Neuroscientific news of November
Find in this article all the news of November 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 November. You can go directly to the sections that interest you by clicking on the anchors above.
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Headlines
Call for projects: Innovative and collaborative research grant "PLUS"
NeuroMarseille launches 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.
Deadline for submission of projects: December 6
Call for projects: Technical Boost in Neuroscience
NeuroMarseille also launches this 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.
Deadline for submission of projects: December 6
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.
Events
Find the events of the NeuroMarseille Institute and the EUR NeuroSchool, as well as external events.
Upcoming events:
Below is a summary of NeuroMarseille's events for the months of November and December 2020.
🗓 November 13: James Bonaiuto's NeuroSchool seminar
🗓 November 15: end of the call for proposals for post-doctoral fellowships in business
🗓 November 19: Neurobinar #2
🗓 November 23: NeuroStories: Emotionally Yours - Live Youtube
🗓 Beginning of December: welcome day (SPOC format)
🗓 December 6: end of applications for ICR, ICR "PLUS" and TB grant calls
🗓 December 7 to 11: MedIM 2020 Workshop: Methods for studying molecular interactions: biomedical applications
🗓 December 14: David Dupret's NeuroSchool Seminar
🗓 December 17: Neurobinar #3
Seminar: Mechanisms and functional role of sensorimotor Beta Bursts by James J. Bonaiuto
For the next NeuroSchool seminar, we are pleased to welcome James Bonaiuto, CNRS research fellow at Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod (Lyon), UMR 5229, who will present his research on beta sensorimotor bursts. The seminar will take place on November 13, 2020, at 2:30 pm, by videoconference via Zoom.
🗓 November 13, 2020, at 2:30 pm
📍 Zoom
Neuro'binar #2: November 19 with Clément Menuet (INMED), Johanna Extremet (UNIS) and Yannick Becker (LPC).
On Thursday, November 19 at 4:00 pm, come meet your neuroscience neighbours and erase campus boundaries. For this second edition, we will welcome Clément Menuet (INMED), Johanna Extremet (UNIS) and Yannick Becker (LPC).
🗓 November 19, 2020, at 4 pm
▶️ Live Zoom
NeuroStories 2020: Emotionally yours
On November 23rd from 6 pm, five researchers will share with us their secrets on the language of emotions, whether in animals, humans or robots. They will also talk about those humans who do not feel any emotions. Following the government announcements, the event will be entirely digital, live on youtube.
🗓 November 23, 2020
▶️ Live YouTube
2020 Global Brainhack in Marseille
The 2020 Global Brainhack will take place between November 30th and December 13th. Join us to organize an online event in Marseille or to participate in it! The first organizational meeting is on Monday 9th afternoon.
Take part in the Brainhack
Seminars of NeuroMarseille laboratories
All seminars are in English and available online.
INT :
- November 13th at 2:30 pm: James Boniauto ( Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, Lyon): Mechanisms and functional role of sensorimotor beta bursts
- November 20th at 2:30 pm: J Dudman (Senior Group Leader, HHMI Janelia Research Center): Sensory information and motor
- November 27th at 2:30 pm: P Neri (ENS, Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs): Computational psychophysics at the intersection of theory, data and models
- December 4th at 2:30 pm: J Martinez-Trujillo (Professor, Western University, Ontario): Searching for neural correlates of cognitive functions in the primate brain
IBDM :
- November 13th at 11:30 a.m.: Francois Graner (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS/Univ. de Paris-Diderot): Research, growth and degrowth
- November 20th at 11:30 a.m.: Nikos Konstantinides (Department of Biology, New York University): Development and evolution of neuronal diversity in the Drosophila optic lobes
INMED :
- December 14th: David Dupret (INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France)
5th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Science
The 5th HBP Student Conference will take place virtually over four days from February 1-4, 2021. Participation is open to the entire student community and early-career researchers, whether or not they are affiliated with the Human Brain Project (HBP).
Call for Papers
The conference invites high-quality papers describing innovative research in all disciplines addressed in HBP. The deadline for abstract submission is November 6, 2020.
Registration is open until January 14, 2021!
