NeuroTimone Facility (PFNT)

The PFNT Facility is a coherent set of exploration tools in neurobiology allowing research at the molecular, cellular and integrated levels.

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  1. INP first video abstract ?

    A couple weeks after the release of article "An AI-Powered Blood Test to Detect Cancer Using NanoDSF" authored by Tsvetkov Philipp*, Eyraud Rémi*, Ayache Stéphane, Bougaev Anton, Malesinski Soazig, Benazha Hamed, Gorokhova Svetlana, Buffat Christophe, Dehais Caroline, Sanson Marc, Bielle Franck, Figarella Branger Dominique, Chinot Olivier, Tabouret Emeline* and Devred François* in Cancers, the two first and two last authors of this interdisciplinary study participated in their first video abstract. Here is the result ... be kind 

     

  2. FRM Équipe 2021 to the NeuroCyto team

    The NeuroCyto team was awarded an “Équipe” grant from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale. With more than 400,000 euros over three years, it will allow the team to investigate the organization and role of actin at presynapses using advanced micromanipulation and cutting edge super-resolution microscopy.

  3. Two new papers recently published by the GlioME team

    Chiara Bastiancich, Florian Correard and Marie-Anne Estève published two papers on glioblastoma therapy.

  4. Laurie Arnaud from Team 1&6 has won the "Young Researcher Prize" for her poster presentation at the 4th edition of CALM 2020, organized by the Club Alzheimer de Montpellier

    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".

  5. Semaine du cerveau 2021 : Notre cerveau : des neurones… et quoi d’autre ?  

    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.

  6. L'équipe GlioME fière de la nomination de Chiara Bastiancich au Prix Départemental pour la recherche, section Jeune Chercheur

    Mardi 16 février 2021, Chiara Bastiancich, Post-doc dans l'équipe GlioME faisait partie des 3 nominés en lice pour le prix "Jeune Chercheur" au 5ème Prix Départemental de la recherche en Provence organisé par le Département des Bouches du Rhône.

  7. Dominic Bingham (NeuroCyto team) at Neurobinar #5

    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.

  8. De "nouvelles têtes" dans l'équipe GlioME !

    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.

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INP in numbers

  • 126 members
  • 44 researchers
  • 48 research assistants
  • 12 post-docs
  • 11 PhD

 

Welcome to Guillaume, a new Master 2 student in the Nivet Team!

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.

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Emmanuel Nivet (Team 6) is a new member of the European Scientific Advisory Board

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.

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Zoom sur la 5ème édition de la classification de l'OMS des tumeurs du Système Nerveux Central

Membre expert du comité éditorial et co-auteur de plusieurs chapitres de la 5ème édition de la Classification des tumeurs du SNC de l’OMS parue le 12 novembre dernier, Dominique Figarella-Branger (Equipe 8 GlioME) a dirigé la rédaction d'un article de revue en français sur cette nouvelle classification, récemment publié dans les Annales de Pathologie: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1eB1VtB1GOhjB

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Recent works on Zinc binding to S100A1 and to NCS-1 published in Biomolecules and in  International Journal of Molecular Sciences respectively

Team 9 (Cytoskeleton and Neurophysiopathology) and platform PINT (platform interactive Timone) are happy to see the almost simultaneous publications of two papers about about the impact of Zn2+ binding to NCS1 and to S100A1 respectively with their collaborators from Belozersky Institute of Physico Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, while the third one about Tau protein Zn2+ binding sites has been under review for already 3 months ... 

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INP participation to AMU's 1st Digital Sciences and AI for Health conference

On November 25 and 26, the conference "Digital Sciences and Artificial Intelligence for Health at Aix-Marseille University" was held in the Grisoli amphitheater & the Great Hall of the Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences - Timone. 

The aim of this conference was to formally bring together for the first time all the actors of Aix-Marseille University and the University Hospital Center involved in the digital and AI/health field, whether they are clinicians or theoreticians. 

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