Funny moments
Science can be intense, but we believe that laughter, creativity, and shared moments outside the lab are just as essential. This section is a glimpse into our hobbies, inside jokes, many food, conference bloopers, and everything that makes our team human. Because not everything in life is work.
Many researchers and their families at the 2025 Christmas dinner in a mexican restaurant (Paris, France).
Members of the Digestive and Inflammatory Pharmacology Unit (University of Valencia) at the gala dinner of the 3rd International Workshop on Liver and Gut Fibrosis (Valencia, Spain).
Scientific discussion with Dr. Aguilar-Galindo (right) in which fundamental aspects of docking in large molecules were discerned. As can be seen in the photo, huge amounts of energy were required.
Dr Mata-Garrido (right) with a colleague during the lab retreat at Espace Rambouillet (France).
Drs Mata-Garrido, Monge and Prof. Pascal Pineau (in order of appearance) at a gala dinner during the departmental retreat in Saint Raphaël, Côte d'Azur (France).
Drs Francés and Mata-Garrido during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the symposium on metabolism at the Institut Necker Enfant Malades (Paris, France).
Learning so much about metabolism whets the appetite... We enjoyed dinner on a boat on the Seine with Drs Desterke and Nordlinger.
AI-generated “Studio Ghibli”-style representation of the discussion on the importance of cellular metabolic regulation in ulcerative colitis. From left to right: Drs Christophe Desterke, Raquel Francés, Yuanji Fu, and Jorge Mata-Garrido.
Dr He tries a kebab for the first time at the INEM (Paris, France). She did not enjoy the experience at all.
Dr Mata-Garrido eats straight from the tin of cassoulet due to lack of time while revising an important paper.
Dr Chang-Marchand vehemently refuses to try this delicacy, incomprehensibly.