Fri 07/04/2025 - 10:00

David Sabatini

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS - IOCB Prague & Boston

Invited by : Mario Pende

David M. Sabatini studies nutrient sensing and growth control, particularly by the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. This pathway is the major nutrient-sensitive growth regulator in…

Fri 06/20/2025 - 10:00

Jean-Emmanuel Sarry

Centre de recherches en cancérologie de Toulouse (Oncopole)

Invited by : Elizabeth Macintyre & Vahid Asnafi

Jean-Emmanuel Sarry is a Team Leader at the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse (France) and a Principal Investigator in Hemato-Oncology and Metabolism at the French Health Institute (Inserm). Dr…

Fri 06/13/2025 - 10:00

Han Li

Institut Pasteur

Invited by : Mario Pende

Han Li is a principal investigator at the Institut Pasteur, where she leads the cellular plasticity in age-related pathologies group in the department of developmental and stem cell biology. She…

Fri 06/06/2025 - 10:00

Elvira Mass

LIMES Institute - University of Bonn

Invited by : Nicolas Venteclef

Elvira Mass studied biology at the University of Bonn and did her PhD thesis at the Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES) in Bonn. In 2014, she moved to Frederic Geissmann's laboratory at King…

Fri 05/16/2025 - 10:00

Chantal Desdouets

Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers

Invited by : Vincent Goffin

Chantal Desdouets leads the "Genomic Instability, Metabolism, Immunity and Liver Tumorigenesis" team at the Centre Recherche des Cordeliers in Paris. A world-renowned expert, Dr Desdouets's research…

Tue 05/06/2025 - 09:00

Bing Su

Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine

Invited by : Nicolas Venteclef

Bing Su is Director of the Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, where he also holds a KC…

Mon 04/28/2025 - 10:00

Christopher Carl Goodnow

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Invited by : Matthieu Mahévas - Pascal Chappert

Christopher C Goodnow holds The Bill and Patricia Ritchie Foundation Chair as Head of the Immunogenomics Laboratory at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and is Professor in the Cellular…

Fri 04/25/2025 - 10:00

Brendan Manning

Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Invited by : Mario Pende

Brendan Manning is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Molecular Metabolism at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), with additional faculty affiliations in the Department of…

Wed 04/23/2025 - 08:00

Manvendra Singh

The Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences - Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Manvendra Singh completed his PhD at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Zsuzsanna Izsvák. In 2019, he joined the Department of Molecular…

Fri 04/11/2025 - 10:00

Philippe Sansonetti

Institut Pasteur

Invited by : Laurence Arbibe

Philippe Sansonetti, MD, trained in infectious diseases in Paris and in bacterial genetics at Institut Pasteur, Paris, then at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research as a post-doctoral scientist…

Fri 04/04/2025 - 10:00

Meryem Baghdadi

Institut Necker Enfants Malades

Meryem B. Baghdadi is a researcher in the field of stem cell and development biology and has made significant contributions to the understanding of stem cell niches and their regulation in both…

Fri 03/28/2025 - 11:00

Jacky Goetz

Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine de Strasbourg

Invited by : Etienne Morel

Jacky Goetz graduated in Pharmacology and Cell Biology from University of Strasbourg (France) in the laboratory of K.TAKEDA. He then moved to the laboratory of I.R. NABI in Montreal (University of…

Fri 03/21/2025 - 11:00

Olivier Tabary

Institut Necker Enfants Malades

Invited by : Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus

Olivier Tabary has been a researcher at Inserm at Inem since 2025. He began focusing on cystic fibrosis projects in 1996. Following his PhD in Reims and a post-doctoral fellowship at EMBL in…

Fri 03/14/2025 - 11:00

Aurélien Roux

Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva

Invited by : Etienne Morel - Cédric Delevoye

Aurélien Roux studied biology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France (1997-1999), with a minor in Physics. He did a Master of Physics, University Denis Diderot, Paris (1999-2000). As a Ph.D…

Fri 03/07/2025 - 11:00

Peter Sebo

Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Invited by : Xavier Nassif

Peter Sebo got a PhD. (CSc.) in microbiology in 1990 in Prague and did his postdoc at Institut Pasteur in Paris (1990-95). Since 1995, he heads a lab at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech…

Fri 02/14/2025 - 11:00

Jean-Philippe Herbeuval

Faculté Biomédicale des Saints-Pères

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

After completing a PhD in immuno-oncology in 2001 at GIMAP (INSERM), Jean-Philippe Herbeuval was awarded a 5-year Fogarty Fellowship at the NIH (USA) in Dr. G. Shearer's lab to work on the antiviral…

Fri 02/07/2025 - 11:00

Laurence Zitvogel

Institut Gustave Roussy

Invited by : Peter van Endert

Prof. L. Zitvogel, MD (Clinical Oncology), PhD (Tumor Immunology), full professor at the University Paris Saclay, graduated in Medical Oncology in 1992. Scientific career first at the University of…

