The PFNT Facility is a coherent set of exploration tools in neurobiology allowing research at the molecular, cellular and integrated levels.
To nicely end 2021 year, Dominika Pilat, student in Neural Plasticity and Degeneration Team (Team 1), successfully defended her thesis on the 16th of December. She gave a very clear, precise and comprehensive presentation highlighting the pivotal role of MT5-MMP in the neuroinflammation in an Alzheimer’s Disease model. The jury was unanimous to underline the great work Dominika accomplished during the four years she has spent at the INP leading to the publication of an article into the Journal of Neuroinflammation in which she is first author.
Participating in the virtual conference "Tumor Microenvironment Heterogeneity in Cancer Progression: Challenge or Opportunity", Emmanuel Snacel-Fazy, a 2nd year PhD student in the GlioME team won the prize for the best presentation on the "Remodeling of the glioblstoma immune landscape by smac mimetic GDC-0152".
On February 22nd at 1 pm don't miss the next Neurobinar of NeuroMarseille ! You will get a chance to meet Adam Williamson, principal investigator at the INS, Gaelle Alhaddad, 2nd year PhD student at the LNC and Pedro Belio Mairal, 3rd year student in the "Neural Plasticity and Degeneration" team of INP. Gaelle and Pedro will each present the other's thesis topic and Adam will explain his work on "Non-invasive deep brain stimulation in Epilepsy using Temporal Interference".
Within the cycle M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminars of the Institute’s Myology Centre for Research, on January 17 Michel Khrestchatisky (CNRS Research Director, Director of the Institute for Neurophysiopathology) Co-Founder & Scientific Counsel of Vect-Horus presented the conference entitled “"Development of molecular vectors for targeted delivery of RNAi via receptor-mediated transport".
Vect-Horus annonce l’accord de la Région SUD Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, responsable de la mise en œuvre du dispositif REACT-EU dans le cadre du Programme Opérationnel FEDER-FSE, pour une subvention de plus d’un million d’euros. Ce projet est financé avec le concours de l’Union européenne avec le Fonds Européen de Développement Régional.
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We are please to welcome Guillaume Benhora-Chabeaux for his 5-month Master internship (2nd year) in the Nivet team. After obtaining a first Master degree in Cognitive Science (MASCO) from the Aix-Marseille University, with the highest honours, Guillaume has enrolled the Master in Neuroscience (cellular and molecular neuroscience). Guillaume will be working on the crosstalk between inflammation and a susceptibility to neurodegeneration using in vitro and in vivo models.
Dr Emmanuel Nivet has been appointed as a new member of the European Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of a joint organization unifying the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V. (AFI), Germany, Alzheimer Nederland (AN), The Netherlands and Fondation Vaincre Alzheimer (FVA), France. Each of the above organizations is dedicated to funding dementia research in its own country.
Emeline Tabouret and Aurélie Tchoghandjian, in collaboration with Thierry Virolle's team at the l'Institut de Biologie Valrose in Nice, are among the two winners to have obtained "Action structurante" funding from the Cancéropôle PACA.
This funding aims to structure the neuro-oncology at the preclinical and translational level in the region (between Marseille and Nice) and will be used to create the PETRA (PrEclinical and TRAnslational Research) platform on these two sites.
Chiara Bastiancich published the last article of her first postdoc on GRAVITY project 🎉
The challenging goal was: delivering to the brain metallic nanoparticles via focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeabilization, to heat them using lasers for glioblastoma photothermal therapy! In this paper she shows one of the steps to reach this daunting task.