All the Neurosciences news in February

2021 winners of the calls for Innovative and Collaborative Research: ICR, ICR Plus, and Technical Boost

The Scientific Council of NeuroMarseille is pleased to announce the list of laureates of the 3 calls for tenders 2021. These projects all meet the required criteria of scientific excellence and all aim at promoting collaboration between researchers or engineers for the emergence of innovative projects. This year many platforms of the Institute are involved in the winning projects and NeuroMarseille is proud to support their development thanks to this funding.

The projects will be detailed in the next newsletter!

• ICR :
Nicolas MAURICE (IBDM) & Christelle BAUNEZ (INT) 
Christine ASSAIANTE (LNC), Jean-Philippe RANJEVA (CRMBM), Serge PINTO (LPL) et Pascale COLE (LPC)
Emmanuel NIVET (INP) et Rosanna DONO (IBDM)
• ICR Plus :
Antoine DE CHEVIGNY (INMED) et Christophe LETERRIER (INP)
Myriam CAYRE (IBDM) and Nathalie Lorenzo (LNC)
Virginie CALLOT (CRMBM) et Franck VIDAL (LNC)
Corinne BEURRIER (IBDM) et Eduardo GASCON GONZALO (INT)
EUSEBIO Alexandre (APHM/INT) & TSVETKOV Philipp (INP)
• Technical Boost:
Béatrice MARQUEZE-POUEY (UNIS) et Claude VILLARD (INP)

NeuroSchool launches 3 calls for PhD projects

• Doctoral contracts for PhD theses in co-supervision or international co-supervision
• 2021 PhD scholarships for international students
• One year's salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist enrolled in a thesis in neurosciences 

Important: you can only submit one project for one of the two international NeuroSchool calls or the doctoral school 62.

🗓 Deadline for submission of research projects: 1 March 2021

NeuroSchool 2021 student representatives

Find out who has been elected to the NeuroSchool student representative elections from L3 to PhD.

New deadline: NeuroMarseille Photo Contest: Science & Art

We cannot serenely predict that the photo exhibitions of the laureates will take place in May or June as planned: we are rather aiming for the second half of the year. The deadline for submitting photos has therefore been postponed! 
Send your most beautiful pictures to reveal the beauty of life through images taken in AMU's neuroscience laboratories. The 20 winning photos will be exhibited in various galleries in the region. If you are a laureate, you will also receive a large format framed print of your photo(s). Other prizes are in preparation (Pass for the Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles, subscription to a photography magazine, photo books...)!

🗓 Deadline for submitting photos: 15 June 2021. 

Dates to note!

Below is a summary of NeuroMarseille events for the upcoming month.

🗓 22 January to 19 February: Neurodevelopment course (PhD Program)
🗓 15 February: Announcement of incoming mobility grant winners
🗓 February 18 at 4 pm: Neurobinar n°5 with Pierre-Yves Jacob (LNC), Lucas Goirand-Lopez (INMED) and Dominic Bingham (INP).
🗓 March 1: end of the PhD scholarship calls.

Neurobinar #5: February 18, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

For this second Neurobinar of 2021, come and discover the work of Pierre-Yves Jacob (LNC), Lucas Goirand-Lopez (INMED) and Dominic Bingham (INP). Register to receive the webinar login link.

🗓 February 18, 2021, at 4 pm
▶️ Live Zoom

Discovering the institutes of establishment - Vectors of innovation on the territory

Eric Berton, President of Aix-Marseille University and Denis Bertin, Deputy Vice-President of the A*Midex University Foundation, invite you to get to know the institutes of establishment, new university objects creating bridges between teaching, research and the needs of economic and cultural players.

Three thematic round tables will present the 15 AMU institutes created, their concrete actions and the strengths they represent for the territory in terms of interdisciplinarity, pedagogical and scientific innovations, and expertise in the face of current crises.

🗓 9 February 2021 from 11:00 to 12:15
▶️ To be followed online on the Youtube channel of Aix-Marseille Université

Laboratory Seminars

All seminars are in English and available online. 

INT
- 5 February 2021 at 2.30 pm with Lopez Bendito Guillermina (Insituto de Neurosciencias, Spain): "The thalamus that speaks to the cortex: spontaneous activity in the developing brain".
- 12 February 2021 at 1.30 pm: Second Technical Lecture Serie part 1: Extracellular electrophysiological recordings
- 19 February 2021 at 13:30: Second Technical Lecture Serie part 2: Intracellular electrophysiological recordings
- 26 February 2021 at 2.30 pm with Bertoldo Raquel (Social Psychology Laboratory (UR 849), AMU)

