All the neuroscience news in December

AAP INTERDISICIPLINARITE A*Midex via NeuroMarseille

A*Midex launched last week the INTERDISCIPLINARITY Call . Each institute will present a maximum of 3 projects: consequently, NeuroMarseille will organize a pre-selection according to the criteria of excellence determined by Amidex.
Please find click here the documents related to the call.

🗓 Application form submission : deadline January 10, 2022 – 11:59 PM (UTC+1) to gabrielle.gallon@univ-amu.fr / copy to laboratory director.

CIVIS-Neurosciences Symposium: Trilateral meeting

The first CIVIS-Neurosciences Symposium will be held online on 📅 January 21, 2022, at 9:00 AM, with three leading universities of the CIVIS Alliance: Sapienza ( Rome), Eberhard Karls University (Tübingen) and NeuroMarseille.
Throughout the day, speakers from each university will discuss the following topics:
1- Neural cell structure / Organization,
2- Neural stem cells / Adult born neurons,
3- Social / Affective behaviour / Cognition,
4- Visuomotor system / Communication,
5- Round table on non human primates.

📅 January 21, 2022, 9:00 AM
➕ More info to come

Vernissage & exhibition: "The Art of Science"

The first edition of the photo contest organized by the Institute was a success. It will be followed by a gallery exhibition from January 8 to 23 at the Galerie Le Pangolin. On Saturday, 📅 January 8 at 6:00 pm, the exhibition's opening will take place, and you are all invited! To guarantee the sanitary conditions of the opening, please register with the link below.

Dates to note down!

Summary of events at NeuroMarseille:

🗓 6-8 December: Brainhack
🗓 12 December: deadline M1 outgoing applications
🗓 14 December: neurobinar
🗓 08-23 January: vernissage & exhibition "l'art de la science"
🗓 10 January: deadline deposits interdisciplinarity call for applications
🗓 11 January: NeuroSchool PhD Program Welcome Day
🗓 21 January: CIVIS Symposium
🗓 4 February: Seminar from Adrienne Fairhall (in person)
🗓 10 February: Clinical session on Parkinson disease

Neurobinar #11

This monthly one-hour appointment is the best way to discover the research within NeuroMarseille!

📌 Maxime Cazorla (INT): "A functional photoinducible tool to manipulate brain connections"
📌 Mostafa Seblani (ISM): "New targets to reduce edema and improve sensorimotor recovery after spinal lesion"
📌 Guillaume Frébourg (CRMBM/ETS-Montréal): "Structural-Vascular human spinal cord characterization".

📅 14 December 2021 at 1 pm
▶️ Live Zoom
🔎 Watch previous neurobinars

Brainhack Marseille 2021

🔎 Brainhack events bring together researchers, engineers, data scientists or students to work on neuroscience-related projects. Similar to hackathons in tech fields, participants are invited to work/hack in various hands-on ways on ongoing projects brought by other participants.

📢 Contact the organizers: brainhack.marseille@gmail.com
📅 December 6-8
📍 Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone (INT)
👍 Participating PhD students can validate up to 17 hours at ED62

Opening Ceremony of the Nikon Center of Excellence for Neuro-NanoImaging at Aix-Marseille University

We are excited to invite you to the inaugural ceremony of the Nikon Center of Excellence for Neuro-NanoImaging at the Neurophysiopathology Institute at the Aix-Marseille University!   

📅 9:00 am on December 9, 2021
📍 Grisoli Amphitheatre in the Timone Medicine Faculty building of the Aix-Marseille University. 

Vernissage & exhibition: "The Art of Science"

The first edition of the photo contest organized by the Institute was a success. It will be followed by a gallery exhibition from January 8 to 23 at the Galerie Le Pangolin. On Saturday, 📅 January 8 at 6:00 pm, the exhibition's opening will take place, and you are all invited! To guarantee the sanitary conditions of the opening, please register with the link below.

Clinical session #2: a dialogue on Parkinson disease between fundamental and clinical research – In French

The NeuroSchool PhD Program and its students offer you its second clinical session on the theme of Parkinson. In this one-and-a-half-hour exchange between researchers and clinicians, we invite you to discover two sides of research on Parkinson disease, one fundamental and the other more clinical. 

