Neuroscientific news of December
Find in this article all the news of December 2020! From events to the latest job offers, discover all the news from the neuroscience community!
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We present here the neuroscientific news of the month of December. You can go directly to the sections that interest you by clicking on the anchors above.
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Headlines
The deadline is approaching!
Only a few days left to submit your projects for the following calls:
- Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant (ICR Grant)
- Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant "PLUS" (ICR Grant Plus)
- Technical Boost Grant in Neuroscience (TB Grant 2021)
Deadline for submission of projects: 6 December
Elect your student representatives!
We are calling for applications from students who wish to represent their training. The 3 training courses of the NeuroSchool (L3, Master and Doctorate) will thus have representatives who will participate in the NeuroSchool committee and in the board of directors of the Institut NeuroMarseille.
Submit your application
Welcome to a new start-up secialized in neuroscience: Corlieve Therapeutics
Corlieve's main programme is based on the pioneering scientific work of co-founders Valérie Crépel, Ph.D. (Inmed, Inserm / University of Aix Marseille) and Christophe Mulle, Ph.D. (IINS, CNRS / Bordeaux Neurocampus), and is developed in collaboration with REGENXBIO Inc. (Maryland, USA), a leading company in the field of gene therapy. In addition, Corlieve has licensed REGENXBIO's NAV AAV9 technology for the TLE program.
En savoir +Events
Find the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute and the EUR NeuroSchool, as well as external events.
Dates to note!
Below is a summary of NeuroMarseille events for the upcoming month.
🗓 6 December: end of applications for ICR, ICR "PLUS" and TB grant calls
🗓 7 to 11 December: MedIM 2020 Workshop: Methods for studying molecular interactions: biomedical applications
🗓 14 December: Deadline for the call for applications for student representatives
🗓 15 December: David Dupret's NeuroSchool seminar
🗓 17 December: Neurobinar #3 with Christelle Baunez (INT), Laurie Arnaud (INP) and Nada El Mahmoudi (LNSC/LNC).
🗓 4 January: closing of the call for applications for post-doctoral fellowships in biotech companies
NeuroSchool seminar: Handling multiple memories in the hippocampus network by Prof. David Dupret
For the next NeuroSchool seminar, we are pleased to welcome Prof. David Dupret, MRC Investigator in Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He will present his research on Neural dynamics of memory circuits during active waking behaviour and sleep.
🗓 15 December 2020 at 11 am
📍 Zoom
PhD students: please register via this form on Ametice.
Neurobinar #3: December 17th at 4pm
We were happy to welcome so many of you for the first 2 editions. The quality of the exchanges is a real pleasure for our students and the researcher who present their work!
For this third neurobinar, come and discover the work of Christelle Baunez (INT), Laurie Arnaud (INP) and Nada El Mahmoudi (LNSC/LNC).
🗓 17 December 2020 at 4pm
▶️ Live Zoom
Did you miss neurobinar #2? You can see it again here!
NeuroStories 2020
On November 23rd, you were more than 640 to follow our live event on emotions! Thanks to all of you!
The videos of each intervention will soon be available on our YouTube, in the meantime the Live is still available by clicking on the following link.
The next edition 2021 is being organized, contact us to join the organizing committee.
Master 2 Symposium
The Master 2 symposium will take place from 1 to 3 December. This year's theme is "Physiopathology of Sleep-Wake States". The programme includes two researchers from CIVIS partners (Autonomous University of Madrid and Free University of Brussels).
See the programme
100% digital symposium on neurodegenerative diseases
Webinar "Neurodegenerative Diseases 2020 : Major Advances in Neurodegenerative Disease Research".
🗓 8 December 2020
📍Online
Seminars of the NeuroMarseille laboratories
All seminars are in English and available online.
