Mark your calendars: for its 16th edition, Gen2Bio returns to Angers on March 12 and 13, 2026 at the Jean Monnier Convention Center.

After a successful edition in 2024 on the theme of Health, Biogenouest invites you to Angers for a new edition under the banner of Agro: "innovations in the service of sustainable agriculture".

Organized every 2 years, the congress organized by Biogenouest is aimed at all biotechnology stakeholders: researchers, engineers and doctoral students in life and environmental sciences, innovative biotech companies, laboratories or research centers, competitiveness clusters, technology parks and technical centers, development stakeholders, etc. You can discover the service offerings of the 38 technological core facilities in the network and thus follow innovations in life sciences in the Greater West.

The 15th edition of the Gen2Bio congress took place on March 14 and 15, 2024 in Saint-Malo at the Palais du Grand Large!

Gen2Bio, the annual biotech congress organized by Biogenouest, is aimed at all biotechnology stakeholders: researchers, engineers and doctoral students in life and environmental sciences, innovative biotech companies, laboratories or research centers, competitiveness clusters, technology parks and technical centers, players in valorization…

In particular, you can discover the service offerings of the network's 38 technological core facilities and can thus follow innovations in life sciences in the Great West.

In 2024, the 2-day formula offered 5 plenary conferences, 27 technological workshops divided into 6 sessions, an exhibition space on stand for our partners and a BtoB space.

The 13th edition of the Gen2Bio congress took place online (health situation) around the theme of the sea.

For 2020, Biogenouest confirms its commitment to presenting the research dynamics of the network of technological core facilities of the Great West. Alternating from one year to another between Bretagne and Pays de la Loire, the 13rd edition of the Biotech Gen2Bio congress, organized by Biogenouest, was to take place in Brest but sanitary conditions imposed a postponement (from March to November) and a webinar format. The three plenary conferences presented during this new edition had “the Sea” as their red thread. The twenty-four technological workshops offered a program rich in innovations and highlighted the know-how of the core facilities.

Biogenouest and its Scientific Council have chosen to present for this edition 3 innovative projects in the field of the Sea within the framework of plenary conferences. In addition, multi-thematic technological workshops were led by 30 to 40 speakers, most of them internationally renowned.

The 12th edition of the Gen2Bio congress took place in Angers around the theme of Agronomy.

Gen2Bio, the annual gathering of researchers from the West and Biotech companies, organized by Biogenouest and our partners, makes it possible to establish a direct contact with the core facilities and to measure the progress of research work in the field of living in the Western France and more widely ...

On biotechnology at the service of Agronomy.

Biogenouest and its Scientific Council have chosen to present to the Biotech community innovative projects in the field of Agronomy at the three conferences. Between 30 and 40 speakers, many of whom have an international reputation, will host these conferences as well as technology workshops. It is a demonstration of the density of the subject and the activity of the Biogenouest core facilities, and also of their institutional or private partners. The Genomics, Proteomics, Functional Exploration, Bio-imaging, Structural Analysis and Metabolomics, and Bioinformatics axes will be highlighted in their transversality.

The 11th edition of the Gen2Bio congress took place in Rennes around the theme of Health.

First^rd edition of the Gen2Bio biotech congress, organized by Biogenouest in Rennes. This was a first for this scientific congress. Until then, the number of congress participants for 10 years exceeded the capacity of the Rennes spaces. For 2018, the ambition of the Biogenouest Scientific Council is to exceed the scope of this meeting. The twenty-four technological workshops and the plenary conferences presented will be around the theme of “Health”. More than 400 professional participants, mainly scientists, took part in this meeting which has become essential for Research in the West.

First^rd edition of Gen2Bio was held on Tuesday 14 March 2017 in Nantes (44) on Environmental Sciences

The purpose of the Gen2Bio biotech congress is to bring together researchers in life sciences from the West and biotech companies.

A large majority of participants were very satisfied with the topics covered during the congress, moments of exchange between participants / facilitators / speakers, reception and general organization. The high quality of the speakers, the dynamic format and the balance between workshops and conferences were often highlighted in the responses to the satisfaction questionnaire.

First^rd edition of Gen2Bio was held on Thursday March 31, 2016 in Saint-Brieuc (22) on blue Biotechnologies.

First^rd edition of Gen2Bio was held on Thursday March 26, 2015 in La Baule (44) on the theme Agro & Biotech.