CIRB Activities

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 (invitation from the Blanquart team)
Dr. Médéric Diard, University of Basel
“Ecological Engineering of the Intestinal Microbiome”
11:30 a.m. – Room D

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 (invited by the Huynh team)
Dr. Marc Lavigne, Institut Pasteur “The role of G4
quadruplexes and protein partners in HIV expression”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 (invited by Alizon)
Dr. Ignacio Bravo, MIVEGEC
“Swimming the River of Chronic Viral Infections”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 (invitation from the Llaurens team)
Dr. Tobias Kaiser, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology “How
Light at Night Sets the Circalunar Clock in the Marine Midget Clunio marinus”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 (invited by the Zugaro team)
Dr. Daniel Bendor, UCL “A
cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Friday, April 17, 2026 (invited by the Thion/Garel team)
Dr. Oscar Marin, Center for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London
“Cortical interneurons in health and disease”
11:30 a.m. – Mireille Delmas-Marty Amphitheater

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 (invited by the SMILE team)
Dr. Matthew Hahn, Indiana University
, “The Origin and Evolution of Male Mutation Bias,”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 (invited by the Terret/Verlhac team)
Dr. Kristine Schauer, Gustave Roussy
“Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding organelle network architecture in health and disease”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Friday, May 22, 2026 (invited by the Thion/Garel team)
Dr . Clare Pridans, University of Edinburgh “Playing
with FIRE: the role of macrophages in development and disease”
10:30 a.m. – Room 2

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 (invited by the Selimi/Garel team)
Dr. Anne Schaefer, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
“Innate control of neuronal activity and neuroinflammation by microglia”
11:30 a.m. – Mireille Delmas-Marty Amphitheater

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 (invitation from the Duboule team)
Dr. Charlène Boumendil, Igh “Physical
exclusion of heterochromatin at nuclear pores maintains global chromatin organization”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 (invitation from the Brunet team)
Dr. Homaira Nawabi, Institute of Neurosciences, Grenoble
“Axon guidance during mature nervous system regeneration”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 (hosted by the Thion/Garel team)
Dr. Annika Keller, University Hospital Zurich
“TBA”
11:30 a.m. – Room to be announced

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 (hosted by the Thion/Garel team)
Dr. Guy Bouvier, NeuroPSI
“Correcting for self: How self-motion shapes visual circuit activity”
11:30 a.m. – Room 2

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 (invitation from the Thion/Garel team)
Dr. Nicolas Renier, ICM
“Re-wiring the brain vasculature in health and disease”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Monday, July 6, 2026 (invitation from the Rouach team)
Dr. Jun Nagai, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
“TBA”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 (invitation from the Venance team)
Dr. Raffaella Tonini, Italian Institute of Technology
“TBA”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2

Tuesday, December 1^st, 2026 (invitation from the Cohen-Salmon team)
Dr. Bo Gao, School of Biomedical Sciences
“TBA”
11:30 a.m. – Room D2