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All the neuroscience news in October 2024

Discover the news of the Marseille neuroscience community for October 2024!

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1st NeuroMarseille Patients' Day

Patients and their families need to understand what is being done daily in applied and fundamental research. Researchers, clinicians, engineers, students, you need their vision, their testimonies!
We are organising a meeting with our community for associations of patients suffering from brain or nervous system pathologies. This is a first: be part of it!

📅 October 17, 2024
📍 Amphiteather HA1, Adult Timone hospital 
🇫🇷 in French

Program and registration

Congratulations to our 4 brilliant winners!

This year, 4 young NeuroMarseille researchers have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant: Fanny Cazettes (INT), Maud Gratuze( INP), Baptiste Libé-Philippot (IBDM), Isabelle Dautriche (CRPN).
The whole community is proud to include these 4 brilliant young researchers! Congratulations !!

Good job "GINTER": led by Santiago RIVERA (INP), this group of experienced researchers (including former laureates) help candidates during their application journey! Everybody is invited to join.
In 2025, these young researchers will present their research projects that are NeuroMarseille's future and explain how they obtained prestigious fundings: stay tuned for a date very soon.

Discover Le CERCle

A look back at NeuroMarseille Day

400 thanks for coming to NeuroMarseille! 
We will all remember this day: tremendous convivial moments, prestigious guests, enriching workshops, and debates. A perfect day for a close-knit community!

Many thanks to the organizers, volunteers of the day, and speakers, without whom this event would not have been possible.

Book your agenda for next year's session
📍 on Saint-Charles campus 
🗓️ September 18, 2025
Use the form below to let us know what program you want.

We look forward to seeing you next year!

Give us your feedback to help us organize a perfect next edition

Events

Also see the section "Headlines" above 

All the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute, NeuroSchool and other external events.

NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool events

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Dates to note down!

Upcoming events at NeuroMarseille:

🗓 October 17: journée des associations de patients (Timone campus)

🗓 November 20: ReproductibiliTEA (Saint-Charles)

🗓 November 21-22 : NeuroDays 2024 (Timone campus)
🗓 December 13:
Clinical day on ALS & motor neuron diseases (Timone hospital)

1st NeuroMarseille Patients' Day

Patients and their families need to understand what is being done daily in applied and fundamental research. Researchers, clinicians, engineers, students, you need their vision, their testimonies!
We are organising a meeting with our community for associations of patients suffering from brain or nervous system pathologies. This is a first, be there!

📅 October 17, 2024 
📍 Amphiteather HA1, Adult Timone hospital 
🇫🇷 in French

Program and registration

Forum BiotechnoSud

A unique opportunity for PhD and master's students to find out about career opportunities after graduation! Register to get the chance to talk to professionals and build your network.

📆 October 17, 2024
📍World Trade Center, Marseille
🇫🇷 In French  

More information

Brainhack Marseille 2024

A neuroscience hackaton for students, postdocs, engineers and junior or experienced researchers who want to work together on neuroscience projects. 👨🏻‍💻

📅 November 25-27, 2024
📍 Timone campus

Registrations open soon

National or international meetings organized by our laboratories

Scientific day of the Centre IRM-INT

The MRI-INT Center in Marseille is organising its 15th annual scientific day on Developmental Neuroimaging from fetal to adolescent stages (MRI in human and nonhuman primates).

It will feature talks by international, national, and local experts in the field. Postdocs and students can present their MRI neuroimaging work in a poster session, whether related to brain development or not.

Registration if free but mandatory, the number of places is limited!

📅 October 4, 2024 
📍 CERIMED, Timone Campus

Discover the program

Colloque 2024 du GDR Vertige

The aim of the conference is to raise awareness of the importance of vestibular disorders in children and the multiple consequences they can have on their psychomotor development, quality of life and interactions with their environment.
ENT and non-ENTL specialists will also discuss the non-vestibular peripheral causes of vertigo in children.
Finally, we will discuss fast-growing areas of research, such as gene therapy and vestibular implants.

📅 October 4-5, 2024 
📍 Saint Charles Campus 
🇫🇷 In French

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First workshop of EBRAINS-France Research Infrastructure

EBRAINS is a digital research infrastructure created to provide sets of advanced data, software and tools for neuroscience research.

