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The CRNL has mobilized again this year with several events in our premises and outside:

Unusual tours, workshops, lectures, cooking classes and videos on the program!

Des chercheurs du CRNL (Anne-Marie Mouly, Nadine Ravel, Philippe Litaudon CMO CRNL et Luc Zimmer BIORAN CRNL) et du CERMEP ont publié les résultats de leurs recherches sur la mémoire de la peur dans le Cerebral Cortex du 20 octobre 2021. Leurs résultats montrent que si la mémoire récente active un réseau cérébral très étendu, celui activé par une mémoire de peur ancienne est limité au cortex sensoriel.

© Philippe Litaudon/Chloé Hégoburu

Gianina Ungurean et Paul-Antoine Libourel (SLEEP CRNL) ont publié les résultats de leurs recherches sur le sommeil des oiseaux dans le Current Biology du 19 octobre 2021. Cette étude montre que chez les pigeons, à l'inverse des mammifères, les pupilles deviennent plus petites pendant l'éveil et le sommeil paradoxal, alors qu'elles s'agrandissent pendant le sommeil lent. Le comportement pupillaire inattendu des oiseaux ouvre ainsi une nouvelle fenêtre sur le cerveau endormi, ce comportement étant notamment retrouvé pendant les parades amoureuses.

© Gianina Ungurean, Niels Rattenborg et Paul-Antoine Libourel

L'exosquelette est utilisé dans les services des Professeurs Jacques Luauté (chef du Service de médecine physique et de réadaptation neurologique, TRAJECTOIRES CRNL) et Gilles Rode (chef du Service de médecine physique et de réadaptation Hôpital Henri Gabrielle des HCL, TRAJECTOIRES CRNL).

© HCL

La plateforme du CRNL GenCyTi-Neurobiologie moléculaire cellulaire et tissulaire – responsables Claire BENETOLLO, Sandrine BLONDEL, Romain MARIGNIER, Anne Laure RUIZ – propose un nouvel équipement, le dissociateur tissulaire GentleMacsOcto dissociator.

On Saturday afternoon, August 28, 2021, at the initiative of the CNRS, about thirty researchers embarked on the lake of the Parc de la Tête d'Or to present their research to the general public.

Two CRNL researchers (Nadine Ravel and Maud Beaudoin) were able to show their work to a few privileged people during a boat trip!

A great experience to make our work accessible!

© CNRS Rhône Auvergne

The 2021 doctoral contract competition of the NSCo Doctoral School of the University of Lyon offers the possibility to obtain ministerial thesis grants ensuring a 3-year work contract. This year, five grants were open for Lyon1 and two for Lyon2.

Innovation competitions: 3 winners 2021 from the CRNL boosted by Pulsalys in the i-PhD and i-Lab categories:

Audrey Vialatte (TRAJECTOIRES CRNL), i-PhD winner, leader of the LudiSymboles project

Silvia Macchione (IMPACT CRNL), i-PhD winner, leader of the Face à Main project

Jordan Guyon, i-Lab winner, CEO of Gaoma Therapeutics (the startup  is based on the results of TIGER CRNL)

Aurélie BIDET-CAULET (PAM CRNL), co-signs this article recently published in Neuron. They “argue that gender bias is not a single problem but manifests as collection of distinct issues that impact researchers' lives. They dientangle these facets and propose concrte solutions that can be adpted by individuals, academic institutions, and society“.

This article by Romain QUENTIN et al, published in npj Science of Learning, brings together the COPHY, MEMO and IMPACT teams of the CRNL, and shows "that statistical learning can be acquired during practice, whereas more complex rule learning requires short breaks".

Avec le biologiste Nicolas Mathevon, nous vous invitons à ouvrir grands les oreilles. Nous partons écouter la faune de contrées lointaines.

Illustration du livre de Nicolas Mathevon et de Marc Giraud, "Les animaux parlent: Sachons les écouter". (Humensciences Editions) © Getty

A French study conducted over a year ago is providing a better understanding of how olfactory disorders related to Covid-19 manifest themselves. The aim is to improve management and accelerate the recovery of patients' sensory capacity.

Following the implementation within Inserm of the "Plan for professional equality between women and men", Inserm wanted to highlight, through video testimonies, the women and men who make and are Inserm at the local level.



The 3rd episode is the testimony of Gaëtan AMORIM, Research Technician at the GenCyTi CRNL platform.

They have passed the external Inserm and CNRS research fellowships and will respectively join the EDUWELL team for Romain Quentin, PSYR2 for Jacqueline Scholl and WAKING for Audrey Hay.

We welcome them and congratulate them!

Today, the portrait of Audrey Hay, CR CNRS who joins the WAKING CRNL team. The last portraits will follow!

They have passed the external Inserm and CNRS research fellowships and will respectively join the EDUWELL team for Romain Quentin, PSYR2 for Jacqueline Scholl and WAKING for Audrey Hay.

We welcome them and congratulate them!

Today, the portrait of Romain Quentin, CR Inserm who joins the EDUWELL CRNL team. The other portraits will follow!

Moustafa Bensafi (NEUROPOP CRNL) was invited on monday june 7th on the radio program "La Méthode Scientifique" on France Culture to speak about smell and taste.

Crédits photos: twomeows - Getty

"The NeuroImaging for Drug Discovery (NI2D) project, selected by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and led by the CRNL and the company Theranexus, aims to set up a joint pharmacology and neuroimaging team covering PET, MRI and high resolution ultrasound."

Read the UCBL 2020 activity report (Partnerships, page 24)

Simon Thibault, PhD student at IMPACT CRNL, supervised by Claudio Brozzoli (IMPACT CRNL) and Alice Roy (DDL), in collaboration with Véronique Boulenger (DDL), received this year's Society for Neural Control of Movement (NCM) award.

At the conference organised by NCM, Simon presented some of the results of his thesis project: through behavioural and functional neuroimaging studies, Simon investigated the links between language syntax and tool use, testing the hypothesis that a common function serves both skills.

A new article of Hélène Bastuji and her colleagues (NEUROPAIN CRNL) in the Journal of Neuroscience of april 2021.

doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2935-20.2021

Le CRNL a la tristesse de vous annoncer le décès de Jean-Luc Charieau qui avait rejoint l'équipe de zootechnie en février 2020.

Montessori education is becoming increasingly popular in many preschools in France and around the world. However, studies evaluating its effects on early childhood development are rare. In an article published in the journal Child Development, scientists from EDUWELL CRNL and TRAJECTOIRES CRNL describe the results of the first randomized controlled study comparing the Montessori method to conventional teaching in a French public preschool.

https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13575

An article published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, resulting from a successful collaboration between Eric FAKRA (PSYR2 CRNL) with Magali COMTE, and the Adult Psychiatry Unit of the Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier in Rennes.

Sylvie Mazoyer and Christelle Daudé, your equality correspondents, offer you a short video (1'28") which summarises their missions for the Rhône Alpes delegation of CNRS.

An unpublished issue of «The Extraordinary Powers of the Human Body», presented by Adriana Karembeu and Michel Cymes and broadcast on France 2 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 at 21pm, tries to unravel the mysteries of taste and smell, with Moustafa Bensafi, Marylou Mantel, Camille Ferdenzi and Stéphane Richard (NEUROPOP CRNL).