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All the neuroscience news in January 2023

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

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The NeuroMarseille team wishes you a happy new year!

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NeuroMarseille research grants

NeuroMarseille continues to bring its laboratories closer together through its call for innovative and collaborative research (ICR) grants, and to promote state-of-the-art research through its Technical Boost call. Click on this link to discover the 2023 laureates.

Discover the laureates
Valérie Crépel, 2022 Innovation Prize
Valérie Crépel, 2022 Innovation Prize – unit 1249 Inserm/Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille ©Inserm/François Guénet

Valérie Crépel wins the 2022 INSERM Innovation Prize

Congratulations to Valérie Crépel, from INMED (Luminy), for winning the 2022 Innovation Prize from INSERM!

Read more

NeuroSchool launches 3 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

NeuroStories 2022: a success story!

Once again, the NeuroStories were a fantastic success! Follow this link to see again in pictures and videos the presentations of the 5 researchers of the 2022 edition, on the theme "Emprise de tête".

See pictures and watch videos

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:

🗓 January 2-13 (+ practical sessions): Animal experimentation training
🗓 January 16: UNITÆ seminar
🗓 January 17: Neurobinar #16
🗓 February 2 : NeuroSchool seminar (Nim Tottenham)
🗓 February 7: UNITÆ seminar
🗓 February 28 : deadline : call for NeuroSchool PhD projects
🗓 February 28: Neurobinar #17

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.

📌 Manuel Mercier (INS)
"Walking on a thin blue line, complex systems and existentialism"

📅 January 16, 2023, 4 PM
📍 Timone Campus, Main building, Red wing, 5th floor

Following seminar: Save the date!
February 7, 2023
Wolfgang Cramer
(IMBE)
"The International Panel on Climate Change, its future and ours"

Read more

NeuroBinar #16

Join us online for the first NeuroBinar of 2023 !

📌 Lisa Raoul (LPC): Being and having a body in development: a neurosciences study of bodily self-consciousness malleability and underpinning factors in adolescence
📌 Alicia Comino García-Muñoz (CRMBM): Characterization of brain sequelae in experimental cerebral malaria using neuroimaging techniques
📌 Antoine de Chevigny (INMED): A single-cell RNAseq approach to infer the molecular control of cerebral cortex development in the mouse
📅  January 17th - 1 pm

📍 Online on zoom

Register now!

NeuroSchool seminar by Nim Tottenham (Columbia U.)

Nim Tottenham, professor of Psychology at Columbia University, New York, will be our guest on February 2nd, 2023, for an online seminar on the Development of Emotion Regulation Neurobiology & the Role of the Parent.

📅 February 2nd, 2023
📍 Online
📢 Seminar open to all!

Register

NeuroMarseille lab seminars

In English, often available online

📌 INS

January 16th – 4 :00 pm : « “Walking on a thin blue line, existentialism and complex system” » – by Manuel Mercier, Engineer Equipe DCP, INS.
📍 Timone campus, Amphitheater 7, red wing, 5th floor.

February 7th – 4 :00 pm : « The International Panel on Climate Change, its future and us» – by Wolfgang Cramer, DR CNRS Professeur d’Ecologie Globale (IMBE)
📍 Timone campus, Grisoli Amphitheater.

 

📌 LNC

January 31st  : « Brain-peripheral couplings : temporal dynamics and behavioral relevance. » – by Luc ARNAL, Institut Pasteur
📍 Salle des Voûtes, Saint-Charles Campus and online

 

📌 CRMBM

January 18th – 5 :30 pm : « A quest for contrast: towards non-invasive high-resolution thalamic nuclei differentiation with multi-contrast 7T MRI » – by Dr. João Jorge, CSEM, Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland
📍 Visio link here 

Other events

Human Brain Project Event

#SAVE THE DATE for the Human Brain Project Event about Achievements and future of digital brain research.

📅 March 27-31, 2023
📍 Marseille

Register now!

