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All the neuroscience news in October

Discover the news of the Marseille neuroscience community for October 2021!

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Lydia Kerkerian-Le Goff, recipient of the Legion of Honor

Lydia Kerkerian-Le Goff, director of research at the CNRS and head of the Cellular Interactions, Neurodegeneration and Neuroplasticity team at the Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseille (IBDM), received the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur from Geneviève Rougon, researcher emeritus at the Institute of Neurosciences of La Timone, on Friday, October 1, in Luminy.

Holder of a PhD in neuroscience from Aix-Marseille University, Lydia Kerkerian-Le Goff did a postdoctoral training at the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval in Quebec. Recruited by the CNRS, she worked in the Laboratory directed by Prof. André Nieoullon in Marseille on the mechanisms that regulate the function of systems that use glutamate as a neurotransmitter. Since 1999, she leads the team Cellular Interactions, Neurodegeneration and Neuroplasticity, which joined the Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseille in Luminy in 2006. The work of his team has led to advances in the knowledge of the neuronal networks and mechanisms underlying the expression of motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease as well as the beneficial or undesirable effects of the main current treatments for this disease. In particular, they have contributed to the characterization of the mechanisms of action of neurosurgical treatment by deep brain stimulation, as well as to the research and evaluation of new therapeutic targets. She has received numerous awards and recognitions in her career, including the prestigious Aimée and Raymond Mande Award from the French National Academy of Medicine and served as President of the French Neuroscience Society from 2015 to 2019.

Neurobinars are back!

This monthly one-hour appointment is the best way to discover the research within NeuroMarseille!

⚠ NEW SCHEDULE: Neurobinars will now take place on TUESDAY at 1pm.

📌 Oussama El Far (UNIS) : "Insights into the molecular mechanism of neurotransmitter release"
📌 Salomé Mortet (INMED) : "Characterization of hippocampal neuronal activity during the first postnatal week in-vivo."
📌 Emma Acerbo (INS) : "New Paradigms of Stimulation in Epilepsy".

🗓 26 october 2021 at 1 pm
▶️ Live Zoom
🔎 Watch previous neurobinars

Information & registration

NeuroLink

NeuroLink is THE new postgraduate students' and postdocs' society that gathers all PhD students and postdocs in neuroscience at Aix-Marseille University, from all campuses!

We want to improve the life of students and young researchers and have a positive impact on their scientific career at Aix-Marseille University.

On the agenda: social and professional events! Meetings between neuroscience students, lunches, poster sessions, mentoring between postdocs and PhD students, advice for local life...

FREE membership (neurolink.amu@gmail.com)
Follow us on Twitter

🗓 Launch event: November 9, 2021

Contact the NeuroLink

Events

All the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute & NeuroSchool, as well as external events.

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Dates to note down!

Summary of events at NeuroMarseille:

🗓 5 october : start of the Neurophysiology MOOC
🗓 19-29 octobre : PhD courss : "Neurobiology of addiction" 
🗓 22 october : NeuroSchool tutored seminar by Wendy d'Andrea
🗓 26 octobrer : Neurobinar
🗓 8-9 november : NeuroDays "Neuroscience & Society" (mostly in English)
🗓 25 november : NeuroStories "Beyond the 5 senses" (in French)

NeuroSchool Seminar : Wendy D'Andrea

For the next NeuroSchool seminar, we will have the pleasure of listening to Wendy d'Andrea, from the New School for Social Research, in New York (USA). She will present her research on trauma and affective psychology.

🗓 22 octobre 2021, 2 pm  (UTC+2) - time to be confirmed
▶️ Live Zoom (link will be provided soon)

Information & registration

Neurobinar #9

Neurobinars are back! This monthly one-hour appointment is the best way to discover the research within NeuroMarseille!

⚠ NEW SCHEDULE: Neurobinars will now take place on TUESDAY at 1pm. 

📌 Oussama El Far (UNIS) : "Insights into the molecular mechanism of neurotransmitter release"
📌 Salomé Mortet (INMED) : "Characterization of hippocampal neuronal activity during the first postnatal week in-vivo."
📌 Emma Acerbo (INS) : "New Paradigms of Stimulation in Epilepsy".

