Catégorie d'actualités: Events

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.

To the conference website

Igor CHOURPA, Professor at the University of Tours and Deputy Director of the CNRS Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire will give a talk entitled ‘PAT for bioprocess: implementation of Raman probes and Chemometric modelling’. See the programme.

Igor Chourpa is also a member of the programming committee.

The France Bioproduction 2025 Congress is the annual meeting of bioproduction players organised by Polepharma and MEDICEN. This 9th edition aims to strengthen the biomanufacturing ecosystem by bringing together the main industrial, academic and institutional players to discuss the major issues of the future. Through its four key themes - news and challenges, accelerating biomanufacturing to better serve patients, the AI revolution, and exploring new production models for emerging biotherapies - the event aims to catalyse innovation and foster biomanufacturing synergies. It offers a unique platform for discussing trends (networking or B2B), sharing practical solutions and building a shared vision for the future. This strategic meeting is part of a collective drive to make France a European leader in biomanufacturing.

 

 

Anna Steward – An artist at CBM.

Biography

Anna Steward is a transdisciplinary multimedia artist blending performance, storytelling, installation, and scientific collaboration. After training at Arts Ed London in 2000, she worked as an actor in German and Austrian theatre and with an international theatre laboratory based in Poland. Since 2007, she has focused on Live Art projects exploring cultural and anthropological themes. Her 2014 performance GELD-Pilgerreise inspired the Swiss film Church of Money, featured in the German Federal Agency for Civic Education's media library.

Anna graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg in 2023 and is currrently a lecturer there. She has received prestigious scholarships, including from Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop, the Maecenia Foundation Frankfurt, and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.

A deep-seated curiosity about what holds the world together has led her to explore scientific themes, primarily within microbiology and neurology, with a newfound passion for astrobiology.
In addition to her current collaboration with CBM Orléans, she is a visiting artist at the German Archaea Centre at the University of Regensburg.

Project

BioQuantum Record - Communicating with the Other

The BioQuantum Record is a speculative artistic project that reimagines how we might communicate with microbial life forms, challenging the human-centric concept of intelligence. It explores the idea that microbial collectives may be the most common form of life beyond Earth, and seeks ways to interact on a molecular level. As a post-Voyager concept, the BioQuantum Record is not just a passive artefact, but an interactive, living prototype that generates, receives, and responds to biological signals, offering a speculative exploration into how we might "speak" to microbial ecosystems. The sci-fi format blends playful design with real scientific findings, for creativity and the exploration of both real and fantastical concepts. This fusion results in a visually and conceptually stimulating object, where imaginative elements enhance the presentation of actual scientific discoveries, making complex ideas both accessible and engaging.

Lecture by Anna Steward on February 6, 2025 at 4 p.m.