🍷 Apéro-Sciences 🍷

🧪 Every pill we take leaves a trace. But where does it end up?

Join us for an evening of science, conversation, and curiosity at the Musée de la Main UNIL-CHUV to uncover the invisible journey of antibiotics — from your bathroom to the nearest river.

🗓 Wednesday, 18 March 2026 — 18:00

📍 Musée de la Main UNIL-CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland 🎟 Free entry — registration required → eprouvette-unil.ch

Antibiotics save lives. But once they pass through our bodies, they don't simply disappear. They travel through wastewater, seep into soils, and flow into rivers — where they encounter other living organisms, with consequences we are only beginning to understand.

In this convivial evening event, young international researchers from the European Pharm-ERA project and ecotoxicologist Nathalie Chèvre from University of Lausanne,  will take you on this hidden journey. Through real-world examples and a live demonstration, you'll discover how antibiotic pollution reshapes aquatic ecosystems, fuels antimicrobial resistance, and ultimately circles back to affect animal and human health.

The discussion will be framed around the "One Health" approach — the idea that human health, animal health, and environmental health are inseparable — and will open up to practical solutions: science, regulation, and the role each of us can play.

Come with your questions. Leave with a new perspective on what's in your water.

Event held in French and English (no simultaneous translation). Organised in partnership with the University of Lausanne and L'Éprouvette – Sciences et Société.