📅 February 10 at 1:45 pm
📍Amphi HA2 (ground floor Timone hospital)
📢 speakers: Stephan GRIMALDI (clinical and applied research) and Sonia DI BISCEGLIE CABALLERO (primary research)
➕ More info to come

CIVIS-Neurosciences Symposium: Trilateral meeting

The first CIVIS-Neurosciences Symposium will be held online on 📅 January 21, 2022, at 9:00 AM, with three leading universities of the CIVIS Alliance: Sapienza ( Rome), Eberhard Karls University (Tübingen) and NeuroMarseille.
Throughout the day, speakers from each university will discuss the following topics:
1- Neural cell structure / Organization,
2- Neural stem cells / Adult born neurons,
3- Social / Affective behaviour / Cognition,
4- Visuomotor / Communication,
5- Round table on Non-human primates.

📅 January 21, 2022, 9:00 AM
➕ More info to come

Call for proposals : Problem-based learning (= "APP") for M1 students

Students work in small teams on a topical issue in neuroscience, using state-of-the-art technologies in different laboratories in Marseille.
Researchers or engineers, if you have a proposal for a new module or wish to welcome students in your laboratory in an existing "APP", please contact the master's coordinators.

📅 Next session: April 2022

Mental Health First Aid - PSSM

Objectives;
• To acquire basic knowledge about mental health disorders. • Develop interpersonal skills: listening without judgment, reassuring and giving information.
• Better deal with aggressive behaviours.
• Test and appropriate an action plan that can be used to provide immediate support for mental health problems.

Summary of NeuroSchool actions

Contactez la coordonnatrice de NeuroSchool pour en savoir plus.

L3 and M1 mobility scholarships

NeuroSchool offers mobility grants for internships abroad in the summer of 2022 for selected L3 and M1 students. Information and application on our website (link for L3 students, link for M1 students).

📅 Application deadlines: December 12, 2021 (M1) and January 30, 2022 (L3)

Incoming mobility grants

Researchers, you can continue to propose internships for our master students and partner universities.

Attention: a  given supervisor cannot host incoming trainees through NeuroSchool mobility grants simultaneously nor two years in a row.

International co-supervised PhD scholarships

NeuroSchool's PhD program offers to fund up to 54 months of PhD research distributed among several international co-supervised PhD research projects. 

📅 Deadline February 21st, 2022. Call for applicants will follow.

Participate in INT's studies

INT teams often seek volunteer participants for their studies on cognition. These studies may involve behavioural, physiological or imaging approaches depending on the case.
✏️ You can register on the directory of healthy volunteers of the Institute of Neurosciences of Timone, by following this link ⤵️

Brainhack Marseille 2021

🔎 Brainhack events bring together researchers, engineers, data scientists or students to work on neuroscience-related projects. Similar to hackathons in tech fields, participants are invited to work/hack in various hands-on ways on ongoing projects brought by other participants.

📢 Contact the organizers: brainhack.marseille@gmail.com
📅 December 6-8
📍 Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone (INT)
👍 Participating PhD students can validate up to 17 hours at ED62

NeuroSchool PhD Program Welcome (half-)Day

January 11, NeuroSchool PhD Program will welcome first-year PhD students during the Welcome (half-)Day. 
❌ MANDATORY for 1st year PhD students

Welcome Day and online quizzes are mandatory for PhD Program newcomers (i.e. who have registered since the last PhD Program Welcome Day last January). 

Before the Welcome Day, connect to our AMeTICE page to :
• Watch our short videos to explain how the program works 
• Take a few quizzes to check that you’ve understood the essential points

📅 Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 2 PM
📍Amphi Grisoli, Timone Campus
🔗 More info on Ametice

Save the date: next tutored seminar from Adrienne Fairhall (in person 🥳)

We are pleased to welcome Adrienne Fairhall (in person 🥳) on the 🗓 4th of February for a tutored seminar.
Her group develops theoretical approaches to understand processing in nervous systems. They collaborate closely with experimental labs to uncover algorithms of information processing in various systems, from single neurons to foraging mosquitoes to navigating primates.

➕ More info to come

The private R&D ecosystem and the role of the Young Doctor in companies (in French)

Doctoral College course "The private R&D ecosystem and the role of the Young Doctor in companies" given on 📅December 9 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm by Sabrina COQUENLORGE, Scientific Editor at FI Group and PhD in Biology.

The clinical internships are starting again!

• Professor Azulay's department (Neurology and movement pathology): week of 24/01/2022, still one place available 

If you want to benefit from an internship, please consult the list of Marseille clinical services related to neuroscience and contact the PhD program.

Clinical session #2: a dialogue on Parkinson disease between fundamental and clinical research – In French

The NeuroSchool PhD Program and its students offer you its second clinical session on the theme of Parkinson. In this one-and-a-half-hour exchange between researchers and clinicians, we invite you to discover two sides of research on Parkinson disease, one fundamental and the other more clinical. 

