France Science Summit 2024

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8:00 am

Welcome Coffee

 

9:00 am

Inaugural Summit Address

His Excellency Ambassador Laurent Bili

Thierry Damerval, Special Envoy in Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Higher Education & Research and Ministry for Europe & Foreign Affairs

Mireille Guyader, Counselor for Science and Technology

Alain Mermet, Director of the CNRS European and International Affairs Department

 

9:15 am

Session I – New applications in biological and medical research to handle health issues

Five 15-minute keynotes by :

Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Samuel W. Morris University Professor & Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Harvard University

Emmanuelle Passegué, Ph.D., Director of Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Alumni endowed Professor of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Denise Al Alam, Ph.D., Investigator, The Lundquist Institute & Associate Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Norbert Perrimon, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of Translational Research and Therapeutic Innovation, Chair of the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Director of the Precision Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai

30-minute panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Karim Belarbi, PharmD, Ph.D., Attaché for Science and Technology, Embassy of France in Washington D.C., Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

 

11:00 am

Coffee Break

 

11:30 am

Session II – Overview of Franco-American Partnerships, highlighting key cooperation tools (CNRS, INRAE, Inserm, Châteaubriand)

Support provided by the representative offices of major French research organizations and the Office for Science and Technology by Fabien Agenes, Director of the Inserm Office in the United States (5mn)

Collaboration tools used by research organizations, example of a successful Franco-American collaboration at the CNRS by Sylvette Tourmente, Director of the CNRS Office for the United States and Mexico (10mn)

Example of a successful French-American INRAE collaboration by William Hammond, Assistant Professor of Plant Ecophysiology, University of Florida (10mn)

Collaboration tools used by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States by Jean-Phillipe Nicolaï, Ph.D., Attaché for Science and Technology, Consulate General of France in Boston (5mn)

Testimonial by Kasra Zarei, Châteaubriand 2023 laureate (10mn)

Fulbright Program and other U.S. State Department exchange programs for research and study to and from France by Lisa Bernstein, Ph.D., Academic Exchange Specialist at the Department of State, Washington D.C., and responsible for the Fulbright exchange programs with France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, North Macedonia, and Switzerland (5mn)

 

12:15 pm

Talk by Pascale Laborier, Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris Nanterre, member of the Scientific Committee of the Programme d’Accueil en Urgence des Scientifiques et Artistes en Exil (PAUSE) and designer of the exhibition Standing for Freedom. Portraits of Scientists in Exile.

 

12:30 pm

Buffet Lunch

 

2:00 pm

Session III – Environmental research at the crossroads of short- and long-term global challenges

Four 15-minute keynotes by :

Luc Lenain, Ph.D., head of the Air-Sea Interaction Research Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Marie-Nathalie Contou-Carrere, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Rice Sustainability Institute, Rice University

Joana Guerrin, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Political Science, INRAE (Acqua Department – UMR 7363) & Fulbright Visiting Scholar Alumni, University of California, Berkeley

Emmanuel Boss, Ph.D., CNRS Fellow-Ambassador & Professor of Oceanography, School of Marine Science, University of Maine

30-minute panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Joaquim Nassar, Ph.D., Attaché for Science and Technology, Embassy of France in Washington D.C.

 

3:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

4:00 pm

Session IV – Emerging technologies at the heart of tomorrow’s challenges

Rémi Soummer, Ph.D., Director of the Optics Lab, Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) & co-leader of a CNRS International Research Project

Luc Julia, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Renault Group

Pierre Deymier, Ph.D., CNRS Fellow-Ambassador, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona & Director of the National Science Foundation-funded New Frontiers of Sound Science and Technology Center

Martial Hébert, Ph.D., Dean and University Professor of Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

30-minute panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Emmanuelle Pauliac-Vaujour, Ph.D., Attachée for Science and Technology, Consulate General of France in San Francisco

 

5:30 pm

“Artistic odyssey traversing science” Second edition photo competition awards

Jury & Audience Awards

 

5:45 pm

Closing Remarks

Florent Bernard, Ph.D., Counselor for Research and Innovation, European Union Delegation to the United States

Kimberly Montgomery, Ph.D., Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

Contact : [email protected]

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