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All the neuroscience news in February 2023

Discover the news of the Marseille neuroscience community for February 2023!

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NeuroMarseille Day, 29 June : save your date!

NeuroMarseille will invite the entire neuroscience community on Thursday, June 29, 2023, for a day of convivial gathering around science.
Hongkui Zeng, Director of Structured Science, Allen Institute for Brain Science, will be our special guest for a keynote lecture at #NeuroMarseille Day. 

Debate, workhops... more to come soon! Meanwhile, block your day!!

📅 June 29, 2023
📍 Luminy Campus

NeuroLunch & Learn: a new event for a new year!

Do you remember NeuroBinars?
Well, this year, NeuroMarseille has decided to bring you something new. NeuroBinars now become NeuroLunch & Learn.

We will welcome Samuel Medina Villalon (engineer, INS), Borana Dollomaja (PhD, INS), and Matthieu Gilson (researcher, INT).

First session’s theme: computational neurosciences, personalized medicine from data to model.

📅 Join us on February 28 for our first NeuroLunch!
📍 St Charles Campus, Salle des Voutes & online - 12:15 pm

Register

Congratulations to Adam Williamson

On being awarded an ERC Consolidator for his EMUNITI project: "Epilepsy Treatment Using Neuromodulation by Non-Invasive Temporal Interference Stimulation".

Very proud of his brilliant researcher, NeuroMarseille would also like to thank the members of the GINTER-ERC working group for their friendly and professional help to Adam!
Community is strength!

Read more!

NeuroSchool calls for PhD projects

PhD contracts for international co-supervised PhDs
PhD contracts for international students
One-year PhD salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist

Submit maximum one project for calls from NeuroSchool (except PhD for MD) / other Institutes / ED62 doctoral school / PhD Programs linked to ED62.

🗓 Deadline to submit a research project: February 28, 2023

Browse our calls

Events

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

NeuroMarseille internal events

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Dates to note down!

Summary of upcoming events at NeuroMarseille:

🗓 February 28 : deadline : call for NeuroSchool PhD projects
🗓 February 28: NeuroLunch & Learn : new event
🗓 March 4: Forum Sciences Cognitives (Saint-Charles)

New seminar series: what neuroscience for the anthropocene era?

Join us for the first seminar of UNITÆ, a NeuroMarseille-funded interdisciplinary project which aims to drive neuroscience towards ecological practices.

📅  Postponed : March 16, at 4 pm !
📍 Timone campus, salle Gastaut
📌 Wolfgang Cramer
(IMBE)
"The International Panel on Climate Change, its future and ours"

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Neuro Seminar by Renzo Huber

Renzo Huber will be our guest on March 13, 2023, for an online seminar on layer fMRI and its applications in neuroscience.

Renzo is currently a staff scientist at the Functional Magnetic Resonance Facility (FMRIF), NIH, Bethesda, and an affiliate assistant professor in MR methods at Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Netherlands.

📅 March 13, 2023, at 2:00pm
📍 Online
📢 Seminar open to all

Register

NeuroMarseille lab seminars

📌 INS

Postponed to March 16 – 4 :00 pm : « The International Panel on Climate Change, its future and u s» – by Wolfgang Cramer, DR CNRS Professeur d’Écologie Globale (IMBE)
📍 Timone campus, salle Gastaut.

📌 LNC

February 27th– 1:30 pm by Martina RIEGER
📍 Saint-Charles campus, Salle des Voûtes

📌 INT

In February, Dr. Jòzsef Fiser from the Central European University is visiting the INT. He will present his work and more broadly the theoretical background relevant in learning and decision-making research, through a series of talks:

Lab seminar Friday, February 17th: “Statistical learning in vision and beyond

Pedagogical seminars:

Monday, February 20, 9-12 am: Designing and conducting learning experiments for humans and other animals.
📍 Timone campus, salle Gastaut

Monday, February 27, 9-12 am: Designing and using decision-making experiments for investigating dynamical complex decisions.
📍 Timone campus, salle Gastaut

Scientific day : Spinal Cord Club

The Spinal Cord Club is organizing a scientific day to give young PhD students/postdocs/researchers from Marseille the opportunity to present their research on the spinal cord.

📅 9 March 2023 --> postponed to June 2023, more information will come
📍 Hexagone, Luminy campus

Propose your contribution

ISMRM Workshop

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of X‐Nuclei (23Na & Friends): From Controversies to Potential Clinical Applications, Part II

📍 Pharo, Marseille
📅 March 28-30, 2023

Information and registration

Human Brain Project Event

Achievements and future of digital brain research.

📅 March 27-31, 2023
📍 Pharo, Marseille

Register now!

ECCN 2023

18th European Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology.
An exciting and wide-ranging program is proposed, including topics in all areas of clinical neurophysiology, of interest to clinicians, researchers and paramedical staff.

📍 Marseille, France
📅 May 9-12, 2023

More information

NeuroFrance 2023

Get ready to meet the French neuroscience community this spring! NeuroFrance will fund selected participating students (from L3 to PhD): stay tuned for more information!

