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All the neuroscience news in September 2022
Discover the news of the Marseille neuroscience community for September 2022!
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Welcome to the neuroscience world of Marseille
You’re a new student, post-doc, or researcher in neuroscience here in our beautiful town? Welcome! If you know newcomers who are not yet receiving this useful and how interesting newsletter, let them know and ask for a subscription!
While the whole website neuro-marseille.org is fantastic, here are some interesting links designed for newcomers:
- The student kit, which includes the checklist for international PhD Students
- Useful links: numerous information about resources and advice.
- Our social networks: follow our activities on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Youtube!
NeuroCommunity, the NeuroMarseille network
What? You don't know NeuroCommunity yet? Interdisciplinary cooperation, partnerships or simple networking: join this new network, created on LinkedIn this summer! Already 200 members from Marseille neuroscience community share professional opportunities on this network for all researchers, students, professionals and current, past or future members of NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool!
NeuroCommunity
ICR call
As always, the NeuroMarseille Institute wishes to support scientific exchanges and encourage the emergence of new collaborations within the Marseilles neuroscience community. The aim, of course, is to promote the emergence of new innovative, highly qualitative projects. In this context, the Institute opens the 4th call entitled "Grants for innovative and collaborative research in neurosciences". Watch your mailbox, we will shortly inform you of the call opening!
🕒 Will open soon
Events
All the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute, NeuroSchool and other external events.
NeuroMarseille internal events
Dates to note down!
Summary of events at NeuroMarseille:
🗓 September 20: Neuro'Binar #15 ⚠️ Canceled
🗓 September 22: Inauguration of the Nikon Center - INP
🗓 September 22 : Neuronautes conference
🗓 September 23-24: GDR Vertige
🗓 September 26-30: R&D seminar : IMAGING 2022
🗓 September 28-30: INT's 10th anniversary
🗓 October 8: Neuronautes Gala for for the whole neuroscience community
🗓 October 14: MRI-INT day: « MRI Neuroimaging of Brain Disorders »
🗓 October 14: Inauguration of the CIRCUITPHOTONICS platform - INMED
🗓 October 20: BiotechnoSUD Forum
🗓 November 1: All Saints Day = public holiday
🗓 November 3: Tutored seminar - online
🗓 November 11: Armistice Day = public holiday
🗓 November 22: Rehabilitation Science Day for Paramedics training
🗓 November 24: NeuroStories – SAVE THE DATE
Neuronautes Gala 2022
1st gathering of its kind, this gala is professional but also friendly and fun: the students' society invites the whole neuroscience community, from students to researchers, on October 8, 2022, at the Newport, Pointe Rouge! Formal dress code recommended, small parking lot nearby (carpooling advised). Tickets already on sale (click here)!
📅 Saturday, October 8, 7pm - 2am
📍 Newport : 79/81 Av. de la Pointe Rouge, 13008 Marseille
Next Neuro'Binars in sight
The NeuroMarseille interdisciplinary webinar series continues! Save the dates for these upcoming informal meetings, in which PhD students and PIs present their research.
- Tuesday September 20th - 1pm ⚠️ Canceled
- Tuesday October 18th - 1pm
- November: postponed due to NeuroStories on November 24th
- Tuesday December 13th - 1pm
➕ more information to come
Neuronautes: conference on « Artificial Intelligence & Epilepsy »
2 recognized specialists will give a conference organized on Thursday, September 22 at 6:00 pm in the Maurice-Togo amphitheater on the Timone campus. A « question and answer » session will follow, then a buffet in the Great Hall.
Free but mandatory registration, the number of places is limited!
📅 September 22, 2022 at 6:00 PM
📍 ⚠️ "Sciences Naturelles" amphi. - Saint Charles campus
🔎 ⚠️ Updated Registration link
Opening of the Nikon Centre of Excellence for Neuro-NanoImaging - INP
The center will be inaugurated from 9:00 am on September 22, 2022! It is one of the twelve Nikon Centers of Excellence with European influence. Its creation results from the implementation by the INP of its cellular imaging platform (NCIS). The laboratory invites you to this major event: an international symposium will be followed by a ceremony with the president of AMU, E. Berton then a tour of the plaform and more!
📅 September 22, 2022 : 9am - 5pm
📍 Timone campus (Grisoli amphitheater)
🔎 Event summary and program of the day
INT's 10th anniversary conference
The Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone (INT) is now 10 years-old! Over this period of time, the INT has welcome many young researchers and built a rich and collaborative environment for its teams to thrive. To mark this moment, the laboratory is organizing its 5th edition of the INT international conference: "A decade's view on integrative neuroscience".
