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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 to Friday, October 17, 2025
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Draft Agenda
Day 0 – Wednesday 15 October
14:45 Guided visite of Rennes City center
- Meeting point is : visitor center, 1 Rue Saint-Malo, 35000 Rennes, France
Viiste start at 15h and finish at 16h30.
18:30 Welcome Reception & Orientation
l’eclozr, 1 Rue du Général Maurice Guillaudot, 35000 Rennes, France - 20 min by feet, 10 min bus 12 / C2
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Day 1 – Thursday 16 October
08:45 Presentation of Rennes University -Mélanie Davranche
8h55 : General information about the event
09:00 - Session1: Informatics – Predictive tools for Materials Safe by Design
- Is there the right prediction tool for every question encountered during the development of functional and safe-(and-sustainable)-by-design materials? Thomas Exner
- National Inventory of Coal Ash Quality in Reserve at Major Electric Power Facilities in the United States, Heileen Hsu-Kim
- Revealing structure-property-sustainability relationships for graphitic carbon nitride, Yash Shah
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:30
Session 2: Data Application for Engineering Systems and Agricultural Settings
- AI for rapid formulation, delivery, and efficacy testing of targeted therapeutics for crop protection, Juan Pablo Giraldo
- Bridging lab and field: tracking environmentally relevant nanoplastics in crops using Py-GC/MS, Nataliia Ryzhenko
- Creation and Applications of Metal Tagged Nanoplastics, Howard Fairbrother
- Enhancing Nutrient Retention, Plant Growth, and Soil Activity Using Liposomal Carriers, Sai Thejaswini Pamuru
- Soil mineral-mediated Mn(III) reactivity towards oxidation of ciprofloxacin, Tra My BUI THI
11:30 – 12:30 Roundtable
- Non-speakers: reflections and directed questions, moderator :
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Session 3 – The Analysis challenges of Plastics in complex media
- Proposal on challenges in microplastics analysis in environnemental matrices ? Justine Auclair
- Microplastics analysis in complex matrices by pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry and Raman spectroscopy , Christoph Krafft
- Discriminating Adsorbed vs. Dissolved Metals under Flow: A Microfluidic QQQ-ICPMS Approach, Flora Parrotin,
- Plastic Pollution in soil: can metal isotopes reveal its fate? Manon le Corre
15:00 – 16:00
Session 4 – Plastics Health Effects ,
- Emerging neurological implications of microplastics, Andrew West
- Risk correlations between neurodegenerative disease and plastic exposure, Cassidy Fredette-Roman
- Cellular, Subcellular, and Bioenergetic Responses of Rainbow Trout Gill Epithelial Cells to Polystyrene Nanoplastics, Lissett Guadalupe Diaz
- From Roadways to Fields: Impacts of Colonized Tire Wear Particles on Cropping Systems, Carrie Carpenter
- Unveiling the Impact of Plastics on Soil Biodiversity, Angéline Juif
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 Roundtable
- Non-speakers: reflections and directed questions
19:30 Dinner at 8 Rue du Dr Regnault, 35000 Rennes
Day 2 – Friday 17 October
08:30 – 09:30
Session 5– Industrial Challenges of Plastic Particles in Water Treatment
- Industrial challenges of Microplastics in water treatment, Laura Rowenczyk
- Cascades with internal recycling : a tool to enhance membrane separation performances in seawater desalination, Murielle Rabiller-Baudry
- Monitoring and impact of microplastics in coastal landfills: impregnation and diffusion, Victor Lieunard
- From traits to fate: A combined approach for marine microplastics (MPs), Amelie Surmont
09:30 – 10:30 Roundtable
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:15 : Part 1: Discussion on how Inframes change your vision of International collaboration, mentimeter, Catherine Amelink
11:15 – 12:30
Session 6 part 1 : EU and USA Funding Systems, group proposal brainstorming session,
- Brainstorming for an international collaborative proposal
- Roundtable discussion
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Session 6 part 2 : EU and USA Funding Systems, group proposal brainstorming session,
- Brainstorming for an international collaborative proposal
- Roundtable discussion
15:00 – 15:15, Part 2; Discussion on how Inframes change your vision of International collaboration, Catherine Amelink
15:15 – 16:00: Session 7: Proposal award and presentation
16-00 closing remark
16:35 – 17:30
Coordination Committee Meeting
19:30 Coordination Committee Dinner
l’eclozr, 1 Rue du Général Maurice Guillaudot, 35000 Rennes, France - 20 min by feet, 10 min bus 12 / C2
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Thursday dinner at 7:30 pm - this is 13 min walk from the hotel
Adress; 8 Rue du Dr Regnault, 35000 Rennes
Menu is :
From the hotel, go to the train station (Gare) and take the metro LINE B to the Beau Lieu stop (seventh station). From the metro you have about a 5 or 6 minute walk to the Lecture room of the Geosciences Building (building 14B).
