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19 November 2025

By: Service communication Toulouse - CHT

Portrait of Muriel Mercier-Bonin

Muriel Mercier-Bonin is INRAE Research Director and Deputy Director of the Food Toxicology Laboratory (Toxalim) at the INRAE Occitanie-Toulouse centre. She studies the impact of micro- and nanoplastics on human health, with a focus on the intestinal ecosystem. She actively uses her expertise to support public policy at national and international level.
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19 November 2025

By: CHT

Toxalim, my tech in 180 seconds

The technicians, engineers and researchers of Toxalim present to you, "my tech in 180 seconds".
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Development and characterization of a cow mammary organoid model for in vitro milk production

Development and characterisation of a bovine mammary organoid model for in vitro milk production.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Metatoul Days: platform technologies

The Metatoul platform regularly organises a user day for everyone who works with the platform, as well as our future users. The aim is to present what Metatoul does, not just AXIOM, and then discuss with users to see what we can improve or do together.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

SDHi pesticides: mitochondrial disruptors with carcinogenic potential?

Sylvie Bortoli is a researcher in mechanistic toxicology at the HEALTHFEX - INSERM UMRS 1124 laboratory at Paris Cité University, headed by Xavier Coumoul. As part of the METATOX team, she coordinates several projects aimed at characterising the impact of dietary exposure to environmental contaminants on human health.
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19 November 2025

By: CHT

Differential expression analysis by streamlined sequencing: the 3'RNA-seq technology

Yannick Lippi and Gaëlle Payros from Toxalim's TRIX platform present QuantSeq 3' RNAseq technology.
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19 November 2025

By: Service communication Toulouse - CHT

Global Plastics Treaty: INRAE ​​scientists involved in negotiations

While United Nations member states negotiate a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, several INRAE ​​researchers have been working behind the scenes. Their participation brings rigorous and independent expertise to a process lacking an official scientific structure. This is a way of anchoring public research in direct support of international political decisions.
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19 November 2025

By: Service Communication / CHT

Portrait of Fabien Jourdan

Fabien Jourdan, a bioinformatician who works closely with his team and small molecules!
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

The AGE-RAGE axis in intestinal type 2 immunity

Jasper Kamphuis' Seminar, May 16, 2025. After preparing and obtaining his thesis in the NGN team on “Pathology, Toxicology, Genetics, and Nutrition” INP supervised by Vassilia Theodorou and Hélène Eutamène at Toxalim, Jasper completed a postdoctoral fellowship at INSERM at the Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (INFINITy). In 2023, he was recruited as a CNRS researcher in the team led by Laurent Reber (INFINITy).
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19 November 2025

By: CHT

The collections of the natural history museum and microplastics

Valentin DETTLING is a doctoral student at the National Museum of Natural History (within the UMR ISYEB and UMR PhyMA), where he studies the contamination of marine organisms by microplastics.
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19 November 2025

By: Service Communication / CHT

Exposciences Occitanie 2025

Organized by a collective of grassroots education, science and technology, and environmental education associations (CIRASTI), Exposciences showcases scientific projects led by young people aged 5 to 25. This free event is open to everyone and will feature the participation of two doctoral students from the INRAE ​​Occitanie-Toulouse research center.
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18 November 2025

By: Service Communication / CHT

Mixture of food additives and risk of type 2 diabetes

Mixtures of food additives have been tested on more than 100,000 adults. Emulsifiers, sweeteners, colourings and acidifiers consumed in highly processed products such as stock cubes, milk-based desserts and fizzy drinks are linked to a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Fungal microbiota, diversity and role in human health

Mathias Richard is a research director at the MICALIS unit, in the probiHôte team, in Jouy en Josas.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Single cell and spatial transcriptomics offering

Get-Santé Technology Seminar, 20 June 2025. GeT-Santé is a technology platform located at the Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases in Toulouse. As a member of the GenoToul Genome and Transcriptome platform, our site is particularly focused on the health research community and its transcriptomic analysis needs.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Machine learnig, artificial intelligence used for plant biology and beyond

Gabriel Krouk is an agricultural engineer (AgroSup Dijon), holds a PhD and is accredited to supervise research (HDR) at the University of Montpellier/SupAgro.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Toxalim Seed Day

First- and second-year PhD students present their work
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18 November 2025

By: Service communication Toulouse - CHT

Solutions to improve the distribution of antibiotics to piglets

INTHERES team. When a batch of piglets needs to be given antibiotics, they are administered via drinking water. Scientists at the Therapeutic Innovations and Resistance Laboratory (INTHERES) at the Occitanie-Toulouse centre have developed new strategies based on drinking habits, improving coverage of the animals while ensuring prudent use of these molecules.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Seminar Brice Ronsin, le 04 Avril 2025

Brice Ronsin is a research engineer at the CNRS at the Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI) in Toulouse. His seminar will be followed, for those who wish, by a practical workshop on assembling and aligning a microscope.
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18 November 2025

By: VTI

Séminar Thomas Clavel, le 6 mars 2025

Thomas Clavel leads his independent research group at RWTH Aachen University Hospital (Germany)
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Seminar Lauris Evariste, le 21 mars 2025

Lauris Evariste has recently joined Toxalim's EnTeRisk team.
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18 November 2025

By: CHT

Mass spectrometry in the spotlight

AXIOM team. Meetings of the ‘young mass spectrometry club’ organised as a local committee by Carla Orlandi (Toxalim, AXIOM Platform).
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