📅 September 28-30, 2022
📍 Toga Amphitheater , Faculty of Medicine, Timone campus
MRI Neuroimaging of brain disorders
On October 14, 2022, the INT and CERIMED are organizing a scientific day dedicated to language and sensory-motor disorders, with a presentation of the projects conducted at the center. You will have the opportunity to attend 6 talks, 2 keynote lectures (Prof. Kate Watkins - Oxford, UK, and Prof. Tamar Makin - UCL, UK), and a poster session. Lunch buffet and cocktail offered. Registration is free but mandatory.
📅 October 14, 2022 - 9am-6pm
📍 CERIMED, Timone Campus
➕ registration information
Inauguration of an imaging platform at INMED
CIRCUITPHOTONICS is a new platform for imaging the dynamics of neural circuits, resulting from a partnership initiated in 2021 between the INT, INMED and other actors, including AMU of course. The inauguration is scheduled for October 14, 2022 at INMED in Luminy. Find more information about CIRCUITPHOTONICS on the dedicated AMU page.
📅 October 14, 2022
➕ More details to come
2022 NeuroDays : save the date !
This year, the conference organized by our Neuroscience PhD students , will take place on the 1st & 2nd of December at the Palais du Pharo. The topic will be «Mens sana in corpore sano». More information soon on the webpage under creation.
📅 December 1-2, 2022
📍 Palais du Pharo, Marseille
➕ More information to come
NeuroStories 2022: « Is my brain under influence? »
Genders, drugs, axonal structure, marketing...: what influence on our behavior? The NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool event for the general public returns for its fourth edition on November 24, 2022.This year again the Lycée de l'Olivier kindly lends its amphitheatre for our 6 stand-uppers to amaze you! Save the date for this memorable evening and come with family and friends!
📅 November 24, 2022
📍 Lycée l'Olivier Robert Coffy, 13012 Marseille
🇫🇷 in French
➕ More information to come
NeuroMarseille lab seminars
In English, often available online
📌 LPC
September 30th – 11:00 am : « Behavioral and Neural signatures of metacognition: Metacognitive monitoring and arithmetic in children » – by Bert de Smedt, Katholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
📍 salle des Voûtes, Saint Charles Campus
October 7th – 11:00 am : « Forgetting and Maintenance in Human Working Memory » – by Gaën Plancher, Senior Lecturer, Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
📍 Sciences Naturelles Amphi., Saint Charles Campus
📌 INMED
September 19th – 11:00 am : « Coordinated pre- and postsynaptic cholinergic modulation selectively drives corticofugal networks » – by Allan Gulledge, Associate Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology – Dartmouth Medical School.
📍 INMED conference room (Luminy campus)
October 4th – 2:00 pm : PhD defense – « Étude du développement cortical à travers la caractérisation d’un modèle murin d’autisme et l’inférence des interactions cellulaires par séquençage en cellules uniques » – by Rémi Mathieu, PhD student, INMED.
📍 INMED conference room (Luminy campus)
A look back at some key events in NeuroMarseille
Have a look at the main events that animated life around NeuroMarseille during the last few weeks!
A look back on the Patent Shaker 2022
On June 20 and 21, 2022, NeuroSchool organized with the Faculty of Economics and Management of AMU a new edition of the « Patent Shaker », initiation to business creation for students. A great experience that you can (re)discover in words and pictures.
review
One of our students wins a photo contest
Ciaran Butler-Hallissey, a PhD student at the INP, won the jury prize in the ELMI FocalPlane Image Contest last June. He took his impressive "Electric Love" photo, showing Cos-7 cells stained for actin (blue), microtubules (yellow) and DNA (red), with a Zeiss Apotome. Congratulations, Ciarán !
Find out moreOther events
BiotechnoSUD webinar : promoting PhD skills
You are a PhD student or a young graduate wondering about your career prospects? Participate to the next BiotechnoSUD webinar on September 15 at 6pm, on how to value your skills as a PhD student to continue in research, to discover other jobs or to start your own business.This webinar is the first part of the Biotechnosud forum dedicated to the professional insertion of young scientists on October 20. Do not miss it!
📅 BiotechnoSUD webinar : September 15 at 6pm
📅 BiotechnoSUD forum : October 20 - 9am-5pm
R&D Seminar "IMAGING 2022"
In partnership with the CERIMED, the Marseille Imaging Institute, one of the 18 institutes created by Aix-Marseille University, is organizing a meeting from September 26 to 30, 2022 to bring together the community of researchers, teachers, and students with actors from the socio-economic world. The program, very complete, will cover the various application fields of imaging. Registration required.
