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🎓 And the new academic year is on! 🍂

Since September for Master students and since last week for PhD candidates.
We were super busy on our side and we are happy to welcome our second iBioS cohort and to continue the adventure with our first cohort now in Master 2! But also to meet our new PhD candidates soon.👨🏼‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓

Here are the highlights of our agenda:
📆 IMCBio Symposium: 16-20th November 2026
📆 International IMCBio PhD Call 2027 opening 23rd November 2026
📆 International IMCBio master track iBioS application phase for September 2027: EEF October 2026 ; Mon-Master Ferbuary 2027
📆 Summer School: 22 tu 25th June 2027 (application in March 2027)

This year is all about learning, growing, and connecting. Remember: every step you take, no matter how small, brings you closer to your goals. 🏆

👉Stay tuned for more details about every event in the coming months!

That’s it. Summer is ongoing, hardly. We faced several heat waves already and unfortunately it is not over…
BUT! Our participants of this year Summer School edition were very brave and their desire for discovery and knowledge was stronger than the heat! 💪
This year again 19 Bachelor students joined us to discover Integrative biology in Strasbourg.

Our participants, accompanied by the PhD candidates of our amazing organization committee, discovered the labs of IMCBio+ and did science related activities!
From electronic microscopy to mouse facility, through photonic microscopy, structural biology or flow cytometry, they took part in a lot of workshops.
They also discovered Strasbourg, visited our famous Cathedral, tasted French and Alsatian gastronomy or even took a boat all around the city and discovered our newly renovated zoological museum and, of course, had the opportunity to discuss with a lot of scientists!

And last but not least, they discovered in details the program of our master track: “iBioS” with our head master Prof. Michaël Ryckelynck.

Thank you to all our particpants and our fantastic PhD candidates!

Motivated to join the adventure?
If you are in second year of Bachelor next year, save the date:
Next IMCBio Summer School will be from June 22 to 25, 2027!

Follow us on LinkedIn and watch the website to be sure to not miss the next application phase.

So it begins!

This is this time of year again. Time to experiment, do fun science, discover Strasbourg and its University and talk with inspirational PhD students and researchers! It is time for our Summer School! 🌞

Today our participants met Michaël Ryckelynck, the head of our master program: iBioS. 🚀

And after that, a well deserved dinner in the city center, to cool down with this extreme heat wave… 🌡️

The winner of the SFBBM’s “Article of the Month” contest for May 2026 is Maximilian Kohl, for his article “Extended Shine-Dalgarno motifs govern translation initiation in Staphylococcus aureus,” published in *Nature Communications*.

Maximilian is a recipient of the 2026 PhD call from the IMCBio Graduate School. His PhD topic is “a functional study of small proteins and RNA chaperone proteins in translational control in Staphylococcus aureus”, which he is writing under the supervision of Stefano Marzi at the IBMC.

SFBBM’s “Article of the Month” contest

Reminder of the rules: The SFBBM’s “Article of the Month” contest is open to the first author of a publication (a young researcher under the age of 35, a doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow, or faculty member), provided that the author or one of the co-authors is a member of the SFBBM with current dues or is applying for SFBBM membership at the time the applicant submits their entry.

Candidates submit to the Society a recent publication (less than twelve months old) of which they are the first author. Each month, an article is selected by the ad hoc committee and featured on the Society’s website and social media channels. The winner receives a prize of €100 along with a free one-year membership to the SFBBM.

At the end of the year, one of the articles of the month is selected and awarded a prize. The winner is then invited to present their findings at the SFBBM’s annual conference.

You can find a list of past winners HERE.

A portrait of our newly minted IMCBio PhD researchers

This week we present the portrait of Filippo Battaglia, from Italy.

Filippo Battaglia – Pascal Genschik’s team, IBMP

Filippo is from Italy. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in General Biology at the University of Palermo. Driven by a long-standing interest in plant biology, he then enrolled in a double-degree master’s program between Université Grenoble Alpes and the University of Milan.

During his master’s studies, he carried out several research internships in both Milan and Grenoble. In Milan, he worked in Perrella’s lab on Histone Deacetylase Complex1, while in Grenoble he joined Carles’s lab, where he studied ULTRAPETALA1. For his master’s thesis, supported by a scholarship from the University of Milan, he joined the lab of Gallego-Bartolomè and worked on chromatin remodelers in Arabidopsis.

After completing his master’s degree, Filippo took a six-month break to travel across Europe, from Scandinavia to the Balkans. Following this experience, he returned to research as a fellow in Perrella’s lab, where he worked again on HDC1, this time in tomato, for six months.

In September 2025, he joined the lab of Pascal Genschik at the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP). His current research focuses on Post-Transcriptional and proteolytic control of DNA damage responses in Arabidopsis.

In his free time, I enjoy hiking and reading.
He adds “I chose IMCBio because of the international reputation of the IBMP, the strong expertise in the field of the Genschik’s Lab, and the unique position of Strasbourg at the heart of Europe”.