EXPOSUM Institute Annual Day

Winner of the ExcellenceS call for projects (PIA4) and strongly supported by the Occitanie Region, the ExposUM Institute is an initiative aimed at establishing an out-of-bounds, decompartmentalized benchmark institute for the study, training and science-society interaction of the environmental determinants of human health. Following its official launch on March 14, the ExposUM Institute will celebrate its first year of existence in early 2024.

After the official opening by Philippe Augé, President of the University of Montpellier, and the representative of the President of the Occitanie Region, the "Emerging Exposome" research projects, the "Doctoral Nexus" training projects funded by the ExposUM Institute, and the support services offered by the Institute's "Interfaces" axis will be presented. The day will also include two conferences.

Program

Moderated by Camille Couralet, head of the scientific action support department, Direction des Programmes Structurants, Université de Montpellier

8:30am - 9am: Coffee reception

9h- 9h25: Introductory speeches 

• Philippe Augé - President of the University of Montpellier
• Claire Gatecel - Regional Councillor for Occitanie, President of the Higher Education Commission and Research, Delegate for relations with ARS

9.25am - 10am: Institut ExposUM 2023 review

• Reminder of objectives and overall assessment
  Eric Delaporte, PU-PH, DU UMR TransVIHMI, Scientific Director of the Health and Societies Department at IRD, UM and CHU - Director of Institut ExposUM.
• Summary of specific actions
  Mircea Sofonea - PCCEI, UM, Inserm, EFS & CHU Nîmes - Head of the Research axis.
  Aurélie Binot - CIRAD, MSH Sud - Head of the Interface axis.
  Charlotte Boullé - UMR Trans VIHMI, CHU Montpellier - Head of the Training axis.

10am - 11am: Conference: structuring research on the human chemical exposome at national and international level

Vincent Bessoneau -Director of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Director of the Laboratoire d'Étude et de Research en Environnement et Santé (LERES), École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP), Rennes.

11am - 12:45pm: Axis Research : Presentation of ExposUM 2023 research projects. Fellowships and emerging Exposome

• Biological invasions, climate change and trematodiasis in Occitania: a vector-centered One Health approach
  Annia Alba Menendez - UMR IHPE, UPVD, UM - Fellow of the Institut ExposUM -
• Dissecting the aryl hydrocarbon receptor signalling pathway
  Jakub Gruszczyk - Centre de Biologie Structurale, INSERM
• Focus on Persistent, Mobile and Toxic chemicals (PM/PMT): from water resource to human exposure
  Elena Gomez - UMR HydroSciences, UM
• Determinants of human exposure to the stings of hematophagous and ornithophilous mites in cities
  LiseRoy - UMR CEFE, UPVM and UM

12.45pm - 2pm Buffet lunch

Hall of the Charles Flahault amphitheatre

2pm - 2:30pm: Interface axis: presentation of support systems for researchers in the ExposUM community

Aurélie Binot - CIRAD, MSH Sud, Head of the Interface axis

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Conference: did genomic sequencing hold its big promises?

Thomas Otto - Fellow of the Institut ExposUM - University of Glasgow, UMR LPHI, UM

3:30 - 3:50 pm Break

3.50pm - 5.05pm: Training: Presentation of projects from the "Doctoral Nexus" interdisciplinary thesis scheme

•  Nexus I-CARE: ImpaCt de l'Anthropisation sur le Risque d'Emergence d'arboviroses zoonotiques en Afrique Centrale
  Christophe Paupy - UMR MIVEGEC, IRD & Ludovic Temple, UMR INNOVATION, CIRAD.
• Nexus MATRIX2: External exposome in a polluted environment related to extractive industry: different modelling strategies
  Christelle Gramaglia - UMR G-EAU, INRAE et UM.
• Nexus POLLHEART: Air pollution and pulmonary emphysema impact hemodynamic cardiovascular properties
  Arnaud Bourdin - Département de Pneumologie, CHU de Montpellier, PhyMedExp INSERM CNRS UM.

5.05pm: End of the day

Jacques Mercier, Vice-President in charge of Research, Chairman of the Scientific and Strategic Orientation Committee of Institut ExposUM, University of Montpellier