📅 Deadline to register: September 9 ; Meeting: September 26-30
📍 Hall of the faculty of Medicine and CERIMED
🔎 Program – Presentation
Annual conference of the Groupement de Recherche sur le Vertige (GDRV)
The GDR Vertige invites you on September 23 and 24, 2022, on the Saint Charles campus in Marseille for this major event. More than 150 clinicians, researchers and professionals will be present to promote the latest advances in the rehabilitation of patients with balance and vertigo disorders, as well as to foster interdisciplinary cooperation.
📅 September 23 and 24, 2022
📍 Saint Charles campus
Training
Discover training available to students and staff, as well as scholarships .
NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool internal courses and thematic schools
Start of the L3 and Master courses
It's time for a new school year! The NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool team will be present to welcome you and provide information about the curriculum and many other useful tips. Let’s meet on September 5th and 7th on the Saint-Charles campus. Don't forget that you can consult your schedule on the ADE of your ENT by searching for "L3 SV Neurosciences" and "M1 (or M2) Neurosciences".
📅 M1-M2 meeting: Monday September 5 - 4pm
📍 Amphitheatre Charve, Saint Charles campus
📅 L3 meeting: Wednesday September 7 - 10am
📍 Natural Sciences Amphitheater, Saint Charles campus
The M1 refresher week : a major initiative of the NeuroSchool team
NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool would like to welcome all the new M1 students who are enrolling this year! To allow everyone to start the training with solid bases, 9 professors organized a week of courses to the 40 students who volunteered: Functional Neuro-anatomy, Methodology, Electrophysiology, Viral Tools in Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology. We sincerely thank Agnès Baude, Jean-Michel Brezun, Francis Castet, Nathalie Core-Polo, Christian Gestreau, Clément Menuet, Jean-Philippe Ranjeva, Riad Seddik and Nicolas Wanaverbecq. May all of you have a fruitfull school year!
NeuroSchool L3 / Master
This section covers the actions carried out with our 3rd-year undergraduate and master's students.
NeuroSchool information
Welcome to the neuroscience world of Marseille
You’re a new student, post-doc, or researcher in neuroscience here in our beautiful town? Welcome! If you know newcomers who are not yet receiving this useful and how interesting newsletter, let them know and ask for a subscription!
While the whole website neuro-marseille.org is fantastic, here are some interesting links designed for newcomers:
- The student kit, which includes the checklist for international PhD Students
- Useful links: numerous information about resources and advice.
- Our social networks: follow our activities on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Youtube!
Neuronautes Gala 2022
1st gathering of its kind, this gala is professional but also friendly and fun: the students' society invites the whole neuroscience community, from students to researchers, on October 8, 2022, at the Newport, Pointe Rouge! Formal dress code recommended, small parking lot nearby (carpooling advised). Tickets already on sale (click here)!
📅 Saturday, October 8, 7pm - 2am
📍 Newport : 79/81 Av. de la Pointe Rouge, 13008 Marseille
NeuroSchool incoming mobility fellowship
We are pleased to announce that the following students from partner universities have been selected to come to Marseille in 2022-23, thanks to NeuroSchool incoming mobility fellowships :
- Anushka Wakade, from the University of Helsinki, will be training at UNIS with Dominique Debanne,
- Maria Evangelia Vlachou, from Athens University, will be training at the LNC with Jean Blouin,
- Rabia Evgin, from the University of Tübingen, will be training at the LNC as well, with Boris Burle.
AMU researchers: remember to post your internship offers on our website to attract international students!
Check out AMU international partnerships for internships and study abroad
Are you thinking of doing an internship in another country? Use the search engine developed by AMU International Affairs (DRI)! It allows you to view the network of international institutions with which the university currently has a partnership (AMU identifiers required).
When you find your favorite destination, contact the DRI.
🔎 AMU partners network
AMU Welcome desk 2022
You are a new international student at the University of Aix-Marseille? You can make an individual appointment with the reception desk of the AMU International Relations Department from September 5 to 23. Meet the international student reception team and Aix-Marseille University partners to help you with your integration process.
📅 September 5 to 23, 2022
🔎 Official information
Start of the L3 and Master courses
It's time for a new school year! The NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool team will be present to welcome you and provide information about the curriculum and many other useful tips. Let’s meet on September 5th and 7th on the Saint-Charles campus. Don't forget that you can consult your schedule on the ADE of your ENT by searching for "L3 SV Neurosciences" and "M1 Neurosciences".
📅 M1-M2 meeting: Monday September 5 - 5pm
📍 Amphitheatre Charve, Saint Charles campus
📅 L3 meeting: Wednesday September 7 - 10am
📍 Natural Sciences Amphitheater, Saint Charles campus
NeuroCommunity, the NeuroMarseille network
What? You don't know NeuroCommunity yet? For interdisciplinary cooperation, partnerships or simple networking: join this new network, created on LinkedIn this summer! Already 200 members from Marseille neuroscience community share professional opportunities on this network for all researchers, students, professionals and current, past or future members of NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool!
