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Colloquium in tribute to Yves Laporte

Thursday, June 20, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

Collège de France
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs
11, place Marcelin-Berthelot
75005 Paris

Organized by Jacques Glowinski, Michel Imbert, Lena Jami and Chantal Milleret. With the support of the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France.

Program

09 h 30 - Opening
Serge Haroche, Director of the Collège de France

Chairman : Jacques Glowinski

09 h 45 - The neuromuscular spindle. From Toulouse to Paris
Michel Imbert, Professor Emeritus, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

09 h 55 - A Deputy Director meets an Administrator
Pierre Buisseret, Honorary Professor, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

10 h 05 - Experiencing with Monsieur Laporte
Lena Jami, Honorary Research Director, CNRS

10 h 15 - at the Yves Laporte School
Daniel Zytnicki, Research Director, CNRS

10 h 25 - Yves Laporte, an exemplary laboratory director
Chantal Milleret, Senior Lecturer, Collège de France

10 h 35 - Break

President : Lena Jami

11 h 05 - Between spinal and cerebral, a permanent friendship
Pierre Buser, Professor Emeritus, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

11 h 15 - Yves Laporte: also a master of human neurophysiology
Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny, Professor Emeritus, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

11 h 25 - Yves Laporte's foot steps from muscle spindles to the spinal cord
Elzbleta Jankowska, Professor Emeritus, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

11 h 35 -From the Marey Institute to the Collège de France, unforgettable encounters
Jean Azerad, Professor, Paris Diderot University

11 h 45 - Lunch

Chairman : Michel Imbert

14 h 05 - My first Director
Jean-François Rigoni, former Director of Administrative and Financial Affairs, Collège de France

14 h 15 - The Collège Administrator and Vice-President of the Assembly
Gilbert Dagron, Honorary Professor and Honorary Administrator, Collège de France

14 h 25 - A resolute man
André Miquel, Honorary Professor and Honorary Administrator of Collège de France

14 h 35 - Courtesy in the service of rigor and tenacity
Jacques Glowinski, Honorary Professor and Honorary Administrator of the Collège de France

14 h 45 - Six years as Administrator following in Yves Laporte's footsteps
Pierre Corvol, Honorary Professor and Honorary Administrator of Collège de France

14 h 55 - Yves Laporte and the notion of motor anticipation
Alain Berthoz, Honorary Professor, Collège de France

15 h 05 - Break

Chairman : Pierre Corvol

15 h 35 - Yves Laporte: the Collège de France and the Académie des Sciences
François Gros, Honorary Professor, Collège de France

15 h 45 - An impressive neuroscientist
Emile-Etienne Baulieu, Honorary Professor, Collège de France

15 h 55 - Preux et courtois
Michel Zink, Professor, Collège de France

16 h 05 - The National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE)
Anne Fagot-Largeault, Honorary Professor, Collège de France

16 h 15 - Yves Laporte and the Fondation Singer Polignac
Yves Pouliquen, Chairman of the Fondation Singer Polignac

16 h 30 - End of symposium