La PFNT (Plateforme NeuroTimone) est un ensemble cohérent d'outils d'exploration en neurobiologie permettant des investigations aux échelles moléculaires, cellulaires et intégrées.
Christophe Leterrier, leader of the NeuroCyto ATIP team, wrote a Spotlight in the Journal of Cell Biology highlighting a nice recent paper from the group of Pei-Lin Cheng in Taiwan. In this article, Lee et al. showed how degradation of the chloride transporter NKCC1 by proteasomes anchored at the AIS have a key role in lowering the intracellular chloride concentration, leading to the perinatal reversal of GABA effect from excitatory to inhibitory.
Thanks to her expertise in the diagnosis of central nervous system tumours arising in children and young adults, Dominique Figarella-Branger from the GlioME team (Team 8) was involved last year in 5 articles published in high-impact factor journals (>18). These articles are becoming references in this field:
- The molecular landscape of ETMR at diagnosis and relapse. Nature. 2019 Dec;576(7786):274-280. PMID: 31802000
- EANO-EURACAN clinical practice guideline for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of post-pubertal and adult patients with medulloblastoma. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Dec;20(12):e715-e728.PMID: 31797797
Maladie d'Alzheimer : une nouvelle année pleine d'espoir.
In its week-end edition (january the 4th & 5th 2020), the daily newspaper La Marseillaise devoted its "Provence Terre de Science" page to Alzheimer's disease reserach.
On this occasion François Devred (INP team 9 / PINT platform) answered a few questions on the molecular characterization of this complex protein (to be downloaded by clicking here )
First work of 2020 work is out for the NeuroCyto team! A collaboration with Matt Rasband’s lab in Nature Communications. This is a significant paper for the axon initial segment field: Matt’s lab used BioID of key AIS proteins for mapping AIS components. Dozens of new candidates for future studies! We performed super-resolution microscopy of several of the newly identified AIS components. IN particular, we showed that Mical3, a protein linking microtubules and actin, forms clusters along the AIS that are not periodically organized along the actin/spectrin scaffold.
If you speak French, you can listen to “La Méthode Scientifique”, a program on the France Culture radio which highlighted the recent Nature Communications article from the NeuroCyto team.
You can go to the audio clip by following this link and learn more on the France Culture website.
Our work on the ultrastructure of the periodic actin/spectrin scaffold along axons is out in Nature Communications.
On thursday december the 12th, most of INP and Vect-Horus members got together and spent a day in the Black Stone pub, Marseille, to celebrate the fact that nearly two years after its creation, the Institute of NeuroPhysiopathology is finally located on Tmone Campus.
Michel KHRESTCHATISKY, Director of the UMR7051 Institute of Neurophysiopathology at Aix-Marseille University / CNRS and co-founder of VECT-HORUS was invited at the third edition of “Translational neuroscience Day: challenges and opportunities” co-organized by DHUNE and NeurATRIS and hosted by BioFIT on December 10, 2019 (https://www.biofit-event.com/translational-neuroscience).
We are proud to announce that Laurie Arnaud, the third year PhD student in INP's Teams 1 and 6 (Neural Plasticity and Degeneration & Stem cells, Disease modeling and Neuroregeneration), recently won the Best Poster presentation prize at CALM 2020, the 4th edition, organized by the Club Alzheimer de Montpellier on the 17 and 18 of November 2020. She presented her work intitulated "Regulation of astrocyte inflammation by Apolipoprotein E (APOE): demonstration of an NF-kB-dependent mechanism mediated by a newly identified partner".
La 22ème édition de la « Semaine du Cerveau » s’adapte à la pandémie ! Plusieurs chercheurs de l’INP (Caroline Strube, Olivier Bosler et Anne-Marie François-Bellan) membres de l’association « cerveau point comm » participent à l’organisation au niveau régional de la Semaine du Cerveau, une manifestation internationale grand public coordonnée en France par la Société des Neurosciences.
Début Juin 2021 ; durée 2 ans ; financement Fondation Vaincre Alzheimer
A 3-year full-time postdoc position is open at the Institute of Neuropathophysiology (INP), CNRS/Aix-Marseille University to study pathogenic mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease. The project should start in spring 2021.
On February 18 at 4 pm, come and discover the work of Pierre-Yves Jacob (LNC), Lucas Goirand-Lopez (INMED) and Dominic Bingham (INP, NeuroCyto team). Dominic Bingham and Lucas Goirand-Lopez will introduce their respective PhD in a cross-presentation. After a question session for PhD students, Pierre-Yves Jacob will share with us his research on the brain network underlying spatial navigation (displacement, orientation) in complex environments.
L'équipe GlioME a le plaisir d'accueillir actuellement 3 nouveaux étudiants (de gauche à droite sur la photo):
- Victoria Hein, doctorante en 1ère année, qui débute sa thèse sur le thème "Cellules souches de glioblastome et gangliosides : vers de nouvelles approches thérapeutiques", co-encadrée par Emeline Tabouret et Dominique Figarella-Branger.
Christophe Leterrier from the NeuroCyto team just published a study in collaboration with the Cytomorpho lab - Manuel Théry & Laurent Blanchoin, CEA Paris/Grenoble.
Dominika Pilat will be presenting on the Neurobinar #4 on January 21 at 4 pm on Zoom.
For this fourth edition, NeuroMarseille is pleased to welcome Cédric Maurange (IBDM), Dominika Pilat (INP) and Borloz Émilie (MMG). Dominika Pilat and Borloz Émilie will introduce their respective theses in a cross presentation. After a question session, Cédric Maurange (IBDM) will explain his research on genetic programmes modifying the properties of neural stem cells during development.