🗓 26 october 2021 at 1 pm
▶️ Live Zoom
🔎 Watch previous neurobinars

Information & registration

NeuroDays 2021: Neuroscience & society

Organized by our PhD students, the NeuroDays are open to all and aim to bring together leading scientists and young researchers and to foster interactions.
The event takes place over 2 days with 6 speakers, a poster session and a movie night.


🗓 8-9 November 2021
📌 Luminy campus
mandatory registration and sanitary pass

Information & registration

NeuroStories 2021: "Beyond the 5 senses"!

NeuroMarseille offers 5 popularized stand-ups to awaken your senses and discover neuroscience: 
- Felipe Pegado (LPC).
- Valérie Jessica from "Bleuet Atypique". 
- Henry C. Evrad (Laboratory of functional and comparative neuroanatomy, Tübingen)
- Edith Ribot-Ciscar (LNC)
- Aziz Moqrich (IBDM)

Maxime Richardeau (INMED) & Élodie Giorla (INT) will be our moderators and the Neuronautes will give us their support!

More details very soon! 

🗓 November 25th at 6:30 pm
📌 Alcazar Library

IRM 7T du CEMEREM sur le site de la Timone

Monthly neuroimaging meetings

The monthly neuroimaging meetings are  back! The next one has an exciting  program : 

- Jérémy Danna  (LNC), Lauriane Veron-Delor (LNC), Serge Pinto (LPL):  Functional contributions of the motor network in the handwriting brain” (EcritPark project)

- Jean-Luc Anton & Julien Sein (INT & CERIMED)
"BOLD in white matter ?? a review of literature

🗓 21 October at 10 am
📌 CERIMED conference room, TImone
▶️ Live Zoom

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French Club of Glial Cells : biannual meeting

The French Glial Cell Club is organizing, in collaboration with NeurATRIS, its biannual meeting from 🗓 October 18 to 22, 2021. Virtual meeting every afternoon, with an exciting and lively scientific program including 2 plenary lectures, 5 symposia, student and post-doc flash-talks and interactive poster sessions!

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NeuroMarseille lab seminars

In English, often available online

📌 LNC
October 18th at 1.30 pm: Expanding the understanding of cognitive control: Action inhibition investigations, by Mario Hervault, Cognitive Neurology Laboratory, University of Iowa, USA.
🔗 Zoom Link

📌 INT
October 29th at 2.30 pm: 3 ½ ways to study behavior in neuroscience, by Alex Gomez-Martin, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Espagne.
Contact organizers to get Zoom link

Training

Discover training available to students and staff, as well as scholarships . 

Une étudiante collecte des données sur les préférences manuelles d’une femelle adulte babouin, en train de manipuler un tube rempli de beurre de cacahuète. Le babouin manipule ce tube avec ses deux mains pour retirer la nourriture. Cette expérience a montré qu’ils sont majoritairement droitiers, de l’ordre de 61 %. Ces babouins évoluent en liberté dans un enclos près de Rousset, dans les Bouches-du-Rhône. UMR7290 Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive 20170001_0016

Animal experimentation diploma (designer level)

The training will take place from 🗓15 to 26 November, followed by a day of hands-on training during the week of 6 December. 
The training is reserved for M2 students, but PhD students in the PhD program may also have access to it, depending on the number of remaining places (link for PhD students).
Half-days can be opened for continuing education.

📌 Timone Campus 

Pre-registration for M2 students

MOOC Cellular neurophysiology: How neurons communicate

Master the basic principles of neuronal physiology with Constance Hammond. 

🗓 Classes begin October 5
▶️ FUN Platform
In French

Information & registration

CIVIS Language cafés

Stockholm University organizes "language café" sessions where students and staff from a CIVIS member university can practice languages in an informal setting with other students and native speakers. ☕️ 20 languages are offered, participate in as many sessions as you like!

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"Brain-Microbiota" Workshop

The Multi-Organism Thematic Institute (ITMO) in Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Neurology, Psychiatry is organizing a "Brain-Microbiota" workshop with the participation of the "Physiology, Metabolism, Nutrition" and "Infection, Immunology, Inflammation, Mircobiology" ITMOs. This workshop aims to bring together scientists (researchers, students, engineers) from these fields, already involved in this new field of research or wishing to develop work in this area.

