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All the neuroscience news in September 2023
Discover the news of the Marseille neuroscience community for September 2023!
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Welcome back, neuroscience enthusiasts! Join us for an exciting new academic year!
Among the new features starting in September, we’re thrilled to announce that the second year of the Master’s program (M2) will be taught exclusively in English, opening up new horizons for international students!
We encourage all our readers to actively participate and contribute to our vibrant neuroscience community. Have a research breakthrough, an intriguing study, or a neuroscience event you’d like to share? Send in your contributions!
Make sure to seize every opportunity by reading this monthly newsletter and following us on social media:
LinkedIn – Our NeuroCommunity private group on LinkedIn (it’s different!) – Twitter / X – Facebook
NeuroMarseille seminar about wellbeing at the workplace
Well-being at work & gender equality, Results of the NeuroMarseille global survey presented by Isabelle Regner (LNC) & Magali Ochs (LIS)
🇫🇷 In French
📅 September 14, 2023
📍 Timone campus + online
Followed by a buffet 🍽️👨🏻🍳🥗
Postdoctoral contract in a company
NeuroSchool offers to fully fund a one-year postdoctoral contract for an R&D project carried out in a company. The call for projects and applications is now open. Tell everyone about it 👉 companies and soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates!
- Companies can send in projects all-year-round (the earlier the better, in order to offer maximum opportunities).
Three have already done so: check out our call to discover the projects proposed by Ventio, by AtmosR and by V.RTU!
- Next application deadline for young PhDs: September 17, 2023
NeuroSchool tutored seminar by Gustavo Turecki
Molecular Mediators of Antidepressant Response
Gustavo Turecki is a Psychiatrist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in Canada who investigates the neurobiology of depression and suicide.
📅 September 8, 2023 - 2:30 pm
📍 Salle Gastaut, INT ground floor, Timone Campus
Looking for housing solutions!
Do you have an apartment or a room for rent?
Please let us know, as many students are currently looking for accommodation. It is particularly difficult this year, notably for international students.
Events
All the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute, NeuroSchool and other external events.
NeuroMarseille internal events
Dates to note down!
Summary of upcoming events at NeuroMarseille:
🗓September 8: Gustavo Turecki’s NeuroSchool seminar (INT)
🗓September 14: NeuroMarseille seminar about wellbeing at the workplace
🗓September 21: NeuroJob workshop: what will I do after my PhD in neuroscience? 💼
🗓 October 27: Elizabeth Torres’ NeuroSchool seminar (INT)
🗓 November 16-17: 2023 NeuroDays
🗓 December 1: Clinical day – Spinal injury 🏥
🗓December 4-6: BrainHack Marseille 2023 🖥️
2nd "GDR Mémoire" Interdisciplinary Symposium
The conference aims to bring together experts from distinct disciplines (anthropology, art, biology, law, history, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, sociology...) whose common interest is the study of Memory.
📅 October 3-6, 2023
📍 Carry-le-Rouet (France)
GDR NeuralNet 2023
The GDR Neuralnet is composed of 84 labs across France that are interested in studying neural activity at the level of networks and neural populations. There will be selected talks from submitted abstracts; we encourage submissions from young researchers and young PIs.
📅 October 11-13, 2023
📍 Pharo Campus, Marseille
October 9-10th : optional and free minischool: "Managment and analysis of large scale electrophysiological and imaging data" at INMED, organized by Pierre-Pascal Lenck-Santini with Michel Picardo and Robin Dard.
NeuroMarseille lab seminars
📍 Timone Campus
📌 INS
7 September – 12 pm, Is our brain really not “wired” for sustainability? A closer look at the conceptualization of cognitive bias in the scientific literature on the climate crisis by Amélie Conrad who completed a Unitae Master’s internship, will present the fruit of her research
Pauline Tudose will also give a short presentation on a similar thesis: Heuristics and scientific neutrality.