NeuroCommunityThe M1 refresher week : a major initiative of the NeuroSchool team
NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool would like to welcome all the new M1 students who are enrolling this year! To allow everyone to start the training with solid bases, 9 professors organized a week of courses to the 40 students who volunteered: Functional Neuro-anatomy, Methodology, Electrophysiology, Viral Tools in Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology. We sincerely thank Agnès Baude, Jean-Michel Brezun, Francis Castet, Nathalie Core-Polo, Christian Gestreau, Clément Menuet, Jean-Philippe Ranjeva, Riad Seddik and Nicolas Wanaverbecq. May all of you have a fruitfull school year!
NeuroStories 2022: « Is my brain under influence? »
Genders, drugs, axonal structure, marketing...: what influence on our behavior? The NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool event for the general public returns for its fourth edition on November 24, 2022.This year again the Lycée de l'Olivier kindly lends its amphitheatre for our 6 stand-uppers to amaze you! Save the date for this memorable evening and come with family and friends!
📅 November 24, 2022
📍 Lycée l'Olivier Robert Coffy, 13012 Marseille
🇫🇷 in French
➕ More information to come
NeuroSchool PhD program
Read all the news about our PhD program.
NeuroSchool information
Welcome to the neuroscience world of Marseille
You’re a new student, post-doc, or researcher in neuroscience here in our beautiful town? Welcome! If you know newcomers who are not yet receiving this useful and how interesting newsletter, let them know and ask for a subscription!
While the whole website neuro-marseille.org is fantastic, here are some interesting links designed for newcomers:
- The student kit, which includes the checklist for international PhD Students
- Useful links: numerous information about resources and advice.
- Our social networks: follow our activities on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Youtube!
Neuronautes Gala 2022
1st gathering of its kind, this gala is professional but also friendly and fun: the students' society invites the whole neuroscience community, from students to researchers, on October 8, 2022, at the Newport, Pointe Rouge! Formal dress code recommended, small parking lot nearby (carpooling advised). Tickets already on sale (click here)!
📅 Saturday, October 8, 7pm - 2am
📍 Newport : 79/81 Av. de la Pointe Rouge, 13008 Marseille
Return on student’s experience
Each year, the NeuroSchool PhD program organizes the « Return on experience », where students and the committee discuss how to improve and adapt the program to the student's needs.This year, you are invited to join us (early October) in the NeuroSchool meeting room (Timone campus). Attending this event is MANDATORY for students funded by NeuroSchool (2nd-year and above), i.e. laureates of international PhD, cotutelle, PhD for MD or end-of-PhD contracts. Others, including 1st year, are more than welcome as well since the PhD program serves the interest of all
📅 Date to come: early October
📍 NeuroSchool meeting room (Timone campus)
One of our students wins a photo contest
Ciaran Butler-Hallissey, a PhD student at the INP, won the jury prize in the ELMI FocalPlane Image Contest last June. He took his impressive "Electric Love" photo, showing Cos-7 cells stained for actin (blue), microtubules (yellow) and DNA (red), with a Zeiss Apotome. Congratulations, Ciarán !
Find out moreINT's 10th anniversary conference
The Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone (INT) is now 10 years-old! Over this period of time, the INT has welcome many young researchers and built a rich and collaborative environment for its teams to thrive. To mark this moment, the laboratory is organizing its 5th edition of the INT international conference: "A decade's view on integrative neuroscience".
📅 September 28-30, 2022
📍 Toga Amphitheater , Faculty of Medicine, Timone campus
Next Neuro'Binars in sight
The NeuroMarseille interdisciplinary webinar series continues! Save the dates for these upcoming informal meetings, in which PhD students and PIs present their research.
- Tuesday September 20th - 1pm ⚠️ Canceled
- Tuesday October 18th - 1pm
- November: postponed due to NeuroStories on November 24th
- Tuesday December 13th - 1pm
➕ more information to come
Good student/supervisor relationship
Relationships in the PhD project framework can sometimes be tense between PhD students and their tutors. To appease them, you can have a look and use this poster, that focuses on advice for both sides of the relationship. Remember: these tips are not strict rules and must be adapted to each context! Also you can contact PhD project mentors and the wellness referent if you encounter issues.
find all PhD project mentors here
Checklists for international students and their supervisors
Students from abroad willing to do their PhD in one of our 9 NeuroMarseille’s laboratories are invited to consult the list of administrative formalities, put together by the NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool team. We’ve done one for the supervisors who are not to be left alone!
We, therefore, invite everyone interested to consult these 2 checklists for an arrival as smooth as possible:
🔎 Link to the student's checklist
🔎 Link to the supervisor's checklist
How to sign your scientific publications?
