Report from the 27th (Virtual) Meeting on Toxinology, “Toxins: Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll?”, Organized by the French Society of Toxinology, 9–10 December 2021
Daniel Ladant,
Pascale Marchot,
Sylvie Diochot,
Gilles Prévost,
Michel R. Popoff,
Evelyne Benoit
Affiliations
Daniel Ladant
Institut Pasteur, Unité Biochimie des Interactions Macromoléculaires, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France
Pascale Marchot
Laboratoire Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences—Campus Luminy, 13288 Marseille, France
Sylvie Diochot
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France
Gilles Prévost
Institut de Bactériologie, Unité UR-7290 Virulence Bactérienne Précoce, ITI InnoVec, 3 rue Koeberlé, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Michel R. Popoff
Institut Pasteur, Unité Toxines Bactériennes, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France
Evelyne Benoit
CEA, Institut des Sciences du Vivant Frédéric Joliot, Département Médicaments et Technologies pour la Santé (DMTS), Service d’Ingénierie Moléculaire pour la Santé (SIMoS), Université Paris-Saclay, EMR 9004 CNRS/CEA, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
The French Society of Toxinology (SFET) organized its 27th annual meeting on 9–10 December 2021 as a virtual meeting (e-RT27). The central theme of this meeting was “Toxins: Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll?”, emphasizing the latest findings on plant, fungal, algal, animal and bacterial toxins during 10 lectures, 15 oral communications (shorter lectures) and 20 posters shared by ca. 80 participants. The abstracts of lectures and posters, as well as the winners of the best oral communication and poster awards, are presented in this report.