📍5th floor, blue wing, Faculty of Medicine
14 September – 4 pm, Source space decoding and verbal fluency by Britta Westner (Radboud University)
21 September – 4 pm, Classification of Bursting Patterns: Review & extension by Mathieu Desroches
19 September – 4 pm, Critique of the neuronal encodings of movement kinematics and number by Laurent Goffard (INT)
📌 INT
14 September – 10 am, Monthly Neuroimaging Meetings, CERIMED
19 September – 13:30, Introduction to the RNAscope technique – More information
📍 Luminy Campus
📌 INMED
11 September – 11 am, The Motor System at the heart of our Decisions and Actions by Gérard Derosiere (Lyon)
18 September – 11 am, The effect of optogenetic Gq-induced astrocytic Ca2+ signaling on memory and blood flow by Hajime Hirase (University of Copenhagen)
📍 Saint-Charles Campus
📌 LPC
29 September – 11 am, Pourquoi et comment sommes-nous conscients? by Axel Cleermans (Université libre de Bruxelles)
External events
Ingrid Meucci's Vernissage
What happens to our graduates?
Ingrid Meucci (Master Neuroscience 2013 and former communication officer for NeuroSchool*NeuroMarseille) is now an underwater photographer! Join her for her first vernissage!
📅 September 11, 2023 - 5:30 - 9 pm (the exhibition continues until Oct. 11)
📍 Maison Montgrand, 35, rue Montgrand, 13006 Marseille
Ernst Strüngmann Institute Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESI SyNC) 2023
Linking hypotheses: where neuroscience, computation, and cognition meet.
Eleven speakers will discuss their research and views on the intersection of systems, behavioral, and computational neuroscience from a wide array of viewpoints: from basic network interactions in the brain probed at the electrophysiological and mechanistic levels, to complex animal behavior and cognition.
📅 September 14 and 15
📍Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt, Germany & online (free for online participants)
Nuit européenne des chercheur·e·s
What will we be dreaming of in 2023? Let's discuss our futures: education, health, access to drinking water, transport... these are just some of the themes we'll be exploring together. Through original meeting formats such as tête-à-tête, an escape game, scientific experiments, a disinformation office, a cinema... Ideas and knowledge are shared in a Dock des Suds transformed with the complicity of scenographers from Marseille.
📅 Friday, September 29
📍 Dock des Suds
NeuroSchool L3 / Master
This section covers the actions carried out with our 3rd-year undergraduate and master's students.
Welcome to NeuroMarseille!
You’re a new student, postdoc, or researcher in neuroscience here in our beautiful city? Welcome!
While the whole website neuro-marseille.org is fantastic, here are some interesting links 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!
AMU Welcome desk 2023
You are a new international student at the University of Aix-Marseille? You can make an individual appointment with the welcome desk of the AMU International Relations Department from August 30 to 29 September. Meet the international student reception team and Aix-Marseille University partners to help you with your integration process.
📅 August 30 to 29 September
📍 Saint Charles campus - Espace Pouillon, Marseille
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!
Internships and study abroad
Are you thinking of studying or 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. When you find your favorite destination, contact the DRI.
NeuroSchool also offers mobility scholarships for exchanges with partner universities, listed here. Check out our Calls or contact us for more information!
NeuroSchool PhD program
Read all the news about our PhD program.
NeuroSchool information
NeuroSchool seminar by Gustavo Turecki
Molecular Mediators of Antidepressant Response
Gustavo Turecki is a Psychiatrist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in Canada who investigates the neurobiology of depression and suicide.
📅 September 8, 2023
📍 Salle Gastaut, INT ground floor, Timone Campus
PhD students participating in the event validate 3 hours of scientific training (4 for the chairperson).
NeuroJob workshop: what will I do after my PhD in neuroscience? 💼
A 1-day workshop to explore job opportunities (public and private sectors) after a PhD in neuroscience with experts from the Association Bernard Grégory (ABG)! They will also help you perfect your CV and get ready for interviews!
📅 September 21, 2023
📍 Saint-Charles campus
🧠 From neuroscience to holism: critical thinking on the trajectory of the ecological crisis. 🌍
Understanding the causes of the environmental destruction leads to a transdisciplinary perspective, which in turns helps to envisage possible futures.
Date and exact location to be confirmed
Duration: 4 hour (1 afternoon)
With Manuel Mercier (INS)
More information soon.
NeuroSchool seminar by Elizabeth Torres
Dr Torres leads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab and the New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence.
📅 October 27, 2023
📍 INT, Timone campus
More details to come.
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
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
Exact dates to be confirmed. Details to come on AMeTICE.
More courses may be planned depending on students’ needs.
Clinical day – Spinal injury 🏥
🥼🎓 We seek to bring together clinicians, researchers, residents and PhD students, around presentations on spinal cord injury.
PhD students working on the spine: come present your work!
