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Prestige Lecture par Fiona Watt

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Fiona Watt
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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Save the date for INEM’s 2026 Prestige Lecture Series, featuring Professor Fiona Watt, EMBO Director and an internationally recognised leader in stem cell biology.

From 1 to 4 December, Professor Watt will lead two lectures and two symposia exploring stem cell biology, tissue regeneration and the future of research institutes.

PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

All events will take place at INEM: 160 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris

 

  • Tuesday 1 December | 15:00–18:00

Symposium 1 : Stem-cell niches, epithelial plasticity and tissue regeneration

  • 15:00-15:35 Keynote: Philippos MOURIKIS (INEM) - Notch pulls the strings of stem cells and their niche
  • 15:35-15:55 Clarisse GANIER (Institut Pasteur) - Title to come
  • 15:55-16:15 Marco PONTOGLIO (INEM) - Transcriptional Control of Cell Identity in Kidney Development and Disease
  • 16:15-16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30-16:50 Meryem BAGHDADI (INEM) - Instestinal stem cell niche regulation in homeostasis and disease
  • 16:50-17:10 Romain LEVAYER (Institut Pasteur) - Fine tuning epithelial cell death: collective and single cell effects
  • 17:10-17:30 Michela DELEIDI (Institut Imagine) - Title to come
  • 17:30-18:00 Round-table debate on burning questions in stem cell/niche domain  

Participation subject to registration: https://my.weezevent.com/symposium-n1 

 

  • Wednesday 2 December | 10:00–11:15

Lecture 1 : From epidermal stem cells to tissue homeostasis: discoveries, niches and regenerative medicine

 

  • Thursday 3 December | 14:30–17:30

Symposium 2 : What does a research institute need to succeed in complex modern biology?

  • 14:30-14:45 Vincent GOFFIN (SFR-Necker) - Necker campus core facilities as essential structure to enable translational research at Necker 
  • 14:45-15:05 Bana JABRI (Institut Imagine) - Title to come
  • 15:05-15:25 Pamela SCHNUPF (INEM) - Probing the gut microbiota for keystone commensals
  • 15:25-15:45 Manvendra SINGH (INEM) - Molecular Criteria to Define an Embryo-like Formative State in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
  • 15:45-16:00 Coffee break 
  • 16:00-16:20 Cédric DELEVOYE (INEM) - Skin Photoprotection: From Organelle Biology to Genome Integrity
  • 16:20-16:40 Annarita MICCIO (Institut Imagine) - Successes and challenges in hematopoietic stem-cell based gene therapy for sickle cell disease
  • 16:40-17:00 Guillaume CANAUD (INEM) - Targeted therapies for overgrowth syndrome and vascular malformation
  • 17:00-17:30 Round-table debate on three burning questions in technological platform/resources  

Participation subject to registration: https://my.weezevent.com/symposium-n2-fiona-watt 

 

  • Friday 4 December | 10:00–11:15

Lecture 2 : The research institute of the future

 

ABOUT PROFESSOR FIONA WATT

After studying at the University of Cambridge, Professor Fiona Watt earned her PhD at the University of Oxford and completed postdoctoral research at MIT, where she began investigating differentiation and tissue organisation in mammalian epidermis. She established her first research group at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology in London before spending 20 years at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, a forerunner of the Francis Crick Institute. She subsequently helped establish the CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research. In 2012, she founded the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London. From 2018 to 2022, Professor Watt served on secondment as Executive Chair of the UK Medical Research Council. In 2022, she moved to Heidelberg, where she leads a research group at EMBL and serves as EMBO Director. That same year, she founded Fibrodyne Limited, a start-up developing cell therapies for skin scars. Her current research includes developing artificial niches to investigate the regulation of epidermal stem cell fate. Her distinctions include election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, an EMBO Member and an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Four days. Two lectures. Two symposia. One exceptional scientific conversation.

We look forward to welcoming you to INEM.