The workshop aims to showcase the current organization of the French node of EBRAINS and facilitate constructive discussions regarding the scientific goals and future developments. The workshop is intended to stimulate discussion and attract researchers who may not have previously contributed to EBRAINS or the Human Brain Project.

📆 October 15, 2024 
📍 INT, Marseille

Discover the program

EITN Fall School in Computational Neuroscience 2024

The EITN Fall School in Computational Neuroscience consists of a 10 days of intensive training in theoretical and computational neuroscience, from cellular to whole-brain levels, provided by researchers from all over Europe. The course is typically aimed at PhD students, young postdocs, or master students interested to learn more about techniques of computational neuroscience, and the use of various simulation environments for model building. 

📆 October 16-25,  2024 
📍 Marseille

More information
GoPA PETRA

Next GoPA-PETRA webinar

Save the date for our next digital event: the PETRA network is joining forces with the GoPA network to bring you a webinar on the use of organoids in preclinical research.
We are pleased to welcome Luca TIBERI to this event; he will present the pediatric brain tumor models that he is developing in the group he leads at the Armenise-Harvard laboratory of Brain Disorders and Cancer in Italy.

Call for abstracts for two 10-minute short presentations (+ 5 min questions). Please send your abstracts to contact@petranetwork.fr - Deadline : Monday, October 7!

📆 November 4, 2024
🕐 1:30 - 3 pm 
📍 Zoom

Download the program

2024 INT Conference

The conference will focus on two scientific topics, each approached from different angles and perspectives, ranging from computational to cognitive and clinical neuroscience, to neurotechnology.

📅 November 7-8, 2024
📢 Deadline to apply: October 4, 2024 
📍 INT, Timone Campus 

registration is free but compulsory

Science festival at INS

The INS is opening its doors to you as part of the national "Journey into an unknown laboratory’ day". The scientific tour is entitled "INS: you are the brain".

More information

NeuroMarseille lab seminars

Timone Campus

📌 MMG

8 October – 11:30 am, Délivrance par ultrasons de molécules thérapeutiques dans le cerveau by Anthony Novell (CNRS, Université de Tours)

📍 MMG seminar room, Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences (Timone campus) and via Zoom

 

Luminy Campus

📌 INMED

7 October – 11 am, Multiple roles for astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases by Carole Escartin (NeuoPSI, Institut des Neurosciences Paris Saclay)

📍 INMED conference room

NeuroSchool L3 / Master

This section covers the actions carried out with our 3rd-year undergraduate and master's students. 

Elect your student representatives!

Calls for applications are open for L3 and Master's students wishing to represent their fellow students. NeuroSchool programs will thus have student representatives at meetings of the NeuroSchool Committee and the Institut NeuroMarseille Board of Directors.

Are YOU the next representative?

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Internships and study abroad

Our calls for L3 and M1 mobility are now open. Check out our partner universities, listed here.

Link to L3 outgoing mobility call
📅 Deadline: January 27, 2025

Link to M1 outgoing mobility call
📅 Deadline: January 20, 2025

Memories of Summer School

If you are interested in the NeuroSchool summer school experience, read the article written by 2 students who spent a week at the FENS - Chen Institute - NeuroLéman. 

Read more

Do you need to review the basis of cellular neurophysiology?

Check out Constance Hammond's videos (in French or English), on AMeTICE and Youtube.

Watch the video

NeuroSchool PhD program

Read all the news about our PhD program.

NeuroSchool information

Attention please : Are you a PhD student in neuroscience at AMU? Whether you are French or from abroad, you can join the NeuroSchool PhD program!
As it is not automatic, apply on our page directly by following this link.

Return on experience

Each year, NeuroSchool PhD program organizes the Return on experience (REX), a moment offered to students and the committee to discuss and give their feedback on the past actions in a way to improve the years to come and always adapt us to your needs.

This event is MANDATORY for students funded by NeuroSchool (2nd-year and above) i.e. laureates of international PhD, cotutelle, PhD for MD or end-of-PhD fellowships.