📅 December 1
📍 Timone hospital, amphitheater HA3
Registration information available soon!
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
Comité de suivi de thèse
Reminder: PhD students must now meet their “comité de suivi de thèse” every year. So plan your meeting now!
PhD program Next events
Check out the Events section above for general events!
🗓September 8: Gustavo Turecki’s NeuroSchool seminar (INT)
🗓September 21: NeuroJob workshop: what will I do after my PhD in neuroscience? 💼
🗓 October 27: Elizabeth Torres’ NeuroSchool seminar (INT)
🗓 November 16-17: NeuroDays
🗓 December 1: Clinical day – Spinal injury 🏥
🗓December 4-6: BrainHack Marseille 2023 🖥️
Upcoming PhD program committee meetings:
🗓September 1: small committee
🗓September 8: enlaarged committee
🗓September 15: small committee
🗓September 22: small committee
🗓September 29: small committee
Other information
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
"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!
Usually in French. For more information, contact Jean Thimonier.
Congratulations to Cassandre Vielle!
Cassandre Vielle (INT) is one of 3 winners of the Société des Neurosciences - Chen Institute PhD thesis awards!
Video: watch Cassandre explain her PhDResearch
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
Biorender licences
AMU Biology department and the neuroscience master's degree (TIGER funds) have purchased Biorender Premium licenses for teaching staff in each neuroscience laboratory to help them create beautiful scientific illustrations.
Check with your lab director or contact us for more information!
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.
Submit your offer
They made the headlines
Caroline CHAMBON & Myriam CAYRE of the Sensory & Cognitive Rehabilitation Team (LNC) were interviewed by La Provence. The article, published on Friday June 30, entitled Sur la piste du déclin cognitif (On the trail of cognitive decline), provides an overview of their current experimental project.
Read the article
Rosa Cossart in La Recherche
La Recherche features an interview with Rosa Cossart (INMED).
Link to the article
Annual CERIMED's scientific day
Neuroimaging beyond the cortex : basal ganglia, cerebellum, spinal cord
📅 Friday, October 20, 2023
📍 CERIMED, Timone campus
Free but compulsory registration : register now !
Accommodations for incoming researchers
Are you currently recruiting?
Here are accommodation options for incoming researchers based in Marseille/Aix-en-Provence.
Calls
All the NeuroMarseille calls, and more!
Postdoctoral contract in a company
NeuroSchool offers to fully fund a one-year postdoctoral contract for an R&D project carried out in a company. The call for projects and applications is now open. Tell everyone about it 👉 companies and soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates!
- Companies can send in projects all-year-round (the earlier the better, in order to offer maximum opportunities).
Three have already done so: check out our call to discover the projects proposed by Ventio, by AtmosR and by V.RTU!
- Next application deadline for young PhDs: September 17, 2023
Co-funding for YOUR 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...).
📅 Next deadline: October 8, 2023
Students' societies
The latest news from students societies linked to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool
Neuronautes
A very dynamic student society, the Neuronautes gather undergraduate and master's students interested in neuroscience. They organize over 15 events each year: conferences for the general public, meetings with graduates, exhibitions on the brain, the Cognitive Science Forum in Marseille, game nights and other social events. Join them now for an enriched student experience!
neuronautes' facebook
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!
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.
Contact Cerveau Point Comm
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 informationCareer
Job offers, internships, PhD projects, professional events & training
NeuroJob workshop: what to do after a PhD in neuroscience?
A 1-day workshop to explore job opportunities (public and private sectors) after a PhD in neuroscience with experts from the Association Bernard Grégory (ABG)! They will also help you perfect your CV and get ready for interviews!
Priority to current PhD students, open to M2 students and postdocs (contact us).
📅 September 21, 2023
📍 Saint-Charles campus
AMU Forum Stage Emploi
Accelerate your study-to-work transition through personalized contact with partner companies at the next edition of AMU Forum Stage Emploi!
🇫🇷 In French
📅 Thursday, October 5, 2023, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm
📍 CCI Marseille Provence - Palais de la Bourse - Marseille
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...
Visit this website now!
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.
Explore JobTeaser
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. Apply now!
Information and application
Find a job thanks to our NeuroCommunity
We set up this LinkedIn group dedicated to students, current NeuroMarseille members and alumni: join us now and share your ideas, needs, job proposals, collaborations, calls for help, advice, etc!
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!
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!
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