Conference organization application procedure

The application is prepared by a Chair, assisted by a Deputy Chair, who together are in charge of organizing the Conference both in its scientific and funding aspects. One of these two must work in a laboratory in France, the other in a laboratory elsewhere (normally in Europe ). The Deputy Chair may become Chair of a subsequent Conference if the Science Committee and the CNRS Biology agree to repeat the Conference in question. There is no organizing committee.

The application should include:

• The overall title of the conference (in French and English).
• The full names and addresses of the Chair and Deputy Chair along with their curriculum vitae and a list of their principal publications and invited lectures during the last three years (no more than 8 pages total) .
• A list of the speakers whom the Chair wishes to invite, specifying their laboratory, research topic, and a bibliography of their three principal publications from the past three years. (The geographical mix of speakers should be as follows: 6 to 7 from outside Europe , 8 to 10 from France , and 8 to 10 from elsewhere in Europe . Unless there is a good research-based reason, the Chair should take care not to invite several researchers from the same laboratory.)
• The potential audience (a maximum of 115 including the invited speakers) and the European laboratories who will most likely be interested.
• The site selected for the Conference (normally Roscoff) and the proposed dates.
• A 5-page description of the subjects to be addressed during the Conference.
• A program outline.
• A projected budget listing the public and private organizations whose financial support will be requested and the amount of their expected contribution.

To be sent to: conf.monod@services.cnrs.fr before January 20, 2026
Incomplete files will not be considered