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All the neuroscience news in January
Discover the news of the Marseille neuroscience community for January 2022!
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Happy new year 2022 !
Happy New Year and best wishes!
For this new year, we have concocted for you a superb greeting card! An artistic composition resulting from the 1st prize of the Art and Science photo competition, by François Féron (INP) and Nicolas Brouilly (IBDM) 🤩. We send you lots of 🌞 and may 2022 be a rich year full of good surprises for you!
Exhibition: "The Art of Science"
The first edition of the photo contest organized by the Institute gives rise to an exhibition, organized from January 8 to 23, at the Galerie Le Pangolin in Marseille, from Wednesday to Sunday.
❌ Due to health constraints, the inauguration of January 8 at 6 p.m. has been canceled: rest assured the exhibition will remain open to everyone from January 8 at 11 a.m.
🌞 Good news: a meeting around these photos in the presence of the winners, in the form of an aperitif-debate, will be held on 🗓 Saturday January 22 at 4 p.m.!
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 fully fund a one-year post-doctoral fellowship. The call for applications remains open 🎉
Apply now
CIVIS tripartite Symposium
The first CIVIS-Neuroscience tripartite 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 Aix-Marseille-University - NeuroMarseille.
Have a look at the program with themes and conferences by following the link below. An excellent opportunity to start collaborations!
Remember to register!
📅 January 21, 2022, 9:00 am
📍 Online on zoom
Events
All the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute & NeuroSchool, as well as external events.
Dates to note down!
Summary of events at NeuroMarseille:
🗓 08-23 January: exhibition "The Art of Science"
🗓 10 January: interdisciplinarity call for application deadline
🗓 11 January: NeuroSchool PhD Program Welcome Day
🗓 21 January: CIVIS Symposium
🗓 22 January: "The Art of Science" exhibition's appetizer/debate
🗓 4 February: Seminar from Adrienne Fairhall
🗓 10 February: Clinical session on Parkinson's disease
Exhibition: "The Art of Science"
The first edition of the photo contest organized by the Institute gives rise to an exhibition, organized from January 8 to 23, at the Galerie Le Pangolin in Marseille, from Wednesday to Sunday.
❌ Due to health constraints, the inauguration of January 8 at 6 p.m. has been canceled: rest assured the exhibition will remain open to everyone from January 8 at 11 a.m.
🌞 Good news: a meeting around these photos in the presence of the winners, in the form of an aperitif-debate, will be held on 🗓 Saturday January 22 at 4 p.m.!
CIVIS tripartite Symposium
The first CIVIS-Neuroscience tripartite 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 Aix-Marseille-University - NeuroMarseille.
Have a look at the program with themes and conferences by following the link below. An excellent opportunity to start collaborations!
Remember to register to attend this event!
📅 January 21, 2022, 9:00 am
📍 Online on zoom
Tutored seminar - Adrienne Fairhall
The NeuroSchool Ph.D. Program has invited Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Tuesday, February 4, 2022, at 2:30 pm, for a seminar on variability, learning, and robustness in birdsong. Save the date and register to attend!
📅 February 4 at 2:30 pm
📍 Online on zoom / on-site INT (depending on the sanitary situation)
📢 Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Clinical session #2: a dialogue on Parkinson's 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's disease. In this one-and-a-half-hour exchange between researchers and clinicians, we invite you to discover two sides of research on Parkinson's disease, one fundamental and the other more clinical.
📅 February 10 at 2:00 pm
📍 Online on zoom / on-site, amphi HA2 (ground floor, Timone HOSPITAL) - depending on the sanitary situation
📢 speakers: Stephan GRIMALDI (clinical and applied research) and Sonia DI BISCEGLIE CABALLERO (fundamental research)
6th Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research
Register now!
The 6th HBP Student Conference provides an open forum to exchange new ideas among early-career researchers working across various scientific fields relevant to the Human Brain Project (HBP). Open to the entire student and junior researchers community, affiliated or not with the HBP. Participants without contributions to the scientific program are also welcome.