🗓 October 12, 2021

Register

CIVIS Workshops on innovative pedagogies

Interested in innovative pedagogies? CIVIS is offering a series of workshops to share expertise in teaching and learning in higher education and to stimulate pedagogical innovation.
Upcoming workshops:

Innovative pedagogies – new pathways to university teaching
🗓 14 october 2021

How to teach (almost) anything in Fablabs
🗓 20 october 2021

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L3 / Master

In this section, you will find the actions carried out with our 3rd-year undergraduate and master's students. 

Videos : my internship in a NeuroMarseille laboratory

During their second year of the Master's program in neuroscience, our students do a 6-month internship in a laboratory. A real research experience! This year, our interns share their experiences with you to help you choose your future internship. Follow our 9 students in the NeuroMarseille laboratories!

Watch the videos
Etudiants en classe © Matej Kastelic

Student kit

We have compiled useful information for students and prospective students of all levels. If you can't find the information you are looking for, please contact us and we will improve the website!

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MOOC Cellular neurophysiology: How neurons communicate

Master the basic principles of neuronal physiology with Constance Hammond. 

🗓 Classes begin October 5
▶️ FUN Platform
In French

Information & registration

NeuroDays 2021: Neuroscience & society

Organized by our PhD students, the NeuroDays are open to all and aim to bring together leading scientists and young researchers and to foster interactions.
The event takes place over 2 days with 6 speakers, a poster session and a movie night.


🗓 8-9 November 2021
📌 Luminy campus
mandatory registration and sanitary pass

Information & registration

PhD program

Read all the news about our PhD program.

NeuroSchool tutored seminar : Wendy D'Andrea

For the next NeuroSchool seminar, we will have the pleasure of listening to Wendy d'Andrea, from the New School for Social Research, in New York (USA). She will present her research on Trauma and affective psychology.

🗓 22 octobre 2021, 2 pm  (UTC+2) - time to be confirmed
▶️ Live Zoom (link will be provided soon)

Information & registration

Neurobiology of addiction

In this course, you will get an evidence-based overview of the parts of the brain responsible for addiction, the changes in the brain that occur during addiction, risk factors for addiction, and an overview of how different drugs affect the brain. We will also explore the neurobiology and evidence of behavioral addictions and take a look at how addiction can be treated.

🗓 Tuesday, October 19 through Friday, October 29, 2021
📍 INMED Meeting Room, Luminy

Register (Ametice)
Une étudiante collecte des données sur les préférences manuelles d’une femelle adulte babouin, en train de manipuler un tube rempli de beurre de cacahuète. Le babouin manipule ce tube avec ses deux mains pour retirer la nourriture. Cette expérience a montré qu’ils sont majoritairement droitiers, de l’ordre de 61 %. Ces babouins évoluent en liberté dans un enclos près de Rousset, dans les Bouches-du-Rhône. UMR7290 Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive 20170001_0016

Animal experimentation diploma (designer level)

The training will take place from 🗓15 to 26 November, followed by a day of hands-on training during the week of 6 December. 
The training is reserved for M2 students (link for M2 students), but PhD students in the PhD program may also have access to it, depending on the number of remaining places (link for PhD students).
Half-days can be opened for continuing education.

📌 Timone Campus 

Pre-register (Ametice)

PhD tutors

The NeuroSchool PhD program invites its PhD students to choose a "PhD tutor" ("parrain" or "marraine de thèse"). The idea is that this person (permanent lab staff, from another team) can guide and advise the student on different topics that are not necessarily related to the scientific content of the research project.

Thanks to the many colleagues who responded enthusiastically to our call for volunteers, we are pleased to provide a long list of candidates for the role of tutor.

Read more (Ametice)

NeuroDays 2021: Neuroscience & society

Organized by our PhD students, the NeuroDays are open to all and aim to bring together leading scientists and young researchers and to foster interactions.
The event takes place over 2 days with 6 speakers, a poster session and a movie night.


🗓 8-9 November 2021
📌 Luminy campus
mandatory registration and sanitary pass

Information & registration

Neurolink

NeuroLink is THE new postgraduate students' and postdocs' society that gathers all PhD students and postdocs in neuroscience at Aix-Marseille University, from all campuses!

We want to improve the life of students and young researchers and have a positive impact on their scientific career at Aix-Marseille University.

On the agenda: social and professional events! Meetings between neuroscience students, lunches, poster sessions, mentoring between postdocs and PhD students, advice for local life...

FREE membership (neurolink.amu@gmail.com)
Follow us on Twitter

🗓 Launch: November 9, 2021

Contact the NeuroLink
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NENS exchange grants

Every 6 months the NENS network offers mobility grants.

