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All the neuroscience news in March 2023

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

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NeuroSeminar by Renzo Huber

Renzo Huber, staff scientist at The Functional Magnetic Resonance Facility (FMRIF), NIH, Bethesda will be our guest on March 13, 2023, for an online seminar on the Layer fMRI and its applications in neuroscience.

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

Register

Congratulations to Rochelle ACKERLEY!

Rochelle ACKERLEY receives the #ERC Proof of Concept grant, attached to her ERC Consolidator. Her #SOMATOSENSE project aims to forward the development of novel somatosensory testing equipment in humans.

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 NeuroSchool opens its 2 calls for PhD candidates!

In early March, NeuroSchool will open its 2 classical calls for PhD candidates :
• PhD contracts for international students
• One-year PhD salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist
  
 🗓 Deadline to apply : April 2, 2023 (May 2 for PhD for MD)

Browse our calls

Writing grant applications: feedback on a training for postdocs!

Last month, NeuroMarseille held an exclusive workshop session on funding applications for young PhDs, by David KARLIN.
Read their testimonies and the most valuable part of this training.

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Brain Awareness Week

The association Cerveau Point Comm, composed of researchers from Neuromarseille, has concocted a beautiful program for the 2023 edition of Brain Week in Marseille. Discover the program!

📅 07-26 March

Program

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:

🗓 March 4: Forum Sciences Cognitives (Saint-Charles)
🗓 March 7-26 : Brain Awareness Week
🗓 March 9: Brain Week 2023 Conference Neuronautes
🗓 March 13: NeuroSeminar by Renzo Huber
🗓 April 3: NeuroSeminar by Freyja Ollafsdotir

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, at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, will be our special guest for a keynote lecture at #NeuroMarseille Day. 
Convivial buffet, debate, workshops... more to come soon! Meanwhile, block your day!!

📅 June 29, 2023
📍 Luminy Campus

Neuro Seminar by Freyja Olafsdottir 

Freyja Olafsdottir will be our guest on April 3, 2023, at INMED, Luminy, for a seminar on the hippocampal single-neuron and network determinants of spatial and episodic memory.

Freyja is currently an assistant professor at the Donders Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands.

📅 April 3, 2023, at 11:00 am
📍 Inmed, Luminy
📢 Seminar open to all

Register

NeuroMarseille lab seminars

📌 LPC

March 10th – 11:00 am : « Mémoire de travail :  Fonctionnement et développement » by Valérie Camos, University of Fribourg, Sitzerland

📍 Campus St Charles, Espace Pouillon

March 24th – 11:00 am: « Shared responsibility in interactive decision making » by Bahador Bahrami, Crowd Cognition Lab, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany

March 31st – 11:00 am: « Finding repeating patterns: the secret of biological intelligence?» by Simon Thorpe, CERCO, Toulouse

📍Campus St Charles, Salle des Voûtes

📌 INP

All these seminars take place in: 📍 Salle 52 (5e étage aile rouge – 5th floor red section)

March 03 – 2:30 pm: « Heterogenous perivascular macrophages in the central nervous system » by Serge VAN DE PAVERT, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML).

March 17 – 2:30 pm: « Data management and formatting in neuroscience» by Olivier Coulon, INT.

April 7 – 2:30 pm: « Dynamic intravital imaging highlights infiltrated moDCs as regulator of microglial state and neuronal plasticity.» by Franck Debarbieux, INT.

📌 INT

Every Friday at 2:30pm 📍 Salle Henri Gastaut, Campus Timone

3 March: « Interpreting oscillations as travelling waves: the role of alpha-band oscillations in cognition » by Andrea ALAMIA, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

10 March: « Resonance phenomena at macro- and mesoscales of neural activity» by Rasa Gubilnaite, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam

24 March: « Social influences on emotion and decision-making: From behavior to predictive brain models» by Leonie Koban, Institut du cerveau, CNRS-Inserm-APHP-Sorbonne Université

📌 INS

March 16 – 4:00 pm: The International Panel on Climate Change, its future and ours“, by Wolfgang Cramer, IMBE

📍  Timone Campus, salle Gastaut

April 12 – 1: 00 pm: «Double dissociations in Neuropsychology: principle and example» by Olivier Félician, INS

📍 Timone Campus

📌 INMED

March 28 – 11:00 am: «Circuit mechanisms underlying social motivation» by Camilla Bellone, Geneva University Neurocentre

📍 INMED, Salle de Conférence

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

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

Python tutoring sessions

NeuroSchool salutes the initiative of two M1 students, Alexandre Laine and Cyprien Dautrevaux, who organize 7 tutoring sessions on Python coding for their fellow students every Wednesday from 5 to 7 pm.

