On 7th October 2025, the environMENTAL Consortium had a productive Steering Committee Meeting in Marseille, France. Hosted by consortium partner, INS – Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes at Aix-Marseille University, environMENTAL discussed strategies and directions for:

  • Gene environment data infrastructure and discovery (WP1)
  • Omics characterisation in deeply phenotyped longitudinal cohorts (WP2)
  • Mechanistic investigations and drug discovery (WP7)
  • Digital intervention (WP8)

The meeting also included fascinating research presentations from:

  • Yunman Xia: Simulation and manipulation in the Digital Twin Brain of a functional brain network underlying mental illness
  • Spase Petkoski: Model- and data-driven inference for virtual brains with mental illness
  • Marcel Jentsch: CLUES: A Comprehensive Workflow for Integrating Geospatial Data in Biomedical Research

Thanks to all who attended for making the meeting so productive.