Science & Society
Discover the scientific events and actions to help as many people as possible discover the neurosciences.
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.
Chronicles - 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.
European Researchers' Night 2020
The European Researchers' Night returns to Aix-Marseille on 27 November for a 100% online edition. Around fifty researchers from Aix-Marseille University and its research partners will be connected simultaneously to meet you by phone, video or live video! Objective: to share their research confidences through correspondence, games, scenes and anecdotes.
🗓 November 27, 2020
📍Online
Training
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
Would you like to contribute to M1 Problem-Based Learning (APP)?
During these APP, students work in small teams on a current issue in neuroscience, using cutting-edge technologies in various Marseille laboratories.
If you have a proposal for a new APP module or would like to host students in your laboratory for an existing APP, please contact the master's coordinators. Next APP session: April 2021.
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!
PhD Program
Find all the news about our doctoral program.
Are you a neuroscience PhD student at AMU? Did you register to the NeuroSchool PhD Program? It’s not automatic! so, if not, please fill out this form.
Seminar: Mechanisms and Functional Role of Sensorimotor Beta Bursts by James J. Bonaiuto
For the next NeuroSchool seminar, we are pleased to welcome James Bonaiuto, CNRS research fellow at Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod (Lyon), UMR 5229, who will present his research on beta sensorimotor bursts. Students will have the opportunity to meet J.Bonaiuto for a privileged exchange after the seminar, and to prepare this meeting between them before.
🖌 Registration on Ametice for PhD P students.
🗓 November 13, 2020, at 2:30 pm
📍 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).
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.
Welcome Day
This year's Welcome Day is in a new online format: a SPOC (Small Private Online Course). These short video clips will introduce you to the objectives and operating principles of the program.
🗓 Early December
📍Video
Neuro'binar: November 19 with Clément Menuet (INMED), Johanna Extremet (UNIS) and Yannick Becker (LPC).
On Thursday, November 19 at 4:00 pm, come meet your neuroscience neighbours and erase campus boundaries. For this second edition, we welcome Clément Menuet (INMED), Johanna Extremet (UNIS) and Yannick Becker (LPC).
🗓 November 19, 2020, at 4 pm
▶️ Live Zoom
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? Please contact us!
Contact us to learn more5th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Science
The 5th HBP Student Conference will take place virtually over four days from February 1-4, 2021. Participation is open to the entire student community and early-career researchers, whether or not they are affiliated with the Human Brain Project (HBP).
Call for Papers
The conference invites high-quality papers describing innovative research in all disciplines addressed in HBP. The deadline for abstract submission is November 6, 2020.
Registration is open until January 14, 2021!
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.
Contact ParenThèse
Upcoming NeuroSchool PhD program events
November
- November 6: PhD P meeting - expanded committee
- November 13: seminar and PhD P meeting
- November 20: PhD P meeting
- November 27: PhD P meeting
- Early December: Welcome Day in the form of SPOC
We remind you that all communications from the PhD Program now go through your student address (@etu.univ-amu.fr). Remember to check it!
Research
Discover the information of NeuroMarseille and its partners on all the topics of interest for your research.
Seminars of NeuroMarseille laboratories
All seminars are in English and available online.
INT :
– November 13th at 2:30 pm: James Boniauto ( Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, Lyon): Mechanisms and functional role of sensorimotor beta bursts
– November 20th at 2:30 pm: J Dudman (Senior Group Leader, HHMI Janelia Research Center): Sensory information and motor
– November 27th at 2:30 pm: P Neri (ENS, Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs): Computational psychophysics at the intersection of theory, data and models
– December 4th at 2:30 pm: J Martinez-Trujillo (Professor, Western University, Ontario): Searching for neural correlates of cognitive functions in the primate brain
IBDM :
– November 13th at 11:30 a.m.: Francois Graner (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS/Univ. de Paris-Diderot): Research, growth and degrowth
– November 20th at 11:30 a.m.: Nikos Konstantinides (Department of Biology, New York University): Development and evolution of neuronal diversity in the Drosophila optic lobes
INMED :
– December 14th: David Dupret (INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France)
NeuroMarseille
Neuro’binar #2: November 19 with Clément Menuet (INMED), Johanna Extremet (UNIS) and Yannick Becker (LPC).
