Présentation
A full-day mini-symposium dedicated to translational research.
This event is organised since 2015 by the medical direction and was organised since 2007 by the former Center for Human Immunology.
2025 : Integrative Biology of the mammary gland and lactation
Program : 19 November 2025 17h amphi Duclaux
Keynote Lecture : The Power of Human Milk (Oligosaccharides)
Lars Bode, Director Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation, Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Program : 20 November 2025 8h45 – 18h45 amphi Duclaux
8:45-8:55 Welcome adress :
8:55-9:05 Introduction :
- Session 1 (en français/in French) Breastfeeding Narratives: From Sacred Symbols to Societal Norms Lait et liens: de la mythologie grecque à la santé publique Chair: Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur Paris
9:10-9:50 Keynote Quand le lait fait le dieu: symbolique de l’allaitement en Grèce ancienne, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Collège de France, Paris
9:50-10:15 Mythologie de l’allaitement et parentés nourricières: puissance des récits de lactation Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Université de Genève, Suisse
10:15-10:40 L’épidémiologie de l’allaitement maternel en France, Claude Didierjean-Jouveau, Leche League, France
10:40–11:00 Coffee break
- Session 2 (in English) Milk Matters: Biological Richness and Clinical Relevance Chair: Lars Bode, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
11:00-11:40 Keynote The Symphony of Human Milk: Orchestrating Nutritional Value and Functional Components, Bernd Stahl, Danone Nutricia Research, Utrecht University, Netherlands
11:40-12:05 The Role of the Milk Bank in Managing At-Risk Infants, Virginie Rigourd, Lactarium, Hôpital Necker
12:05-12:30 Influence of milk miRNAs on microbiota and long-term intestinal health, Émilie Viennois, Inserm, U1149, Université Paris-Cité
12:30-12:55 Mammary gland regulation during the establishment of lactation process, Aurélie Chiche, Institut Pasteur Paris
12:55–14:00 Lunch break
- Session 3 (in English) Integrative Biology of the Mammary Gland Chair: Gérard Eberl, Institut Pasteur Paris
14:00-14:40 Keynote Fate specification and plasticity of mammary stem cells, Silvia FRE, Institut Curie, Paris 14:40-15:05 Complex in vitro models to study mammary gland development, *Han Li, Institut Pasteur Paris 15:05-15:30 Stromal regulation of the mammary gland in physiology and pathology, Lucie Peduto, Institut Pasteur Paris 15:30-15:55 Regulation of the mammary gland by the immune system. *Dan Corral, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, USA
*Speakers marked with an asterisk will present remotely
16:00–16:20 Coffee break
- Session 4 (in English) Early Life Nutrition: Breastfeeding, Growth, and Risk Chair: Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur Paris
16:20-17:00 Keynote Breastfeeding to improve growth and development of malnourished infants under 6 months, Martha Mwangome , KEMRI, Kenya 17:00-17:25 HMOs and stunting risk among Central-African infants: inputs from the Mitica study, Violeta Moya-Alvarez, IRD Paris 17:25-17:50 Transmission of arboviruses by breastfeeding: risk analysis on animal models and study of associated mechanisms, Aurore Vidy-Roche, Institut Pasteur Paris
17:50-18:20 Concluding remarks and role of Foundations, Katarina Lichtner, Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation, Switzerland
18:20-18:45 Conclusions, Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur Paris
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Programs of the previous editions:
2024 : Gut and Microbes
2022 : Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative diseases
2021 : Cancer and Immunotherapy
2019 : Vaccine & HBV/HIV Cure
Geneviève Chêne, Fabrice Carrat, Chetan Chitnis, Jean Lang, Yves Lévy, Asier Saez-Cirion, Lisa Chakrabarti, Ulrike Protzer, Fabien Zoulim, Hugues Fischer
Round table HBV/HIV cure: Progress and Pitfalls? Hélène Strick-Marchand
2018 : Ageing, psychiatry and microbiota
Jean-
Antoine Girault, Sandrine Thuret, Chantal Henry, Fani Koukouli, Claudio Franceschi, Clément Crochemore, Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Lida Katsimpardi, Ted Dinan, Giulia Nigro, Benjamin Davido, Round Table: Microbota in health
2017 : Cancerology, infectious disease, vaccinology
Aurelien Marabelle, David Michonneau, Jessica Zucman-Rossi, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, Felix Rey, Marc Lecuit, Thierry Naas, Nadine Cerf-Bensussan, Harry Sokol, Nicolas Glaichenhaus
Debate : Vaccination: Challenges for Health and Society with Alain Fischer
2016 : Human genetics, infectious disease, immunology
Olivier Hermine, Jean Marc Ghigo, Friederike Jonsson, Stephen Beck, Matthew Albert, Sonia Abelhak, Marc Tardieu, Vivienne Parry,
Round Table : Comprendre le génome humain et le modifier : espoirs et implications éthiques
2015 : A path towards personalized medicine
W. Ian Lipkin, Federica Sallusto, Jacques Fellay, Heiner Wedemeyer, Peter Openshaw, Jean Michel Heard, Hugo Mouquet, Fabrice Chrétien, Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Catherine Goujon
Round table : la place de la médecine de précision