You are under contract with AMU? Part of the NeuroMarseille*Neuroschool community ? To sign scientific publications, you can consult the university's chart and how to aknolegde beeing part of the community on our page "Research Kit". On this page, it won’t be the only information of interest for you. You will find documentation and advice on funding, recruiting and useful tools in neuroscience. Something to get you up to speed for the new school year!
🔎 AMU signature chart and acknowledgement for NeuroMarseille
MRI Neuroimaging of brain disorders
On October 14, 2022, the INT and CERIMED are organizing a scientific day dedicated to language and sensory-motor disorders, with a presentation of the projects conducted at the center. You will have the opportunity to attend 6 talks, 2 keynote lectures (Prof. Kate Watkins - Oxford, UK, and Prof. Tamar Makin - UCL, UK), and a poster session. Lunch buffet and cocktail offered. Registration is free but mandatory.
📅 October 14, 2022 - 9am-6pm
📍 CERIMED, Timone Campus
➕ registration information
Results of our calls
Between April and June 2022, NeuroSchool auditioned applicants for several calls for PhD contracts : international PhDs, co-supervised PhDs, End-of-PhDs, PhD for MD. Sincere thanks to our amny collegues from all laboratories who gave their time as jurors ! NeuroSchool and its PhD Program are now pleased to announce the results of these calls, and welcome its new PhD students (or extend some of them) for the coming year!
discover the winners
This year's next tutored seminars
PhD students have chosen the future speakers for their tutored seminars: these highly qualitative conferences are open to all. We are pleased to announce that we will invite the following researchers:
- Miguel NICOLELIS will be our guest on November 3, 2022
- Laurentius HEUBER, in March 2023
- Freyja OLAFSDOTTIR, in April 2023
- Takuji IWASATO, on 15 or 22 May 2023
Other speakers are being invited, stay tuned!
Thank you all for taking part in the PhD program! Register soon on AMeTICE!
Monthly Neuroimaging Meetings (NMR) resume
As every year, the INT's NMR will take place live from CERIMED and in videoconference, to present and discuss research projects in Neuroimaging, results, articles and methodology. All interested researchers, clinicians, technicians, and students are welcome: meeting one Thursday morning per month, from 10am to 12pm.
📅 Next meetings scheduled on 15/09/2022 and 10/11/2022.
2022 NeuroDays : save the date !
This year, the conference organized by our Neuroscience PhD students , will take place on the 1st & 2nd of December at the Palais du Pharo. The topic will be «Mens sana in corpore sano». More information soon on the webpage under creation.
📅 December 1-2, 2022
📍 Palais du Pharo, Marseille
➕ More information to come
NeuroStories 2022: « Is my brain under influence? »
Genders, drugs, axonal structure, marketing...: what influence on our behavior? The NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool event for the general public returns for its fourth edition on November 24, 2022.This year again the Lycée de l'Olivier kindly lends its amphitheatre for our 6 stand-uppers to amaze you! Save the date for this memorable evening and come with family and friends!
📅 November 24, 2022
📍 Lycée l'Olivier Robert Coffy, 13012 Marseille
🇫🇷 in French
➕ More information to come
PhD Program Next events
📌 Meetings of the PhD program committee
Through Zoom and in our NeuroSchool meeting room (Timone)
September 2022
September 2nd, 2022 - usual committee
September 9, 2022 - extended committee
September 16, 2022 - usual committee
September 23, 2022 - usual committee
September 30, 2022 - usual committee
📌 Events
September 20: Neuro'Binar #15 ⚠️ Canceled
September 26-30: IMAGING 2022 R&D seminar
September 28-30: INT 10th anniversary
October 8: Neuronautes gala
October 20 : BioTech day
November 3 : tutored seminar
November 24 : NeuroStories
Check out the Events section above for general events!
Other information
"Tous chercheurs" is recruiting tutors
Interested in a teaching experience? "Tous chercheurs" proposes you to supervise a 2-3 day-long biology workshops for middle and high school students at INMED (Luminy campus). Worked hours can be validated by the doctoral school and are paid (as long as you are not engaged in a monitoring activity).A great introduction to active pedagogy!
🔎 For more information, contact J. Thimonier
Building a CV and promoting skills
You are a PhD student or a young graduate and you are wondering about your perspectives? Know that you already have a lot of value on the job market. To manage your professional opportunities, consult our visual on the assets to build your CV! Participate to the next BiotechnoSUD webinar on September 15 at 6pm, on how to value your skills as a PhD student to continue in research, to discover other jobs or to start your own business.This webinar is the first part of the Biotechnosud forum dedicated to the professional insertion of young scientists on October 20. Do not miss it too!