Fri 01/31/2025 - 11:00

Philippe Pierre

CIML - Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Philippe Pierre is an international leader in dendritic cell biology and innate immunity research. During his PhD at the EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany), his research focused on the characterization of…

Fri 01/24/2025 - 11:00

Wilbert Zwart

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Invited by : Vincent Goffin

Wilbert Zwart completed his PhD at the Netherlands Cancer institute (NKI; Amsterdam) in 2009, and received is post-doctoral training at the CRUK-CI in Cambridge (UK), in the lab of prof. Jason…

Fri 01/17/2025 - 11:00

Philippos Mourikis

Institut Necker Enfants Malades

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Philippos Mourikis is a Research Director (DR1) at CNRS, leading a group within the team of Prof. F. Relaix since 2019. Recently appointed as a Team Leader at the Institut Necker-Enfants Malades …

Fri 01/10/2025 - 11:00

Camille Ehre

University of North Carolina School of Medicine - Microbiology and Immunology Department

Invited by : Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus

After earning her PhD in Pathophysiology at Sorbonne Université (formerly Pierre and Marie Curie) in “cotutelle de thèse” with the University of North Carolina (UNC), under the mentorship of Dr. C.W…

Fri 12/20/2024 - 11:00

Alexander Scheffold

Institute of Immunology - The Christian Albrecht University of Kiel

Invited by : Simon Fillatreau & Peter van Endert

Alexander Scheffold studied Chemistry in Freiburg and Cologne from 1986-1992, Diploma thesis at Miltenyi Biotec. In 1997 he received his PhD at the University of Cologne with Andreas Radbruch. From…

Fri 12/13/2024 - 11:00

Raphaël Rodriguez

Institut Curie

Invited by : Ahmed Hamai - GH and PRL pathophysiology (V. Goffin)

Raphaël Rodriguez is a Research Director at the CNRS and a Principal Investigator at Institut Curie where he holds the Skłodowska-Curie Chair of Chemical Biology. He acquired the knowledge of…

Fri 12/06/2024 - 11:00

Abdou Rachid Thiam

Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris

Invited by : Mario Pende

Abdou Rachid Thiam holds an engineering degree in Physics from ESPCI Paris and UPMC, where he developed microfluidic tools to study the stability and behavior of emulsions, uncovering fundamental…

Fri 11/29/2024 - 11:00

Iannis Talianidis

FORTH - Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology

Invited by : Marco Pontoglio

Iannis Talianidis received his diploma from the Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest Hungary in 1981. He continued his post-graduate studies in the Department of Biochemistry of the same…

Fri 11/15/2024 - 10:00

Nicolas Chevrier

University of Chicago - Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Invited by : Simon Fillatreau

Nicolas Chevrier, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and serves as Scientific Director at the CNRS…

Fri 11/08/2024 - 11:00

Darren Yuen

University of Toronto - St. Michael's Hospital

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Darren Yuen is a Clinician Scientist and Staff Nephrologist, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Fibrotic Injury. He…

Fri 10/11/2024 - 10:00

Melissa Little

Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Invited by : Marco Pontoglio

Melissa Little, AC, is CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Chief Scientist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and leads the Kidney Regeneration…

Fri 10/04/2024 - 10:00

Gennaro De Libero

University of Basel - Dept of Biomedicine

Invited by : Barbara Bertocci (Team van Endert)

After completing his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Pisa, Gennaro De Libero joined the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in 1984 as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Stefan Kaufman's…

Fri 09/27/2024 - 10:00

Andreas Papassotiropoulos

University of Basel - Dept of Biomedicine

Invited by : Lida Katsimpardi

Andreas Papssotiropoulos was born in Athens, and after studying medicine at the University of Bonn, Germany, he completed clinical training as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the…

Fri 09/20/2024 - 10:00

Oliver Bannard

University of Oxford

Invited by : Peter van Endert

In 2009, Oliver Bannard completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Douglas Fearon at the University of Cambridge, UK, investigating the developmental pathway of memory CD8+ T cells…

Fri 06/28/2024 - 10:00

Hannes Vietzen

Medical University of Vienna

Invited by : Peter van Endert

Hannes Vietzen studied Biological Sciences as well as Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology at the University of Constance (Germany) and the University of Vienna. He then…

Fri 06/21/2024 - 10:00

Helen McNeill

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Helen McNeill obtained her PhD at Stanford University with James Nelson, studying how epithelial cell polarity is established, using cultured mammalian cells. She conducted her postdoctoral studies…

Fri 06/14/2024 - 10:00

Clément Cochain

PARCC - Paris Cardiovascular Research Center

Invited by : Nicolas Venteclef

Clément Cochain received his PhD from Université Paris 7 in 2011. His doctorate work was performed in the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center under the supervision of J-S Silvestre, and focused on…

Fri 06/07/2024 - 10:00

Alexandre de Brevern

BIGR - Biologie Intégrée du Globule Rouge Unit - INSERM UMR_S 1134

Invited by : Vincent Goffin

Alexandre G. de Brevern is a Senior Researcher at INSERM and heads the DSIMB - Dynamics of Structures and Interactions of Macromolecules in Biology team of INSERM UMR_S 1134 BIGR unit. With nearly 20…

