2026 FrenchBIC/AEBIN meeting. 2nd Bilateral French-Spanish Meeting in Bioinorganic Chemistry

This bilateral meeting will bring together researchers from France and Spain working in bioinorganic chemistry to exchange recent scientific advances and foster new collaborations.

Organisation:

• Jean Didier Maréchal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Oscar Palacios, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Christophe Léger, AMU/CNRS Marseille
• Nicolas Delsuc, CNRS/PSL Paris

Campus de Bellaterra de l’Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

1st October 2026
09:00 Presentation
1. Cancer Therapeutics & Anti-Cancer Agents (Metal-Based Drugs, Phototherapy & Targeting Strategies)
Chair: Òscar Palacios
09:30 María Concepción Gimeno: Next-Generation Metal-Based Anticancer Agents: Organelle Targeting, Regulated Cell Death and Multitarget Strategies
09:50 Jose Ruiz: Multifunctional Iridium complexes as novel photosensitizers for treating resistant tumors
10:10 Hélène Bertrand: Tackling systemic side eGects of platinum based anticancer chemotherapies: a multiscale approach
10:30 Vicente Marchán: NIR-activated peptide-targeted Ru-COUBPY photosensitizers for precision phototherapy of cancer
10:50 Carlos Sánchez Cano: Steps towards the in situ activation of anticancer drugs
11:10 — CoXee break
11:40 Raphael De Paiva: What Lies Beyond TXNRD1? Cyclometallated Gold Compounds Reveal Sec Selectivity in Glutathione Peroxidases
12:00 Òscar Palacios: Metal-based compounds as potential anticancer drugs
12:20 Ruben Pietro / Vincenzo Di Fiore: Covalent Inhibition of the Cancer-Associated Redox Enzymes ALDH1A1 and PRDX6 by Ligand-Tuned Cyclometallated Au(III) Complexes
2. Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diagnosis Chair: Célia Bonnet
12:30 Célia Bonnet: Cation detection using responsive MRI contrast agents: from rational design to in vivo applications
12:50 Thibault Troadec: Polyazamacrocyclic chelators: synthesis, coordination chemistry and applications in medical imaging, therapy and bioinspired catalysis
13:10 — Lunch
14:30 Willem KauXeld: Re(CO)-based silica-nanoparticles as a multimodal platform for biological applications
14:40 Sofiia Kulish: Development of contrast agents for selective Cu2+ detection via frequency-encoded ParaCEST/Parashift MRI
3. Nanomedicine and Molecular Design
Chair: Patrick Gámez
14:50 Patrick Gamez: Coordination Chemistry and Nanoscience for Medicine: Recent Advances from the nanoBIC Group
15:10 Eva Royo: Targeted metal-organic bioconjugates
15:30 Miguel A. Galindo Cuesta: DNA Architectures for the Controlled Positioning of Metal
Ions
15:50 Ana Isabel González Garnica: METALLIC BIONANOPARTICLES GROUP (BIONANOMET)
16:10 Miguel Vázquez López: Peptide helicates as versatile DNA three-way junctions binders
4. Environmental Bioinorganics, Ecotoxicology and Bioinspired Catalysis Chair: Christophe Léger
16:30 Luisa Ronga: Molecular insights into the role of selenoenzymes in the therapeutic and toxic activity of metals
16:50 Maria Rosa Beccia: Metallic radionuclides at the interface of environmental systems and living organisms
17:10 Jalila Simaan: LPMO-inspired functional copper complexes
17:30 Feryanne Taroudjit: Speciation and transfert mechanisms of actinides in marine phytoplankton
17:40 Pablo Macías Benítez: Cyclam-Based Nickel and Copper Complexes for the Electrocatalytic Activation of Small Molecules
17:50 — End of day

2nd October 2026
5. Therapeutic Strategies and Neurodegeneration
Chair: Nicolas Delsuc
08:30 Luca Salassa: Host-Directed Metal-Based Antivirals
08:50 Christelle Hureau: ATCUN peptides to shuttle copper intracellularly
09:10 Santiago Gómez Ruiz: From Metal Complexes to Intelligent Nanomedicines: Bioinorganic Platforms for Cancer, Infection and Neurodegeneration
09:30 Myriam Seemann: From metalloenzyme mechanisms to novel antibacterial strategies
09:50 Nicolas Delsuc: Antioxidant metalloenzyme mímics delivery to mitigate symptoms in inflammatory bowel diseases
10:10 Albert Gandioso: Light-Activated Strategies to Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections
10:20 Emmanuel Marcos: Investigating oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy and evaluating novel Pt(IV) prodrugs designed to reduce neurotoxicity using the zebrafish model
10:30 Diana Díaz García: Metal-Based Multifunctional Nanocarriers for Brain-Targeted Therapy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
10:40 Isabelle Vieira de Almeida: Towards new inhibitors of the IspH metalloenzyme, a target for the development of new antibiotics
10:50 Melanie Rossotti: Oxidative stress tolerance studies on LPMO.
11:00 — CoXee break
6. Artificial Metalloenzymes and Biocatalysis
Chair: Jean-Didier Maréchal
11:30 Caroline Marchi-Delapierre: Artificial metalloenzymes: from molecular design to catalysis
11:50 Thierry Tron: Multi-Copper Oxidases in Hybrid Catalysis
12:10 Christophe Léger: Electrochemical studies of enzymes involved in the production of solar fuels
12:30 JeanDidier Maréchal: Computacional multiscale approaches in bioinorganic chemistry: recognition and catalysis
12:50 Laura Opdam: The impact of substrate channel mutations on the O2-sensitivity of
CODH
13:00 Stann Van Baaren: Design of artificial metalloenzymes for enantioselective sulfoxidation
13:10 Fernanda Peralta Morales: Modelling Au-Based Asymmetric Catalysis in Artificial Metalloenzymes: Mechanistic Insights into Gold-Catalyzed Alkenynone Cyclization

13:20 — End
13:30 — Lunch