📅 November 5, 2024, at 5:00 pm 
📍Salle des voûtes,  St-Charles campus
👍 Participating PhD students can validate 1 hour of professional training.

Register now

NeuroSchool Seminar by Jürgen Knoblich

Jürgen Knoblich  (Austrian Academy of Sciences of Vienna) will be our guest on November 15 for a seminar entitled : Using cerebral organoids to model human-specific aspects of brain development. 

📍 Pastor Amphitheater, Timone Campus 
📅 November 15, 2024
- 9:00-9:45 Discussion among students to discuss the papers  – For PhD students only
- 9:45-10:30  Special discussion time with the speaker for PhD students only 
- 10:30-12:00 Seminar – Open to all 

PhD students must register on AMeTICE to validate training hours.
👍 Attending PhD students get 3 hours, chairpersons 4 hours. Attending only one or two parts out of three is not validated at all.

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ReproductibiliTEA ☕️

By Zoltan Dienes, University of Sussex
We will be examining the possibility of modifying the role of editors with registered reports.

OPEN TO ALL NEUROMARSEILLE

👍 Can be validated as 2 hours of PhD training: register on AMeTICE!

🗓 Wesneday, November 20, 2024
📍  Large auditorium, St Charles campus 
☕ More details coming soon 

More information

NeuroDays 2024

For its 10th edition, we’re taking you into the depth of consciousness. Join us to explore this fascinating subject! 
This event entirely organized by PhD students is open to all but will soon be sold out!

📅 November 21-22, 2024
📍 Timone Campus 
👍 Participating PhD students can validate up to 12 hours of scientific training.
⚠️ Registration is free but mandatory. Limited seats, register now!

Program and registration

Clinical day 2024 : registration and call for oral presentations

Researchers, clinicians, residents and doctoral students are invited to take part in this new edition on the theme of ALS & other motor neuron diseases.

Call for oral presentations: PhD students and postdocs
working on related topics are invited to contact us: neuroschool-phd-program-direction@univ-amu.fr 

📅 December 13, 2024
📍 HA3 Amphitheater, Timone hospital 
👍 Participating PhD students can validate up to 6 hours of scientific training.

Pre-program and registration
PhD program Next events

🗓 November 5: Return on experience (Saint-Charles)
🗓 November 14:
Parrains/marraines + PhD students' meeting (Saint-Charles)
🗓 November 15 :
Jürgen Knoblich's tutored seminar (Timone)
🗓 November 20 :
ReproductibiliTEA (Saint-Charles)
🗓 November 21-22 :
Neurodays 2024 (Timone)

📌 Meetings of the PhD program committee
every Friday from 9 to 10 AM - Through Zoom and in our NeuroSchool meeting room (Timone)

For more information on NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool events, check out the Headlines and Events sections above!

Contact the PhD Program

Research

Discover information on topics of interest to your research or your laboratory's life, from NeuroMarseille and beyond

Submit your internship offer for Msc

Researchers, you can continue to propose internships for master’s students from AMU and partner universities. International students can apply to NeuroSchool incoming mobility grants.

Submit your offer 

NeuroMarseille at SfN : share future recruitments

For international visibility, NeuroMarseille regularly publishes ad banners on science job websites, leading to our NeuroJobs webpage.
Are you recruiting ? Post your ad on our website so we can talk about it at SfN at the Neuroscience in France booth!

Submit your offer
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Research's kit

NeuroMarseille/NeuroSchool is YOU! Let's build a strong and visible community together.

Following consultation with the laboratory directors, it was agreed that all publications from the NeuroMarseille teams should mention:
The project leading to this publication has received funding from the French government under the “France 2030” investment plan managed by the French National Research Agency (reference : ANR-16-CONV000X / ANR-17-EURE-0029) and from Excellence Initiative of AixMarseille University - A*MIDEX (AMX-19-IET-004).

find references and logos in the researcher's kit

Calls

NeuroMarseille calls, and more!

NeuroMarseille calls

Co-funding to organize events or thematic schools

NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool can financially support YOUR own thematic schools and scientific events. The call for proposals is open for events that will take place between March 1st, 2025, and February 28, 2026. 