INT :
– 4 December at 2.30 pm: Julio Martinez-Trujillo (Professor, Western University, Canada): Searching for neural correlates of cognitive functions in the primate brain
INT launches its Technical Seminars! The first ones start in December :
– 1st Part, on December 11th, 2020 from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm:
MR Imaging of cerebral structure
– 2nd Part, on 11 December 2020 from 13:30 to 15:30:
Functional MR Imaging: brain activity and functional connectivity
For more information contact Ivo Vanzetta or Nicolas Wanaverbecq.
IBDM :
– 4 December at 2 pm: Genomic Mechanisms of biased transcriptional randomness by Stavros Lomvardas (Columbia University, New York City, USA)
INMED :
– 7 December at 11 am: In vivo analysis of neuronal clearance by microglia uncovers a new compartment in the phagocytic pathway par Ambra Villani (Department of Molecular Life Sciences – Universität Zürich)
– 15 December at 11 am: Handling multiple memories in the hippocampus network by Prof. David Dupret (University of Oxford, UK)
Center IRMf-INT-CERIMED
The next Monthly Neuroimaging Meeting (NMR) will take place next Thursday 10th December at 10 am.
Michele Allegra (INT) : “Stroke-related alterations in inter-areal communication revealed via Granger causality analysis”. Réunion Zoom : https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/96419411528?pwd=T3NtL3huNjhSUlMwRTQvaWs0VXhCdz09
NeuroMarseille
Neurobinar #3: 17 December at 4 pm with Christelle Baunez (INT), Laurie Arnaud (INP) and Nada El Mahmoudi (LNSC/LNC).
Sciences & Société
Discover the scientific events and actions to help as many people as possible discover the neurosciences.
Online round table: The mysteries of the brain - The Conversation France
On Thursday 12th November, on the occasion of its 5th anniversary, The Conversation chose to invite 3 NeuroMarseille researchers to animate their first virtual round table; Anna Montagnini (INT- CNRS/AMU), Arnaud Norena (LNSC- CNRS/AMU) and Anne Kavounoudias (LNSC- AMU) explained through a question-and-answer game how the brain makes us sense the outside world, allows us to feel, touch, hear, and how it can be disturbed.
See the live of the round table
NeuroMarseille Photo contest: Science & Art
NeuroMarseille takes you on a new adventure at the frontier between Science and Art! Send your most beautiful pictures to reveal the beauty of the living through images made in AMU's neuroscience laboratories. The 20 winning photos will be exhibited in different galleries in the region from May to July 2021. If you are a laureate, you will also receive a large-format framed print of your photo(s).
Deadline for submission: January 31, 2021.
Chroniques - Biennale des imaginaires numériques
NeuroMarseille and the association Arts Vivants Aix have chosen to combine art and science.
For the 2020 edition, the jury has selected two works resulting from the meeting of art and science to subsidize them. Anne-Marie Renan, painter, and Jesùs Tamez-Duque, multidisciplinary artist and technology developer subsidized by NeuroMarseille, propose to record the waves that make our brains vibrate in front of the beautiful and moving. Fabien Léaustic, researcher and plastic artist, has chosen to sculpt DNA.
Goose Game Festival: Confinement(s). A whole world at a standstill?
The concept: presentation of 25 different research/art projects that were conducted during the containment on the Covid crisis. Notably a project led by AMSE (EUR in Economy) and INT (Christelle Baunez and Mickael Degoulet) on the dynamics of the pandemic.
🗓 10-12 December 2020
📍Online
Brain Week: call for volunteers
The association Cerveau Point Comm is looking for student volunteers to join the association and prepare the next Brain Week in March 2021. Contact them quickly: cerveaupointcomm@gmail.com.
Contact the associationTraining
Discover NeuroSchool's training, other training available as MOOC, as well as scholarships available to students.
Open challenge looking for participants (PhD students/postdocs)
NeuroMarseille and the Cité de l'Innovation et des Savoirs Aix-Marseille (CISAM) propose to organize open challenges: companies provide questions on which groups of young researchers (PhD students, post-docs) would work in a limited time. Interested in this challenge? Please contact us!