Fri 05/31/2024 - 10:00

Agnès Lehuen

Institut Cochin

Invited by : Peter van Endert & Simon Fillatreau

Agnes Lehuen is director of the Team “Immunology of diabetes” at Cochin Institute and University Paris City, France. She is cofounder of the Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX. Dr Lehuen's…

Wed 05/29/2024 - 08:30

Michel Sadelain

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Invited by : Simon Fillatreau

Michel Sadelain is a genetic engineer and cell therapist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, where he holds the Steve and Barbara Friedman Chair. He is the founding…

Fri 05/24/2024 - 10:00

Marcelle Machluf

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi & Marco Pontoglio

Marcelle Machluf received her Ph.D. in Biotechnology Engineering from Ben-Gurion University (Israel), and then went on to complete a 5-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School…

Fri 05/03/2024 - 10:00

Georg Halder

University of Leuven

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Georg Halder is Professor at the University of Leuven and the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in Belgium. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Basel in Switzerland under the…

Fri 04/26/2024 - 10:00

Oliver Florey

Babraham Institute- UK

Invited by : Etienne Morel

Oliver Florey completed his Ph.D at Imperial College London in 2006, with Prof. Dorian Haskard, studying the recruitment of leukocytes to sites of inflammation. He followed this with a post-doc in…

Fri 04/19/2024 - 10:00

Daniela Latorre

Institute of Microbiology - ETH Zurich

Invited by : Peter van Endert

Daniela Latorre is an immunologist at the Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich. After obtaining her PhD in Immunology at “Sapienza” University of Rome in Italy, she moved to Switzerland to perform…

Wed 04/17/2024 - 10:00

Weiping Han

A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology

Invited by : Ganna Panasyuk

Weiping Han obtained his PhD in Physiology from Cornell University in 1996. He did his postdoctoral work at the University of Pittsburgh and HHMI/UT Southwestern Medical Center. In 2003, he was…

Fri 03/29/2024 - 11:00

Guillaume van Niel

CRCI2NA – University of Nantes

Invited by : Etienne Morel

Since 1998, Guillaume van Niel has investigated the molecular mechanisms regulating the generation and dynamics of the late endosomal system using cell biology methods combined with electron and…

Wed 03/20/2024 - 11:00

Jacques Ravel

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Invited by : Pamela Schnupf

Pr. Jacques Ravel, PhD in Environmental Molecular Microbiology and Ecology from the University of Maryland College Park, is a leading figure in microbiology. Following postdoctoral research in…

Fri 03/15/2024 - 11:00

Patrick Mehlen

Cancer Research Center of Lyon

Invited by : Mario Pende

Patrick Mehlen is Director of Research at CNRS and director of the Cancer Research Center of Lyon. He is the leader of the dependence receptor paradigm and has deciphered the role of these receptors…

Fri 03/08/2024 - 11:00

Maria Rescigno

Humanitas University

Invited by : Laurence Arbibe

Maria Rescigno is full professor, vice-rector and delegate to research at Humanitas University and group leader at Humanitas Research hospital in Milan. She graduated in Biology in the…

Fri 03/01/2024 - 11:00

Svetoslav Chakarov

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Invited by : Camille Blériot

Svetoslav Chakarov received his doctorate in immunology from Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France under the guidance of Professor Nicolas Fazilleau. He then joined Florent Ginhoux’s research…

Fri 02/23/2024 - 11:00

Daniel Pinschewer 

University of Basel

Invited by : Jean-Claude Weill

Since 2013, Daniel Pinschewer serves as a full professor of Virology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.  After graduating from the University of Zurich medical school in the year 2000 he…

Fri 02/16/2024 - 11:00

Emilio Hirsch

University of Torino

Invited by : Ganna Panasyuk

Emilio Hirsch is Professor of Experimental Biology at the Medical School of the University of Torino, Italy since 2005. He authored 301 publications, has an h-index of 90 (google Scholar), is EMBO…

Fri 02/09/2024 - 11:00

Laurent Reber

Institut Toulousain des Maladies Infectieuses et Inflammatoires 

Invited by : Simon Fillatreau

Laurent Reber completed a Ph.D. at the University of Strasbourg in 2009, conducting research in the laboratory of Nelly Frossard. Following the completion of the Ph.D., they embarked on a…

Fri 02/02/2024 - 11:00

Sirio Dupont

University of Padova

Invited by : Fabiola Terzi

Sirio Dupont was born in a family of artists and humanists. He made the unconventional choice to pursue a career in science, earning a Molecular Biology Master's Degree at the University of Padua…

Fri 10/06/2023 - 10:00

Marc Prentki

Université de Montréal, Montreal Diabetes Research Center – Montréal, Canada

Invited by : Mario pende

Marc Prentki was trained in biochemistry at the University of Geneva. He is currently professor of nutrition at the Université de Montréal and held a Canada Research Chair in Diabetes and Metabolism…