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Pariscience organizes Symbiose - 48h short film competition, based on an idea of the ImagineScience festival.

Pairs, composed of a scientist and a director, have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film together.

There is only one constraint to respect: the short film must have been inspired by the annual theme for 2021: "OUTSIDE THE BOX".

The Symbiosis Prize is awarded and endowed with €1,000 by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

Congratulations to Silvia Melzi (SLEEP CRNL doctoral student) and to Hugo Cayla, the director!

Crédit photo Hugo Cayla et Silvia Melzi

Le livre "Rêver pendant le confinement" présentant les résultats de l'enquête "Confinement, Sommeil et Rêves" réalisée du 6 avril au 12 mai 2020 menée par Perrine Ruby (PAM CRNL) paraitra le 11 novembre 2021.

Perrine Ruby. Rêver pendant le confinement - Ce que le rêve nous apprend sur le vécu des Françaises et des Français. EDP Sciences, 1ère édition, 11 novembre 2021, 280 p., ISBN 2759825418.

Mercredi 20 octobre 2021, l’Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne a eu l'honneur de remettre les insignes de Docteur Honoris Causa à Frans DE WAAL, primatologue mondialement reconnu et Professeur de biologie à l’Université d’Emory (États-Unis) et à l'Université d'Utrecht (Pays-Bas). Lors de cette cérémonie prestigieuse, de nombreux enseignants et scientifiques, en particulier des chercheurs de l'Équipe de Neuro-Éthologie Sensorielle (ENES CRNL), mais aussi des membres d'institutions partenaires de l'Université étaient présents.

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!

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

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

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".

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.

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

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