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All the neuroscience news in May 2023

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

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NeuroLunch & Learn #2: hybrid event about RNAseq

For this 2nd edtion, Valérie DELAGUE (Research Director,MMGCatherine AUBERT (Operational manager, GBiM), and Khulganaa BUYANNEMEKH (PhD student, IBDM) will talk about RNAseq: an overview and some technical examples.
Via zoom and around a buffet for more exchanges and conviviality.
 📅 May 16, 2023
 📍 INMED,  Luminy & online - 12:30 pm

Register here

NeuroMarseille Day, 29 june: registration opening soon!

NeuroMarseille invites 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.
 Each week we will focus on one moment of the program (debates, workshops...) : in the meantime, you can find a lot a information here....
📅 June 29, 2023
 📍 Luminy Campus

Discover the program

Isabelle Dautriche receives the CNRS bronze medal

Congratulations to Isabelle Dautriche for receiving the CNRS Bronze Medal for her work in the field of "Language development".

This distinction rewards the first works of researchers who are specialists in their field. It represents an encouragement from the CNRS to pursue research that is already well underway and fruitful.

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NeuroSchool Seminar by Takuji Iwasato 

Takuji IWASATO will be our guest on May 22, at the INMED, Luminy for a seminar on « Activity-dependent circuit maturation in the neonatal brain: Studies using the mouse barrel cortex. »

Takuji Iwasato is a professor in the National Institute of Genetics (NIG), in Japan.

 📅 May 22, 2023
 📍 Inmed, Luminy

Register here

Success for international PhD calls

The international PhD call is launched once a year via all the global networks in neuroscience. Thanks to the dynamics of the Institute and its graduate school NeuroSchool, the call was a great success with more than 80 applications from 25 different countries. The work of the scientific jury will be considerable to award the 4 grants to the best candidates.

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:

🗓May 16: NeuroLunch & Learn #2
🗓May 22: NeuroSchool Seminar by Prof. Iwasato 

NeuroMarseille lab seminars

📌 LNC

May 15 1:30pm – 2:30pm : « Metacognition: An approach to memory » : by Mathilde SACHER

📍Campus Saint-Charles – Espace Pouillon

May 22 : « Moving from a neurophysiological model to a therapeutic model in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder » : by Stéphanie KHALFA

📍Campus Saint-Charles – Salle des Voûtes

📌 INS

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

📍 Timone Campus

 

NeuroMarseille external events

NeuroFrance 2023

55 representatives of the Marseilles laboratories are registered for the 2023 Congress: there is still time to show the strength of the 2nd largest French community in neurosciences at this key event.

NeuroMarseille*Neuroschool will have a booth and support the participation of 11 students. Follow the adventures and news of NeuroFrance via our social networks and those of the students!

📍 Lyon, France
📅 May 24-26, 2023

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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

2023 ILCB Summer School 

The summer school of the Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB) will be held from Monday August 28th to Friday September 1st, 2023, within the picturesque Parc National des Calanques, Marseille, Provence, France. 

The classes are free of charge thanks to generous funding from ILCB (but the number of participants is limited.)

Apply here

29th Annual Summit on Neuroscience & Neurological Disorders

Neurology Network: Join today and grow your relationships. You will receive a 15% discount on registration.

📍  London, UK
 📅  July 17-18, 2023

For any further help or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact :
Eleena Watson, Program Manager | Neurological Disorders 2023
WHATSAPP: +44-7723-584563

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European Researchers' Night

The 2023 edition of the European Researchers' Night will be held this year on Friday, September 29 in Marseille.

📍 Marseille, France
📅 September 29, 2023

More information

Pint of Science 2023

🗓️🤔What are you doing from May 22 to 24?

The Pint of Science festival is back for its 10th edition in more than 50 cities including Marseille.
Discover the program!

📍 Marseille, France
📅 May 22 to 24 2023

Read the program

Autism awareness in universities

Cycle of webinars raising awareness of autism in a university context, based on Aspie-friendly short films
For all
📅  Fridays 12 May and 2 June

12.15-1.15pm
Online

Register to the webinar

NeuroSchool L3 / Master

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

NeuroSchool information

Our MOOC is now on YouTube !

The Cellular Neurophysiology MOOC videos by Constance Hammond are now accessible to all online on YouTube in French and English.

Watch the videos!

The NeuroTrips project wins funding!

Our NeuroTrips project is a laureate of the A*Midex "Training and Research Interdiscipinary Platforms - Trips" call for projects . A*Midex & NeuroSchool award 433 k€ for this cutting-edge educational hub at Saint-Charles campus. Launching in 2024.

Looking for your dream lab ?

Planning on doing an internship? Check out our lab directory, or watch videos from students and previous interns to learn about NeuroMarseille research teams.

Testimonials from interns: here!

Videos made by students: here! 

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 Takuji IWASATO

Takuji IWASATO will be our guest on May 22, in INMED, Luminy for a seminar on « Activity-dependent circuit maturation in the neonatal brain: Studies using the mouse barrel cortex. »

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

📅 May 22, 2023
📍 Inmed, Luminy
👉 Link to AMeTICE registration for PhD students (coming soon)

Register

Advanced courses

Computational neuroscience course
This advanced course on machine learning will help you analyze complex data.
🗓 May 10-12, 2023
📍Timone campus
Register on AMeTICE


Advanced statistics course
Save the date : Royce Anders will come to teach you advanced statistics applied to neuroscience.
🗓 June 12-16, 2023 
A statistics course focusing on real empirical data sets, with a detailed overview of the fundamentals and practical exercises based on Python libraries.
Register on AMeTICE

Information and registration

Reviewing Scientific Papers with Kindness

You received harsh reviews on your last paper ? not yet? it could happen one day! here's the chance to understand the processes of reviewing a scientific paper, providing criticisms while staying kind. Join us for this interactive session!

