Rafael Godoy, recipient of the prestigious Eiffel Excellence Scholarship, recently started a two-month internship in the Neural Plasticity and Degeneration team. Originally from João Pessoa, Brazil, he is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Neurosciences at the Aix-Marseille University.

During his internship, he will be working on the effects of MT5-MMP on neuroinflammation and intracellular trafficking.

Dans son édition du vendredi 31 mai 2024, La Provence mettait l'INP à l'honneur dans son dossier sur la maladie d'Alzheimer. Le Pr Mathieu Ceccaldi (Service de Neurologie et Neuropsychologie Adultes & équipe 9) était interrogé sur les nouveaux traitements, pendant que François Devred (équipe 9) et Santiago Rivera (équipe 1) étaient eux interrogés sur les travaux des "six équipes qui bossent à temps plein dans ce "gros" laboratoire français de recherche sur Alzheimer"

Carla Djian joined our team for her 1-month M1 internship. Carla is a neuroscience master student at AMU.

Welcome!

The last 2 weeks, several INP teams hosted M1 students for their APP (Apprentissage Par Projet). For many, it was a first experience in a research lab! Each APP is organized around a larger project (Alzheimer's Disease, Myelin, Functional imaging) and students rotate between different labs of NeuroMarseille.

Thanks to Laurence, Christine (Team 1), Theresa, Fanny (Team 7), Naz and Marine (Team 4) for mentoring all these students!

Du lundi 15 au vendredi 19 avril 2024 s'est tenue, toujours avec succès, la troisième édition de la formation MedIM (Méthodes d'étude des Interactions Moléculaires) co-organisée par la Plateforme INteractome Timone (PINT) de l’INP, la plateforme de Biologie Structurale de l’AFMB et les plateformes de l’IMM, toutes trois labellisées "Plateformes Technologiques Aix-Marseille".

Louise (our sustainable development referent) led a Ma Terre en 180 Minutes workshop at the annual seminar for laboratory directors (DU) at DR12 of the CNRS in Saint-Raphaël, on April 18. 

40 laboratory directors from the Provence and Corsica regions were able to experience the workshop developed by colleagues from the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG). These directors had to collectively identify the levers of action for a research team in order to reduce their annual greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in a very short space of time.

On 4 April, Nora Essakhi, Roberta Stacchini and Alexandre Bertucci, PhD students in the GlioME team, presented their poster at the 5th Scientific Annual Conference - Institut Cancer et Immunologie (ICI) on the theme of "CAR T cells, advances in cellular engineering and future challenges in cancer therapy".

Nora's work on "GD3, a promising therapeutic target for CAR-T cells against glioblastoma stem cells", was recognised by the scientific committee, which awarded her the prize for best poster. Well done Nora!