Chaque année, la Nuit européenne des chercheur·e·s crée la rencontre entre un millier de publics et une centaine de scientifiques d’Aix-Marseille Université. À travers des formats de rencontre originaux tels que des tête-à-tête, un escape game, des expériences scientifiques, un bureau de désinformation, un cinéma… idées et connaissances se partagent dans un Dock des suds transformé avec la complicité de scénographes marseillaises. Cette année l'NP y tenait un stand autour de la thématique Vieillissement et maladie d'Alzheimer.

As part of the 2023 edition of the Cercles des Savoirs program at the Roquebrussanne Open University, Dr. Santiago Rivera led a conference on Saturday September 23d entitled "Alzheimer's disease, fears and hopes".

On 28/09/2023, the whole laboratory took part in the Institute's annual day.

It was an excellent day, with a scientific morning devoted to discovering the research topics of all the teams and Vect'horus, followed by a fun afternoon of intellectual and sporting competitions to win a treasure.

Once again, the GlioME team was delighted to take part in this fun-filled day.

The SynapTau team is thrilled to announce the publication of our collaborative work. This has been an incredible partnership, and we are delighted to share our findings in the journal Life Science Alliance! In this paper, we demonstrated that parenchymal border macrophages (PBMs) function impedes tau pathology and tau-mediated neurodegeneration, while tau pathology promotes PBM dysfunction associated with impaired CSF flow. Our results identify PBMs as novel cellular regulators of tau pathology and tau-mediated neurodegeneration.

The GlioME Team has new publication out in International Journal of Molecular Sciences as part of the Special Issue « Emerging Therapies for Glioblastoma ». This article deals with one of the team’s key issues, the gangliosides recognized by the A2B5 antibody and used as biomarker of cancer stem cells (CSC) in glioblastoma human brain tumours. To tackle these CSC known to be resistant to conventional treatment, the GlioME team aimed to better understand the effect of neuraminidase administration that removes A2B5, on an organotypic three-dimensional glioblastoma model.

Since the first event in Marseille in 2013, initiated by François Devred and Stéphane Honoré, the French microtubule network has been organizing colloquia bringing together researchers, post-docs and students from more than 34 laboratories, every 2 years in a different city. After Grenoble (2015), Versailles (2017), and Rennes (2019), the fifth edition of the congress of french scientists working on microtubules took place on June 29 and 30, 2023 in Montpellier. 

The occasion for José Luis to present the team's work on Snake venom myotoxins as microtubule-targeting peptides.