Centre IRM-INT : monthly neuroimaging meeting (RMN)
- 11 February at 10 am:  Rochelle Ackerley (LNC) : "Cortical responses to single unit intraneural microstimulation at 7T and comparison with skin vibrotactile stimulation" / Paul Lalande Robert & Etienne Thoret (PRISM), Pascal Belin (INT), Benjamin Morillon (INS) : nouveau projet "Neural mechanisms supporting hemispheric asymmetry during auditory perception”

IBDM
- 12 February 2021 at 11.30 am with Levgenia Pastuskenko (Université Libre de Bruxelles): EMT Transition states in cancer

LPC/LNSC
- 15 March 2021 at 13:30 pm with Jean Laurens, "Three-dimensional Head Direction Cells in rodents"

NeuroStories 2020: "At the source of our emotions" by Jean-Baptiste Pavani

On November 23rd, five researchers shared their secrets on the language of emotions, whether in animals, humans or robots.
Jean-Baptiste Pavani answers all your questions following his talk on "At the source of our emotions".

ShapingLife 2

The second edition of ShapingLife, co-organised by the French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD) and the Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseille (IBDM), will take place from 7 to 9 April 2021.
This event is co-financed by NeuroSchool therefore free registrations are offered to the first students and post-doc from NeuroMarseille who want to register: you can apply at laurie.arnaud1@univ-amu.fr. 

🗓 Abstract submission until February 26th
🗓 Registration until 19 March
▶️ Online 

ENCODS 2021

The European Conference of Doctoral Students in Neuroscience (ENCODS) is an initiative to offer young neuroscientists a scientific exchange better suited to their needs than a large-scale event. ENCODS is now organised each year by a different group of international doctoral students and welcomes European doctoral students working in all fields of neuroscience.

🗓 4-6 June 2021
▶️ Online

The 2021 European career fair

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) European Career Fair (ECF) is an annual recruiting event, organized by the MIT European Club and taking place online this year.

Aix Marseille University will participate this year, and we have the opportunity to publish offers on our virtual booth for Master, PhD, and postdoctoral students as well as for senior scientists.
You will be able to post offers such as fellowships and internships at Master level, international Masters, summer schools for Master and PhD students, fellowship opportunities, post-doc positions offered, PI calls.

For more information: rosalind.boniface@univ-amu.fr

🗓 February 25th

Masters Salon

The AMU Masters Exhibition will take place on 13 March online. More information coming soon!

NeuroSchool launches 3 calls for PhD projects

• Doctoral contracts for PhD theses in co-supervision or international co-supervision
• 2021 PhD scholarships for international students
• One year's salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist enrolled in a thesis in neurosciences 

Important: if you are a Master's student in Neuroscience at AMU, if you are interested in the world of research abroad, consider applying for a PhD contract in international co-supervision offered by Neuroschool - (Call open to students in March 2021)

🗓 Deadline for submission of research projects: 1 March 2021

Call for projects from the Sud Region " Emploi Jeunes doctorants " (Young doctoral students employment)

The Sud Region proposes a three-year funding scheme to carry out a PhD in partnership with companies and in close connection with strategic sectors. The call for projects is available on the Aix-Marseille University website.

🗓 Deadline for applications: 08 February 2021

LivinFrance: practical advice to prepare your arrival in France

Aix-Marseille University has set up a system to help you prepare for your departure via the deployment of LivinFrance, a digital platform on which you will find a set of useful and practical information on all the steps you need to take to settle in France. Above all, you will be able to benefit from individualised support and advice. You will be able to ask your questions by chat, WhatsApp or telephone. 
This service is multilingual (French, English, Spanish...), so don't hesitate to use it, it's completely free!

Course: Computational Neuroscience (in French)

The 30-hour course (10 sessions of 3 hours each) is based on three main themes:
1) Dynamics of networks and emerging properties
2) Coding, decoding, information theory
3) Cognitive architectures, symbolic approaches and AI. 

Theoretical ideas and models specific to each level of approach to the brain will be presented, from the cellular level, through the properties of small networks, to large scale networks and up to emerging functions, artificial intelligence and human behaviour. 

🗓  The courses take place over several weeks, between 25/02 and 02/04, with one or two sessions per week.

Vote for the speakers of your dreams for the tutored seminars of 2021

This year again, we would like to let you choose the tutored seminars from 2021. The idea is to cover the different fields of neuroscience, from the molecular/cellular level to a more integrated level.
Vote here for your favourite speakers among a list of exceptional speakers: https://forms.gle/7JnZCdnhP34gh5JT7

Once the survey is completed, we will have to ensure that the research themes, campus and gender of speakers are well distributed and represented. Of course, speakers proposed by students will be given preference!

Neurobinar #5: February 18, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

For this second Neurobinar of 2021, come and discover the work of Pierre-Yves Jacob (LNC), Lucas Goirand-Lopez (INMED) and Dominic Bingham (INP). Register to receive the webinar login link.