📅 Deadline : October 6, 2024

Read more!

ICR 2025 call opens!

NeuroMarseille has launched a call for proposals to strengthen collaboration between laboratories: the Innovative and Collaborative Research Grants (ICR-20k€) call. The ICR can be extended to 35k€ with the ICR+ formula, to support the development of platforms. 

📅 Deadline: October 20, 2024

See our calls!

Thematic schools in 2024-25

Did you know that the NeuroSchool PhD program offers stipends for PhD students to participate in a thematic training school (summer, winter, spring… school )?

Read this experience in Switzerland.

Check our call for eligibility and procedures (apply at least 2 months in advance).

Apply

Other calls

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FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships

Every 6 months the FENS and the IBRO Pan-Europe Regional Committee (IBRO-PERC) network offer mobility grants.

📅 Next application deadline: October 15, 2024

Read more

School of translational neuroscience research.

The GIS, the Institut Thématique Neurosciences, Sciences Cognitives, Neurologie, Psychiatrie de l'Inserm and the CNRS Biologie are organising a neuroscience translational research school. This year's event will focus on neurodevelopmental disorders.
The aim of this school is also to encourage interaction between young researchers/clinicians and the lecturers in a setting conducive to discussion.

This school is aimed at young clinicians (interns in neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery or pharmacy, ophthalmology, ENT, etc.), post-doctoral researchers, junior professors, ATIP/Avenir holders, as well as researchers and teacher-researchers recently recruited from EPSTs or universities who want to familiarise themselves with the world of translational research.

🗓️ March 13-16, 2025
📍 Château de Suduiraut (Preignac, 33)

Program and registration here!

SCHADOC PhD Program

The SCHADOC PhD Program is an MSCA PhD program co-funded by Europe, Région PACA and AMIDEX. SCHADOC will recruit 40 PhD students over two calls (20 in 2025, 20 in 2026), along 4 research axes : Societies and culture, Climate change and environmental challenges, Health and well being, Artificial Intelligence and its applications

Projects must be interdisciplinary, Intersectoral and international.

Read more

Students'societies

The latest news from students societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool

Join the Neuronautes

Join our students' society on the Saint-Charles campus.
Open to all students interested in neuroscience.

Every year, we organize conferences for the general public including the local Forum Sciences Cognitives, we meet with alumni and prepare the yearbook, we participate in the Brain Awareness Week and other popularization events in Marseille and beyond...

All the information about our upcoming events is on our social networks. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, or TikTok. 

The Neuronautes team 🧠

neuronautes's social media

Semaine du cerveau 2025: call for volunteers

Cerveau Point Comm is looking for volunteers to organize the 🧠 Brain Awareness Week (Semaine du Cerveau) in March 2025.

All NeuroMarseille members can participate!

Contact Cerveau Point Comm

Your Hippo'Thèse society is looking for new members!

PhD students : join us if you want to be an actor of PhD student life and meet new people. 

The committee renewal will occur in early November, so com talk to us during our next After-lab if interested.

More information

Association ParenThèse Paca is recruiting

Paren(Thèse) offers online group writing sessions to help you start writing your thesis, for example. 
To ensure our continued success, we have a number of vacancies: secretary, treasurer, activities officer, communications officer, partnerships officer, newsletter officer, occasional help, etc.

Come and meet them live on Wednesday 16 October 2024 at 8pm at our General Meeting, via this link.

Contact them for more details

Career

Job offers, internships, PhD projects, professional events & training

Student jobs at AMU

Did you know that AMU offers student contracts? Tutoring, welcoming new students, helping at the library or during events, supporting students with disabilities...

visit the website now!

AMU Forum Stage Emploi

Accelerate your professionalization through personalized contact with AMU partner companies at the next Forum Stage Emploi !

🇫🇷 In French
📅 October 8, 2024
📍 CCI Marseille Provence -  Marseille

More information

Find a job thanks to our NeuroCommunity

We set up this LinkedIn group dedicated to students, current NeuroMarseille members and alumni: join us now and share your ideas, needs, job proposals, collaborations, calls for help, advice, etc!

Join the LinkedIn group
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