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Newsletter #23
April 7th, 2025

Dear all,

Are you ready for a ton of content??
👉PhD students, check out this peer networking event organised by our community on May 5th!
👉The 2025 Pint of Science program is out! Set a reminder to get tickets!
👉 Gilson offers a discount to laureates of our 2025 equipment call!
👉Our PhD call will close on April 30th!
👉Save the date for the Innovation Day 2025: Nov 26!
👉Don't miss the networking events for the Horizon Europe 2025 calls!

... and so much more!!!
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BioConvS news
Phd students in Île-de-France, this is for you! 
Join us for an afterwork where every conversation counts!

😵‍💫 Struggling with an experiment?
🧐 Looking for a collaborator?
😩 About to quit your phD because your antibody doesn’t work?

Don’t quit! Someone already wanted to quit because of this ! The DIM BioConvS young community invites you to our first PhDon’t quit event – a relaxed networking event where you can exchange ideas, to save you time and help you move forward!
 
📅 When: May 5th at 18h
📍 Where: Learning Planet Institute, 8 bis Rue Charles V, 75004 Paris
📝 How: Register here
Learn more and register
This event is 100% imagined and organised by members of the young BioConvS community
Pint of Science

The DIM BioConvS renews its partnership with Université Paris Cité to support the Pint of Science festival. In 2025, we will sponsor three evenings hosted at the bar La Pomme d’Ève in Paris.
See the full program
Tickets will be sold on April 14th. Last year they were gone in a few hours! Click on the button below to receive a calendar reminder to buy tickets!
Save the date
May 19-20-21st
at the bar "La pomme d'Eve"
1 rue Laplace 75005, Paris
Our Innovation Day 2025 will be held again at the Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France on November 26th!
More info
Save the date
BioConvS calls
Don't miss the opportunity!
Gilson offers a 34% reduction
to laureates of our equipment cal
l!

Gilson is joining the initiative of DIM BioConvS and the Île-de-France region by offering a 34% discount to the laboratories awarded funding in our 2025 Equipements call. For more information, please contact Dr. Mohan at smohan@gilson.com or 33 7 84 54 98 90.
Our 2025 equipment grants call is open until June 1st
With a provisional budget of 750k€, this call will finance small to large equipment to academic labs in Ile-de-France to a maximum of 66% of funding rate. Deadline: June 1st
Go to call page
Our 2025 PhD call is open until April 30th
We are offering 4 PhD fellowships for collaborative projects. Interdisciplinary collaborations between biotherapy/bioproduction and synthetic biology are strongly encouraged.
Go to call page
Opportunities
The info webinars of BPI France
The i-PhD contest in a nutshell: The aim of this contest is to offer a support program to all young researchers with entrepreneurial projects. To find out more about the contest and apply (until May 16, 2025):
About i-PhD
i-PhD 2025 - From theory to practice: how to maximize the impact of your research? 
Are you a young researcher aiming to enhance the reach and impact of your research towards a broader audience?
What are the different options of technology transfer? Who to contact? What support programs are available?
Discover the opportunities of technology transfer and consider the path to entrepreneurship thanks to the i-PhD contest!
April 15th
10h30 (CEST)
Program :
🤝Presentation of technology transfer options open to young researchers
💡Presentation of the i-PhD innovation contest
🔬Testimonials from i-PhD laureates and their partners
Q&A
Register
i-PhD 2025 - Entrepreneurship in Deeptech, A Practical Guide to the First Steps to Get Started
Young researchers: you're thinking of creating a startup but are still hesitating on:
How to start this project?
What are the first steps?
Who to contact?
Join this webinar to benefit from this practical guide to getting started in deeptech entrepreneurship.
April 29th
16h00 (CEST)
Program:
💡Introduction to the i-PhD 2025 contest
🚀How to get started in deeptech entrepreneurship - by Mickael Coenca STFU
🔬 Insights from former i-PhD laureates

Register
Horizon Europe opportunities

The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call for projects will open on May 9, 2025, with the closing date on September 10, 2025. It has a budget of €404.29 million.

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are individual grants intended for researchers of any nationality who wish to carry out a research project as part of an international mobility program, in order to acquire new skills and develop their career.