📅 BiotechnoSUD webinar : September 15 at 6pm
📅 BiotechnoSUD forum : October 20 - 9am-5pm
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 on topics of interest to your research or your laboratory's life, from NeuroMarseille and beyond
Information from NeuroMarseille and its 9 laboratories
Co-funding of thematic schools and scientific events
In keeping with its mission to help train and inform students, researchers, clinicians and/or citizens, NeuroMarseille*Neuroschool supports thematic schools and scientific events (symposia, debates, actions for the general public or patients’ societies...).
📅 Deadline October 2, 2022 for events between March 1, 2023 and February 28, 2024.
Neuronautes Gala 2022
1st gathering of its kind, this gala is professional but also friendly and fun: the students' society invites the whole neuroscience community, from students to researchers, on October 8, 2022, at the Newport, Pointe Rouge! Formal dress code recommended, small parking lot nearby (carpooling advised). Tickets already on sale (click here)!
📅 Saturday, October 8, 7pm - 2am
📍 Newport : 79/81 Av. de la Pointe Rouge, 13008 Marseille
Next Neuro'Binars in sight
The NeuroMarseille interdisciplinary webinar series continues! Save the dates for these upcoming informal meetings, in which PhD students and PIs present their research.
- Tuesday September 20th - 1pm ⚠️ Canceled
- Tuesday October 18th - 1pm
- November: postponed due to NeuroStories on November 24th
- Tuesday December 13th - 1pm
➕ more information to come
NeuroSchool incoming mobility fellowship
We are pleased to announce that the following students from partner universities have been selected to come to Marseille in 2022-23, thanks to NeuroSchool incoming mobility fellowships :
- Anushka Wakade, from the University of Helsinki, will be training at UNIS with Dominique Debanne,
- Maria Evangelia Vlachou, from Athens University, will be training at the LNC with Jean Blouin,
- Rabia Evgin, from the University of Tübingen, will be training at the LNC as well, with Boris Burle.
AMU researchers: remember to post your internship offers on our website to attract international students!
Opening of the Nikon Centre of Excellence for Neuro-NanoImaging - INP
The center will be inaugurated from 9:00 am on September 22, 2022! It is one of the twelve Nikon Centers of Excellence with European influence. Its creation results from the implementation by the INP of its cellular imaging platform (NCIS). The laboratory invites you to this major event: an international symposium will be followed by a ceremony with the president of AMU, E. Berton then a tour of the plaform and more!
📅 September 22, 2022 : 9am - 5pm
📍 Timone campus (Grisoli amphitheater)
🔎 Event summary and program of the day
INT's 10th anniversary conference
The Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone (INT) is now 10 years-old! Over this period of time, the INT has welcome many young researchers and built a rich and collaborative environment for its teams to thrive. To mark this moment, the laboratory is organizing its 5th edition of the INT international conference: "A decade's view on integrative neuroscience".
📅 September 28-30, 2022
📍 Toga Amphitheater , Faculty of Medicine, Timone campus
Thanks to our PhD audition jurors
Composed of members from the 9 NeuroMarseille laboratories, the « jurors » helped us a lot, last June, to determine the future international PhD students of this new school year. Neuroschool would like to thank them for their contribution:
G. G. Guiraudie Capraz (INP), C. Baunez (INT), S. Chauvet (IBDM), L. Aniksztejn (INMED), B. Marquèze (UNIS), C. Chabbert (LNC), A. Maarouf (CRMBM), P. Quilichini (INS), A. Rey (LPC), J-M. Brézun (ISM), A. Montagnini (INT) and W. Zaaraoui (CRMBM) head of the NeuroSchool PhD Program.
Visualization and development of AMU international network
The DRI of AMU (Service des relations internationales) provides a search engine to view the network of international institutions with which it currently has a partnership (AMU identifiers required). Documentation is also available on how to propose new partnerships and develop the network.
Are you interested? Discover in a few clicks the different types of cooperation underway with partners around and how to create new ones.
🔎 AMU partners network – search engine
🔎 Resources
Checklists for international students and their supervisors
Students from abroad willing to do their PhD in one of our 9 NeuroMarseille’s laboratories are invited to consult the list of administrative formalities, put together by the NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool team. We’ve done one for the supervisors who are not to be left alone!
We, therefore, invite everyone interested to consult these 2 checklists for an arrival as smooth as possible:
🔎 Link to the student's checklist
🔎 Link to the supervisor's checklist
Good student/supervisor relationship
Relationships in the PhD project framework can sometimes be tense between PhD students and their tutors. To appease them, you can have a look and use this poster, that focuses on advice for both sides of the relationship. Remember: these tips are not strict rules and must be adapted to each context! Also you can contact PhD project mentors and the wellness referent if you encounter issues.
find all PhD project mentors hereMRI Neuroimaging of brain disorders
On October 14, 2022, the INT and CERIMED are organizing a scientific day dedicated to language and sensory-motor disorders, with a presentation of the projects conducted at the center. You will have the opportunity to attend 6 talks, 2 keynote lectures (Prof. Kate Watkins - Oxford, UK, and Prof. Tamar Makin - UCL, UK), and a poster session. Lunch buffet and cocktail offered. Registration is free but mandatory.
