We are pleased to announce that on September 29-30, we will be holding the first conference of our new institute, the BRIC Kick-off meeting.

This first event is intended to celebrate the creation of the BRIC and to initiate a series of future symposiums and other congresses within the BRIC.

This kick-off meeting will be organized over a day and a half and will include the presentation of the scientific projects of the BRIC members but also of 4 renowned guests: 3 people from SAB Jean-Ehrland Ricci (C3M, Université Côte d’Azur, France), Ruth Scherz-­Shouval (Weizmann institute of Science, Israel), Urszula Hibner (IGMM, France) and Phil Jones (The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Royaume Uni). Finally, the second day will close with a round table discussion between patient associations and researchers on the theme of patient/researcher collaboration.

11 sessions are reserved for presentations by BRIC researchers. We already invite each of the team leaders to communicate to us the person who will represent their team during this meeting via this internal link. Presentations by young researchers are welcome.

A link has been sent to you by email to register for this meeting. Registration is free but mandatory. You also have the possibility to propose abstracts for the poster presentations. The final program will be communicated to you later.

The kick off will take place at the Institute of Optics in Talence, building “Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine” on line B of the streetcar, between the stops “Arts et Métiers” and “François Bordes”.

We look forward to seeing you at this event!

Organizing Committee:
Monica Arnedos, Marion Bouchecareilh, Lucie Brisson, Vanessa Desplat, Sandrine Hamon, Amelie Guitart, Sarah Lesjean and Catherine Sawai