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Erika Burioli: Mysterious transmissible cancers in mussels
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Erika Burioli works on cancer cells capable of spreading in the environment and infecting foreign organisms. The researcher at the Interactions Hôtes-Pathogènes-Environnements (IHPE) laboratory has been awarded a european research council (ERC) grant in September 2023 to continue her work on bivalves.
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"Fluid dynamics and epidemiology - Lydia Bourouiba
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News from the Biology and Health Sector
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Published on: December 13, 2023
CBS researcher Ashley Nord wins Bettencourt Schueller Foundation award November 22, 2023 The...
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Daniele Di Pietro: the maths aesthete
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Mathematician Daniele Di Pietro's NEMESIS project has just been awarded 7.8 million euros in ERC Synergy funding. His goal: to overcome the current technological barriers to numerical simulations of complex physical problems. The director of the Alexandre Grothendieck Institute in Montpellier, France, describes his career path in a discipline for which he was not originally destined.
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NUMEV MIPS seminar "RNA design: Difficult but exemplarily combinatorial".
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The Interfaces axis of the Institut ExposUM
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The ExposUM institute aims to establish a reference institute for the study, training...
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Water4Future Hackathon: solutions that flow from the source
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Published on: March 25, 2024
One hundred and forty high school students from three continents took part on March 18, 19 and 21...
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Karim Majzoub: the smallest virus asks the biggest questions
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Karim Majzoub heads the "RNA viruses and host factors" research team at the Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM). Atip-Avenir - MUSE 2020 laureate, he has been awarded a 1.5 million euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his work on delta viruses. A virus responsible for hepatitis D in humans, but recently found in a large number of animal species.
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Paul Antonio: Journey to the heart of the Earth
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Paul Antonio, a paleomagnetism researcher at the Géosciences Montpellier laboratory, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant for his proposal of a new experimental method to refine the dating of the Earth's inner core.