📅 October 14, 2022 - 9am-6pm
📍 CERIMED, Timone Campus
➕ registration information
Inauguration of an imaging platform at INMED
CIRCUITPHOTONICS is a new platform for imaging the dynamics of neural circuits, resulting from a partnership initiated in 2021 between the INT, INMED and other actors, including AMU of course. The inauguration is scheduled for October 14, 2022 at INMED in Luminy. Find more information about CIRCUITPHOTONICS on the dedicated AMU page.
📅 October 14, 2022
➕ More details to come
Results of our calls
Between April and June 2022, NeuroSchool auditioned applicants for several calls for PhD contracts : international PhDs, co-supervised PhDs, End-of-PhDs, PhD for MD. Sincere thanks to our amny collegues from all laboratories who gave their time as jurors ! NeuroSchool and its PhD Program are now pleased to announce the results of these calls, and welcome its new PhD students (or extend some of them) for the coming year!
discover the winners
NeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool, winners of several A*MIDEX calls for projects!
We are proud to have won several A*Midex calls recently:
- ELNEA: Teaching Neuroscience in English. Our master’s program has received 84 k€ to switch to English in the upcoming years !
- Renewed funding from TIGER (Transformation of Training through Research) for our master’s program.
- 4 interdisciplinary projects (POLYCHRONIES, UNITAE, TAAMOD, REPORTS) : collaborations between NeuroMarseille’s laboratories.
Upcoming NeuroSchool seminars (PhD students and researchers invited)
PhD students have chosen the future speakers for their tutored seminars: these highly qualitative conferences are open to all. We are pleased to announce that we will invite the following researchers:
- Miguel NICOLELIS will be our guest on November 3, 2022
- Laurentius HEUBER, in March 2023
- Freyja OLAFSDOTTIR, in April 2023
- Takuji IWASATO, on 15 or 22 May 2023
Monthly Neuroimaging Meetings (NMR) resume
As every year, the INT's NMR will take place live from CERIMED and in videoconference, to present and discuss research projects in Neuroimaging, results, articles and methodology. All interested researchers, clinicians, technicians, and students are welcome: meeting one Thursday morning per month, from 10am to 12pm.
📅 Next meetings scheduled on 15/09/2022 and 10/11/2022.
Other information
Call for applications : IMéRA
For the year 2023-24, IMéRA is offering residency positions for a duration of 5 or 10 months, dedicated to scientists and/or artists. In particular, the "Interdisciplinary Explorations" program opens a place for the ILCB (Institute of Langage, Communication and the Brain), a residency to study the cerebral and cognitive bases of language or communication. Notice to all interested!
📅 Deadline: Monday, October 17, 2022
R&D Seminar "IMAGING 2022
In partnership with the CERIMED, the Marseille Imaging Institute, one of the 18 institutes created by Aix-Marseille University, is organizing a meeting from September 26 to 30, 2022 to bring together the community of researchers, teachers, and students with actors from the socio-economic world. The program, very complete, will cover the various application fields of imaging. Registration required.
📅 Deadline to register: September 9 ; Meeting: September 26-30
📍 Hall of the faculty of Medicine and CERIMED
🔎 Program – Presentation
Calls
All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!
NeuroMarseille calls
ICR call
As always, the NeuroMarseille Institute wishes to support scientific exchanges and encourage the emergence of new collaborations within the Marseilles neuroscience community. The aim, of course, is to promote the emergence of new innovative, highly qualitative projects. In this context, the Institute opens the 4th call entitled "Grants for innovative and collaborative research in neurosciences". Watch your mailbox, we will shortly inform you of the call opening!
🕒 Will open soon
Co-funding of thematic schools and scientific events
In keeping with its mission to help train and inform students, researchers, clinicians and/or citizens, NeuroMarseille*Neuroschool supports thematic schools and scientific events (symposia, debates, actions for the general public or patients’ societies...).
📅 Deadline October 2, 2022 for events between March 1, 2023 and February 28, 2024.
NeuroSchool incoming mobility fellowship
We are pleased to announce that the following students from partner universities have been selected to come to Marseille in 2022-23, thanks to NeuroSchool incoming mobility fellowships :
- Anushka Wakade, from the University of Helsinki, will be training at UNIS with Dominique Debanne,
- Maria Evangelia Vlachou, from Athens University, will be training at the LNC with Jean Blouin,
- Rabia Evgin, from the University of Tübingen, will be training at the LNC as well, with Boris Burle.