📅 Tuesday, 22-25 Feb 2022, 11:00 am
📍 Hybrid Event
NeuroMarseille lab seminars
In English, often available online
📌 INMED
– January 17th, 5 pm: “Role of the immune system in adaptive and maladaptive neural circuit plasticity after brain injury”, by Jeanne Paz – Associate Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease – UCSF –
📍 Inmed meeting room
– January 24th, 2 pm: “Assessing the mechanism and the functional impact of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity”, by Kaoutsar Nasrallah – Research Associate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine – NY
📍 Inmed meeting room
Previous events at NeuroMarseille
Have a look at the main events that animated life around NeuroMarseille during the last few weeks!
Neurostories 2021: a great success
Neurostories: the event on November 25 of 2021 was a great success, gathering 150 attendees on-site and 700 more online!
The theme “Beyond the five senses,” 5 speakers came to explain their knowledge about senses unknown from the general public, captured the attention with surprising experiences and exciting testimonials.
Neurobinar #11: a look back
In this article, find the video of the eleventh edition, which took place on December 14th, 2021, with Maxime Cazorla from INT, Mostafa Seblani from ISM, and Guillaume Frébourg from CRMBM/ETS-Montréal.
🎥 Watch the video
Training
Discover training available to students and staff, as well as scholarships .
Learning French
Several options are available for you to learn our language here in Marseille! Have a look at AMU's proposals as well as other associations. Options are free of charge or not, depending on your situation. Check the link below or contact us for more information.
Further information
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 NeuroMarseille.
If you have a proposal for new modules or wish to welcome students in your laboratory for an existing "APP," researchers, or engineers, please contact the master's coordinators.
📅 Next session: April 2022
Mental Health First Aid Training - PSSM
Objectives of the training;
• To acquire basic knowledge about mental health disorders.
• Develop interpersonal skills: listening without judgment, reassuring, and giving information.
• Better deal with aggressive behaviors.
• Test and appropriate an action plan that can be used to provide immediate support for mental health problems.
L3 / Master
This section will find the actions carried out with our 3rd-year undergraduate and master's students.
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 for M1 is now closed ❌ - selection underway
📅 Application for L3: still open ✔️ deadline January 30, 2022
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.
📅 Projects must be submitted via our website at the latest on Sunday, February 21st, 2022.
Feedback on the M2 2021 scientific symposium
Between November 29 and December 1, 2021, Master 2 students at NeuroSchool were given a scientific symposium, including several conferences from ranking lecturers, on-site or at a remote location. For more details, have a look at the article below ⬇️
Feedback on the M2 2021 symposium
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.
Participate in INT studies
INT teams often seek volunteer participants for their studies on cognition. Depending on the case, these studies may involve behavioral, physiological, or imaging approaches.
✏️ You can register on the directory of healthy volunteers of the INT: Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, by following this link ⤵️
PhD program
Read all the news about our PhD program.
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
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
📍 online on zoom
Save the date: next tutored seminar from Adrienne Fairhall
We are pleased to welcome Adrienne Fairhall on the 🗓 February 4 for a tutored seminar.
Her group develops theoretical approaches to understand processing in nervous systems. They collaborate closely with experimental labs to uncover information processing algorithms in various systems. The theme of her seminar is Variability, learning, and robustness in birdsong.
📅 Friday, February 4, 2022, 2:30 PM
📍 online on zoom or on-site at the INT, Marseille
Professional actions survey 2022
NeuroMarseille - NeuroSchool will be organizing different actions for you to be ready to meet potential future employers🤝, especially outside of academia. LAST CALL: Please take 5 minutes to answer this brief survey to tell us precisely what you need so we can adapt our actions in 2022!
Fill the formClinical session #2: a dialogue on Parkinson's disease
On February 10, 2022, researchers and clinicians will meet for the second clinical session of NeuroMarseille, to discuss Parkinson's disease for an hour and a half. Meet our speakers, Stephan GRIMALDI and Sonia DI BISCEGLIE CABALLERO, to have details about this concerning the condition.
📅 Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 2 PM
📍 online on zoom / on-site, amphi HA2 (ground floor, Timone HOSPITAL) - depending on the sanitary situation
📢 speakers: Stephan GRIMALDI (clinical and applied research) and Sonia DI BISCEGLIE CABALLERO (fundamental research)
Checklists for international students and supervisors
We've prepared 2 checklists for incoming international students and their supervisors to guide them through paperwork (google spreadsheet format):
Link to student's checklist
Link to supervisor's checklist
You should be able to find those lists on several pages of the website soon; until then,
comments and suggestions are welcome!