Contact us
MedIM 2020 Workshop: Methods for the study of molecular interactions: biomedical applications
This workshop proposes you to (re)discover the main biophysical techniques for the characterization of molecular interactions through theoretical presentations and especially practical workshops on the equipment of 3 platforms in Marseille: the INteractome Timone Platform (PINT) of the INP, the Structural Biology Platform of the AFMB and the platforms of the IMM.
Find out more
Boost your language skills with CIVIS Digital Language Coffee
The idea of a language café is to practice your language skills and cultural awareness by talking with native speakers and other learners informally over coffee or tea. You can participate regularly or drop in spontaneously.
👅 20 languages are available from September to December 2020, including English, Swedish, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, German and many more!
L3 & Master
In this section, you will find the actions carried out with our 3rd-year undergraduate and Masters students.
Elect your student representatives!
We are calling for applications from students who wish to represent their training. The 3 training courses of the NeuroSchool (L3, Master and Doctorate) will thus have representatives who will participate in the management committee of the NeuroSchool and in the board of directors of the Institut NeuroMarseille.
Do not hesitate to apply!
Mobility grants in L3 and M1
If the health situation allows it, NeuroSchool offers mobility grants for internships abroad during the summer of 2021 for selected L3 and M1 students. Information and application form on our website (link for L3, link for M1).
Application deadlines: 13 December 2020 (M1) and 31 January 2021 (L3)
Master 2 Symposium
The Master 2 symposium takes place from 1 to 3 December. This year's theme is "Physiopathology of Sleep-Wake States". The programme includes two researchers from CIVIS partners (Autonomous University of Madrid and Free University of Brussels).
See the programme
Professional meetings in Master 2
For the Master’s degree professionalization courses, NeuroSchool invited professionals from different fields to present their career path, their missions or additional training. These meetings were held every Thursday in October and November 2020.
Find out more
International co-supervised PhD scholarships
NeuroSchool's doctoral program proposes to fund up to 54 months of doctoral research, which will be divided among several doctoral research projects under international co-supervision or co-direction.
Projects must be submitted via our website no later than midnight on Sunday, February 28, 2021.
PhD Program
Find all the news about our doctoral program.
NeuroSchool seminar: Handling multiple memories in the hippocampus network by Prof. David Dupret
For the next NeuroSchool seminar, we are pleased to welcome Prof. David Dupret, MRC Investigator in Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He will present his research on Neural dynamics of memory circuits during active waking behaviour and sleep. Students will have the opportunity to meet D.Dupret for a privileged exchange after the seminar, and to prepare this meeting between them beforehand.
🖌 Registration on Ametice for PhD students.
🗓 15 December 2020 at 10am
📍 Zoom
Participation in the entire event (whatever the format: face-to-face, virtual or hybrid) allows PhD students to validate 3 hours of scientific training (4 for the chairman/women).
Important: starting from September 2020, it is now mandatory for PhD students to attend at least 2 seminars every year so that they get their seminars validated at all.
2021 Tutored Seminar Program: new call for suggesting your speakers
This year again we wish to actively involve students registered to the NeuroSchool PhD program to propose speakers for the 2021 Tutored Seminars.
The idea is to cover the various fields of neuroscience from molecular/cellular to more integrated levels. With the help of your PhD supervisor and colleagues, you are asked to propose YOUR DREAM SPEAKERS.
Neurobinar #3: December 17th at 4pm
We were happy to welcome so many of you for the first 2 editions. The quality of the exchanges is a real pleasure for our students and the researcher who present their work!
For this third neurobinar, come and discover the work of Christelle Baunez (INT), Laurie Arnaud (INP) and Nada El Mahmoudi (LNSC/LNC).
🗓 17 December 2020 at 4pm
▶️ Live Zoom
Did you miss neurobinar #2? You can see it again here!
