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As part of its policy of attractiveness and international outreach, two globally recognized researchers will join Université Côte d'Azur for an extended period as the recipients of an international chair under the IdEx Advanced Research Program. -
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From July 11 to 13, the MARALEX conference of the CNFG (French National Geography Committee) hydrosystems commission will be held in the Alpes-Maritimes. -
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The European Commission announced on July 3 that the Ulysseus European University Alliance, of which Université Côte d'Azur is a member, was selected to receive a grant extension of 12.8 million euros for another four years. The award is designed to strengthen the alliance, which now includes eight member universities, and step up its development. -
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From June 5 to 12, a delegation from Université Côte d'Azur visited Costa Rica and Panama at the invitation of the French Embassy and with support from the University's Initiative of Excellence. The main purpose of the visit was to participate in the academic and scientific conference: "Oceans and Societies: Towards a cooperation network between France and Central America”. The visit also served to strengthen current partnerships and to forge new ones. -
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Ulysseus European University recently strengthened its international strategy by signing two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Đà Nẵng (Vietnam) and Laval University (Quebec, Canada) aimed at developing cooperation in the fields of education, research and innovation. -
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Arnaud Droit, professor at Université Laval, was awarded a research chair by Inria in collaboration with Université Côte d'Azur. The aim is to improve machine and deep learning in the field of medical data. -
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A new study published in June 2023 in Nature Ecology and Evolution by a team from the Valrose Institute of Biology (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS) demonstrates that the Y chromosome has no impact on male longevity. This discovery refutes the widespread hypothesis that the Y chromosome has a toxic effect and shortens the lifespan of men. -
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An article published in the latest issue of Nature Medecine in June 2023 opens up new perspectives by presenting a map of all the cells in the human lung. This work was led by Pascal Barbry, CNRS Research Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS) and Sylvie Leroy, pulmonologist at Nice University Hospital, both members of the RespirERA Institute and of the international Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium. -
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Theoretical work carried out by researchers at the Lagrange Laboratory and the Nice Institute of Physics, on Bose-Einstein condensates maintained in stationary turbulence predicts accurately how energy and density are organized on average at different scales of the system. -
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Université Côte d'Azur is particularly honored to have been awarded a “Culture” grant under the France 2030 program for its FICCTION project (Federation of the Cultural and Creative Industries for a Territory of Innovation and Orientation). This project is one of 19 selected from among 300 submitted. -
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This inaugural international conference for Ageing and Well-being is being organised by the University Côte d’Azur in conjunction with Ulysseus European University. It will take place on October 18-19th 2023 in Nice, France. -
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The schooner Tara Pacific sailed throughout the Pacific Ocean for over two years with the main objective of studying the complexity of reef-building coral. The first scientific results were published in several Springer Nature journals on June 1, providing an insight into the health and biodiversity of coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Researchers from Université Côte d'Azur contributed to the publication of these papers. -
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On May 4, the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) announced the new members appointed as from October 1, 2023. All four, Claire Michel, Rachele Allena, Mathias Albert and Cyril Ronco, are part of the faculty of Université Côte d'Azur's Graduate School of Formal, Physical and Engineering Sciences, have been named "Junior Members" of IUF for a period of five years. -
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An oceanographic campaign led by two researchers from the GEOAZUR laboratory was carried out off the coast of French Guiana, finishing on June 11, 2023. The AMARYLLIS-AMAGAS campaign is aiming to determine the presence of gases in submarine sediments and their impacts on giant submarine landslides. Université Côte d'Azur made it possible to follow the expedition day by day thanks to a dedicated blog. -
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RespirERA, the University-Hospital Institute supported by Université Côte d'Azur, Nice University Hopital Center, INRIA of Université Côte d'Azur, INSERM Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Corsica and their partners, has recently been selected under the France 2030, “University-Hospital Institutes - IHU 3" call for proposals. -
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A study, published in Nature Communications in May 2023 by Christian Braendle's team at the Valrose Institute of Biology, shows that complex epistatic interactions are important factors that can contribute to the natural variation of stem cell niche activity. These results provide the first views into the quantitative genetic architecture of an animal stem cell system at molecular resolution. -
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Université Côte d’Azur coordinate the DMaLSE project (Decommissioning Management and Leadership for Safety Education) in partnership with Skema Business School and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) . This project aims to gain a deep understanding of management and leadership for safety practices in the context of nuclear dismantling projects, to be able to provide a high-level training for decommissioning project managers -
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DiogenX raises €27.5 million to advance its regenerative diabetes treatment towards clinical development. The company, co-founded by Patrick Collombat, Inserm Senior Researcher at the Valrose Institute of Biology, specializes in the treatment of type 1 diabetes. DiogenX's flagship program could become the first disease-modifying treatment for symptomatic type 1 diabetes. This financing round, led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Roche Venture Fund, will fund the company's innovative approach to beta cell regeneration. DiogenX's flagship program could become the first disease-modifying treatment for symptomatic type 1 diabetes. -
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Applications for the International Preparatory Class (specialty Economics and Management) are open for all international students with a high school diploma! -
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An international scientific team, including Université Côte d'Azur Professor Vivien Parmentier, has gained new insights into the atmosphere of a « mini-Neptune », a common type of planet in the galaxy but about which little is known. Vivien Parmentier's contribution was to develop the theoretical models that determined that a heavy atmosphere is necessary to reduce heat transport from the day side to the night side of the planet. -
