PINT platform recently acquired the NT.Robotic Autosampler that complemented the existing Prometheus NT.Plex nanoDSF instrument which is already equipped with aggregation detection optics to get complete stability characterization.

NT.Robotic Autosampler is a stand-alone, all-inclusive system with robotic arm, computer, and monitor. PINT is now able to analyze up to 1,536 samples for hands-free characterization of thermal unfolding and chemical denaturation in a single experiment. Incorporate plate temperature control to keep your samples at 4 to 20 °C while they wait in the queue.

This will permit to scale up the existing applications of the Prometheus :

Romain La Rocca, former member of INP team 9, shared the stage of EuroTau meeting in Lille's Grand Palais with Illana Gozes (Israel), Cláudio M. Gomes (Portugal), Amandine Grimm (Switzerland), Yann Fichou (France), Marina Rierola (Germany), Laura Vallés Saiz (Spain), Marie Galas (France) and Mahmoud Maina (UK / USA) during Session #3 chaired by Isabelle Landrieu & Yann Fichou.

He presented his PhD work on the Three zinc binding sites of Tau and their role in tau aggregation and little bit of the perspectives Dahbia Yatoui is currently working on right now.

On October, the 21st, Emmanuel was invited to give a talk during the 2021 meeting organized by the French Club of Glial Cells. Emmanuel had the chance to present the latest and exciting results of the NIVET team by giving a talk during a symposium dedicated on Glial cells in Brain diseases. Emmanuel's talk was entitled: "Human-iPSC-astrocytes reveal a pro-inflammatory axis under the control of the APOE4 genetic risk factor in Alzheimer's disease".

Félicitations à Chiara Bastiancich, post-doctorante dans l'équipe GlioME qui a obtenu la bourse de recherche fondamentale Élie Bzoura 2021, délivrée par la Société Française de Pharmacie Oncologique et à l' Académie nationale de Pharmacie pour son projet GlioRET.

Congratulations to Chiara Bastiancich, post-doctoral fellow in the GlioME team who has been awarded the Élie Bzoura research grant by the French Society of Oncology Pharmacy and the French National Academy of Pharmacy for her GlioRET project.

Aurélie Tchoghandjian (équipe 8 - GlioME) a obtenu un financement "Emergence" pour son projet intitulé "Création d’une lignée syngénique murine de cellules souches de glioblastome reproduisant l’hétérogénéité moléculaire et cellulaire des glioblastomes pour combattre la résistance thérapeutique" et Gilles Breuzard (équipe 9 - Cytosquelette et Physiopathologie) pour son projet intitulé "La protéine Tau comme nouvelle cible thérapeutique des glioblastomes : focus sur de nouveaux dérivés des thiazoloflavones "

Our team is please to welcome Chisato Suematsu for a 6 months Master internship (from September 2021). Originated from Japan, Chisato is currently studying at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) where she is enrolled in the Neuroscience Program as a 2nd year master student. She is one of the 3 international students that have been selected by NeuroMarseille to receive a competitive fellowship in the context of the MSc incoming mobility 2021 call.

Lundi 4 Octobre, le Dr. Emeline Tabouret (MCU-PH en neuro-oncologie, équipe 8) a défendu brillamment son Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches portant sur "la caractérisation histo-moléculaire des gliomes diffus de l’adulte et développement thérapeutique".