All the neuroscience news in October 2023

ICR 2024 call opens!

NeuroMarseille has launched a call for proposals to strengthen collaboration between laboratories: the Innovative and Collaborative Research Grants (ICR-20k€) call. The ICR can be extended to 35k€ with the ICR+ formula, to support the development of platforms. 

📅 Deadline: November 12, 2023

Francois Féron joins NeuroMarseille's management team

Boris Burle (LNC) is stepping down from his position as Research Deputy Director at the NeuroMarseille Institute. We would like to thank him for his commitment since 2019.
To take over this mission, François Féron (INP) joined the management team in September. Many thanks to him for his involvement.

The UNITAE project 'What Neuroscience in the Anthropocene era' gives its first results!

Amélie Conrad, a Master's student at NeuroMarseille - INS/the University of Cologne, shared her study results on the Unitae project  "cognitive biases and the climate crisis".The A*Midex/ NeuroMarseille Interdisciplinarity that is bearing fruit. Find out more about her experience!

Dates to note down!

Summary of upcoming events at NeuroMarseille:

🗓 October 27: Elizabeth Torres’ NeuroSchool seminar (INT)
🗓 November 16-17: 2023 NeuroDays 
🗓 December 1: Clinical day – Spinal cord injury 🏥 
🗓December 4-6: BrainHack Marseille 2023 🖥️ 

Clinical Day- Spinal cord injury

Clinicians, researchers, residents & PhD students: join us to share your knowledge / learn about spinal cord injury.

📅 December 1
📍 Timone hospital, amphitheater HA3

Annual scientific day of the MRI-INT Center

Neuroimaging beyond the cortex : basal ganglia, cerebellum, spinal cord

📅 Friday, October 20, 2023
📍 CERIMED, Timone campus
Free but compulsory registration : register now !

GDR NeuralNet 2023

October 9-10th :  minischool: "Managment and analysis of large scale electrophysiological and imaging data" 

2nd "GDR Mémoire" Interdisciplinary Symposium
REGISTRATION

BiotechnoSud Forum
REGISTRATION

NeuroSchool photo session

Ingrid Meucci's lens captured our students' prettiest smiles during our latest photo shoot. The photos are now available! Contact NeuroSchool coordinator if you have not received yours.

Looking for your dream lab ?

Planning on doing an internship? Check out our lab directory, our current internship offers, or watch videos from students and previous interns to learn about NeuroMarseille research teams.
 
Testimonials from interns: here!
Videos made by students: here! 

Internships and study abroad

We are pleased to announce that the following M2 students have been awarded a NeuroSchool outgoing mobility grant to do their M2 internship abroad:
- Sofia BERRY for an internship in Belgium,
- Tess GROS for an internship in Finland,
- Asma IKHENAZENE for an internship in Germany.
Our calls for L3 and M1 mobility will open in October. Check out our partner universities, listed here.

Elect your student representatives!

Calls for applications are underway for L3 and Master's students wishing to represent their fellow students (PhD students will retain their current representatives). NeuroSchool programs will thus have student representatives at meetings of the NeuroSchool Committee and the Institut NeuroMarseille Board of Directors.

NeuroSchool seminar by Elizabeth Torres

Measuring human agency as a balance between autonomy and control

Dr Torres leads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab and the New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence.

📅 October 27, 2023, 2:30pm
📍 INT, Timone campus

NeuroDays 2023

🧠 The Brain Chronicles : a journey throughout the brain’s lifetime 🕒

📅 November 16-17, 2023
📍 Ilôt Bernard-Dubois and Saint-Charles campus
🎓Organized by our very own PhD students 

Save the date, registration information available soon

Courses planned for 2023-24

Access to the « Neurobiology of addictions » master's-level course
📅 November 16-24, 2023 (⚠️ The NeuroDays will take place on November 16-17, 2023) 
📍 Timone campus (in person only)
🇫🇷 In French
✍️ Register on AMeTICE 

- A review of the most recent advances in nervous system development 
- Developing critical thinking in neurophysiology 
- Python programming/Statistics
Details to come on AMeTICE.
More courses may be planned depending on students’ needs.

Clinical day – Spinal cord injury 🏥

Clinicians, researchers, residents & PhD students: join us to share your knowledge / learn about spinal cord injury.

📅 December 1
📍 Timone hospital, amphitheater HA3

BrainHack Marseille 2023 🖥️

For students, postdocs, engineers and junior or experienced researchers who want to work together on neuroscience projects. 👨🏻‍💻

📅 December 4-6, 2023
📍 INT, Timone campus

Upcoming training session in animal experimentation

NeuroSchool and the Doctoral School in Life and Health Science are co-financing a training session in animal experimentation (in French) in December and January. 
Register now on ADUM and tell new PhD students joining your lab about it!

📅 December 18, 2023 - January 12, 2024 + half-day of practicals
🇫🇷 In French

BiotechnoSud Forum

Day dedicated to the professional integration of young scientists 🥼

📅 October 17, 2023
📍 Marseille World Trade Center (downtown)

Organized by the Bio'M Association

Submit your internship offer 

Researchers, you can continue to propose internships for master’s students from AMU and partner universities. International students can apply to NeuroSchool incoming mobility grants.

Call to declare future recruitments "NeuroMarseille is recruiting!"

NeuroMarseille plans to publish job and internship offers once or twice a year for international visibility, starting in prestigious journals ( Nature et science, Neuron...)and later on other platforms. This strategy aims to boost visibility and attract top candidates, with ads appearing as banners on job pages from October. Submit comprehensive job offers with photos to enhance attractiveness and "multiply our visibility"!

Neuronautes

Events:
October 10: Rentrée des assos, St Charles Campus
October 12: Integration evening, Beer District, 7pm

NeuroLink

Neurolink is looking for brains as well as arms and hearts!
PhD students and postdocs: join now to organise scientific, social and networking events!

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!

Semaine du cerveau 2024 : call for volunteers

Cerveau Point Comm is always looking for volunteers (PhD students, researcher, lab staff...) to help organize the 🧠 Brain Awareness Week that will take place in March.

Join the NeuroMarseille Institute

We're hiring neuroscientists at all levels: master's interns, PhD contracts, postdocs, and more! Take the next step in your scientific career and contribute to cutting-edge discoveries.You can also be warned by NeuroCommunity on Linkedin.
Apply now!

Student jobs at AMU

Did you know that AMU offers student contracts? Tutoring, welcoming new students, helping at the library or during events, supporting students with disabilities...

Find a job or internship on JobTeaser

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.