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Second Thematic Workshop on 3D Cell Models – November 28, 2025, in Tours

Save the date! The Second Thematic Workshop on 3D Cell Models will take place on 28 November 2025 at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Campus Grandmont (Amphi A10), Tours, France.

This year, the workshop will focus on:
“Organoids, Tumoroids, and Spheroids: Establishment, Benefits and Limitations, and Applications in Biomedical Research” with applications in Mental Health, Infectiology & Biomedicine.

Preliminary keynote speakers include:
Kai Kretzschmar (Universität Würzburg, Germany)
Anthi Krontira (LMU München, Germany)
Christelle Golzio (IGBMC, France)
Valérie Soulard (CIMI, France)

The workshop will also feature an open call for posters (all levels) and oral communications for young researchers (PhD students and post-docs).

Submission deadline: 3 November 2025

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Septuce Zin, a PhD student at the CBM, has completed a parabolic flight aboard the A310 ZERO-G!

During the week of 14 April 2025, Septuce Zin, a PhD student in the CBM's ‘Skin Biology and Microenvironment’ team, took part in a parabolic flight campaign with GREMI scientists. The subject of his thesis is innovative atmospheric cold plasma therapy for the healing of acute wounds in space. During this parabolic flight campaign, on board the A310 ZERO-G operated Novespace, a subsidiary of the French space agency CNES, skin cells were exposed to different phases of weightlessness in order to study the effect of microgravity on these cells.

See the video of the flight on LinkedIn

Septuce Zin (first left) and the GREMI team ready to board the A310 ZERO-G

Marcin Suskiewicz, winner of funding from the Human Frontier Science Program, a prestigious international organisation

The information contained in genes is translated by proteins called transcription factors, which form the basis of cellular life.  These proteins can be subsequently modified to adopt new properties. Post-translational modification of proteins is a natural mechanism for regulating the cell, but one that still raises many questions among researchers.

Marcin Suskiewicz is interested in how transcription factors work.

Read more on the CNRS Chimie website (in french).

‘Etonnante Chimie’ (Amazing Chemistry): a CBM chemistry team welcomed secondary school students from Tours

Following the publication of the book “ Etonnante Chimie ” and as part of the project “ Etonnante chimie pour un grand oral percutant ” (“Amazing Chemistry for a Successful Oral Exam”), the “Metal complexes and MRI” team, led by Dr Eva Jakab Toth and Célia Bonnet, has been welcoming, for 4 consecutive years, first-year high school students from the Vaucanson high school in Tours.