Researcher portraits, Research
… Claire Thomas-Junius is a former middle-distance runner. It was only natural that she became interested in sports … performance. She was interested in sports that need constant effort or those with intervals from around 30 seconds … Olympics. “All the studies were about men, it was about time that someone takes an interest in women!” Three …
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… Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech) and is Deputy Assistant Research Director at the Biosphera Graduate School of … in ecosystems ranging from grasslands to vineyard stormwater basins, forests and even golf courses! Stéphane Bazot … his research. “In our field, soil has been seen for a long time as a sort of black box. We now know that it’s an …
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… the competitive exams in science, David Néron thought he was destined to become a teacher. However... “My initial thought was that I should go to an engineering school and then go on … can test their ideas much more quickly and save valuable time with their innovative work,” explains David Néron. The …
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… are still poorly understood. The Intertox project was created in order to better understand these phenomena. … of the project dates back to a call for proposals put forward jointly by the DATAIA Institute and the Centre of Human … it be communicated? Should the risk be quantified at the time it is communicated? Should strategies for managing …
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… political, social and cultural developments. Frank Georgi was admitted to the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1981. At the same time, he took history courses at Université Paris 1 … by research because it has been considered more of a militant than a scientific issue. Frank Georgi, on the contrary, …
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Innovation, Research
… of this evolution. These special algorithms mimic the way the brain works to solve complex problems. "The human … they have to learn everything all at once. Every time they learn something new, they almost instantly forget what they knew before. This makes them very …
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… inactive (OFF) to the active (ON) state , and shortly afterwards the first structure of a GTPase-activating protein. … tumours, leading to many cancers. That's why it's so important to find out how GTPases can be blocked." ARF GTPases … A, the only GTPase inhibitor that was known at the time. In 2003, the biologist and her team discovered that …
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… work at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (ICP). "I was already studying biological phenomena at the molecular … production of reactive forms of oxygen. This step is important for identifying where to act to control the enzyme and … working conditions directly, and within a reasonable time frame." This involvement reflects her taste for …
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… into Latin between 1258 and 1266. Maaike van der Lugt was particularly interested in how this knowledge, ranging … initially intended for an intellectual and academic elite, was transformed and disseminated in more accessible forms, … historiques. (Heredity between the Middle Ages and modern times. Historical perspectives.) "I studied the concept of …
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… de Versailles - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. In 2008, she was accepted into a professional Master's programme and … "I didn't touch a single lab bench for three years!" She was aiming to model the olfactory process, from the capture … a sequence revealing the protein's dynamic life on a time scale down to the microsecond (µs or 10 -9 s). "This …
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… on endometriosis, fighting relentlessly to fund and raise awareness of it, thus helping to make this disease central to … reactions and the formation of lesions that can sometimes lead to disabling pain. It affects 200 million women … treatments, potential exposure to chemical pollutants such as dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), …
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… Doctor in Gastroenterology at Saint-Antoine Hospital, who was writing a thesis on the analysis of the microbiota … its protective effect in murine models of colitis. "This was the beginning of a long story that changed our lives and … in 2008 in the American journal PNAS, now cited 4,000 times, paved the way for countless studies on Fprau and the …
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