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\r\nThis symposium, taking place on October 7, 2026 on the EPFL campus, aims to connect two rapidly advancing fields that too often remain separated: resilience to life stress (allostasis, plasticity and adaptation across body systems) and resilience to cognitive decline (cognitive reserve, brain maintenance and mechanisms relevant to dementia risk).
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\r\nThe program will combine a 1-day Scientific Symposium with internationally leading invited speakers alongside talks from the EPFL community.
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\r\nThe symposium will be followed by an early-evening roundtable intended to engage the broader campus community, including colleagues from the University of Lausanne and beyond – this roundtable will be part of the 2026 EPFL Jours Santé program.\r\n
During this afternoon, you will work on hands-on exercises in Fiji for everyday tasks such as building your own macros, opening large datasets and image display tricks. More advanced topics, such as how to perform curve fitting, plotting line profiles, reslicing your data and batch processing, are also included.
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\r\nPlease feel free to suggest extra topics when you register. Depending on the replies, this will tailor the end of the day with some practicals ( for example : Colocalization, Tracking with Trackmate or cell detection with StarDist or Cellpose in Fiji ... )
\r\nWhile the course is of general use, the examples and applications are primarily relevant for those using light microscopy techniques.\r\n
What does it take to build an AI scientist in chemistry that can carry out research and improve through experience? In this talk, I will explore scientific autonomy as a process of hill climbing: identifying the capabilities that limit autonomous research, addressing those gaps, and evaluating progress on increasingly demanding chemistry tasks.
\r\nDrawing on the El Agente family of systems, I will discuss how hierarchical teams of agents coordinate quantum chemistry workflows and how molecular structure generation addresses a critical gap between chemical reasoning and computational execution. I will consider how these capabilities could contribute to longer-term research goals, such as automated reaction pathway exploration. These examples illustrate how a single missing capability can interrupt an otherwise sophisticated research workflow.
\r\nI will also discuss the open challenge of enabling agents to learn continually from scientific literature, computational results, and failed attempts, and to acquire capabilities as new problems demand them. By examining current capabilities and remaining bottlenecks, I will outline a path toward AI systems that formulate and test chemical hypotheses with increasing independence.
UNIL+EPFL Health Days 2026 invite you to dedicate some time to your physical and mental well-being from 28 September to 8 October. Over the course of these two weeks, a wide range of inspiring conferences, workshops and activities will take place at various times throughout the day. Some events will be open to the general public and offered in French and/or English.
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\r\nMembers of the university community will be able to take advantage of the health screenings and assessments available at the Health Village, hosted during the first week on the EPFL campus and during the second week on the University of Lausanne campus. They will also have access to information stands run by services and partners committed to promoting a comprehensive, 360-degree approach to health and well-being.
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\r\nThe programme will be available at the end of August on the dedicated website: https://jours-sante.ch/.
Thesis Director: Prof. J. McKinney,
\r\nBiotechnology and Bioengineering doctoral program
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\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker
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