3rd International Conference on Biomolecules

Next-Generation Natural Products Discovery for the Bioeconomy

Nancy, France - September 16–18, 2026

📢 Registration remains open until the conference
submit your abstract for a poster presentation at any time up until the conference date

 

Scientific Program

Conference Program

Day 1 – Wednesday ,September 16, 2026

Morning

10:30 – 12:00

Registration & Welcome

12:00 – 13:45

Lunch Break

Afternoon

🕒 Session 1 | 13:45–17:15

🕒 Session 1

Plants as Sources of New Active Molecules

13:45-14:15

◆ Keynote Lecture: Natural Products from plants you normally disregard - or even do not see

🎤Keynote Speaker: Henrik Toft Simonsen 📍University of St-Etienne, France
14:15-14:30

Short lecture : Molecular evolutionary basis behind the functional diversity of the UbiA aromatic prenyltransferase family in citrus

🎤Thamara Klett
14:30-14:45

Short lecture : Genome-wide identification and in silico analysis of GSTs  reveals hormone mediated stress response in saffron

🎤Bano Muqaddas
14:45 – 16:15

🔴Coffee Break & Poster Session

16:15-16:45

◆ Keynote Lecture: From Marchantia polymorpha to Biosynthetic Innovations: What Basal Land Plants Teach Us about Chemical Evolution

🎤Keynote Speaker: Masaharu Mizutani 📍University of Kobe, Japan
16:45 – 17:00

Short lecture : Tale of Two Clades: The Shared Biosynthesis of Cyclic Diterpenoids between Trees and Peatland Mosses.

🎤Chad Christian Papenfuchs
17:00 – 17:15

Short lecture: Bryophytes as sources of new bioactive molecules (titre provisoire)

🎤Raissa Volpatto-Marquès
17:15

🔴Poster Session

Evening

18:00 – 22:00

Free Visit & Free Public Conference on biomolecules at the Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy (City Centre)

Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy 📍34 Rue Sainte-Catherine, 54000 Nancy

Day 2 – Thursday, September 17, 2026

Morning

🕒 Session 2 | 09:00 – 11:30

🕒 Session 2

Microorganisms as Biomolecule Providers

09:00 – 09:30

◆ Keynote Lecture: Natural products biodiscovery from the ocean microbiome: the benefits of combining approaches

🎤Keynote Speaker: Prof Olivier Grovel 📍Nantes Université & ISOMER, France
09:30 – 09:45

Short lecture: Exploring the diversity of 2,5-diketopiperazine scaffolds produced  by a new subfamily of cyclodipeptide synthases

🎤Celine Aubry
09:45 – 10:00

Short lecture: Rerouting the actinorhodin biosynthetic pathway toward the production of flavokermesic acid in Streptomyces sp.

🎤Delphine Noel
10:00 – 10:30

🔴 Coffee Break & Poster Session

10:30 – 11:00

◆ Keynote Lecture: When Phenotypes Get Unusual: New Opportunities in Natural Product Discovery?

🎤Keynote Speaker: Sébastien Rigali 📍University of Liège, Belgium
11:00 – 11:15

Short lecture: Identification and characterisation of novel macrolide compounds

🎤Duong Thi Thuy Nguyen
11:15 – 11:30

Short lecture: Pending

🎤Pending
11:30

🔴 Poster Session

Afternoon

12:00 – 13:45

Lunch Break

🕒 Session 3 | 13:45–16:30

🕒 Session 3

Breakthrough Methods in Biomolecule Discovery

13:45 – 14:15

◆ Keynote Lecture: Beyond the Obvious – Rethinking Genome Mining Strategies for Natural Product Discovery

🎤Keynote Speaker: Joleen Maschelein 📍KU Leuven & VIB, Ghent University, Belgium
14:15 – 14:30

Short lecture: Activation of GPR18 by Cannabinoids to Target Inflammation: First Insights into CBD–GPR18 Interactions in Macrophages

🎤Nathalie Mercier
14:30-14:45

Short lecture: Development of a correlative imaging method to map molecular and biological actors in the rhizosphere of model trees

🎤Marceau Levasseur
14:45 – 15:15

🔴 Coffee Break & Poster Session

15:15 – 15:45

◆ Keynote Lecture: Metabolomics and the Dark Metabolome: From Detection to Functional Insight

🎤Keynote Speaker: Gianfranco Diretto 📍ENEA, Rome, Italy
15:45-16:00

Short lecture: Trapped Ion Mobility – High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for discovery of bioactive natural products: Case study of Streptomyces

🎤Aya Fakih
16:00-16:15

Short lecture: Identification of the first pteropodine 10-hydroxylase reveals a missing step in spirooxindole biosynthesis in Hamelia patens

🎤Anna Luisa Lopez Vazquez

🕒 Industrial Research Session | 16:30 – 17:15

16:30 – 17:00

◆ Industrial Keynote: Michael Donabedian - Vétoquinol

17:00 – 17:15

Short lecture: Nanocrystallisation and chemical cross-linking: towards thermostable and recyclable crystal-based biocatalysts for industry

🎤Anna Bonnardel
17:15 – 17:30

Short lecture: Short lecture: Dark&Strong project: High melanization of dark septate endophytes, an advantageous trait for plant colonization and stress

🎤Damien Blaudez

Evening

19:30 – 22:00

Gala Dinner at Restaurant Grand Café Foy📍Place Stanislas, Nancy

22:00 – 22:30

Public Light & Sound Show at 📍Place Stanislas, Nancy

Day 3 – Friday, September 18, 2026

Morning

🕒 Session 4 | 09:00 – 11:30

🕒 Session 4

Artificial Intelligence & Biomolecules

09:00 – 09:30

◆ Keynote Lecture: Deep Learning for Data-Driven Exploration of Natural Product-Inspired Chemical Space

🎤Keynote Speaker: Dr. Guénaël Cabanes Associate Professor📍Université de Lorraine , France
09:30 – 09:45

Short lecture: A structure guided machine learning box scanning method reveals local residue patterns associated with ketosynthase substrate

🎤Rime Walieddine
09:45 – 10:00

Short lecture: Title Pending

🎤Sandra Panczyk
10:00 – 10:30

🔴 Coffee Break & Poster Session

10:30 – 11:00

◆ Keynote Lecture: Metagenomes as Biomolecule Reservoirs: Big-Data Strategies to Reveal Biosynthetic Diversity

🎤Keynote Speaker: Nadine Ziemert 📍University of Tübingen, Germany
11:00 – 11:15

Short Lecture: Pending

🎤Pending
11:15 – 11:30

Short Lecture: Pending

🎤Pending
11:30 – 13:30

Lunch Pack & Closing

Organizers