Prof. Christine BEEMELMANNS (Saarland University, Germany)

Christine Beemelmanns studied Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen, and after graduation went to Japan for a one-year research stay in the group of Prof.  Sodeoka at RIKEN. Back in Germany she worked at the FU Berlin with Prof. Reißig and received her PhD in Organic Chemistry. She then worked another six months in Japan at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof K. Suzuki and joined shortly afterwards the group of Prof. Clardy at Harvard Medical School (Boston) in 2011.

End of 2013, she received a call from the Hans-Knöll Institute (HKI) to work there as a Junior Research Group leader in the field of Natural Products Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

In 2020, she was elected as Margaret L. and Harlan L. Goering Visiting Professors in Organic Chemistry at UW Madison (spring term 2020).

In 2022, Beemelmanns was appointed Professor for Biochemistry of Microbial Metabolism at the Leipzig University. In October 2022, she accepted a call for the Full Professorship on Medicinal-Pharmaceutical Microbiota Research at Saarland University together with the HIPS.

Her research combines different aspects of natural product chemistry, applied microbiology and organic and natural product chemistry and aims to chemically and to functionally characterize microbial signaling and defense molecules in different model systems. The analysis of ancient and evolved microbial interactions allows her to discover unprecedented chemical core structures with potential pharmaceutical potential.

https://www.beemelmanns-lab.de/christine-beemelmanns.html

Dr. Karl GADEMANN (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Karl Gademann (1972) was educated at ETH Zürich and Harvard University, where he worked with Prof. Dieter Seebach, Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen, and Prof. Erick M. Carreira. His previous professorial appointments include the EPFL in Lausanne and the University of Basel, where he served as full professor and dean of research. Karl Gademann served as the department chair of the department of chemistry and also a member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

His work has been recognized by a number of international awards, including the Latsis prize, the Novartis Early Career Award, the Ruzicka Medal, The Liebig Lecture by the German Chemical Society, and the European Young Investigator Award. He delivered the Novartis Chemistry Lecture at the University of Illinois in 2016. In summer 2020, he was named as a Fellow of Chemistry Europe.

https://www.chem.uzh.ch/en/research/groups/gademann/curriculumVitae.html

Prof. Rebecca WADE(Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany)

Rebecca Wade studied at the University of Oxford (B.A. Hons. in physics, 1985; D. Phil. in Molecular Biophysics, 1988). She then carried out postdoctoral research at the universities of Houston and Illinois before taking up a position as a group leader in the Structural and Computational Biology Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg in 1992. Rebecca Wade set up the Molecular and Cellular Modeling Group at HITS (then known as the European Media Laboratory and later as EML Research) in 2001. She was Adjunct Professor at the International University in Germany in Bruchsal from 2001-2003. Rebecca Wade was appointed full Professor at Heidelberg University in 2012 and is a member of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the Faculty of Biosciences. She was Scientific Director of HITS from 2015 to 2016 and since 2025 is Deputy Scientific Director of HITS.

https://www.h-its.org/people/prof-dr-rebecca-wade/

Prof. Erick CARREIRA (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Professor Carreira's research program focuses on the asymmetric synthesis of biologically active, stereochemically complex, natural products. Target molecules are selected which pose unique challenges in asymmetric bond construction. A complex multistep synthesis endeavor provides a goal-oriented setting within which to engage in reaction innovation and design. Drawing from the areas of organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and molecular recognition, Carreira's group is developing catalytic and stoichiometric reagents for asymmetric stereocontrol.

https://carreira.ethz.ch/

Dr. Emmanuel ROULLAND (University of Paris-Cité, France)

Dr. Pauline POINOT (University of Poitiers, France)

Directrice adjointe de l'IC2MP

Maître de conférences - Equipe E-BICOM

Dr. Françoise OCHSENBEIN (I2BC Paris-Saclay, France)

Together with R Guerois, we lead a Team at I2BC (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell). We combine computational and experimental strategies to unravel the molecular bases underlying the dynamic assembly of specific protein networks.

Our research interests are focused on the complexes involved in maintaining genome integrity and chromatin maintenance. and we are particularly interested in chaperoning processes. We characterize the structure of complexes, and design inhibitory compounds capable of interfering with these interactions.

I am also member of scientific committees:

- since January 2024: Member of the User comity of the French infrastructure INFRANALYTICS

- since January 2023: Scientific advisory board for the French platforms (IBISA)

- since October 2022: Scientific advisory board (CN4) for the foundation ARC (since October 2022)

- Since June 2022: Member of the organization comity for the meeting of the 3R (Replication-Recombinaison-Repair). https://premc.org/3r-meeting-2024/

- 2015-2022: Member of the organization comity for the meeting of the French group for peptide and proteins (GFPP), http://www.gfpp.fr/

-2012-2015 Member of the organization comity for annual GERM meeting http://www.germ.asso.fr/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francoise-ochsenbein-b7116412/?originalSubdomain=fr

Dr. Bastien NAY (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Après des études de pharmacie réalisées à Bordeaux, Bastien Nay a obtenu un DEA de chimie des biomolécules de l’Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse en 1997. Il prépare alors un doctorat de chimie organique de la même université, sous la direction de Joseph Vercauteren à Bordeaux, qu'il soutient en 2000. Il réalise deux stages postdoctoraux, d'abord à l’Université de Nottingham en Angleterre dans le groupe de Steve Clark sur l'application de la réaction de métathèse d'oléfines à la synthèse de substances naturelles, puis à l’Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles de Gif-sur-Yvette avec Christiane Poupat en chimie médicinale. Sur un autre projet de synthèse totale, il intègre en janvier 2004 le CNRS en tant que chargé de recherche au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris en 2004, où il dirige de 2008 à 2017 l'équipe de Chimie des produits naturels fongiques. Il est nommé directeur de recherche au CNRS en 2014. En 2017, il rejoint le Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique de l’École Polytechnique où il continue ses recherches en synthèse totale à l'interface biologique. Ses projets l'ont amené à explorer la chimie des polyphénols, des terpénoïdes, de polycétides divers (cytochalasines, macrolactones), des cyclopeptides, et leurs propriétés biologiques variées. Plus récemment, il s'intéresse au design d'outils moléculaires répondant à la lumière pour étudier le vivant.

https://culturesciences.chimie.ens.fr/auteurs/bastien-nay

Dr. Salomé POYER (ICSN, France)

Dr. Arnaud CHEVALIER (ICSN, France)

Since 2018, I am a CNRS researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances. Author of around forty publications, and recipient of the 2025 Young Researcher’s prize, awarded by the SCF Transversal Division of Chemical Biology, the work of our team is focused on fluorescence imaging tools to study intracellular and mitochondrial processes for therapeutic innovation.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnaud-chevalier-5564808b/?originalSubdomain=fr

Dr. Jean-François BETZER (ICSN, France)