📅 Next application deadline: October 15, 2021

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PhD Program Next events

📌 Tutored Seminar
- October 22: Wendy D'Andrea

📌 Meetings of the PhD program committee
NeuroSchool room (Timone) and Zoom
- October 8, 15, 22, 29
- November 5 (enlarged committee)

📌 Events
- November 8-9: NeuroDays (mostly in English)
- Date to be defined in november: return on experience
- Date to be defined: ED 62 back to school meeting and PhD Program Welcome Day

Are you a PhD student in neuroscience at AMU? Are you enrolled in the NeuroSchool doctoral program? If not, it is not automatic. Fill out the form in the link below without further delay!

S'inscrire au programme doctoral

See also the Career and Societies sections!

Calls

All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!

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Platform software for neuroscience grant 2021

The NeuroMarseille Institute has opened a call for "Neuroscience Platform Software Grants" to participate in the expenses necessary to keep the platform software running, updated and available to the neuroscience community in Marseille.

The winners will be granted up to €5,000, to be spent before the end of 🗓 December 2021.

📅 Deadline: 10 October 2021

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Soon: deadline for ERCs in the synergy category

Are you a researcher who wants to tackle a research problem that is so ambitious that it cannot be addressed by you and your team alone? Synergy Grants may be for you! 

📅 Deadline: October 11, 2021

The latest awardees from NeuroMarseille labs are Rosa Cossart in 2020 and Fabrice Bartolomei in 2019.

Brainhack Marseille 2021 📢 call for volunteers

🔎 Brainhack events bring together researchers, engineers, data scientists or students to work on neuroscience related projects. Similar to hackathons in tech fields, participants are invited to work/hack in various hands-on ways (discussing, planning, coding, debugging, brainstorming, etc) on ongoing projects brought by other participants.

📢 To participate in the organization of the 2021 edition, contact us: brainhack.marseille@gmail.com

Contact the organizers

Japan-France High Level Scientific Visiting Fellowship

The Science and Technology Service (SST) of the French Embassy in Japan finances a stay in France of 15 days to 2 months for a Japanese researcher or teacher who wishes to develop scientific or academic programs with a French partner.
This year, 2 or 3 stays can still be funded. The application must be submitted before 📅 October 15 for a departure until December 31, 2021.

More info
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NENS exchange grants

Every 6 months the NENS network offers mobility grants.

📅 Next application deadline: October 15, 2021

Read more

2021 Incubator of Excellence

The A*Midex Foundation is launching its third call for incubator projects. It aims at setting up and structuring a research project. It serves as a springboard to strengthen the scientific content of the project so that, among other things, the scientific and technical leader and the project-team can subsequently apply to other calls for projects, for more significant funding. 

📅 Deadline for submission of intention (step 1): October 15, 2021

📅 Project proposal deadline (step 2): 26 November 2021

Read more

France-Canada Research Fund

The RFTF provides grants of $8,000 to $15,000 Canadian to fund research and mobility of students and researchers between the two countries (new collaborations only). 

📅 Application deadline: 12 November 2021.

Read more

Career

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

Student jobs

Are you looking for a job that is compatible with your studies? These sites list offers within AMU itself (libraries, tutoring, etc.) and with partners companies.

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CIFRE PhD projects

Offers of CIFRE PhD projects (i.e. in companies) are regularly proposed and some of them in fields close to neuroscience. See for example the ads from Essilor and Teleport In. You can also approach companies (see a list here) and build together your CIFRE PhD project.

Browse the ads

Forum Stages / Alternances / Emplois d'AMU

Students: take advantage of AMU's Internship / Work-study / Job Forum to improve your CV (especially with a professional photo) and practice for job interviews.

📅 Friday, October 8, 2021, 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
📌 Parc Chanot, Palais des Congrès, Exhibition Hall

Read more

APEC: First job objective

Are you a young graduate (3 years of higher education or more) or a student in the process of studying and would like to be more effective in your search for a job, internship or work-study contract? In the First Job workshops, an Apec consultant, a specialist in the career paths of executives and young graduates, will guide you in your reflection and advise you in the implementation of your steps. Create your APEC account today!

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CIVIS3i - the new postdoc program is open for applications!