📅 February 10 at 1:45 pm
📍Amphi HA2 (ground floor Timone hospital)
📢 speakers: Stephan GRIMALDI (clinical and applied research) and Sonia DI BISCEGLIE CABALLERO (primary research)
➕ More info to come

FAQ: answers to some questions asked during the REX

You will find answers to the most frequently asked questions on this FAQ page! Like how to find the AMU lists? Who are the student representatives? etc

NeuroDays 2021: a look back

This year, the event took place on 8 and 9 of November, welcoming about 80 neuroscientists. PhD students in Neurosciences organised a fully animated meeting, including lectures, poster sessions and even a movie show, to discuss current involvements of neurosciences in society, notably regarding the covid-19 crisis.

Foundation for medical research grant

The call for FRM End of Thesis funding should open in mid-December, watch the dedicated page 

MOOC: PhD and Career Development

The PhDOOC association offers a free online tool to make PhD students aware of existing and accessible tools and resources. This collaborative training allows them to evolve at their own pace by responding to their time and availability constraints while relying on a community.

📅 Start of the course Jan 12, 2022

Mobility grants for PhD students

You are a PhD student and you want to travel as part of your training? Whether it is to go to a conference, a summer school or simply to go and train abroad, many mobility grants are currently available.

Semaine du cerveau 2022: call for volunteers

Cerveau Point Comm is looking for volunteer PhD students to prepare a slideshow for 🏫 elementary, middle and high school students as part of 🧠 Brain Awareness Week.

👍 This work (supervised by researchers) can be validated as a training module of the ED62 doctoral school: 10 hours of disciplinary training + 12 hours of transversal training (exact numbers to be confirmed).

Report on Recruitment and Employment of Doctors in Government

International co-supervised PhD scholarships

NeuroSchool's PhD program offers to fund up to 54 months of PhD research distributed among several international co-supervised PhD research projects.
📅 Deadline February 21st, 2022. Call for applicants will follow.

CIVIS-Neurosciences Symposium: Trilateral meeting

The first CIVIS-Neurosciences Symposium will be held online on 📅 January 21, 2022, at 9:00 AM, with three leading universities of the CIVIS Alliance: Sapienza ( Rome), Eberhard Karls University (Tübingen) and NeuroMarseille.
Throughout the day, speakers from each university will discuss the following topics:
1- Neural cell structure / Organization,
2- Neural stem cells / Adult born neurons,
3- Social / Affective behaviour / Cognition,
4- Visuomotor / Communication,
5- Round table on Non-human primates.

📅 January 21, 2022, 9:00 AM
➕ More info to come

The company Neurochlore (campus of Luminy Marseille) sells:

- Two Double Patch-clamp setups including optogenetic modules (Axon amplifier, multi clamp 700B and Pclamp 11 standard software for window) bought in 2015 and 2018
- Ultra-Precise Small Animal Stereotaxic Instrument with mouse adaptator
- Stereomicroscope Nexiusszoom binocular with an LED light source
- Compact Safety Anesthesia unit with coaxial mask and temperature regulation unit
- Biosafety cabinet Class II (HERA Safe HS12 from Heraus)
- Fridges, freezers&hellip

Call for proposals : Problem-based learning for M1 students ("APP")

Students work in small teams on a topical issue in neuroscience, using state-of-the-art technologies in different laboratories in Marseille.
Researchers or engineers, if you have a proposal for a new module or wish to welcome students in your laboratory in an existing "APP", please contact the master's coordinators.

📅 Next session: April 2022

Recruiting? New resources in the researcher's kit!

Looking for the ideal candidate for your research team ? We've posted in our researcher's kit a list of websites where to post your job offers to optimize your recruitments.

CIVIS Open Labs

Our Open Labs connect CIVIS with local communities in all the cities and regions of our member universities.

Through these Open Labs and their projects, we support the development of universities that are participatory, inclusive, and open. By building a community of universities and citizens, we ensure that CIVIS has a real impact on people outside the university at local, regional and international levels.

Fellowship for a postdoctoral position in a company – Call for applications - OPEN

NeuroSchool, the Graduate School in Neuroscience of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), is offering to fund a one-year post-doctoral fellowship fully. The call for applications is open 🎉

AAP INTERDISICIPLINARITE A*Midex via NeuroMarseille

A*Midex launched last week the INTERDISCIPLINARITY Call . Each institute will present a maximum of 3 projects: consequently, NeuroMarseille will organize a pre-selection according to the criteria of excellence determined by Amidex.
Please find click here the documents related to the call.