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Calls
Find all the calls of NeuroMarseille and its partners.
Post-doctoral fellowship in industry
NeuroSchool proposes to fully fund a one-year post-doctoral fellowship. This year of salary is intended for young neuroscience graduates who have obtained their PhD at AMU (less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience at the time of hiring) and who wish to work in a biotechnology company in the Southern region. Its main objective is to promote the professional insertion of young doctors.
End of the call for projects: November 15, 2020, included
ICR grant 2021: Appel d'offre "Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant"
NeuroMarseille is pleased to announce the opening of the 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. From now on, you have one month to get in touch with your "future" colleagues and develop together an innovative research project!
End of the call for projects: December 6, 2020, included
ICR grant "PLUS" 2021: Innovative and collaborative grant "Plus"
NeuroMarseille launches 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.
TB grant 2021: Technical Boost en Neuroscience
NeuroMarseille also launches 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.
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)
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 : Program & AAPS transfert
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 are open from 23 September 2020
Information meeting: November 6, 2020, from 10:30am to 12:30 pm. Pre-registration on this link: https://formulaires.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/reunion-dinformation-programme-transfert-monde-academique-22-6-novembre-2020-10h30-a-12h30
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.
Jobs offers
| Deadline | Offre | Lieu |
|---|---|---|
| ASAP | Research Engineer for the Human Intracerebral Platform of Human Brain Project | INS, Marseille |
| ASAP | Chef(fe) de projet d'Ecole Universitaire de Recherche | EUR LIFE, Nice |
| ASAP | Technicien.ne en Biologie – Analyse D'image, Immunohistochimie | HalioDX, Marseille (13009) |
| ASAP | Chargé(e) de gestion d’appels à projets scientifiques | Fondation pour l'audition, Paris |
| ASAP | Un(e) Assistant ingénieur/ Ingénieur d’étude(H/F) | Institut du Cerveau, Paris |
| ASAP | Graduate Research Assistants in Behavioral/Cognitive Neuroscience | Duke Kunshan University, Chine |
| ASAP | Post-doc on Dynamic Causal Modelling for whole brain connectivity inference | INS, Marseille |
| 30/11/20 | Postdoctoral position in neurobiology of addiction | INT, Marseille |
| 31/12/20 | Postdoctoral position on olfactory processing in the rodent brain | Okinawa, Japon |
| ASAP | Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroscience : mechanisms of schizophrenia and related neuropsychiatric disorders | Helsinki Institute of Life Science, Finland |
PhDs
| Deadline | Offre | Lieu |
|---|---|---|
| 16/11/2020 | Delta-opioid receptor agonists: a potential new target for headache therapies | Clermont-Ferrand |
Internship offers
| Entreprise | Offre | Lieu |
|---|---|---|
| Dassault Systèmes | Machine learning appliqué au traitement de données de neuroimaging | France, 78, Vélizy-Villacoublay |
NeuroJobs Submit a job offer / internship / PhD project / post-doc
Feel free to submit your offers!
The neuro-marseille.org website has a NeuroJob page. Lab directors, researchers, staff , all can post job, PhD or internship offers for 2020-2021.
The dates for master's internships are as follows: from May 31 to June 25, 2021 (for M1 students), and from January 4 to May 28, 2021 (for M2 students).
Students' societies
Find here all the news of student's societies related to NeuroMarseille and NeuroSchool.
ParenThèse - PACA : writing days
The ParenThèse - PACA society offers writing days (currently online) dedicated to research work in a setting 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.
Contact the association
Neuronautes
This Marseilles-based association is an apolitical, asyndical, aconfessional student association for students.
Its purpose is to :
- Constitute support of interaction to the students.
- Organize scientific and cultural events.
- Facilitate a link between the university, research laboratories, companies and students.
- Promote science to students as well as to the general public.
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After validating a master's in neurosciences and a master's in communication, I specialized in neuroscience communication at the service of the NeuroMarseille Institute.
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