Elect your student representatives!
We are calling for applications from students who wish to represent their training. NeuroSchool's 3 training courses (L3, Master's and Doctorate) will have student representatives who will participate in the NeuroSchool's management committee and in the board of directors of the Institut NeuroMarseille.
Submit your application
Post-doctoral fellowship in industry
NeuroSchool, proposes to fully fund one year of postdoctoral studies. Three projects have been submitted by biotechs, the call for applications is open!
End of the call for applications: January 4, 2021 included
i-PhD 2021
44% of young researchers plan to launch their startup, how about you? On 8 December 2020 from 11:00 to 12:30, the webinar presenting the i-PhD 2021 competition will take place.
On the programme :
- Testimonies of young entrepreneurial researchers, winners of the 1st edition
- Presentation of the competition: prerequisites, application procedures, prizes...
- Question and answer session
This national competition, organised by the Government and Bpifrance, aims to reward young doctors with projects that will change tomorrow's world.
Open challenge research participants (PhD students/postdocs)
NeuroMarseille and the Cité de l'Innovation et des Savoirs Aix-Marseille (CISAM) propose to organize open challenges: companies provide questions on which groups of young researchers (PhD students, post-docs) would work in a limited time. Interested in this challenge?
Contact us for more information
ENCODS 2021: the 7th Annual European Neuroscience Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers
The European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) is an initiative started by graduate students at the Neurocampus Bordeaux in 2013, to offer young neuroscientists a scientific exchange that suits their needs better than a large-scale event. ENCODS is now organized yearly by a different group of internationally located PhD students and welcomes European PhD students working in all fields of Neuroscience.
Application will reopen at the beginning of 2021.
🗓 4-6 June 2021
📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom
ParenThèse – PACA : editorial working days
The association ParenThèse - PACA offers writing days ( currently online) dedicated to research work in a framework that promotes productivity. This time is reserved for reading books, writing articles, writing thesis chapters or dissertations, drawing up a detailed plan, producing posters, etc. These days offer moments of strictly individual work, punctuated by transdisciplinary exchanges.
📆 Next dates :
- Monday 07 December (pth network)
- Monday 14 December (pth occ.)
- Wednesday 16 December (pth network)
Upcoming events of the NeuroSchool PhD Program
November
• 4 December: PhD P meeting - enlarged committee
• 11 December: PhD P meeting
• 15 December: David Dupret seminar
• 18 December: PhD P meeting
Reminder: all communications from the PhD Programme are sent to your student address (@etu.univ-amu.fr). Remember to consult it!
Research
Discover the information of NeuroMarseille and its partners on all the topics of interest for your research.
Board of Honour: Allianz Foundation Award 2019 - Rosa Cossart
The Allianz 2019 Foundation Prize is awarded to Rosa Cossart, CNRS Research Director. She heads the Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (Inserm/Aix-Marseille University).
She studies how development shapes the neural circuits of our memory. Indeed, her team's research focuses on the functioning and implementation of neural circuits in the hippocampus.
Welcome to a new start-up specialized in neurosciences : Corlieve Therapeutics
Corlieve's main programme is based on the pioneering scientific work of co-founders Valérie Crépel, Ph.D. (Inmed, Inserm / University of Aix Marseille) and Christophe Mulle, Ph.D. (IINS, CNRS / Bordeaux Neurocampus), and is developed in collaboration with REGENXBIO Inc. (Maryland, USA), a leading company in the field of gene therapy. In addition, Corlieve has licensed REGENXBIO's NAV AAV9 technology for the TLE program.
En savoir +
Exchanges between researchers and journalists
Are you a scientist who wants to spend a week in a newsroom to understand the issues and imperatives of the science journalist's job? The call for applications for the 13th edition of the AJSPI exchange between researchers and journalists is open until 21 December 2020.