AMU researchers: remember to post your internship offers on our website to attract international students!
Results of our calls
Between April and June 2022, NeuroSchool auditioned applicants for several calls for PhD contracts : international PhDs, co-supervised PhDs, End-of-PhDs, PhD for MD. Sincere thanks to our amny collegues from all laboratories who gave their time as jurors ! NeuroSchool and its PhD Program are now pleased to announce the results of these calls, and welcome its new PhD students (or extend some of them) for the coming year!
discover the winnersNeuroMarseille*NeuroSchool, winners of several A*MIDEX calls for projects!
We are proud to have won several A*Midex calls recently:
- ELNEA: Teaching Neuroscience in English. Our master’s program has received 84 k€ to switch to English in the upcoming years !
- Renewed funding from TIGER (Transformation of Training through Research) for our master’s program.
- 4 interdisciplinary projects (POLYCHRONIES, UNITAE, TAAMOD, REPORTS) : collaborations between NeuroMarseille’s laboratories.
Other calls
Call for applications : IMéRA
For the year 2023-24, IMéRA is offering residency positions for a duration of 5 or 10 months, dedicated to scientists and/or artists. In particular, the "Interdisciplinary Explorations" program opens a place for the ILCB (Institute of Langage, Communication and the Brain), a residency to study the cerebral and cognitive bases of language or communication. Notice to all interested!
📅 Deadline: Monday, October 17, 2022
Call for projects: "Improving patient care and quality of life (FFRE)
The FFRE will finance at the end of 2022, with the support of the Vera Nijs & Jens Erik Rosborg Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg, a clinical research project over 3 years (2023-2025) aiming to improve the care and quality of life of patients suffering from epilepsy. This funding will be of 160 000 € over 3 years.
📅 Deadline : October 1, 2022 in the evening
Deadline for the MSCA Post-doctoral Fellowship call
This call of the Horizon Europe Program allows PhD holders to carry out a post-doctoral fellowship in a European or extra-European country.
For the year 2023, the closing date of the call for proposals is September 14, 2022. Conditions apply. For information, contact Isabelle Amabile and Asha Wagware, from the European Contracts Department of Protisvalor.
📅 Deadline : September 14, 2022
Societies
The latest news from student's societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool
News from the Neuronautes
With the support of NeuroMarseille*Neuroschool, the students’ society NeuroNautes is organizing 2 events at the beginning of the academic year:
📅 September 22 at 6:00 pm: conference « Artificial Intelligence & Epilepsy »in the 📍 Maurice-Toga amphitheater on the Timone campus
📅 October 8th at 7:00 pm: Gala for students, teachers, and staff from the 9 NeuroMarseille laboratories, at the 📍 Newport, Pointe Rouge!
➕ More information in the Events section!
The Neuronautes are happy to see you again for this new academic year and hope to welcome many of you there !
"Tous chercheurs" is recruiting tutors
Interested in a teaching experience? "Tous chercheurs" proposes you to supervise a 2-3 day-long biology workshops for middle and high school students at INMED (Luminy campus). Worked hours can be validated by the doctoral school and are paid (as long as you are not engaged in a monitoring activity).A great introduction to active pedagogy!
🔎 For more information, contact J. Thimonier
Career
Job offers, internships, PhD projects, professional events & training
Building a CV and promoting skills
You are a PhD student or a young graduate and you are wondering about your perspectives? Know that you already have a lot of value on the job market. To manage your professional opportunities, consult our visual on the assets to build your CV! Participate to the next BiotechnoSUD webinar on September 15 at 6pm, on how to value your skills as a PhD student to continue in research, to discover other jobs or to start your own business.This webinar is the first part of the Biotechnosud forum dedicated to the professional insertion of young scientists on October 20. Do not miss it too!
📅 BiotechnoSUD webinar : September 15 at 6pm
📅 BiotechnoSUD forum : October 20 - 9am-5pm
NeuroCommunity job thread
Check out our NeuroCommunity network! Many offers are regularly proposed for and by the Neuroscience community from Marseille and abroad. Many others might need your help so join us and share your assets.
NeuroCommunity"Tous chercheurs" is recruiting tutors
Interested in a teaching experience? "Tous chercheurs" proposes you to supervise a 2-3 day-long biology workshops for middle and high school students at INMED (Luminy campus). Worked hours can be validated by the doctoral school and are paid (as long as you are not engaged in a monitoring activity).A great introduction to active pedagogy!
🔎 For more information, contact J. Thimonier
List of "job offers" platforms
You will find on those websites all the main offers that could help you in your search for a job:
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