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:
- January 31
for oral presentations
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program

EuroGlia 2023

The 16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease will take place in Berlin in July 2023: 30 symposia, an introductory course on glial cell biology, a workshop and seven plenary lectures by leading scientists... If you work on glia, register now!

📍 Berlin, Germany
📅 Event: July 8-11, 2023
🗓 Deadline to submit an abstract: February 6, 2023

Submit your abstract

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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M1: choosing your lab

To help you choose your M1 lab internship, you can go to: 
- in the internship offer section of our website: check both French and English sides, as they are not always equivalent.
- the directory of NeuroMarseille laboratories to select the researcg teams which interest you. Contact them even if they haven't published an offer yet!

Internship offers

Going abroad for a lab training in 2022-23

The call for applications for a mobility in one of our partner universities (Helsinki, Rome, Glasgow, Athens...) closes this month. This is an opportunity to combine lab training and cultural experience for all L3 and M1 neuroscience students!

📅 Deadline for M1 to apply : January 15th, 2023
📅 Deadline for L3 to apply : January 29th, 2023

See our calls

Neuronautes news

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

📅 January 19: End of semester party, check their Facebook page for details

📅 January 26, 7 PM: "Neurotalk des métiers", a conference to present to undergraduate and graduate students 6 different professional options in the field of neuroscience.
📍 Salle des Voûtes, bâtiment 9, Saint Charles campus

📅 February 9, 2023: interdisciplinary neurotalk on criminology.

Neuronautes Facebook

First alumni of our data science diploma

Last summer, NeuroSchool offered a new post-graduate diploma (DESU) in data science applied to neuroscience. During this course, 12 M2 or PhD level students developed skills that are highly sought after by research laboratories and companies.

Read their testimonials here

Other information

Machine learning for neuroscience

This Cajal course gives a hands-on introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and how it can be used for data acquisition, analysis and modeling brain activity and behavior.

📍 Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal
📅 9 - 29 July, 2023

Application deadline: 23 January, 2023

Information and registration

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:
- January 31
for oral presentations
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program

Find your internship on JobTeaser

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

Explore JobTeaser

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!

Election of NeuroSchool PhD Students' Representatives

Become the privileged link between your fellow students and NeuroMarseille-NeuroSchool direction: apply to our call for candidates to be one of our PhD students' representative!

📅 Deadline to apply: January 12th, 2023
📅 Vote: January 24th, 2023

Apply now!

NeuroSchool seminar by Nim Tottenham (Columbia U.)

Nim Tottenham, professor of Psychology at Columbia University, New York, will be our guest on February 2nd, 2023, for an online seminar on the Development of Emotion Regulation Neurobiology & the Role of the Parent.
PhD students participating in the entire event allows validate 3 hours of scientific training (4 for the chairperson).

📅 February 2nd, 2023
📍 Online
👉 Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students
📢 Seminar open to all

More information

Call for proposals for the 2023-24 tutored seminars

Participate in the PhD program call for proposals and suggest guests for our 2023-24 tutored seminars ! This is your chance to bring internationally recognized researchers to Marseille. Make your proposals, then the PhD program will submit the list to the students' vote.

📅 Deadline to propose spakers : Januray 18

submit a proposal

Neuroanatomy course

Take our advanced course in Functional Neuroanatomy, given every other year at NeuroSchool by researchers and physicians. The course will provide an overview of the main brain systems.
Only 18 seats!

📅 Register until Januray 20
📅 Course: February 24 - March 10
📍 NeuroSchool room, Timone campus
👍 Validates up to 17 training hours at ED62

Register on ametice

Mobility grants for PhD students

Do you want to travel as part of your PhD training? Whether it is to go to a conference, a summer school or simply to go and train abroad, many mobility grants are available. Check out this webpage to learn about funding opportunities, including our PhD program grants to go to thematic schools!

Check these mobility grants

First alumni of our data science diploma

Last summer, NeuroSchool offered a new post-graduate diploma (DESU) in data science applied to neuroscience. During this course, 12 M2 or PhD level students developed skills that are highly sought after by research laboratories and companies.

