2nd SYMPOSIUM: CONNECTION BETWEEN PHYSICS AND METABOLISM IN BRAIN FUNCTIONS
Schedule
Fri Nov 07 2025 at 09:00 am to 05:45 pm
UTC+01:00Location
ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord | Paris, IL
are pleased to welcome you in Paris for this 2nd edition
About this Event
Metabolism and cellular mechanics are closely intertwined. Following the success of the 1st international symposium connecting physics and metabolism in brain functions (Barcelona, July 2024), we are pleased to welcome you in Paris for this 2nd edition. This event will bring together world experts in physics, chemistry, neurobiology, and philosophy with the aim of fostering new collaborations and promoting the so-called “night science”, an interdisciplinary approach by which new ideas arise and questions/ hypotheses are generated. Join us and interact with prestigious speakers who will discuss the physics of cellular trafficking, neurotransmission, sensory systems, and beyond. The symposium will also integrate musical pieces to deepen our quest for understanding the living.
Calendrier
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
Info: Stéphanie Debette (ICM executive director)
Anne-Geneviève Marcelin (Vice-dean of research,
Sorbonne University)
🕑: 09:15 AM - 09:45 AM
What did we learn from the 1st Symposium (July 5th, 2024 – Barcelona)?
Info: Fanny Mochel (Sorbonne University and Paris Brain
Institute, Paris, France)
Angeles Garcia-Cazorla (Universitat de Barcelona and Sant
Joan de Déu Hospital, Barcelona, Spain)
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:30 AM
From the primordial universe to the human mind
Info: Sylvie Vauclair (Astrophysicist at the Midi-Pyrénées
observatory, Professor at the Paul-Sabatier University
of Toulouse and member of the Institut universitaire de
France)
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee break
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Progression of glioblastoma involves alterations of the mechanobiology
Info: Viola Vogel (Department of Health Sciences and
Technology and Head of the Applied Mechanobiology
Laboratory, Zürich, Switzerland)
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Membrane chemical biology - Spotlight on lipids
Info: Andre Nadler (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell
Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
How mechanotransduction regulates mitochondrial functions
Info: Sirio Dupont (Department of Molecular Medicine,
University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
🕑: 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Clinical flash – TANGO2 deficiency
Info: Connection between energy metabolism, membrane
dynamics and exocytosis
🕑: 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
What do we know regarding biophysics of dopamine production?
Info: Aurora Martinez (Department of Biomedicine, University of
Bergen, Norway)
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
How can biophysics help us bridge neurotransmission systems?
Info: Laurent Groc (Head of the Team Developmental Brain
Physiology and Pathology, Director of the Interdisciplinary
Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France)
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Clinical flash – How clinical observations can help us bridge neurotransmissio
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Coffee Break
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
How mechanotransduction of somatosensory circuits drive brain development?
Info: Guillermina Lopez-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de
Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior
de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan
d’Alacant, Spain)
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
How does mechanotransduction control locomotion and morphogenesis?
Info: Claire Wyart (Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France)
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Clinical flash – Connection between sensory systems and autism
🕑: 05:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Reduction, Emergence and the Physics of the Brain: A Philosophical Perspective
Info: Closing lecture: Stephan Hartmann (Munich Center for Mathematical
Philosophy, Munich, Germany)
🕑: 05:45 PM
Champagne cocktail
Where is it happening?
ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, FranceEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
EUR 20.00 to EUR 30.00
