Scientific Program
Conference Program
Day 1 – Wednesday ,September 16, 2026
Morning
Registration & Welcome
Lunch Break
Afternoon
🕒 Session 1 | 13:45–17:15
Plants as Sources of New Active Molecules
◆ Keynote Lecture: Natural Products from plants you normally disregard - or even do not see
🎤Keynote Speaker: Henrik Toft Simonsen 📍University of St-Etienne, FranceShort lecture : Molecular evolutionary basis behind the functional diversity of the UbiA aromatic prenyltransferase family in citrus
🎤Thamara KlettShort lecture : Genome-wide identification and in silico analysis of GSTs reveals hormone mediated stress response in saffron
🎤Bano Muqaddas🔴Coffee Break & Poster Session
◆ Keynote Lecture: From Marchantia polymorpha to Biosynthetic Innovations: What Basal Land Plants Teach Us about Chemical Evolution
🎤Keynote Speaker: Masaharu Mizutani 📍University of Kobe, JapanShort lecture : Tale of Two Clades: The Shared Biosynthesis of Cyclic Diterpenoids between Trees and Peatland Mosses.
🎤Chad Christian PapenfuchsShort lecture: Bryophytes as sources of new bioactive molecules (titre provisoire)
🎤Raissa Volpatto-Marquès🔴Poster Session
Evening
Free Visit & Free Public Conference on biomolecules at the Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy (City Centre)
Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy 📍34 Rue Sainte-Catherine, 54000 NancyDay 2 – Thursday, September 17, 2026
Morning
🕒 Session 2 | 09:00 – 11:30
Microorganisms as Biomolecule Providers
◆ Keynote Lecture: Natural products biodiscovery from the ocean microbiome: the benefits of combining approaches
🎤Keynote Speaker: Prof Olivier Grovel 📍Nantes Université & ISOMER, FranceShort lecture: Exploring the diversity of 2,5-diketopiperazine scaffolds produced by a new subfamily of cyclodipeptide synthases
🎤Celine AubryShort lecture: Rerouting the actinorhodin biosynthetic pathway toward the production of flavokermesic acid in Streptomyces sp.
🎤Delphine Noel🔴 Coffee Break & Poster Session
◆ Keynote Lecture: When Phenotypes Get Unusual: New Opportunities in Natural Product Discovery?
🎤Keynote Speaker: Sébastien Rigali 📍University of Liège, BelgiumShort lecture: Identification and characterisation of novel macrolide compounds
🎤Duong Thi Thuy NguyenShort lecture: Pending
🎤Pending🔴 Poster Session
Afternoon
Lunch Break
🕒 Session 3 | 13:45–16:30
Breakthrough Methods in Biomolecule Discovery
◆ Keynote Lecture: Beyond the Obvious – Rethinking Genome Mining Strategies for Natural Product Discovery
🎤Keynote Speaker: Joleen Maschelein 📍KU Leuven & VIB, Ghent University, BelgiumShort lecture: Activation of GPR18 by Cannabinoids to Target Inflammation: First Insights into CBD–GPR18 Interactions in Macrophages
🎤Nathalie MercierShort lecture: Development of a correlative imaging method to map molecular and biological actors in the rhizosphere of model trees
🎤Marceau Levasseur🔴 Coffee Break & Poster Session
◆ Keynote Lecture: Metabolomics and the Dark Metabolome: From Detection to Functional Insight
🎤Keynote Speaker: Gianfranco Diretto 📍ENEA, Rome, ItalyShort lecture: Trapped Ion Mobility – High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for discovery of bioactive natural products: Case study of Streptomyces
🎤Aya FakihShort 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
◆ Industrial Keynote: Michael Donabedian - Vétoquinol
Short lecture: Nanocrystallisation and chemical cross-linking: towards thermostable and recyclable crystal-based biocatalysts for industry
🎤Anna BonnardelShort lecture: Short lecture: Dark&Strong project: High melanization of dark septate endophytes, an advantageous trait for plant colonization and stress
🎤Damien BlaudezEvening
Gala Dinner at Restaurant Grand Café Foy📍Place Stanislas, Nancy
Public Light & Sound Show at 📍Place Stanislas, Nancy
Day 3 – Friday, September 18, 2026
Morning
🕒 Session 4 | 09:00 – 11:30
Artificial Intelligence & Biomolecules
◆ Keynote Lecture: Deep Learning for Data-Driven Exploration of Natural Product-Inspired Chemical Space
🎤Keynote Speaker: Dr. Guénaël Cabanes Associate Professor📍Université de Lorraine , FranceShort lecture: A structure guided machine learning box scanning method reveals local residue patterns associated with ketosynthase substrate
🎤Rime WalieddineShort lecture: Title Pending
🎤Sandra Panczyk🔴 Coffee Break & Poster Session
◆ Keynote Lecture: Metagenomes as Biomolecule Reservoirs: Big-Data Strategies to Reveal Biosynthetic Diversity
🎤Keynote Speaker: Nadine Ziemert 📍University of Tübingen, GermanyShort Lecture: Pending
🎤PendingShort Lecture: Pending
🎤PendingLunch Pack & Closing