Claude Meunier
events, seminars
January 17, 2020 – Martin Giurfa – Dissecting cognitive complexity in a miniature brain
Honeybees possess miniature brains but exhibit a sophisticated behavioral repertoire. In the last decades, bees have emerged as useful models for the study of the neural bases of simple forms of associative learning based on their capacity to learn elemental,… Continue reading
events, seminars
Next Seminars in 2020!
The Neuroscience Seminar Series 2020, save your dates!
Friday at 11h30 Conference Room (R229)
17/01 Martin Giurfa (Cetre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) 24/01 Naguib Mechawar (McGill University – Canada) 07/02 Ruben Portugues (Max Plack… Continue reading
events, seminars
May 17 – Dimitri Krainc – Mechanistic insights into GBA1-associated Parkinson’s disease: therapeutic implications
There is an urgent need to identify effective neuroprotective therapies for synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia (DLB). Recent emergence of genetic forms of PD has facilitated identification of potential targets for therapeutic development. One… Continue reading
grants, opportunities
Two Open Mind Masters student grants awarded in 2019
We are pleased to announce 2 grants have been awarded for 2018 to:
Rémi Baroux, whose project Recurrent dynamics and competition in basal ganglia is supervised by David Hansel (Team Cerebral Dynamics, Plasticity and Learning, UMR 8002 CNRS)Jules… Continue reading
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March 22nd – Serge Przedborski – Role of non-neuronal cells in the death of neuronal cells in ALS and neurodegeneration
Cell-to-cell communications are critical determinants of pathophysiological phenotypes, but methodologies for their systematic elucidation are lacking. During this lecture, an integrative, systems biology approach that combines proteomics and regulatory network analysis to elucidate ligand-mediated interactions between distinct cellular compartments, will… Continue reading
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Brain awareness week at INC – March 11-17, 2019
The researchers of the Institute for Neuroscience and Cognition organize with Nicolas Marie three events to explain and share their research on the brain.
Visit of the Sensorimotricity facility (Danping Wang and Pierre-Paul Vidal). Centre Universitaire des Saints-Pères, Tuesday March… Continue reading
events, seminars
February 15th – Michael Brecht – Ticklishness, Ambivalence and Play
In my talk I will describe neural and behavioral correlates of ticklishness and playfulness in rat somatosensory cortex. Rats greatly enjoy being tickled, as evident from approach behaviors, 50 kHz vocalizations and joy jumps (Freudensprünge). At the same time, rats… Continue reading
grants, opportunities
Open Mind Masters student grants – 2019
The INC will fund two M2 internships this year. Applications should be sent to inc@parisdescartes.fr before March, 15. The decision will be made before the end of March. More information on the French version of our website.
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grants, opportunities
Call for proposals 2017 – Open Mind Masters grants
The INC will fund two M2 internships this year. Applications should be sent to inc@parisdescartes.fr before March, 26. The decision will be made before the end of April. More details can be found on the French version of the site.
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Virtual reality at INC : Five teams already involved
French version available on Descartes Info.
Over the years, Virtual Reality has become accessible to the greater public, especially in the gaming world. However this technology has been used in science and research labs since the 90s, and is… Continue reading