🗓 February 18, 2021, at 4 pm
▶️ Live Zoom

Organise NeuroDays 2021!

The team of NeuroDays 2020 (unfortunately cancelled), invites you to join the organisation team of NeuroDays 2021. Join this great adventure!

Welcome to PhD students!

This year, we had the pleasure to welcome "virtually" our new PhD students on January 28th! Despite the very special conditions, due to the sanitary situation, this afternoon of welcome allowed the students to get to know the team. You will find in this article the little games that we concocted for them and the new interactive map of the PhD P. 

Find on Ametice the video resources for newcomers: https://ametice.univ-amu.fr/course/view.php?id=8577#section-2

Innovation Contest: i-PhD

The Government in partnership with Bpifrance has launched the i-PhD competition, as part of the Deeptech Plan. It aims to reward young researchers or PhD students with entrepreneurial projects using breakthrough technologies. The i-PhD winners will benefit from individual and collective support for over 12 months.

🗓 Deadline: 9 March

Laboratory Seminars

All seminars are in English and available online. 

INT
- 5 February 2021 at 2.30 pm with Lopez Bendito Guillermina (Insituto de Neurosciencias, Spain): "The thalamus that speaks to the cortex: spontaneous activity in the developing brain".
- 12 February 2021 at 1.30 pm: Second Technical Lecture Serie part 1: Extracellular electrophysiological recordings
- 19 February 2021 at 13:30: Second Technical Lecture Serie part 2: Intracellular electrophysiological recordings
- 26 February 2021 at 2.30 pm with Bertoldo Raquel (Social Psychology Laboratory (UR 849), AMU)

Centre IRM-INT : monthly neuroimaging meeting (RMN)
- 11 February at 10 am:  Rochelle Ackerley (LNC) : "Cortical responses to single unit intraneural microstimulation at 7T and comparison with skin vibrotactile stimulation" / Paul Lalande Robert & Etienne Thoret (PRISM), Pascal Belin (INT), Benjamin Morillon (INS) : nouveau projet "Neural mechanisms supporting hemispheric asymmetry during auditory perception”

IBDM
- 12 February 2021 at 11.30 am with Levgenia Pastuskenko (Université Libre de Bruxelles): EMT Transition states in cancer

LPC/LNSC
- 15 March 2021 at 13:30 pm with Jean Laurens, "Three-dimensional Head Direction Cells in rodents"

2021 winners of the calls for Innovative and Collaborative Research: ICR, ICR Plus, and Technical Boost

MedIM 2020 : First inter-platform Interactome workshop

A workshop to train and discover the possibilities of 3 technological platforms in Marseille: this was the aim of this MedIm event, which took place from 7 to 11 December 2020. This event was organised by Pascale Barbier, Déborah Byrne, François Devred, Géraldine Ferracci, Maria Maté, Alain Roussel and Philipp Tsvetkov. NeuroSchool/NeuroMarseille financed part of this event to encourage interdisciplinary and cross-platform initiatives. Let’s look back at the first edition of this innovative workshop.

Innovation Contest: i-PhD

The Government in partnership with Bpifrance has launched the i-PhD competition, as part of the Deeptech Plan. It aims to reward young researchers or PhD students with entrepreneurial projects using breakthrough technologies. The i-PhD winners will benefit from individual and collective support for over 12 months.

🗓 Deadline: 9 March

The 2021 European career fair

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) European Career Fair (ECF) is an annual recruiting event, organized by the MIT European Club and taking place online this year.

Aix Marseille University will participate this year, and we have the opportunity to publish offers on our virtual booth for Master, PhD, and postdoctoral students as well as for senior scientists.
You will be able to post offers such as fellowships and internships at Master level, international Masters, summer schools for Master and PhD students, fellowship opportunities, post-doc positions offered, PI calls.

For more information: rosalind.boniface@univ-amu.fr

🗓 February 25th

Negotiation of National, European (excluding Horizon Europe) and International R&D Contracts in AMU management

The contract negotiation procedure has just been modified: it sets out the various steps required for the negotiation and validation of National, European (outside Horizon Europe) and International contracts, as well as the role of each player involved in this procedure. This procedure is part of the mission to support the development of research entrusted to the DRV's Contractual and Industrial Activities Division and implemented by the DRV's Campus Project Managers. 

NeuroSchool launches 3 calls for PhD projects

• Doctoral contracts for PhD theses in co-supervision or international co-supervision
• 2021 PhD scholarships for international students
• One year's salary for an intern or a young doctor or pharmacist enrolled in a thesis in neurosciences 

Important: you can only submit one project for one of the two international NeuroSchool calls or the doctoral school 62.

🗓 Deadline for submission of research projects: 1 March 2021

3rd edition of the Grant for Scientific Culture Projects of Aix-Marseille University, open call!