Read their testimonials here

End-of-PhD funding

Do you need more time to finish your PhD? Apply to the these 2 calls for end-of-PhD funding!

Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM)
Deadline: January 17, 2023

NeuroSchool end-of-PhD
Deadline: March 26, 2023

NeuroSchool End-of-PhD call
PhD Program Next events

📌 Meetings of the PhD program committee
Through Zoom and in our NeuroSchool meeting room

January 2023
Friday, January 13, 2023 - usual committee
Friday, January 20, 2023 - usual committee
Friday, January 27, 2023 - usual committee
February 2023
Friday, February 3, 2023 - extended committee

📌 Events
January 2-13 (+ practical sessions): Animal experimentation training
January 12: Call for candidates - PhD reprensentatives
January 17: Neurobinar #16
January 18: Call for proposals for tutored seminars
January 18: MOOC on Career Development
January 24: Elections of PhD students' representatives
February 2: Tutored seminar (Nim Tottenham)
Februray 24-March 10: Functional neuro-anatomy course
February 28: Neurobinar #17
March 13: Tutored seminar (Renzo Heuber)

Check out the Events section above for general events!

Other information

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!

Next sessions:
January 10, evening
January 17, evening
January 20, morning
January 24, evening
January 27, morning

Read their January newsletter

Paren(Thèse) Facebook page

Register to the PhD and Career Development online course!

We encourage PhD students and young researchers to take this online course (MOOC) on "PhD and Career Development". Prepare your future and get informed! Learn about existing and accessible tools and resources for your career development.

📅 Januray 18-March 1, 2023
🕒 2h / week

📍 Online
🇫🇷  🇬🇧 Bilingual FR/EN

Information + registration

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool support the Society for Neuroscience, which coordinates the annual Brain Awareness Week in France. For the next edition, in March 2023, become a volunteer and go to classrooms to raise public awareness about neuroscience research! Contact the Cerveau point Comm society now!

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

Brain Awareness Week program

EuroGlia 2023

The 16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease will take place in Berlin in July 2023: 30 symposia, an introductory course on glial cell biology, a workshop and seven plenary lectures by leading scientists... If you work on glia, register now!

📍 Berlin, Germany
📅 Event: July 8-11, 2023
🗓 Deadline to submit an abstract: February 6, 2023

Submit your abstract

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:
- January 31
for oral presentations
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program
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PhDs also take an oath!

Did you know that French PhDs in science now also take a research ethics oath?

Read more (in French)

Read more (in English)

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

NeuroSchool seminar by Nim Tottenham (Columbia U.)

Nim Tottenham, professor of Psychology at Columbia University, New York, will be our guest on February 2nd, 2023, for an online seminar on the Development of Emotion Regulation Neurobiology & the Role of the Parent.
PhD students participating in the entire event allows validate 3 hours of scientific training (4 for the chairperson).

📅 February 2nd, 2023
📍 Online
👉 Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students
📢 Seminar open to all

register

NeuroBinar #16

Join us online for the first NeuroBinar of 2023 !

📌 Lisa Raoul (LPC): Being and having a body in development: a neurosciences study of bodily self-consciousness malleability and underpinning factors in adolescence
📌 Alicia Comino García-Muñoz (CRMBM): Characterization of brain sequelae in experimental cerebral malaria using neuroimaging techniques
📌 Antoine de Chevigny (INMED): A single-cell RNAseq approach to infer the molecular control of cerebral cortex development in the mouse
📅  January 17th - 1 pm

📍 Online on zoom

Register now!

NeuroSchool launches 3 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

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.

📌 Manuel Mercier (INS)
"Walking on a thin blue line, complex systems and existentialism"

📅 January 16, 2023, 4 PM
📍 Timone Campus, Main building, Red wing, 5th floor

Following seminar: Save the date!
February 7, 2023
Wolfgang Cramer
(IMBE)
"The International Panel on Climate Change, its future and ours"

Read more

Intracranial EEG

Interested in the latest advances in human intracranial electroencephalography research ? Read these guidelines and good practices from Manuel Mercier (INS) and colleagues.

