Spring Days, May 5 & 6, 2025

Spring Days 2025

Stand up to Tackle Women Vulnerability: From environmental factors to systemic disorders

The event will take place at Cyclone Le Studio, 16-18 rue Vulpian, 75013 Paris / Subway: Line 6: Glacière or Corvisart.

Mandatory registration here: https://forms.office.com/e/1VdwdxpvUa 

We are pleased to announce the Spring Days 2025, an event dedicated to the theme of Women's Vulnerability. It will be held on May 5 and 6, 2025 at CYCLONE, 16 Rue Vulpian, 75013 Paris. Organized by EUR LIVE, this event focuses on the theme "Stand up to Tackle Women Vulnerability: From environmental factors to systemic disorders." It aims to explore the factors of women's vulnerability, addressing topics such as accelerated aging, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic disorders.

This gathering will bring together international experts to discuss the latest scientific advances and challenges associated with these fields. Participants will have the opportunity to attend conferences, roundtables, and poster sessions, while fostering professional exchanges and collaboration among researchers.

May 5, 2025: 12:00 – 17:30

Theme: Stand up to Tackle Women Vulnerability

12:00 - 13:30: Registration & Lunch

13:30 - 13:45: Conference Opening & Introduction to the Theme and Focus Areas

• Speaker: Geneviève Derumeaux (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

13:45 - 14:30: Keynote Address: “Accelerated aging in women: role of vulnerability factors”

• Speaker: Elizabeth Blackburn (UCSF, San Francisco, USA)

14:30 - 14:50: “Gendercide: lethal consequences of women's inequality”

• Speaker: Beverly Hill (GENDERCIDE AWARENESS PROJECT, USA)

14:50 - 15:10: “Vulnerabilities among Migrant Women on the Darién Gap”

• Speaker: Lina Penagos (UPEC, Créteil)

15:10 - 15:30: “Psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases”

• Speaker: Ophelia Godin (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

15:30 - 15:50: “Professional trajectories and vulnerabilities in women with disabilities”

• Speaker: Karine Gros (UPEC, Créteil)

15:50 - 16:10: Discussion and Round-Table

16:10 - 17:30: Coffee Break & Posters

May 6, 2025: 09:00 – 12:30

Theme: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

09:00 - 09:30: Keynote Address: “HFpEF: Malady, Model, and Meta-inflammatory Mechanisms”

• Speaker: Joseph Hill (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA)

09:30 - 09:50: “Sex difference in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction”

• Speaker: Lina Badimon (Cardiovascular Health and Innovation Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain)

09:50 - 10:10: “Targeting age-related mechanisms in cardiovascular-metabolic diseases”

• Speaker: Ippei Shimizu (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan)

10:10 - 10:30: “Liver-Heart Crosstalk in HFpEF”

• Speaker: Gabriele Schiattarella (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany)

10:30 - 10:45: “Neurocardiac Interplay: Unraveling the Brain-Heart Link in Heart Failure”

• Speaker: Natasha Trzaskalski (University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada)

11:15 - 11:35: “Senescence mediators promote heart failure through endothelial-myocyte cross talk, insights through IGFBP7”

• Speaker: Peter Liu (University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada)

11:35 - 11:55: “Targeting senescence in age-related diseases”

• Speaker: Oliver Bischof (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

12:00 - 12:30: Keynote Address: “Medical Imaging using Cell Biology Imaging Technology”

• Speaker: John Sedat (UCSF, San Francisco, USA)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch & Posters

May 6, 2025: 14:00 – 16:00

Theme: Metabolic Disorders and Cardiovascular Diseases

14:00 - 14:30: “Myocardial metabolism in diabetic cardiomyopathy: a diet and gender effect”

• Speaker: Luc Bertrand (UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium)

14:30 - 14:50: “Impaired Ketone Body Oxidation and Lysine Beta-Hydroxybutyrylation Modulate Cardiac Metabolism in HFpEF”

• Speaker: Federico Capone (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany)

14:50 - 15:10: “Clustering analysis to stratify cardiac dysfunction in diabetic patients (CARDIATEAM)”

• Speaker: Bianca Riccardi (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

15:10 - 15:30: “Diabetes accelerates biological aging”

• Speaker: Jose Americo de Freitas (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

15:30 - 15:50: “Unveiling New Regulators of Skeletal Muscle Health and Function in Aging and Age-Related Diseases”

• Speaker: Ilke Sen (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

May 6, 2025: 16:10 – 16:40

Theme: Sickle Cell Disease: A Model of Accelerated Aging?

16:10 - 16:25: “Specificity of Cardiovascular Complications in SCD”

• Speaker: Thomas D’Humières (IMRB, UPEC, Créteil)

16:25 - 16:40: “Muscle wasting and kidney injury in sickle cell disease”

• Speaker: Christine Ibrahim (PARCC, Paris)

16:40 - 17:00: Discussion and Round-Table

17:00: Closing Remarks & Conference Wrap-up