NeuroSchool Funding to attend NeuroFrance 2023 (Lyon)

The NeuroFrance 2023 meeting will take place in Lyon on May 24-26, 2023.
NeuroSchool will financially support up to 10 AMU students (from L3 to PhD) wishing to participate in the conference.

🗓 Deadline for application for this funding: March 15, 2023.

More information

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!

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  at 2:00pm
📍 Online
👉 
Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students
📢 Seminar open to all

More information

NeuroSchool seminar by Freyja Olafsdottir 

Freyja Olafsdottir will be our guest on April 3, 2023, in INMED, Luminy for a seminar on the hippocampal single-neuron and network determinants of spatial and episodic memory. »
Freyja is currently an assistant professor  at the Donders Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands

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

📅 April 3, 2023, at 11:00am
📍 Inmed, Luminy
👉 Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students
 📢 Seminar open to all

More information

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

Advanced courses

Computational neuroscience course
This advanced course on machine learning will help you analyze complex data.
🗓 May 10-12, 2023
📍Timone campus
👍 Validate 17 hours of PhD training
Register on AMeTICE


Advanced statistics course
Save the date : Royce Anders will come teach you advanced statistics applied to neuroscience.
🗓 June 12-16, 2023 
More information soon !

Information and registration

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

International calls for applications

Invite your international friends to come and do their PhD in Marseille! Applications are open : 
 - Doctoral contracts for international students 
 
 🗓  Deadline for application: April 2, 2023 

PhD Program Next events

🗓 6 March: MOOC gestion de projet. 
🗓 March 04: Forum des Sciences Cognitives Theme: « Myths and Legends » 
🗓 26 Mar: End-of-PhD call deadline

 
Check out the Events section above for general events!

Other information

ISMRM Workshop

Magnetic resonance imaging of X‐nuclei (23Na & Friends): From controversies to potential clinical applications, part II

📅 March 28-30, 2023
 📍 Pharo, Marseille

Information and registration

Human Brain Project Event

Achievements and future of digital brain research.
 
 📅 March 27-31, 2023
 📍 Pharo, Marseille

Information

NeuroImaging CENIR Teaching sessions - 2023 Edition

The CENIR platform of the Institut du Cerveau proposes a series of courses intended for those who want to train or consolidate their knowledge in neuroimaging.

4 thematic sessions are covered:
- Fundamentals of MRI and multimodal MRI
- Human electrophysiology (EEG and MEG)
- Physiology and quantified analysis of movement
- Methods and tools for neuroimaging

📅 Tuesday 07/03/2023 till Wednesday 05/04/2023 
📍 Institut du Cerveau and Teams online

Register

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

📅 Thursday 16th March, 2023 (face-to-face only)
📍 Marseille, France

Online 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

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

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

register

 NeuroSchool opens its 2 calls for PhD candidates!

In early March, NeuroSchool will open its 2 classical calls for PhD candidates :
• PhD contracts for international students
• One-year PhD salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist
  
 🗓 Deadline to apply : April 2, 2023 (May 2 for PhD for MD)

Browse our calls

Stop Reproducing the Reproducibility Crisis

In the latest eNeuro editorial, Christophe Bernard (INS) addresses the much debated issue of science reproducibility.

Read more

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

Calls

All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!

Co-funding thematic schools and scientific events

NeuroSchool financially supports thematic schools and scientific events. The call for proposals is open for events that will take place between September 1st, 2023, and August 31st, 2024.

🗓 Deadline: 2 April 2023

Apply now

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

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

Neuronautes's upcoming event:

📅 March 04: Forum des Sciences Cognitives Theme: « Myths and Legends » 
📍Marseille - Campus Saint-Charles. Register HERE

📅 March 09: Brain Awareness Week 2023 Conference "Cell Therapy and Spontaneous Regeneration...Is it possible to repair the brain?"
📍Amphithéâtre sciences naturelles sur le campus Saint-Charles. Register HERE

📅 March 11: Neuroplanètes, a series of conferences on neuroscience📍Nice

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

Hippo’Thèse

Hippo'Thèse brings together and animates the community of junior researchers working in the field of life and medical sciences.

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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