The Aix-Marseille University Scientific Culture Project Grant is aimed at research structures with a project to disseminate research. In 2021, a budget of €10,000 is once again reserved for this support for the cultural initiatives of laboratories and will be distributed among the various winning projects.
 
🗓 Application form to be returned before 12 February

2021 winners of the calls for Innovative and Collaborative Research: ICR, ICR Plus, and Technical Boost

The Scientific Council of NeuroMarseille is pleased to announce the list of laureates of the 3 calls for tenders 2021. These projects all meet the required criteria of scientific excellence and all aim at promoting collaboration between researchers or engineers for the emergence of innovative projects. This year many platforms of the Institute are involved in the winning projects and NeuroMarseille is proud to support their development thanks to this funding.
The projects will be detailed in the next newsletter!
• ICR :
Nicolas MAURICE (IBDM) & Christelle BAUNEZ (INT) 
Christine ASSAIANTE (LNC), Jean-Philippe RANJEVA (CRMBM), Serge PINTO (LPL) et Pascale COLE (LPC)
Emmanuel NIVET (INP) et Rosanna DONO (IBDM)
• ICR Plus :
Antoine DE CHEVIGNY (INMED) et Christophe LETERRIER (INP)
Myriam CAYRE (IBDM) and Nathalie Lorenzo (LNC)
Virginie CALLOT (CRMBM) et Franck VIDAL (LNC)
Corinne BEURRIER (IBDM) et Eduardo GASCON GONZALO (INT)
EUSEBIO Alexandre (APHM/INT) & TSVETKOV Philipp (INP)
• Technical Boost:
Béatrice MARQUEZE-POUEY (UNIS) et Claude VILLARD (INP)

The 3Brain - Massimo Grattarola Award 2021

3Brain is now offering a 10,000€ prize to support young neuroscientists at the beginning of their scientific journey.
Proposed a project to further our understanding of cellular network function in health and disease, which also includes high-density microelectrode array (HD-MEA) recordings from in-vitro or ex-vivo models such as brain slices, neuronal cultures (primary or stem cell-derived), retina, cardiomyocytes or organoids.

Please note, that it is the project idea that is awarded, therefore providing MEA data in the application is not required.

🗓 Project to be submitted before 14 March 2021

NeuroStories 2020: Emotionally yours

The videos of NeuroStories 2020 are available on our YouTube channel. 

Find in the following article (in French), the answers to the questions asked to JB. Pavani on his intervention "At the source of emotions": https://neuro-marseille.org/blog/neurostories-2020-reponses-aux-questions-de-jean-baptiste-pavani/

New deadline: NeuroMarseille Photo Contest: Science & Art

We cannot serenely predict that the photo exhibitions of the laureates will take place in May or June as planned: we are rather aiming for the second half of the year. The deadline for submitting photos has therefore been postponed! 
Send your most beautiful pictures to reveal the beauty of life through images taken in AMU's neuroscience laboratories. The 20 winning photos will be exhibited in various galleries in the region. If you are a laureate, you will also receive a large format framed print of your photo(s). Other prizes are in preparation (Pass for the Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles, subscription to a photography magazine, photo books...)!

🗓 Deadline for submitting photos: 15 June 2021. 

Short Scientific Question - Call for participation

Would you like to participate in an outreach project? AMU is relaunching the "Petite Question Scientifique" videos on its Youtube channel to shed light on everyday issues presented briefly and in a way that everyone can understand, by giving the floor to researchers, post-docs and doctoral students. 

The format is simple: a short video (2 min 30-3 min) that shows the researcher/post-doc in his or her work environment while answering the question posed.

If you are interested, please contact Fanny Trifilieff.

The 2021 European career fair

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) European Career Fair (ECF) is an annual recruiting event, organized by the MIT European Club and taking place online this year.

Aix Marseille University will participate this year, and we have the opportunity to publish offers on our virtual booth for Master, PhD, and postdoctoral students as well as for senior scientists.
You will be able to post offers such as fellowships and internships at Master level, international Masters, summer schools for Master and PhD students, fellowship opportunities, post-doc positions offered, PI calls.

For more information: rosalind.boniface@univ-amu.fr

🗓 February 25th

Innovation Contest: i-PhD

The Government in partnership with Bpifrance has launched the i-PhD competition, as part of the Deeptech Plan. It aims to reward young researchers or PhD students with entrepreneurial projects using breakthrough technologies. The i-PhD winners will benefit from individual and collective support for over 12 months.

🗓 Deadline: 9 March

Women scientists in the spotlight! How to improve the representation of women scientists in the media?

What is the representation of women scientists in the media? What role does the vocabulary used for trade names play, and beyond? What good practices can be implemented by scientific institutions? And by the media?

Award-winning mentors share their secrets

Recipients of Nature prize "2020 Nature Research Awards for Mentoring in Science" share how they inspire and motivate others.