🗓 June 29, 2023 (NeuroMarseille Day). 2 :00 - 4 :00 pm 
📍Luminy
👍 Validates 3 hours of PhD training

Registration

Neurolink : party on June 29th!

Dear members of the community, we would like to announce that a party will be organized by the NeuroLink and NeuroNautes students' societies. Following the NeuroMarseille day, let’s meet around 9 pm at the Marengo bar (Old Port)! We are counting on you!

📅 June 29, 2023, 9 pm
 📍 Marengo bar (Old Port)
More information coming soon!

Tax information for internationals

International students and researchers : income tax is deducted from your salary every month but check these webpages to make sure if you need to make a declaration :  Euraxess webpage, hgovernmental tax webpage

Deadline for Marseille: May 25, 2023, for online declaration but get a tax number first.

Bank Holidays

International students, take note of the following bank holidays !

 • WWII Victory Day - May 8 
 • Ascension Day - May 18
 • White Monday - May 29 (not always a holiday, check with youremployer)

Join the NeuroCommunity!

« Community » is crucial for students, never forget that ! So, we set up a LinkedIn group dedicated to students, current NeuroMarseille members and alumni: please sign up now and share your ideas, needs, job proposals, collaborations, calls for help, advice, good tips… or anything else! 

Join the group!
PhD program Next events

Courses and events
🗓 May 10-12: Computational neuroscience (machine learning) course
🗓 May 16: NeuroLunch & Learn #2
🗓 May 22: NeuroSchool Seminar by Iwasato
🗓 June 12-16: Statistics course
 
Check out the Events section above for general events!

External information

Participate in « Science in the Classroom »

Are you a PhD student, an engineer, or a researcher? Propose an intervention in class for « La Fête de la Science »... and beyond!  A unique and important opportunity for pupils to come into contact with a researcher!
Science in the Classroom is a complementary operation to the other large-scale actions organized during the Fête de la Science (from October 6 to 16, 2023).

More information!

Call for Young Innovative PhDs

In order to support young PhDs in the creation of innovative start-ups or within technology transfer operations, the Regional "Young Innovative Doctors" program makes the economic and academic worlds meet.

Application deadline: July 7, 2023

More information

MarMaRa PhD program trainings

The MarMarRa Institute on rare disease offers you the opportunity to register to its PhD program courses, such as :
- Research data management  
- Biomedical ethics 
- Introduction to microscopy for cell and tissue imaging… 

Link to full course catalogue

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

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Looking for participants for your experiments ? 

New on our researcher’s kit page : tips on how to recruit subjects for your research.

More information

Training for PhD supervisors 

AMU offers a training course for PhD supervisors to accompany them in their role of supervising PhD students. Register now to:
 - apply management principles to the supervision of PhD students 
 - structure and lead a PhD project 
 - effectively support PhD students throughout their thesis.
 
15 hour(s) over 2 days in October/November or November/December

Information and registration

Participate in « Science in the Classroom »

Are you a PhD student, an engineer, or a researcher? Propose an intervention in class for « La Fête de la Science »... and beyond!  A unique and important opportunity for pupils to come into contact with a researcher!
Science in the Classroom is a complementary operation to the other large-scale actions organized during the Fête de la Science (from October 6 to 16, 2023).

Propose an intervention!

Join the NeuroCommunity !

« Community » is crucial for students, never forget that ! So, we set up a LinkedIn group dedicated to students, current NeuroMarseille members and alumni: please sign up now and share your ideas, needs, job proposals, collaborations, calls for help, advice, good tips… or anything else! 

Join the group!

Calls

All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!

Preparing for the ERC starting and consolidator grants

Have you been selected for the Starting ERC oral or for the Consolidator ERC oral in September? Note that the NeuroMarseille International Working Group (GINTER), which includes former laureates, is at your disposal to help you prepare. Contact gabrielle.gallon@univ-amu.fr

More information

Access ERC STARTING

This just popped up on our radar: in case you didn't already know about this postdoc funding, click on the link below. The call is closed for 2023 but it’s worth watching for the next opening.

More information

The FRM opens its call "Help for the return to France".

Do you know postdocs who did their PhD in France and are interested in returning home ? Tell them about this funding!

Deadline:
May 24, 2023

More information

Call for CIVIS projects from the University of Lausanne

A call for projects issued by the University of Lausanne (UNIL) to foster collaborations between their professors and researchers and teams from other CIVIS universities.

Deadline: May 30, 2023.

Link to the call

Students' societies

The latest news from students societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool

Join the NeuroCommunity alumni!

« Community » is crucial for students, never forget that ! So, we set up a LinkedIn group dedicated to students, current NeuroMarseille members and alumni: please sign up now and share your ideas, needs, job proposals, collaborations, calls for help, advice, good tips… or anything else! 

More information

Neuronautes' upcoming events

May 27 & 28 : Alumni Neuronautes Weekend 
May 30: World Multiple Sclerosis Day, Aix en Provence / Marseille
June: End of year celebration, Neuronautes and NeuroSchool, Marseille
August  23-27: Delta Festival, Marseille

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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

Leaving academia for industry? Here’s how to handle salary negotiations

"Don't sell yourself short when it comes to salary, vacation time and other benefits," say the scientists who took the plunge. Find out how to handle salary negotiations in this article published by the journal Nature

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ABG CVThèque: Get more opportunities by uploading your CV

The ABG CVThèque offers you a simplified way of working! This is an opportunity :
- to remind you of the importance of this tool
- to take advantage of the advice to update your CV and to publish it there!

Read more

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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