Translational Research Day 2026

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM :

9.20 - 9.30 am Welcome Address & Introduction

SESSION 1 9.30 - 11.05 am

Organoid systems modeling human interfaces and the developing brain

Chair : Chiara ZURZOLO

KEYNOTE 9.30 - 10.15 am

Karl KOEHLER Boston children’s Hospital, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery,

Harvard Medical School, USA "Organoids for modeling sensory and barrier tissues"

TALKS 10.15 - 11.05 am

Pierre VANDERHAEGHEN - Leuven Brain Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Alexandre BAFFET - Institut Curie, Paris, Franc

11.05-11.35 am - Coffee break

SESSION 2 11.35 am - 1.00 pm

Organoid across the lifespan : from development to ageing

Chair : Kenneth MC ELREAVEY

TALKS

Alain CHEDOTAL - Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

Miria RICCHETTI - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Sharagim TAJBAKHSH - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Han LI - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Nathalie SAUVONNET - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Camille BERTHELOT - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

01.00-2.00 pm - Lunch break

SESSION 3 2.00 - 3.30 pm

Organoids for disease modeling

Chair : Samy GOBAA

KEYNOTE 2.00 - 2.45 pm

Anne GRAPIN-BOTTOM, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology

and Genetics - Dresden, Germany "Pancreas organoids: from fundamental research to

diseasemodeling and replacement therapies"

Talks 2.45 - 3.50pm

Danyjela MATIC-VIGNJEVIC, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Marc LECUIT- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Nathalie SAUVONNET, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

3.50 - 4.15 pm - Coffee break

SESSION 4 4.15 - 6.00 pm

Organoid models of human biology and their ethical frontiers

Chair : Miria RICCHETTI

Talks 4.15 - 4.55 pm

Lisa CHAKRABARTI - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Anu BASHAMBOO - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

KEYNOTE 5.00 - 5.45 pm

Denis DUBOULE, Professor, Collège de France, Paris, France

"Some contentious issues when talking about ethics in life sciences”

5.45 - 6.00 pm cloture

Participation : free but mandatory registration