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Université Côte d’Azur is one of 44 winners of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research’s ASDESR call for projects to accelerate higher education institution development strategies. With more than 2 million euros in funding, the goal is to roll out an ambitious university-wide project designed to strengthen its presence in Europe. -
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Fifty years after Apollo 11 paved the way for the first studies of the Moon, a team of scientists from CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Côte d'Azur Observatory, Sorbonne University and the Paris Observatory-PSL has revealed a part of its internal structure that has up until now remained a mystery: the Moon has a solid core, like the Earth. Along with this discovery, additional data also explains the presence of iron-rich materials in the lunar crust. This work was published in Nature on May 3, 2023. -
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NEUROPOL : Determine the mechanisms by which endocrine disruptors alter neurodevelopment using human brain organoids, or "mini-brains" - O.Khalfallah - IPMC -
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Due to global warming, the geographical range of fished species will change in the future and will lead to a redistribution of fish stocks in the seas and oceans. How extensive will the expected changes be in terms of potential catches? Researchers from Université Côte d'Azur (ECOSEAS), the Centre Scientifique de Monaco, the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche sur Mer and the Genoa Marine Center (Station Zoologique Anton Dohrn) have joined forces to address this issue. -
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Airbus, CNRS, Cryptonext Security, Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile, Orange, Sorbonne Université, Telecom Paris, Thales, Thales Alenia Space, Université Côte d’Azur, Veriqloud and Welinq are pleased to announce the official launch of a programme in charge of deploying Quantum Communication Infrastructure (QCI) networks in France and perform experimentations with them. This FranceQCI project will span over 30 months. -
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Each year, CNRS medals are awarded to researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the institution's vitality and reputation. In 2023, four of them are from Université Côte d'Azur. -
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How do genomes evolve at the level of genes and chromosomes, and what are the mechanisms that made new processes emerge in the course of evolution? These are the pressing questions that developmental and evolutionary biologists are seeking to answer. The genome sequencing of the Mediterranean sea urchin Paracentrotus and its comparison with other species, recently published in Cell Genomics by a consortium of European laboratories, provides answers to these questions. -
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Each year, the ELMI Graduate School of Economics and Management organizes a summer school for students from all over the world. Next edition from July 3 to 28, 2023 -
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Pre-selected at the end of stage 1 of the call for proposals for University Innovation Clusters (PUI), the "Med'Innov" project, led by Université Côte d'Azur, the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli and 10 other major innovation partners, aims to deploy a high-impact innovation strategy to meet the challenges of the regions represented and exceed national expectations. -
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Université Côte d'Azur was pleased to welcome a delegation from Université Laval of Quebec City from March 29 to March 31 as part of the strategic partnership developed under the Initiative of Excellence. The meeting between both institutions, organized once a year, provides an opportunity to take stock of the many projects and collaborations underway in different areas (education, research, international development, capacity building, etc.) while preparing the roadmap for the following year. The visit was also organized in the context of the 2023 Franco-Quebec Year of Innovation. -
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A lab dedicated to the search for new and innovative solutions to the challenges of aging was inaugurated on March 21 at "27 Delvalle" in Nice. The Living Lab is part of the "Aging and Well-being" Innovation Hub steered by the university under the impulse of the Ulysseus European University. -
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According to a previous study, the amount of liquid water potentially available on the surface of the satelites of free-floating planets is only a small fraction of the liquid water found on Earth today. This makes these environments particularly interesting for studying local wet-dry cycles which, as recently demonstrated in an article in Nature Physics Rev, are sufficiently complex chemically for molecules to accumulate and promote RNA polymerization. -
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More than 75 university leaders from 16 countries convened at Keio University in Japan in march and called on G7 leaders to invest in peace and security education at all levels, incorporate the latest research into policy on peace and security, diversify the set of stakeholders involved in high-level policy discussions on peace and security, lower barriers to student exchanges that foster cross-cultural understanding, and defend academic freedom. -
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In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Valrose Biology Institute (Université Côte d'Azur/CNRS/Inserm) have presented a tool that was developed to allow for instant and reversible remote control of pain-related animal behavior, using light. By reversibly controlling the pain signal, this protocol will pave the way for the discovery and validation of new analgesic drugs. -
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The annual gathering of academic, institutional and private researchers in artificial intelligence will be held in Sophia Antipolis from November 22 to 24, 2023. National and international project leaders are invited to submit their request to present a speech, poster or demonstration before May 31, 2023. -
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A study conducted by the Valrose Institute of Biology (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inserm), published in Nature Communications in February 2023, has identified an axonal guidance pathway in Drosophila that is essential for the construction of an asymmetric neuronal circuit, which is in turn critical for long-term memory. This work opens up new prospects for the study of brain asymmetry and its multiple functions. -
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Pinar Selek, sociologist, writer and associate professor at Université Côte d'Azur was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Turkey to life imprisonment with immediate confinement and was issued an international arrest warrant. Université Côte d'Azur was represented in the delegation that travelled to Istanbul on March 31 as a show of solidarity. -
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In order to showcase and promote its exceptional heritage, Université Côte d'Azur opens its doors to companies for meetings and professional events and to producers for filming. -
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Brain function is regulated by synapses that establish communication between neurons. A new study, led by Dr. Paula Pousinha, Associate Professor at Université Côte d'Azur and the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS), in collaboration with the team of Dr. Luisa Lopes (iMM; Portugal), has shown that a protein involved in Alzheimer's disease has a dual function in regulating the activity of neuronal synapses in early development and in old age. These results were published on 27 January 2023 in the journal Aging Cell. -
