Wednesday, June 17, 2026
All times are local to Bordeaux.
Day #1: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
10:00 – 11:30
Pre-Symposium Concurrent Morning Workshops
Workshop A: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Exposures
Itai Kloog, PhD, Professor, Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Workshop B: Untargeted Exposomics for AD/ADRD Research
Dinesh Barupal, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
11:30
Check in and Lunch Available
12:30 – 12:45
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Cécilia Samieri, DVM, PhD, Director of Research at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, France
Rodolphe Thiébaut, MD, PhD, Director, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France
Robert Wright, MD, MPH, Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine, and Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
12:45 – 13:15
Rémy Slama, PhD, Senior Investigator, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France
13:15 – 13:45
R. Sean Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, Ellen and Howard C. Katz Professor and Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
13:45-14:15
Richard Kwok, PhD, Program Director, Population Studies and Genetics Branch, Division of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, USA
14:15–14:45
Jinkook Lee, Director of the Program on Global Aging, Health, and Policy, University of Southern California, USA
14:45-15:15
Coffee Break
15:15–15:45
Cécilia Samieri, DVM, PhD, Director of Research at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, France
15:45 – 16:00
Emma Schymanski, Dr. rer. nat., Full Professor in Environmental Cheminformatics, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
16:00 – 16:15
Carolyn Mattingly, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NC State University, USA
16:15 – 16:30
Dinesh Barupal, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
16:30 – 17:15
Panel Discussion: Exposomic Data Science Applications Relevant to ADRD
Emma Schymanski, Dr. rer. nat.
Carolyn Mattingly, PhD
Dinesh Barupal, PhD
17:15
20-minute walk to Garonne River to get on boat
18:00
Boat departs
19:00
Reception and Dinner
Location: Château Grattequina, 50 avenue de labarde 33290 Blanquefort
22:00
Bus returns to Bordeaux City Center (~30 minute drive)
Day #2: Thursday, June 18, 2026
8:50 -9:00
Welcome
R. Sean Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, Ellen and Howard C. Katz Professor and Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
9:00 – 9:30
David Balshaw, PhD, Director, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
9:30–10:00
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine, and Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
10:00–10:30
Brad Racette, MD, Kemper and Ethel Marley Chair for Neurology, and Senior Vice President at Barrow Neurological Institute, USA
10:30–11:00
Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD, MS, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Columbia University, USA
11:00 –12:30
Poster Session #1
12:30 –13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:00
Challenges and Opportunities in Exposome Studies of Parkinson’s Disease
Alexis Elbaz MD, PhD, Director of Research at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, France
14:00 – 14:30
Sandrine Andrieu, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Toulouse University Hospital, France
14:30–15:00
Fields of Risk: Mapping the Exposome Landscape of Parkinson’s Disease
Roel Vermeulen, PhD, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science, Utrecht University and University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), The Netherlands
15:00
Group Photo and Break
15:30 – 15:45
Sleep as a Window into the Aging Brain
Yue Leng, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA
15:45 – 16:00
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
16:00 – 16:15
Carole Dufouil, PhD, Director of Research, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France
16:15 – 17:00
Panel Discussion: Prodromal Biomarkers and Diagnostic Advances in ADRD: opportunities to integrate Exposomics
Yue Leng, PhD
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Carole Dufouil, PhD
Moderator: Robert Barouki, MD, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Université Paris Cité and Head of the Public Health Institute at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France
17:00
Day #2 ends; Free evening for attendees
Day #3: Friday, June 19, 2026
8:50 –9:00
Welcome
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine, and Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
9:00–9:30
Using Exposomics to Define the Trajectory of Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary Miller, PhD, Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York, USA
9:30–10:00
Arthur David, Professor at the French School of Public Health, Rennes, France
10:00–10:30
Manish Arora, BDS, MPH, PhD, Edith J. Baerwald Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Co-Founder and CEO, LinusBio, USA
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–11:30
Mapping the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis Across Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Conditions
Mireia Valles-Colomer, PhD, Professor and Group Leader in Microbiome Research at the Medicine and Life Sciences Department, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
11:30–12:00
Marc Chadeau-Hyam, PhD, Professor of Computational Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
12:00–13:00
Poster Session #2 and Lunch
13:00- 15:30
Collaboration Meeting
This session will feature moderated panel discussions on advancing a global human exposome initiative. Attendees will hear updates from regional exposome networks worldwide, including the Exposome Forum, NEXUS, GECC, and IHEN. Panels will focus on strengthening global research collaborations and capacity building, as well as on integrating exposomics into aging research.
15:30
Poster Awards