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.
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
Foundation for medical research grant
The call for FRM End of Thesis funding has been open since mid-December, and application files should close on 📅 January 19, 2022. Pay attention to the calendar and get more information on the FRM website.
Find out more
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.
More info PhD Program Next events
📌 Meetings of the PhD program committee
Currently only through Zoom
January 2022
Friday, January 7th, 2022 - enlarged committee
Friday, January 14th, 2022
Friday, January 21st, 2022 - during the CIVIS symposium lunchbreak
Friday, January 28th, 2022 - no meeting
📌 Events
- January 11: Welcome Day
- January 12: clinical internship
- February 4: Fairhall Seminar (zoom or INT)
- February 10: clinical session
You are a PhD student in neuroscience at AMU not yet enrolled in the NeuroSchool PhD program? As it isn't automatic don't forget to apply and join the community!
Fill out the form in the link below without further delay!
Research
Discover information from NeuroMarseille and its partners on topics of interest to your research.
CIVIS-Neuroscience Symposium: Trilateral meeting
The first CIVIS-Neuroscience tripartite 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 Aix-Marseille-University - NeuroMarseille.
Have a look at the program with themes and conferences by following the link below. An excellent opportunity to start collaborations!
Remember to register to attend this event!
📅 January 21, 2022, 9:00 am
📍 Online on zoom
Recruiting? New resources in the researcher's kit!
Are you looking for the ideal candidate for your research team? We've posted a list of websites where to post your job offers and optimize your recruitments in our researcher's kit.
Check out our researchers's kit
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 NeuroMarseille.
If you have a proposal for new modules or wish to welcome students in your laboratory for an existing "APP," researchers, or engineers, please contact the master's coordinators.
📅 Next session: April 2022
Neurochlore (Luminy) is selling electrophysiology equipment
- 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
CIVIS Open Labs
"Open Labs" connect CIVIS with local communities in all the cities and regions of member universities.
Through these Open Labs and their projects, CIVIS supports the development of participatory, inclusive, and open universities. By building a community of universities and citizens, CIVIS has a real impact on people outside the university at local, regional, and international levels.
Calls
All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!
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 remains open 🎉
Find out more
Call: doctoral contracts for international students
The Aix-Marseille University Doctoral Program in Neurosciences (AMU) offers several 3 thesis contracts lasting 3 years to students who have completed a master's degree outside of France. The contracts are fully funded by NeuroSchool.
📅 Submission of projects will be closed on 21st of February 2022.
Doctoral scholarships - PhD for MD
The Aix-Marseille University Doctoral Program in Neurosciences (AMU) offers to finance a year of science thesis for interns, young doctors or pharmacy graduates.
📅 Submission of applications will be closed on 1st of March 2022.
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 for M1 is now closed ❌ - selection underway
📅 Application for L3: still open ✔️ deadline January 30, 2022
International co-supervised PhD scholarships
NeuroSchool PhD program offers to fund up to 54 months of PhD research distributed among several international co-supervised PhD research projects.
📅Projects must be submitted via our website at the latest on Sunday, February 21st, 2022.
AAP INTERDISICIPLINARITE A*Midex via NeuroMarseille
A*Midex launched last month the INTERDISCIPLINARITY Call. Each institute will present a maximum of 3 projects: consequently, NeuroMarseille is currently organizing a pre-selection according to the criteria of excellence determined by Amidex. Dead-line very soon!
Please click here to find 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.
The Alzheimer Foundation is launching its 2022 calls for projects!
Because we believe in your perseverance and in progress to improve patient care, the Alzheimer Foundation 🧠 is now launching new ambitious calls for projects:
- Joël Ménard Prize rewards doctors and scientists under the age of 40.
- Young Researchers Allowances aim to facilitate the integration of young researchers into French laboratories.
- Calls for thematic projects, which support innovative research work.
Complete files must be submitted before April 30, 2022.
Campaign Call for AAP South Region projects 2022 (APOG / APEX / Platforms)
The Region's 2022 calls for research projects have been published. To date, only APR components APOG, APEX, Platforms are offered. Like last year, the APRS Scientific events and edition are not planned at this stage by the South Region.
