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Reception in honor of the Administrator and closing lecture by Professor Alain Prochiantz

On Monday June 24, Prof. Alain Prochiantz, holder of the Morphogenetic Processes Chair since 2007 and Administrator of the Collège de France since 2015, delivered his closing lecture "1989-2019: Thirty years of homeotic convolutions". Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, honored the event with her presence.

Watch the video of the closing lesson

This academic event was preceded by a friendly ceremony during which Prof. Thomas Römer, Vice-President of the Collège de France Assembly, congratulated and thanked Alain Prochiantz for his four years as Administrator. Thanks to individual contributions from the Collège de France community, he was presented with a copy of the second edition of Marguerite de Navarre'sHeptaméron, printed in 1560.