🗓 Deadline: 21 December 2020
Marseille Rare Diseases Institute (MarMaRa) Symposium
The MarMaRa Institute is organising a symposium on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 December. This event will be online and you will find the programme attached. The aim of this conference is above all to strengthen internal collaborations, to make the institute's community aware of most of the research teams involved and our platforms. However MarMaRa will be please to welcome researchers from other specialities such as neurosciences interested in Rare Deseases and new collaborations!
See the programmeSeminars of the NeuroMarseille laboratories
All seminars are in English and available online.
INT :
– 4 December at 2.30 pm: Julio Martinez-Trujillo (Professor, Western University, Canada): Searching for neural correlates of cognitive functions in the primate brain
INT launches its Technical Seminars! The first ones start in December :
– 1st Part, on December 11th, 2020 from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm:
MR Imaging of cerebral structure
– 2nd Part, on 11 December 2020 from 13:30 to 15:30:
Functional MR Imaging: brain activity and functional connectivity
For more information contact Ivo Vanzetta or Nicolas Wanaverbecq.
IBDM :
– 4 December at 2 pm: Genomic Mechanisms of biased transcriptional randomness by Stavros Lomvardas (Columbia University, New York City, USA)
INMED :
– 7 December at 11 am: In vivo analysis of neuronal clearance by microglia uncovers a new compartment in the phagocytic pathway par Ambra Villani (Department of Molecular Life Sciences – Universität Zürich)
– 15 December at 11 am: Handling multiple memories in the hippocampus network by Prof. David Dupret (University of Oxford, UK)
Center IRMf-INT-CERIMED
The next Monthly Neuroimaging Meeting (NMR) will take place next Thursday 10th December at 10 am.
Michele Allegra (INT) : “Stroke-related alterations in inter-areal communication revealed via Granger causality analysis”. Réunion Zoom : https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/96419411528?pwd=T3NtL3huNjhSUlMwRTQvaWs0VXhCdz09
NeuroMarseille
Neurobinar #3: 17 December at 4 pm with Christelle Baunez (INT), Laurie Arnaud (INP) and Nada El Mahmoudi (LNSC/LNC).
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Calls
Find all the calls of NeuroMarseille and its partners.
Elect your student representatives!
We are calling for applications from students who wish to represent their training. NeuroSchool's 3 training courses (L3, Master's and Doctorate) will have student representatives who will participate in the NeuroSchool's management committee and in the board of directors of the Institut NeuroMarseille.
Submit your application
"Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant" (ICR) - end on 06/12
Second call for Innovative and Collaborative Research grant! The goal is still to promote scientific exchanges and to encourage the emergence of new collaborative projects between teams of the community.
Be carefull, end of the call for projects: December 6, 2020, included
ICR grant "PLUS" 2021: Innovative and collaborative grant "Plus" - end on 06/12
NeuroMarseille has launched this new and exceptional call for tender (on the model of the ICR grant, which remains open) to promote collaboration between researchers/engineers of the community, on innovative projects and in collaboration with a technical platform.
Each project will receive up to 20 k€ for the research part. Then, an additional envelope of up to 20 k€ will be added to allow the purchase of equipment for the platform.
Be carefull, end of the call for projects: December 6, 2020, included
TB grant 2021: Technical Boost en Neuroscience - end on 06/12
NeuroMarseille has also launched a third call for tender: "Technical boost in Neuroscience", to encourage researchers to use the skills and tools of technical platforms not belonging to their own laboratory/UMR
Each project will be granted up to 10 k€ to cover the services provided by the platform.
Be carefull, end of the call for projects: December 6, 2020, included
L3 and M1 mobility scholarships
If the sanitary situation allows it, NeuroSchool offers mobility grants for internships abroad during the summer of 2021 for selected L3 and M1 students. Information and applications are available on our website (link for L3, link for M1).
Application deadlines: December 13, 2020 (M1) and January 31, 2021 (L3)
Post-doctoral fellowship in industry
NeuroSchool, proposes to fully fund one year of postdoctoral studies. Three projects have been submitted by biotechs, the call for applications is open!