🗓 Application form submission : deadline January 10, 2022 – 11:59 PM (UTC+1) to gabrielle.gallon@univ-amu.fr / copy to laboratory director.

L3 and M1 mobility scholarships

NeuroSchool offers mobility grants for internships abroad in the summer of 2022 for selected L3 and M1 students. Information and application on our website (link for L3 students, link for M1 students).

📅 Application deadlines: December 12, 2021 (M1) and January 30, 2022 (L3)

Incoming mobility grants

NeuroMarseille researchers, you can continue to propose internships for our master students and partner universities. 

Attention: a  given supervisor cannot host incoming trainees through NeuroSchool mobility grants simultaneously nor two years in a row.

International co-supervised PhD scholarships

NeuroSchool's PhD program offers to fund up to 54 months of PhD research distributed among several international co-supervised PhD research projects.
📅 Deadline February 21st, 2022. Call for applicants will follow.

🔬New calls for innovative and collaborative research & technical collaborations

NeuroMarseille institute wishes to promote scientific exchanges and encourage the emergence of new collaborative projects within Marseille’s neuroscience community. In this context, we are launching two new calls!

🔗 Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant in Neuroscience 
🔗 Technical Boost in Neuroscience

📅 Submit your application before 5 December

Results Platform for Neuroscience call

PSN 2021 (Platform Software for Neuroscience), the call opened by NeuroMarseille last month to provide the neuroscience community with software tools, has finally been won by seven researchers from different laboratories in Marseille attached to the institute. The winners were granted more than thirty thousand euros in licenses.

FENS FORUM 2022 AWARDS – CALL FOR APPLICATION

The French Neuroscience Society awards grants of € 200 each to PhD students and post-docs who are members of the Society to attend the FENS Forum 2022, which will take place in 📅 Paris, 9-13 July. The winners will also receive a free registration to attend NeuroFrance 2023 in Lyon.

Call for applications for the I-Lab startup creation competition, 2022 edition

At stake: funding for innovative projects of up to 600 K€, as well as adapted support
📅  Closing date for applications: 01/02/22

Call for applications for the I-PhD Young Doctors Competition 2022 Edition

At stake: mentoring, privileged access to the French Tech grant with an increased threshold, immersion in the deep tech ecosystem...
📅 Application deadline: 22/03/21

Fellowship for a postdoctoral position in a company – Call for applications - OPEN

NeuroSchool, the Graduate School in Neuroscience of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), is offering to fund a one-year post-doctoral fellowship fully.

Participate in INT's studies

INT teams often seek volunteer participants for their studies on cognition. These studies may involve behavioural, physiological or imaging approaches depending on the case.
✏️ You can register on the directory of healthy volunteers of the Institute of Neurosciences of Timone, by following this link ⤵️

The private R&D ecosystem and the role of the Young Doctor in companies (in French)

Doctoral College course "The private R&D ecosystem and the role of the Young Doctor in companies" given on 📅December 9 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm by Sabrina COQUENLORGE, Scientific Editor at FI Group and PhD in Biology.

MOOC: PhD and Career Development

The PhDOOC association offers doctoral students and PhDs a MOOC, a free online tool to make them aware of existing and accessible tools and resources. This collaborative training allows them to evolve at their own pace by responding to their time and availability constraints while relying on a community.

📅 Start of the course Jan 12, 2022

How burnout and imposter syndrome blight scientific careers

Most scientists love what they do, but job satisfaction levels hit a new low, Nature’s survey finds.

Paren(thèse) PACA

Paren(thèse) PACA continues to support you in your writing work!
The association also has several positions to fill: people in charge of online OR face-to-face writing days, writing retreat, partnerships, communication...

Many upcoming writing days and nights :
Journée 6 décembre
Journée 7 décembre

The team is launching the 1st Membership Campaign to support every researcher 🎓🧠🤝💼🗣 🎯! Here's the program that has a happy new year in store for Member Members.

Semaine du cerveau 2022 : call for volunteers

Cerveau Point Comm is looking for volunteer PhD students to prepare a slideshow for 🏫 elementary, middle and high school students as part of 🧠 Brain Awareness Week.

📅 The slideshow will be created at the end of 2021 - beginning of 2022, and the 👩‍🏫 presentations will occur in March and April. Contact them to help make the slideshow.

👍 This work (supervised by researchers) can be validated as a training module of the ED62 doctoral school: 10 hours of disciplinary training + 12 hours of transversal training (exact numbers to be confirmed).