanding and overcoming limits of Pulsed Electric Field cancer treatments

10:00 am: Cédric Fabre – The Fibrotic Fortness – ECM Architecture Modulating CD8+ T Cell infiltration in pancreatic cancer

10:15 am: Mathilde Lacombe – Adipocyte derived-androgens : role in progresion and castration resistance of prostate cancer at the primary and bone metastatic site

10:30 am: 2nd Year Phd students FLASH PRESENTATIONS

10:45 am: POSTER SESSION 1 and Coffee Break

11:30 am KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Dr. Fatima MECHTA-GRIGORIOU, Institut Curie, Paris,
France Mapping stromal heterogeneity and immunotherapy resistance in cancer

12:30 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2nd SESSION : CELL BIOLOGY, INFECTION and IMMUNITY

1.45 pm: Camille Gorlt – Centrosomal vs. golgi microtubules: Key players in osteoclast formation and function?

2:00 pm: Léa Ravon Katossky – Innate immune sensing of bacterial- induced genotoxicity by SLFN11-driven ribotoxic stress response

2:15 pm: Alex Prigent – Tumor associated high endothelial venules (TA- HEVs): Major gateways for B cell infiltration in tumors and tertiary lymphoid structures ?

2:30pm: Margaux Paradis – Host regulatory mechanisms of the human NLRP1

2:45 pm: 2nd Year Phd students FLASH PRESENTATIONS

3:00 pm: POSTER SESSION 2 and Coffee Break

3rd SESSION : MICROBIOLOGY

3:45 pm: Chérine Mehalla – Deciphering the mode of action of bioinspired lipidic compounds as promising antituberculosis drugs

4:00 pm: Chloé Garcia Labaig – Development and validation of a mixed M. abscessus/P. aeruginosa biofilm model for the study of new antibiofilm compounds in the context of cystic fibrosis

4:15 pm: Rathies Ravindra – Development of new anti-biofilm agents for the treatment of cystic fibrosis-related infections

4:30 pm: KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Dr. Melanie BLOKESCH, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Defense mechanisms of vibrio cholerae against mobile genetic elements

5:30 pm: End of the first day

DAY 2 - November 5th

4th SESSION : STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY and BIOPHYSICS

9:00 am: KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Pr. Bernhard KUSTER, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Proteomics as a molecular diagnostic in molecular tumor boards

10:00 am: Amélie Bosc-Rosati – Proteasome Puzzle : Exploring proteasome mutations in neurodevelopmental disorders

10:15 am: Maurine Marteau – Structural MS to decipher the interaction of BAM with the lipoprotein DolP

10:30 am: Julien Rizet – TagInhA: Towards the discovery of direct inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium abscessus InhA by protein-templated fragment ligations

10:45 am: Dylan El Faudel – Design inhibitors of phosphopantetheinyl transferases of pathogenesis bacteria

11:00 am: POSTER SESSION 3 and Coffee Break

11:45 am: KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Pr. Eric Crubézy, Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse, France
From Bones to Remedies: Exploring Ancient Treatments from Orthopedics to Pharmacology

12:45 pm Closing remarks and prizes

1.00 pm: End of the symposium

Registration

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Sessions - I will be here for:
Coffee break & lunch - I am coming to:

Organisation commitee

  • Alex PRIGENT,
  • Amélie BOSC ROSATI,
  • Camille GORLT,
  • Cédric FABRE,
  • Chérine MEHALLA,
  • Chloé GARCIA LABAIG,
  • Dylan EL FAUDEL,
  • Julien RIZET,
  • Léa RAVON KATOSSKY,
  • Maëlle CAROFF,
  • Margaux PARADIS,
  • Maurine MARTEAU,
  • Nicolas MATTEI,
  • Rathies RAVINDRA.

and Marie-Jeanne PILLAIRE, Landry BLANC, Maxime BERGE, Lorry CARRIE (for the COAST)