The MSCA NCP is organizing, on April 15 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., an online information session dedicated to the 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowships call for projects.
Register to the webinar
More information
May 5th-6th
10h-19h

online event
Info and registration
HNN3.0 | Brokerage event on Horizon Europe Cluster 1 2025 calls

Do you intend to prepare a proposal addressing a topic under the upcoming calls in Horizon Europe Cluster 1? The online Brokerage event organized on May 5-6 2025, will be dedicated to consortium building in Cluster 1 Health. The Brokerage event is organized before the Cluster 1 Health Info Day in order to give potential applicants more time to find potential partners and prepare their application. The event will include online bilateral meetings with partners interested in the same topics for the 2025 Health calls. After successful registration and submission of the high-quality cooperation profile, participants will be able to pre-arrange bilateral meetings through a user-friendly matchmaking tool. During the morning on the 5th, there will also be space for pitching sessions. Register NOW until 30 April 2025 !
Networking event to develop your collaborative research projects in the health field

Are you working on innovative healthcare projects and looking for partners? This event is not to be missed! The French Health Contact Point (PCN) is organizing, alongside its French-speaking counterparts (Belgian PCN, Luxembourg PCN, Swiss PCN and Canadian PCN), a networking event dedicated to the 2025 calls for projects of the Health cluster as well as those of the cancer mission. Registration will be open until April 20, 2025.
April 29th
16h-18h

online event
Register to the event
More information
New call of the PEPR Biotherapies
A new call for projects in two phases, with a global envelope of 13.5 million euros, was launched on March 3, 2025 to encourage multidisciplinary research initiatives aimed at transforming the field of biotherapies. The objective? Design new therapeutic solutions, optimize bioproduction processes and strengthen their social acceptability.
Learn more and apply
Join the D4GEN Hackathon 2025
Genopole invites researchers, engineers, and innovators to tackle data challenges in genomics and synthetic biology. Collaborate, develop AI-driven solutions, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. Engage with experts, gain visibility, and push the boundaries of data-driven research.
Up to 10 000€ for the winning team!
Apply before May 12th
Join the challenge
Might interest you
Join the Réseau Biotechno Paris!

The renowned student organisation is seeking dedicated VOLUNTEERS to join their mission to support young scientists in their career transition from the academia to the private sector.
Learn more
Paris-Saclay Spring 2025
For the eighth time in the history of Paris-Saclay, all key players in innovation, research, and science are coming together to showcase scientific excellence and the best of technological innovation where it happens every day. Investors, researchers, entrepreneurs, R&D directors... At the heart of this world-class scientific and technological hub, come and feel the pulse of innovation and meet the trailblazers of tomorrow!
Learn more
Join BioConvS
Census of BioConvS labs
Starting January 2024, all labs affiliated or wanting to participate in a DIM BioConvS activity will have to be registered. Why? Most importantly because we want to build a cartography of biotherapy, bioproduction and synthetic biology in Ile-de-France and you want to make sure that you're on it!
Fill in the affiliation form
Recent publications
Do you want to see your paper featured in our next newlsetter? Write to chiara.fracassi@u-paris.fr

Huang, J., Xue, S., Teixeira, A.P., Fussenegger, M., 2025. A mediator-free sonogenetic switch for therapeutic protein expression in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Research 53, gkaf191. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf191

M. Zand, A., Anastassov, S., Frei, T., Khammash, M., 2025. Multi-Layer Autocatalytic Feedback Enables Integral Control Amidst Resource Competition and Across Scales. ACS Synth. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00575

Palacios, S., Collins, J.J., Del Vecchio, D., 2025. Machine learning for synthetic gene circuit engineering. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 92, 103263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2025.103263

Ruolo, I., Napolitano, S., Postiglione, L., Napolitano, G., Ballabio, A., di Bernardo, D., 2025. Investigation of dynamic regulation of TFEB nuclear shuttling by microfluidics and quantitative modelling. Commun Biol 8, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07870-x

Smadja, D.M., Berkane, Y., Bentounes, N.K., Rancic, J., Cras, A., Pinault, C., Ouarne, M., Paucod, E., Rachidi, W., Lellouch, A.G., Jeljeli, M., 2025. Immune-privileged cord blood-derived endothelial colony-forming cells: advancing immunomodulation and vascular regeneration. Angiogenesis 28, 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10456-025-09973-9

Synthetic biology in focus [WWW Document], 2025. . OECD. URL https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/synthetic-biology-in-focus_3e6510cf-en.html (accessed 3.19.25).
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