End of the call for applications: January 4, 2021 included
International co-supervised PhD scholarships
NeuroSchool's doctoral program proposes to fund up to 54 months of doctoral research, which will be divided among several doctoral research projects under international co-supervision or co-direction.
Projects must be submitted via our website no later than midnight on Sunday, February 28, 2021.
Amidex: technical platforms in the spotlight! Programme AAP Transfer
The A*Midex Foundation is launching its new Transfer program for the period 2020-2023, with a series of calls for projects aimed at strengthening research partnerships between research institutions and actors from the worlds of business, culture and civil society. This program, with a budget of € 6.5 million for the period 2020-2023, is structured around 4 calls for proposals, the first of which is open from 23 September 2020
Eligibility, calendar, funding, submission of applicationsInternational
Find the international news of NeuroMarseille
First CIVIS trainees
In December, we will welcome in NeuroMarseille laboratories the first neuroscience students from another CIVIS university. Indeed, two master students from the Autonomous University of Madrid will start 6-month internships at CRMBM and INMED thanks to NeuroSchool grants.
More about incoming mobility grants
International sponsoring
Would you like to help a student coming to study in Marseille? Contact the NeuroSchool team for a direct contact with the students we finance, or register on the BuddySystem sponsorship programme.
Become a Buddy !Boost your language skills with CIVIS Digital Language Coffee
The idea of a language café is to practice your language skills and cultural awareness by talking with native speakers and other learners informally over coffee or tea. You can participate regularly or drop in spontaneously.
👅 20 languages are available from September to December 2020, including English, Swedish, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, German and many more!
Career
Discover our selection of job offers, internships, PhD project and post-doctoral fellowships. You will also find here events or professional training that may be of interest to you.
Professional meetings in Master 2
For the Master’s degree professionalization courses, NeuroSchool invited professionals from different fields to present their career path, their missions or additional training. These meetings were held every Thursday in October and November 2020.
Jobs offers
PhDs
| Date | Offer | Place |
|---|---|---|
| ASAP | Appel à projet de thèse en neurosciences (cannabis thérapeutique) | EUR Euridol, Strasbourg, France |
| ASAP | PhD Position in Neuroscience | University of Tubingen, Allemagne |
| ASAP | PhD Researcher in Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Genetics | University of Helsinki Neuroscience Center Finland |
| ASAP | PhD Position in Intracochlear Imaging and Biosensor Functionality for Cochlear Implants | Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
| ASAP | Synaptic Molecular Pathology in Cognitive Disorder | Barcelona, Spain |
| ASAP | PhD Project on the molecular, structural and functional changes that determine synaptic strength and network connectivity and their impact | Hamburg, Germany |
| ASAP | PhD position in Mechanobiology - Neurobiology | Erlangen, Germany |
Students' societies
Find here all the news of student's societies related to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool.
Neuronautes
- 4 and 18 December: 2 online game nights are scheduled. More information on the Facebook Neuronautes and the Instagram profile of the association.
- Setting up of working groups on Discord, a platform for help between students set up by the Student Life Pole, all the information is also to be found on Facebook at this publication.
Brain Week: call for volunteers
The association Cerveau Point Comm is looking for student volunteers to join the association and prepare the next Brain Week in March 2021. Contact them quickly: cerveaupointcomm@gmail.com.
Contact the association
ParenThèse – PACA : editorial working days
The association ParenThèse - PACA offers writing days ( currently online) dedicated to research work in a framework that promotes productivity. This time is reserved for reading books, writing articles, writing thesis chapters or dissertations, drawing up a detailed plan, producing posters, etc. These days offer moments of strictly individual work, punctuated by transdisciplinary exchanges.
📆 Next dates :
- Monday 07 December (pth network)
- Monday 14 December (pth occ.)
- Wednesday 16 December (pth network)
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