The first CIVIS3i call for 32 postdoctoral fellowships is open to researchers from all academic fields. CIVIS3i, the CIVIS program of international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and training for experienced researchers, is an EU-funded project selected under the COFUND MSCA-H2020 for postdoctoral researchers. The fellowships it will fund are open to experienced researchers from around the world.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Thanks to the action of the CIVIS Horizon Europe Task Force, coordinated by AMU's Europe/Research Unit, specific support for applicants to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie "Postdoctoral Fellowship" (MSCA-PF) call for proposals has been initiated for the 2nd year.

📅 Deadline : October 12 (Funding & tenders (europa.eu))

Contact AMU DRV

ABG 2021 Professional Pitch Competition: Final

Candidates, PhD students or young doctors, have 120 seconds to convince the jury and the audience by presenting their research experience and their professional project in a clear, concise and convincing way.
The final will take place on 📅 October 15, 2021, during the PhDTalent career fair, at the Centquatre in Paris.

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Job offers

LieuOffreStructure
Marseille, FranceTechnician in NeurobiologyINT
Paris, FranceGroup Leader Position in Brain SciencesInstitut du Cerveau
Grenoble, FrancePostdoc: Developing a new therapeutic device to detect and treat pathology in the brainFonds de dotation Clinatec
Lille, France Chief Scientific officer
BabelEdge
Paris, FranceConcepteur Rédacteur Médical SrPublicis Health France
Helsinki, Finland Postdoctoral researcher and doctoral student in circadian regulation of pain
University of Helsinki
Tübingen, GermanyGroup Leaders, Postdocs and PhD Students in Neuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital Tuebingen
Albuquerque, United States Assistant or Associate Professor of NeurosciencesThe University of New Mexico (UNM)
Paris, France Two Post-Doctoral Positions in mammalian epigeneticsInstitute of Biological Sciences (INSB), CNRS
Shanghai, China Postdoc in Interoception (Body-Brain) International Center for Primate Brain Research
Amsterdam, the Netherlands2 Assistant Professor positions | (Tenure Track) in molecular/cellular neuroscienceVrije Universiteit Amsterdam

PhD projects

LieuOffreStructure
Different locations EMBL International PhD Program - 2022 Winter Recruitment EMBL
Lille & Villeneuve d'Ascq, France Amélioration du contrôle postural de patients atteints de la maladie de Charcot-Marie-ToothLaboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Affectives
Cork, IrelandMicrobiota-Gut- Brain Axis in the context of early life perturbationsAPC Microbiome, University College Cork
Tübingen, GermanyNeuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital Tuebingen
Magdeburg, Germany Neuronal basis of auditory short term memoryLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Different calls Divers financements internationaux dans la lettre de l’ABG
Germany Bourses doctorales 2022-23 Office allemand d'échanges universitaires
Lyon, France Identification of the neuronal populations of the hypothalamus involved in paradoxical (REM) sleepUMR 5292 CNRS/U1028 INSERM, University of Lyon 1
Umeå, SwedenFeeding behavior: molecular mechanisms and neuronal circuitsUmeå University
Radboud, GermanySensorimotor Neuroscience Radboud University

Societies

The latest news from student's societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool

Back to school for Neuronautes

The Neuronauts invite neuroscience students to their integration day on Sunday, October 10th!
• Orienteering race
• Outdoor activities (petanque, games)
• Visit of Marseille...
It's the opportunity to meet everyone, to get to know each other better and to share a good time !
Attention, for members only: join the association!

🗓 Integration day : Sunday, October 10th, 1pm
📌 Saint-Charles Campus, in front of the Charve amphitheatre

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Neurolink

NeuroLink is THE new postgraduate students' and postdocs' society that gathers all PhD students and postdocs in neuroscience at Aix-Marseille University, from all campuses!

We want to improve the life of students and young researchers and have a positive impact on their scientific career at Aix-Marseille University.

On the agenda: social and professional events! Meetings between neuroscience students, lunches, poster sessions, mentoring between postdocs and PhD students, advice for local life...

FREE membership (neurolink.amu@gmail.com)
Follow us on Twitter

🗓 Launch: November 9, 2021

Contact the NeuroLink

Paren(thèse) PACA

Paren(thèse) PACA continues to support you in your writing work!
The association also has several positions to fill: secretary, in charge of online OR face-to-face writing days, writing retreat, partnerships, communication...

Discover Paren(thèse) PACA
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