Reminder: "Convergence" – Scientific day organized by the Institut Pasteur and Université Paris Cité on June 17

Yasmine Belkaid, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Édouard Kaminski, President of Université Paris Cité, are delighted to invite you to the first scientific day organized jointly by the two institutions. The day will be a chance to discuss the institutions' respective achievements, develop projects and explore new opportunities.

The event will take place on Monday June 17 from 9am to 5pm on Université Paris Cité's Odéon campus.

Several Institut Pasteur staff will be speaking at the event:

-   Paola Arimondo, Director of the Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry
-   Zeynep Baharoglu, Group Leader in the Bacterial Genome Plasticity Unit
-   Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, retrovirologist and laureate of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of HIV
-   Yasmine Belkaid, President of the Institut Pasteur
-   Christophe Beloin, Group Leader in the Genetics of Biofilms Unit
-   Christophe Boetto, member of the Statistical Genetics Unit
-   Thomas Bourgeron, Head of the Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions Unit
-   Christophe d'Enfert, Senior Executive Scientific Vice-President
-   James Di Santo, Head of the Innate Immunity Unit
-   Arnaud Fontanet, Head of the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Research and Expertise Unit
-   Tamara Giles Vernick, Head of the Anthropology and Ecology of Disease Emergence five-year unit
-   Anne-Lise Giraud, Director of the Hearing Institute
-   Jean-Baptiste Masson, Head of the Decision and Bayesian Computation Unit
-   Nell Saunders, member of the Virus and Immunity Unit
-   Isabelle Martin Verstraete, Group Leader in the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Anaerobes Unit

Program

• 9.10-9.30am: Introduction: Yasmine Belkaid and Édouard Kaminski

First session: Success stories

• 9.30-10am: IHU re-Connect: Anne-Lise Giraud (Institut Pasteur) and Claire Paquet (Université Paris Cité)

• 10-10.30am: EUR-1H EID: Graduate School One Health-Emerging Infectious Diseases: Isabelle Martin Verstraete (Institut Pasteur and Université Paris Cité) and Solen Kerneis (Université Paris Cité)

• 10.30-11am: Thomas Bourgeron (Institut Pasteur) and Richard Delorme (Université Paris Cité) – IHU InnovAND: Robert Debré Child Brain Institute: Innovating for every child

• 11-11.30am: Institut Covid-10 Ad-Memoriam: "Remembering the pandemic to prepare for future crises," Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Institut Pasteur) and Laëtitia Atlani-Duault (Université Paris Cité)

• 11.30am-12.30pm: Winners of the Emergence calls for proposals:
- Zeynep Baharoglu and Imane El Meouche, at IAME (Bichat): Determinants of phenotypic heterogeneity and antibiotic tolerance in E. coli clinical isolates
- Christophe Beloin (Institut Pasteur), Marie-Joséphine Crenn (Université Paris Cité) and Benjamin Fournier (Université Paris Cité): Influence of an anodized titanium surface on the behavior of oral bacteria and gingival fibroblasts

• 12.30-12.40pm: Three Minute Thesis presentations by two PhD students: Nell Saunders (Institut Pasteur, Bio Sorbonne Paris Cité Doctoral School) and Christophe Boetto (Institut Pasteur, Pierre Louis de Santé Publique Doctoral School) will present a summary of their respective theses: Study of coronavirus entry and replication and Study of predictors of gut microbiome variability in healthy subjects and patients.

12.40-2pm: Lunch

Second session: Projects

• 2-2.30pm: Biological and medicinal chemistry: research and outreach projects: Paola Arimondo (Institut Pasteur) and Laurent Micouin (Université Paris Cité)

• 2.30-3pm: Institut Pasteur Vaccinology and Immunotherapy Center – Jim Di Santo (Institut Pasteur) and Odile Launay (Université Paris Cité)

• 3-3.30pm: How to include patient zero in a cohort in the event of a future health crisis: Arnaud Fontanet (Institut Pasteur) and Xavier Lescure (Université Paris Cité)

• 3.30-3.40pm: Clémentine Marie (Université Paris Cité, Bio Sorbonne Paris Cité Doctoral School), national finalist of the Three Minute Thesis competition, will present a summary of her thesis entitled Dysfunction of estrogen signaling as a novel molecular signature for polycystic ovary syndrome.

Third session: Opportunities

• 3.40-4.10pm: Mother and child health: Yasmine Belkaid (Institut Pasteur) and Vassilis Tsatsaris (Université Paris Cité)

• 4.10-4.40pm: Artificial intelligence: Jean-Baptiste Masson (Institut Pasteur) and Stéphanie Allassonnière (Université Paris Cité)

• 4.40-5.10pm: Humanities and social sciences, health inequalities, biomedical research – Tamara Giles Vernick (Institut Pasteur), Jean-Christian Vinel (Université Paris Cité), and Clarisse Berthezène (Université Paris Cité)

Conclusion: Anne-Paule Roqueplo (Université Paris Cité) and Christophe d'Enfert (Institut Pasteur)