📍 Lyon, France
📅 May 24-26, 2023
🗓 Deadlines to submit an abstract:
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program

NeuroSchool L3 / Master

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

NeuroSchool information

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Scientific communication diploma

NeuroSchool offers its master's and PhD students the opportunity to enroll in EJCAM's DESU "Techniques de communication scientifique".

Application deadline: March 19, 2023

Submit an application

DESU "Data science applied to neuroscience"

The call for candidates is open for the 2nd edition of our postgraduate diploma (DESU) in Data science applied to neuroscience. nEURo*AMU/NeuroSchool finances the enrolment of selected M2 and PhD students. Training is scheduled between July 4-13, 2023, then in late August, early September, 2023, with a project to be completed during the summer.

🗓 Deadline for application: Sunday, March 19, 2023

Submit an application

MOOC Project Management

NeuroSchool is offering to pay for its students’ registration to a famous online course in Project Management.

Course overview

Pre-registrer on Ametice

NeuroSchool PhD program

Read all the news about our PhD program.

NeuroSchool information

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

New elected PhD Students' representatives

The following PhD students’ representatives are elected from 1 February 2023 for a two-year term of office:

- Luminy campus: Aurélien Fortoul (INMED)
- Saint-Charles campus: Sophia Faresse (LNC)
- Timone campus: Cléo Schoeffel (INT). 
Congratulations! All PhD students can contact them if needed.

They are the privileged link between students and the management of NeuroMarseille-NeuroSchool by sitting on the board of directors and Institute council.

 

NeuroSchool seminar by Renzo Huber

Renzo Huber will be our guest on March 13, 2023, for an online seminar on layer fMRI and its applications in neuroscience.

Renzo is currently a staff scientist at the Functional Magnetic Resonance Facility (FMRIF), NIH, Bethesda, and an affiliate assistant professor in MR methods at Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Netherlands.

PhD students participating in the entire event validate 3 hours of scientific training (4 for the chairperson).

📅 March 13, 2023  
📍 Online
👉 Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students
📢 Seminar open to all

More information

It's your turn to choose the speakers for the 2023-24 tutored seminars

Click on the link below to select your favorite speakers out of the 29 speakers proposed for the 2023-24 edition of the NeuroSchool tutored seminars.

Choose your favorite speakers

Diploma in Data science applied to neuroscience

The call for candidates is open for the 2nd edition of our postgraduate diploma (DESU) in Data science applied to neuroscience. nEURo*AMU/NeuroSchool finances the enrolment of selected M2 and PhD students. Training is scheduled between July 4-13, 2023, then in late August, early September, 2023, with a project to be completed during the summer.

🗓 Deadline for application: Sunday, March 19, 2023

Submit an application
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Scientific communication diploma

NeuroSchool offers its master's and PhD students the opportunity to enroll in EJCAM's DESU "Techniques de communication scientifique".

Application deadline: March 19, 2023

Submit an application

End-of-PhD funding

Do you need more time to finish your PhD? Apply to the NeuroSchool call for end-of-PhD funding!

Deadline: March 26, 2023

NeuroSchool End-of-PhD call
PhD Program Next events

🗓 24 Feb -10 March: Functional neuro-anatomy course
🗓 28 Feb: End of the poll for 2023-24 tutored seminars
🗓 28 Feb: NeuroLunch & Learn (St Charles)

🗓 6 March MOOC gestion de projet. Deadline: 8 February
🗓 13 March : Tutored seminar (Renzo Huber)
🗓 26 Mar: End-of-PhD call deadline
 
Check out the Events section above for general events!

Other information

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

The Brain Week Committee is looking for volunteers to intervene in schools in 2023. The objective is to raise awareness and interest in the scientific process among elementary, middle and high school students and to help them discover certain aspects of brain function. You will choose an existing slide show to present in class according to the level of the students.

To intervene in the classes, please fill in the following registration form:

📅 Call for volunteers: ongoing
📅 Brain Awareness Week : March 13-19, 2023

Registration form

NeuroFrance 2023

Get ready to meet the French neuroscience community this spring! NeuroFrance will fund selected participating students (from L3 to PhD): stay tuned for more information!

📍 Lyon, France
📅 Event: May 24-26, 2023
🗓 Deadlines to submit an abstract:
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program

MarMaRa PhD program : Introduction to microscopy for cell and tissue imaging

Are you interested to learn about the applications of microscopy techniques in biology?
Do you want to have basic notions in optics related to image formation?

Speakers :
Serge Monneret & Sophie Brasselet - Research Director CNRS, Institut Fresnel

📍 Marseille, France
📅 Thursday 16th March, 2023 (face-to-face only)
🗓  Early registration is open until 26 February 2023.

Online registration

Research

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

Information from NeuroMarseille and its 9 laboratories

NeuroLunch & Learn : A new event for a new year!

Do you remember NeuroBinars?
Well, this year, NeuroMarseille has decided to bring you something new.
NeuroBinars now become NeuroLunch & Learn.

