Newsletter #26
September 4th, 2025

Dear Carole,

We hope you had an excellent summer break, and that you are as excited as we are about the start of this academic year! We have plenty to be excited for:

👉 Registration, poster submission, and final program of our Innovation Day is available!
👉 see our PhD and postdocs laureates for the 2025 calls
👉 new innovation events

and more!

The whole BioConvS team wishes you an excellent rentrée!

Our Innovation Day 2025 will be held again at the Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France on November 26th!

Innovation at BioConvS

Innovators of Tomorrow

📅September 8th at 17h
📌Paris center (location available upon request)

Call for Speakers: Sustainability in Health Bioproduction

DIM BioConvS and Medicen Paris Region will host a half-day discussion on major sustainability challenges in health bioproduction. We invite academic researchers and industry professionals engaged in sustainable transitions to share their projects and perspectives. To contribute, contact us at contact@bioconvs.org

BioConvS opportunities

Apply for a training funding
One of the objectives of BioConvS is to support technical training around its thematics (bioproduction, biotherapy, synthetic biology). Since the members of BioConvS vary greatly in their needs in terms of training, we decided to allocate funding on demand, as no one knows our community’s needs better than our community itself.

More innovation events

Genopole's Innovation Day 2025

Promega and Genopole are organising on Sept 18th a collaborative day bringing together academia, biotech, and industry, with technology demonstrations, expert talks, and discussions on challenges in advanced therapy development.

Opportunities

RISE Program – CNRS
RISE is the CNRS support program dedicated to early-stage entrepreneurial projects emerging from academic research. It provides tailored coaching, mentoring, and access to innovation networks. The next information webinar will take place on 17 September 2025 at 14:00.

Two positions (Laboratory Technician and Research Engineer) are open in the lab of Mario Amendola on  cutting-edge gene therapy solutions for rare diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases. More info

23-yo AgroParisTech student is looking for a PhD in exosomes engineering. Discover his CV

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!

Recent publications

Do you want to see your paper featured in our next newlsetter? Write to chiara.fracassi@u-paris.fr

Cerda, A., Aravena, A., Zapata, V., Arce, A., Araya, W., Gallardo, D., Aviles, J., Quero, F., Nuñez, I., Matute, T., Navarro, F., Ferrando, V., Blanco, M., Velozo, S., Rodriguez, S., Aguilera, S., Chateau, F., Olivares-Donoso, R., Molloy, J.C., Aidelberg, G., Lindner, A.B., Castro, F., Cremades, P., Ramirez-Sarmiento, C., Federici, F., 2025. Open educational resources for distributed hands-on teaching in molecular biology. PLOS ONE 20, e0327975. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327975 

Fedorova, D., Ben-Nissan, R., Milshtein, E., Reyes, C., Jona, G., Dezorella, N., Feiguelman, G., Fedorov, R., Gomaa, A., Lindner, A.B., Noor, E., Milo, R., 2025. Demonstration of bioplastic production from CO2 and formate using the reductive glycine pathway in E. coli. PLOS ONE 20, e0327512. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327512 

Ferrand, M., Rocca, C.J., Corre, G., Buffa, V., Frin, S., Garnache-Ottou, F., Bôle-Richard, E., Albini, S., Richard, I., Galy, A., 2025. FAP-CAR-T cells reduce dystrophic muscle fibrosis, improving adeno-associated virus gene transfer efficacy. Molecular Therapy Methods & Clinical Development 33, 101545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2025.101545 

Illuminating Extracellular Vesicles Biology with Super-Resolution Microscopy: Insights into Morphology and Composition | ACS Nano [WWW Document], n.d. URL https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5c00380 (accessed 8.20.25). 

Lambert, C.N., Opuu, V., Calvanese, F., Pavlinova, P., Zamponi, F., Hayden, E.J., Weigt, M., Smerlak, M., Nghe, P., 2025. Exploring the space of self-reproducing ribozymes using generative models. Nat Commun 16, 7836. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63151-5 

Laurent, M., Cosette, J., Pavani, G., Bayol, S., Jenny, C., Harb, R., Oustelandt, J., Brassier, A., Stockholm, D., Amendola, M., n.d. Advanced Imaging and Cytometric Techniques to Characterize Lipid Accumulation in Wolman Disease. Cytometry Part A n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.24949 

Mariani, A., Guichard, A., Sebbagh, A.C., Andrade, A.C., Dache, Z.A.A., Ribes, C., Ayollo, D., Karoui, M., Lavieu, G., Gazeau, F., Silva, A.K.A., Rahmi, G., Mozafari, S., 2025. Therapeutic potential of human mesenchymal stromal cell-derived mitochondria in a rat model of surgical digestive fistula. Sci Rep 15, 29167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13887-3 

Multivariate Screening and Automated Clustering of Macrophage Immunoreactome to Nanoparticles and Photothermal Therapy - Becharef - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library [WWW Document], n.d. URL https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202405860 (accessed 7.1.25). 

Pisani, M., Calandra, F., Rinaldi, A., Cella, F., Tedeschi, F., Boffa, I., Vozzi, D., Brunetti-Pierri, N., Carissimo, A., Napolitano, F., Siciliano, V., 2025. Computational identification of small molecules for increased gene expression by synthetic circuits in mammalian cells. Nat Commun 16, 7160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62529-9 

Pisani, M., Carbonell, P., 2025. Challenges and Opportunities in Smart Biosensing for Biomanufacturing. ACS Synth. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.5c00203 

Sadhu, S., Paul, T., Yadav, N., 2025. Therapeutic engineering of the gut microbiome using synthetic biology and metabolic tools: a comprehensive review with E. coli Nissle 1917 as a model case study. Arch Microbiol 207, 213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-025-04417-w 

Zhang, S., Li, R., Xu, Y., Liu, R., Sun, D., Dai, Z., 2025. Engineered bacteria: Strategies and applications in cancer immunotherapy. Fundamental Research 5, 1327–1345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2024.11.001 

Zou, Y., Gong, X., Zhang, J., Gan, Q., Yan, Y., 2025. Engineering genetic circuits for dynamic control of central metabolism. Metabolic Engineering 91, 405–414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2025.06.007

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