2023

JANUARY 12-13, INSTITUTE CURIE

This symposium is the third PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres) Chemical Biology meeting (2016, 2019, 2023) held at Institut Curie. This initiative originally started at Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in Gif-sur-Yvette (2013, 2014), under the directorship of Professor Max Malacria, with a strong focus on chemistry. It was then continued at the Institut Curie (2015) covering a larger scope, before becoming the official PSL Chemical Biology meeting. This latest edition was postponed twice for the reasons that we know. This has given us the opportunity to invite additional speakers of great standing. This year, Institut Curie hosted around 300 participants, including 220 on site and over 80 online. The pandemic has had, at least, the virtue of promoting online meetings, which we came to realize is not perfect but has its own merits. In particular, it enables those with restricted time and resources to take part in events and meetings, which can now accommodate unlimited participants. We apologize to all those who could not attend in person this time due to space limitation at Institut Curie.

Meeting Report: PSL Chemical Biology Symposia Third Edition: A Branch of Science in its Explosive Phase

Chembiochem 21 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300093

2019

JANUARY 17-18, Institut Curie

For the 2nd PSL Chemical Biology Symposium, the state of the art in chemical biology will again be presented by world leaders to feature the latest innovations and future trends in this innovative and dynamic field (bionconjugation and antibody drug conjugates, proteomic mapping, high-resolution protein imaging, nanotechnology, bio-orthogonal chemistry, probes of signal transduction).

Chembiochem 2019 Apr 1;20(7):968-973 doi: 10.1002/cbic.201900092. Epub 2019 Feb 25.

2nd PSL Chemical Biology Symposium (2019): At the Crossroads of Chemistry and Biology

Marco Lucchino, Anne Billet, Antoine Versini, Harikrishna Bavireddi, Bhanu-Das Dasari, Sylvain Debieu, Ludovic Colombeau, Tatiana Cañeque, Alain Wagner, Géraldine Masson, Frédéric Taran, Philippe Karoyan, Muriel Delepierre, Christine Gaillet, Anne Houdusse, Sébastien Britton, Frédéric Schmidt, Jean-Claude Florent, Philippe Belmont, David Monchaud, Janine Cossy, Christophe Thomas, Arnaud Gautier, Ludger Johannes, Raphaël Rodriguez

2016

December 8-9, Institut Curie

https://psl-chemical-biology-2016.com/.

Chemical biology enables the conception and discovery of powerful molecules to observe and virtually manipulate any cellular process, allowing for addressing biological problems that would otherwise remain elusive. Although the last decade’s advances in chemical biology have led to new discoveries in biology, there are still extraordinary opportunities in further pushing its boundaries. The most useful approaches will enable to interrogate quantitatively and comprehensively living systems at the molecular, cellular and network levels. Beyond academic applications, chemical biology holds great potential for addressing important problems of our world. Small molecules able to restore and correct function in the context of human diseases can potentially have a transformative impact in medicine. Personalized medicine could benefit from a combination of chemical biology, genome and disease biology to establish novel diagnostic tools and alternative therapeutic approaches. Chemical biology has also a major role to play  in the development of new renewable energies and sustainable materials, in particular through the combination of knowledge in biosynthetic pathways, metabolic engineering and bioinformatics.

Gautier A, Rodriguez R. PSL. Chemical Biology Symposia First 2016 Edition: When Chemistry and Biology Share the Language of Discovery - Chembiochem. 2017 May 18;18(10):883-887. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201700117