We will welcome Samuel Medina Villalon (engineer, INS), Borana Dollomaja (PhD, INS), and Matthieu Gilson (researcher, INT).

First session’s theme: computational neurosciences, personalized medicine from data to model.

📅 Join us on February 28 for our first NeuroLunch!
📍 St Charles Campus, Salle des Voutes & Zoom online - 12:15 pm
👉 On-site: register for the lunch & talk Remote: no need to register for Zoom,  the link is below (coming soon)

Register

NeuroSeminar by Renzo Huber

Renzo Huber will be our guest on March 13, 2023, for an online seminar on layer fMRI and its applications in neuroscience.

Renzo is currently a staff scientist at the Functional Magnetic Resonance Facility (FMRIF), NIH, Bethesda, and an affiliate assistant professor in MR methods at Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Netherlands.

📅 March 13, 2023, 2 pm
📍 Online
👉 Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students
📢 Seminar open to all

register

NeuroSchool calls for PhD projects

PhD contracts for international co-supervised PhDs
PhD contracts for international students
One-year PhD salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist

Submit maximum one project for calls from NeuroSchool (except PhD for MD) / other Institutes / ED62 doctoral school / PhD Programs linked to ED62.

🗓 Deadline to submit a research project: February 28, 2023

Browse our calls

Discover recent research featuring INS researchers

INS researchers have recently done a lot of research on different themes: multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, ALS...
Discover this in detail through the articles of the Human Brain project

Read the article

Creation of Le labo des minots

Labo des minots is a joint platform of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (LNC) and the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory (LPC), two joint research units of Aix-Marseille University and the CNRS, in collaboration with other local laboratories.
The teams bring together researchers who are experts in language development, social cognition and sensorimotricity. They work together to contribute to a better understanding of human development.

More information

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

The Brain Week Committee is looking for volunteers to intervene in schools in 2023. The objective is to raise awareness and interest in the scientific process among elementary, middle and high school students and to help them discover certain aspects of brain function. You will choose an existing slide show to present in class according to the level of the students.

To intervene in the classes, please fill in the following registration form:

📅 Call for volunteers: ongoing
📅 Brain Awareness Week : March 13-19, 2023

Registration form

NeuroFrance 2023

Get ready to meet the French neuroscience community this spring! NeuroFrance will fund selected participating students (from L3 to PhD): stay tuned for more information!

📍 Lyon, France
📅 Event: May 24-26, 2023
🗓 Deadlines to submit an abstract:
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program

Calls

All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!

NeuroSchool calls for PhD projects

PhD contracts for international co-supervised PhDs
PhD contracts for international students
One-year PhD salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist

Submit maximum one project for calls from NeuroSchool (except PhD for MD) / other Institutes / ED62 doctoral school / PhD Programs linked to ED62.

🗓 Deadline to submit a research project: February 28, 2023

Browse our calls

End-of-PhD funding

Do you need more time to finish your PhD? Apply to the NeuroSchool call for end-of-PhD funding!

Deadline: March 26, 2023

NeuroSchool End-of-PhD call

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

The Brain Week Committee is looking for volunteers to intervene in schools in 2023. The objective is to raise awareness and interest in the scientific process among elementary, middle and high school students and to help them discover certain aspects of brain function. You will choose an existing slide show to present in class according to the level of the students.

To intervene in the classes, please fill in the following registration form:

📅 Call for volunteers: ongoing
📅 Brain Awareness Week : March 13-19, 2023

Registration form

i-PhD Innovation Contest

Do you have a project to enhance the value of an innovative technology that can lead to a deeptech startup?
Check out the i-PhD competition!

📅 Deadline : March 30, 2023

Participate in the competition!

Students' societies

The latest news from students societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool

Join the NeuroCommunity alumni!

We put at your disposal a LinkedIn group dedicated to alumni and current members: share your ideas, needs, job proposals, collaborations, calls for help, advice, good tips… or anything else!

More information

Neuronautes news

The Neuronautes are preparing many events for 2023, starting with:

📅 February 9, 2023: interdisciplinary neurotalk on criminology.

neuronautes' facebook

Join the Neurolink society!

Neurolink is looking for brains as well as arms and hearts!
PhD students and postdocs: join now to organise scientific, social and networking events!

Become a member of NeuroLink

News from the Paren(Thèse) society

It is sometimes difficult to start writing your thesis alone in front of your computer... For you, Paren(Thèse) offers collective online writing sessions!

More information

Career

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

Find a job on NeuroCommunity

We put at your disposal a LinkedIn group dedicated to alumni and current members: there, you can find job proposals

Join the linkedin group

Find a job or internship on JobTeaser

New: AMU offers its students and graduates access to the JobTeaser platform to help them find an internship or a job. Register through the ENT or the following link.

Explore JobTeaser

Where to find job offers

Check out these websites if you’re looking for a job or a PhD project:

And of course, join our NeuroCommunity group on LinkedIn!

NeuroCommunity group

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