Read the article

Other information

EuroGlia 2023

The 16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease will take place in Berlin in July 2023: 30 symposia, an introductory course on glial cell biology, a workshop and seven plenary lectures by leading scientists... If you work on glia, register now!

📍 Berlin, Germany
📅 Event: July 8-11, 2023
🗓 Deadline to submit an abstract: February 6, 2023

Submit your abstract

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool support the Society for Neuroscience, which coordinates the annual Brain Awareness Week in France. For the next edition, in March 2023, become a volunteer and go to classrooms to raise public awareness about neuroscience research! Contact the Cerveau point Comm society now!

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

Brain Awareness Week program

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:
- January 31
for oral presentations
- March 1st
for posters

Explore the NeuroFrance program

Calls

All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!

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Going abroad

NeuroSchool offers mobility grants to its students to go train abroad.

📅 Deadline for M1 to apply : January 15th, 2023
📅 Deadline for L3 to apply : January 29th, 2023
📅 For PhD students :
no deadline, year-round call

See our calls

NeuroSchool launches 3 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 these 2 calls for end-of-PhD funding!

Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM)
Deadline: January 17, 2023

NeuroSchool end-of-PhD
Deadline: March 26, 2023

NeuroSchool End-of-PhD call

Other information

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool support the Society for Neuroscience, which coordinates the annual Brain Awareness Week in France. For the next edition, in March 2023, become a volunteer and go to classrooms to raise public awareness about neuroscience research! Contact the Cerveau point Comm society now!

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

Brain Awareness Week program

EuroGlia 2023

The 16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease will take place in Berlin in July 2023: 30 symposia, an introductory course on glial cell biology, a workshop and seven plenary lectures by leading scientists... If you work on glia, register now!

📍 Berlin, Germany
📅 Event: July 8-11, 2023
🗓 Deadline to submit an abstract: February 6, 2023

Submit your abstract

SALTO Call for projects : Max Planck Institutes

This call allows PhD students and post-doctoral researchers assigned in CNRS laboratories to benefit from 4-10 month mobility funding in a Max Planck Institute in Germany.

📅  Deadline : January 18, 2023

More information

Mourou-Strickland program

The French Embassy in Canada offers mobility grants for research exchanges between France and Canada (outside Quebec).

📅  Deadline : February 5, 2023

Check this call

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

Neuronautes news

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

📅 January 19: End of semester party, check their Facebook page for details

📅 January 26, 7 PM: "Neurotalk des métiers", a conference to present to undergraduate and graduate students 6 different professional options in the field of neuroscience.
📍 Salle des Voûtes, bâtiment 9, Saint Charles campus

📅 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

Call for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Week

NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool support the Society for Neuroscience, which coordinates the annual Brain Awareness Week in France. For the next edition, which will take place in March 2023, you can become a volunteer by joining a local committee! In Marseille, the society in charge of the organization is Cerveau point Comm. Do you want to share your progress and raise public awareness about neuroscience research? Then contact the Cerveau point Comm society now!

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

more information

News from the Paren(Thèse) society

For the end of 2022, this student's society, whose goal is to help sudents with their studies and especially with their writing tasks, reinforces its support for the students and proposes its program for December. To develop its activities, it also calls on students who want to get involved in its mission to join the team!

society's information for december 2022

Career

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

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

Register to the PhD and Career Development online course!

We encourage PhD students and young researchers to take this online course (MOOC) on "PhD and Career Development". Prepare your future and get informed! Learn about existing and accessible tools and resources for your career development.

📅 Januray 18-March 1, 2023
🕒 2h / week

📍 Online
🇫🇷  🇬🇧 Bilingual FR/EN

Information and registration

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!

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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