Typologie d'actualités: Team Molecular, Structural and Chemical Biology

Collaboration with Béatrice Vallée, co-leader of the Team Cell Signaling and Neurofibromatosis

Bojan Žunar, assistant professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology in the Laboratory for Biochemistry is visiting the team Cell Signaling and Neurofibromatosis for 2 months.

Bojan is well known at the CBM as he used to be a post-doc fellow in 2020-2021 in the same team.

Now, he is a group leader, and he was awarded a European Grant (https://croestro.eu/, NextGenerationUE), allowing him and members of his group to come to the CBM to perform experiments and to take advantage of Mo2Ving imaging facilities.

His fields of interest concern synthetic biology and yeast engineering in order to design humanized biosensors and innovative microbial factories for research, environmental and manufacturing purposes.

J.-M. Bonmatin co-organiser of the HOLIMITOX feedback day. Holimitox a network of 16 laboratories working on impacts of SDHI fungicides.

The report day of the Holimitox network (https://holimitox.fr/) was held on 7 November 2024 in Paris. The Holimitox interdisciplinary scientific network involves 16 national research laboratories, including the CBM, and has been working for four years on the impact of SDHI pesticides on the environment, biodiversity and health. Holimitox is financed solely by public funds or charitable foundations (>€2M).

The Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Paris hosted the event at the prestigious Hôtel de Lauzun on the Île Saint Louis. J.-M. Bonmatin, a member of the Holimitox Steering Committee, co-organised the two half-day events. The programme is available here. The morning was devoted to presenting the scientific results. The afternoon was devoted to putting these results into perspective within the broader issue of pesticides, this through three round-table discussions. All the stakeholders (parliamentarians, universities and research bodies, ministries (health, agriculture, ecology), ANSES, ANR, manufacturers, journalists, manufactures, NGOs, lawyers, charitable foundations, etc.) played to a full house.