Thursday 12 March 2026

8:30 Welcome coffee (Open garden)

9:30 Speeches (Garden Amphitheater)

1 Conference : 10:00p.m.-10:45p.m.

Garden Amphitheater

Functional genetics of metabolic processes involved in ecological interactions in plants of the Brassicaceae family - Antoine GRAVOTIGEPP, Rennes

Workshops Session 1: 10:50p.m.-11:20p.m.

  • Atrium 1: PHENOTIC

    Seed phenotyping, what's new?Didier Demilly)

  • Cabernet Room – MicroPICell

    Comparative study of different methods of catching common carp (Philippe Hulin)

  • Cointreau Room: GenoA

    Use of Low Pass data in the construction of a polygenic risk score in the context of intracranial aneurysms (Marine Cornec & Kinnie Le Roy)

  • Giffard Room: Vegepolys Valley

    Discover the plant-based competitiveness cluster and its opportunities through the TRANS'THRIPS project (Cécile Abalain & Fabrice Foucher)

  • Garden amphitheater: Therassay

    Organ-on-Chip, an alternative in vitro organ model for the functional exploration of human pathologies (Vincent Sauzeau

Workshops Session 2: 11:45p.m.-12:15p.m.

  • Atrium 1: Corsair-P2M2

    How to access the plant volatolome: agroecological applications to the study of plant/insect interactions (Leo Andruszkow)

  • Cabernet Room – PRISM

    Characterization of plant response to water stress by NMR and MRI of leaf tissues (Pierre-Nicolas Boulc'h & Maja Musse)

  • Cointreau Room: MRic-TEM

    Localization of proteins by electron microscopy (Nina Soler

  • Giffard Room: iPSC

     Optimization of genome editing in human induced pluripotent stem cells (Sarah Tessier)

  • Garden Amphitheater: GenOuest

    Best practices for machine learning and artificial intelligence models in bioinformatics (Pauline Le Corre)

11:25 Coffee break (Open garden)

Partner pitch – 12:20-13:10

Garden Amphitheater

13:10 Cocktail lunch (Open garden)

Poster session – 14:00 p.m.-14:30 p.m.

Hall Open Garden

Lecture 2: 14:30p.m.-15:15p.m.

Garden Amphitheater

Contribution of imaging techniques to understanding the quality and processing potential of plant agricultural resources (seeds/stems) - Cécile BARRON, IATE, Montpellier.

Workshops Session 3: 15:20p.m.-15:50p.m.

  • Atrium 1: GO-EV

    A network to explore to understand the challenges, opportunities and advances in extracellular vesicle research (Julie Gavard)

  • Cabernet Room – MRic-Photonics

    Combining FRET and super resolution microscopy to monitor protein kinase biochemical activity (Xavier Pinson & Pierre-Jean Desmaison)

  • Cointreau Room: Prot'ICO

    Unicellular and spatial proteomics without preconceptions accessible in Angers (François Guillonneau & Benjamin Barré)

  • Giffard Room: Cytocell

    When real-time imaging combined with high-throughput flow cytometry enables cell sorting: an introduction to Cell-View™ technology (Laurence Delbos & Lucile Guéno) 

Workshops Session 4: 16:10p.m.-16:40p.m.

  • Atrium 1 – H2P2

    Identification of identity markers of asexual and sexual germ cells during pea aphid embryogenesis by a laser microdissection approach coupled with bulk RNAseq (Eglantine Soucat & Gevorg Ghukasyan)

  • Cabernet Room: Vegepolys Valley

    Discover the plant-based competitiveness cluster and its opportunities through the EVAGRAIN project (Cécile Abalain & Luc Saulnier)

  • Cointreau Room: TRIP

    Fine-tuning of gene expression by CRISPRai: from the iPS cell model to the rat animal model (Vanessa Quillaud-Chenouard & Séverine Rémy

  • Giffard Room: TEM2C

    Cryo-electron microscopy in the service of structural biology (Aurélien Dupont)

  • Garden Amphitheater: Genomer

    Long read and RNA sequencing: application for the study of translation during early sea urchin development (Claire Daguin-Thiebaut & Maïwenn Petit)

15:55 Coffee break (Open garden)

Lecture 3: 16:45p.m.-17:30p.m.

Garden Amphitheater

From studying the effects of stress on immunity to identifying farming practices that are more respectful of pig welfare and health - Julie HERVEIECM, Nantes.

Friday March 13 2026

09:00 Welcome coffee (Open garden)

Lecture 4: 9:30p.m.-10:15p.m.

Garden Amphitheater

Small secreted peptides: levers for improving plant immunity - Sébastien AUBOURGIRHS, Angers.

Workshops Session 5: 10:25p.m.-10:55p.m.

  • Atrium 1: Valorial

    Accelerating agri-food innovation: Opportunities and strategic role of R&D partners in European projects and feedback from the Biotech4Food project (Adrienne Gentil & Alexis Mehaignerie)

  • Cabernet Room: LGA

    Model of deep skin burn and healing (Stéphanie Bernardet & Ugo Lancien

  • Cointreau Room – PCV

    Oligo-FISH and Immunostaining for detailed analysis of plant genome structure (Olivier Coriton)

  • Giffard Room: Imp@ct

    Generative molecular design by autoencoder for the discovery of new therapeutic compounds and SAR optimization (Mike Maillasson)

  • Garden Amphitheater: "Image Analysis" Working Group

    Sharing and harmonization in imaging (Emmanuel Caruyer)

Workshops Session 6: 11:15p.m.-11:45p.m.

  • Atrium 1: PHENOTIC

    Let's use Phenobean!Etienne Belin, Tristan Boureau & Rémi Gardet)

  • Cabernet Room: Arronax

    Presentation and initial experimental results in external beam radiotherapy (Charbel Koumeir)

  • Cointreau Room: Neuroinfo

    MRI with very high magnetic field gradients: new perspectives for clinical imaging research (Emmanuel Caruyer

  • Giffard Room – APEX

    Spectral confocal microscopy, a method adapted to the analysis of multiple labels but also interesting for exploiting the autofluorescence of agri-food products (Laurence Dubreil & Gabriel Le Flem)

  • Garden Amphitheater: BiRD

    HUMESS, a tool to integrate quantitative transcriptomic and metabolic network modeling to unveil context specific gene signatures (Louis Pare)

11:00 Coffee break (Open garden)

Lecture 5: 11:50p.m.-12:35p.m.

Garden Amphitheater

What genotyping and genome sequencing tools are available for which applications in animal genetics? Applications in rainbow trout. Florence PHOCAS, GABI, Paris.

12:35 Closing of the congress – Distribution of meal baskets