📅 From Tuesday 08/02 to Tuesday 15/02/22: verification and validation of files by the campus RVDs and the DAF
Competition : "My 3Rs in 180 s"
For its 2022 meeting in Marseille, June 13-16, 2022, the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) organizes a contest of oral presentations where it will reward both innovation, eloquence, and the ability to present advances in the field replacement, reduction, and refinement (3Rs).
📅 Submit your abstract by 7th of January
🔗 Guidelines to submit an abstract
At the same time, you can register for congress.
Prizes of 1000€, 750€, 500 € for the 3 best talks!
📅 Application deadline: 07/01/22
AMU Fellow 2022-2023 call
Apply for the annual "AMU Fellow" 2022-23 call designed especially for Aix-Marseille University teacher-researchers. 4 AMU Fellows will be welcomed during 2022-23. Research projects must fall within one of IMéRA's four scientific programs, which are: "Arts, Sciences, and Society," "Interdisciplinary Explorations," "Mediterranean," and "Necessary Utopias." This delegation gives rise to a complete discharge of the course for its entire duration, corresponding to 6 months.
📅 Closing of the call: January 24, 2022, at 2 p.m.
FENS FORUM 2022 AWARDS – CALL FOR APPLICATION
The French Neuroscience Society offers a € 200 grant 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 complimentary registration to attend NeuroFrance 2023 in Lyon.
📅 Reminder: the early registration deadline is February 22, 2022
Call for applications for the I-Lab startup creation competition, 2022 edition
At stake: funding for innovative projects 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: 22/03/22
Fight against psychoactive substance use and addiction - SPAV2
The National Cancer Institute (INCa) proposes a call to support research and produce knowledge in the field of psychoactive substance use, and the fight against addictions.
Between 50 and 100 k € will be granted, for 12 to 48 months according to chosen modalities.
📅 Application deadline: 10/03/22
Career
Job offers, internships, PhD projects, professional events & training
Professional actions survey 2022
NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool will be organizing different actions for you to be ready to meet potential future employers🤝, especially outside of academia.
LAST CALL: Please take 5 minutes to answer this brief survey to tell us precisely what you need so we can adapt our actions in 2022!
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 🎉
Find out more
A postdoc in the industry?
Remember to check our NeuroSchool call for postdocs in local companies. Some companies offer postdoctoral programs, for example, Roche or the Jackson Labs.
You may find what you are looking for!
ABG practical guide to an effective elevator pitch
Here's a method and a few tips to help you introduce yourself and inspire others to find out more about you! Have a glimpse: "Pitches should not be improvised on the spot. The best pitchers may lead you to believe that the speaker is improvising. But in fact, that's not the case."
Find out more
How to tell a compelling story in scientific presentations
Scientific presentations are too often dull and ineffective. Their focus on techniques and data does not make it easy for the audience to understand the main point of the research.
If you want to reach beyond the narrow group of scientists who work in your specific area, you need to tell your audience members why they should be interested.
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
Participate in INT's studies
INT teams often seek volunteer participants for their studies on cognition. Depending on the case, these studies may involve behavioral, physiological, or imaging approaches.
✏️ You can register on the directory of healthy volunteers of the INT: Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, by following this link ⤵️
Job offers
PhD projects
| Location | Offer | Structure |
|---|---|---|
| Paris, France | 2 PhD positions : Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance | AP-HP |
| Leeds, UK | Development of superselective probes to target perineuronal nets for understanding the plasticity of neurons | University of Leeds |
| Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada | Dissection of salamander locomotor circuits | Université de Sherbrooke |
| Thèse CIFRE sur le jeu | Game in Lab | |
| Fontenay-aux-Roses, Ile-de-France, France | IA pour l’analyse dose-réponse et la prédiction de lésions cérébrales et de troubles cognitifs radio-induits | IRSN |
| Austria | Fully-funded PhD position at IST Austria | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
Societies
The latest news from student's societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool
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.
Also, they now need volunteers to go and present the slides in schools!
📅 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 and more information.
👍 Mind that 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
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 :
- Editorial rally - January 10 to 13, 2022
- 17th Drafting Day - Monday, January 17, 2022
- 18th Drafting Day - Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (2)
The team is launching the 1st Membership Campaign to support every researcher 🎓🧠🤝💼🗣 🎯! Here's the program with a happy new year in store for members.
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