2020
October 8th
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1st Real-Time Virtual International Course at Institut Curie

3rd Institut Curie International Course on Computational Systems Biology of Cancer:
EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course ‘Cancer systems biology: Promises of artificial intelligence
Real-time virtual

The U900 research unit, in collaboration with the Training Unit, organized the first real-time virtual international course during September 27 and October 2, 2020. Inna Kuperstein and Emmanuel Barillot were the main scientific organizers. This course was co-sponsored and co-organized with EMBO/FEBS, being also the first real-time virtual EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course.

This 5-day event, informally named @SysBioCancer Course by the organizers, included 25 international speakers and had around 200 participants from 31 countries. All 5 continents were represented. This virtual edition was accessible to a wider range of people worldwide, which had an extremely positive impact on the visibility of Institut Curie’s Research Center outside Europe.

The participants were carefully pre-selected according to their scientific profile from more than 300 applicants, and participation was free-of-charge.


Photo 01 – Group photos

Group photos – Despite technological constraints, we tried an unconventional photo group with our participants, organizers and invited speakers. 

The virtual environment created by the organizers allowed to run a full-frame course, with activities that facilitated science discussion and professional connections to happen between participants, speakers and organizers.

Course activities were prepared via Microsoft Teams and participants could also interact through Zapnito platform, a resource made available by FEBS.

Some of the activities included virtual poster sessions, webinars on Selected Abstracts, keynote webinars, a Career Development Session…


Poster Sessions

Poster Sessions - “Meet the Speaker” activity – Our participants had one hour to showcase their work to other visiting participants and speakers. A new virtual experience to many of them!

….as well as a few more informal occasions in the form of “Meet The Speaker”, where speakers were available to exchange with participants, just like “the old coffee breaks” or “Aperos” in the evening, where participants gathered around drinks & music!

The preparation of this course and day-to-day logistics implicated many people behind the screens, working hard for months. This was a rich experience and we would like to thank all the students, researchers and other people that gave their time to make it happen!

The feedback from the participants and speakers was very positive and encouraging. Lessons learnt during this event will allow us to adapt to a new reality and new possibilities, when it comes to the future of advance training in a research environment. 

Meet the Speaker activity

Participants had the chance to interact more closely with several speakers, asking questions not only about science but also about professional development!

In order below:

Photo 1 - Christina Leslie (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)

Photo 2 - Touati Benoukraf (MUN, CA)

Photo 3 - Florian Markowetz (University of Cambridge, UK)

Photo 4 - Olli Kallioniemi (SciLifeLab, SE)


Christina Leslie

Touati Benoukraf

Florian Markowetz

Olli Kallioniemi

 

“Career Development” activity – The usual career development session associated with this course gave rise to a good discussion about career possibilities in the field of Data Science and Computer Bioinformatics!


Career Development activity

>> Watch the Aperos on video!

 

A SPECIAL THANKS TO

Speakers and Scientific committee

Andrei ZINOVYEV Institut Curie – FR

Laura CANTINI IBENS - ENS - FR

Natasha PRZULJ BSC- ES

Nataliya SOKOLOVSKA UPMC - FR

David WEDGE BDI - UK

Susana VINGA  Instituto Superior Técnico - PT

Valentina BOEVA ETH - CH

Chloé-Agathe AZENCOTT CBIO - MINES - ParisTech - FR

Yves MOREAU KULeuven - BE

Jean-Philippe VERT Google- FR

Olli KALLIONIEMI SciLifeLab - SE

Lodewyk WESSELS Netherlands Cancer Institute - NL

Andrew TESCHENDORFF UCL - UK

Julio SAEZ-RODRIGUEZ Heidelberg University - DE

Christina LESLIE SKI - MSKCC – USA

Touati BENOUKRAF MUN - CA

Thomas‎ WALTER CBIO - MINES - ParisTech - FR

Nasir RAJPOOT University of Warwick - UK

Florian MARKOWETZ  University of Cambridge - UK

Thomas WALTER CBIO - MINES - ParisTech - FR

Emma LUNDBERG SciLifeLab - SE

Special sessions speakers

Olivier LANTZ Institut Curie Hospital - FR

Marek OSTASZEWSKI IBENS - ENS - FR

Ana Rita FURTADO - The Training Unit of Institut Curie - FR

Emmanuel BARILLOT - Institut Curie - FR

Maria PAPATRIANTAFYLLOU - Molecular Oncology journal - FEBS - UK

Organizers

Scientific program

Chloé-Agathe AZENCOTT, CBIO - MINES – ParisTech - FR

Emmanuel BARILLOT, Institut Curie - INSERM U900 - FR

Yves MOREAU, KULeuven - BE

Denis THIEFFRY,  IBENS – ENS - FR

Thomas‎ WALTER, CBIO - MINES – ParisTech - FR

Andrei ZINOVYEV, Institut Curie -  INSERM U900 - FR

FEBS

Carolyn ELLISS, FEBS - UK

Damjana ROZMAN ,University of Ljubljana - SI

Training Unit - Institut Curie

Ana Rita FURTADO, Institut Curie Training Unit - FR

Management

Pallavi MATHUR, Institut Curie - FR

Weitao WANG, Institut Curie - FR

Co-Organizers, Scientific Committee, Session Chairing, Technical Support

Laurence Calzone

Florence Cavalli

Alexander Chervov

Nicolas Sompairac

Cristobal Monraz Gomez

Jonathan Bac

Christine Lonjou

Jonas Beal

Vincent Noel

Petr Nazarov

Chunlong Chen

Maggie Cheang

Marine Poupon

Audrey Huot

Nadine El Tayara

Mélanie Herrbach

Caroline Belliere Dahan

Kati Ba Pierozzi N Deo

Informatics Support

Stephane Guitton

Philippe Rizand

ZAPNITO virtual platform managers
https://
zapnito.com