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#CRCA ‘s got talent!
15 portraits of some of the great young scientists we are lucky to work with ☺️
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🐝 How do bumblebees optimize their flight routes? This what Charlotte Doussot wants to decipher during her postdoc
@chadoussot

🐁 Some odors are dampening stress and anxiety in mice. How ? This is what Clémence Viguier will look for during her PhD.

🦾 What’s going on when you and a friend are moving a table around? How do you do this together and adapt to changes?
Nour Sghaier studies the biomechanics under these behaviors to understand how two bodies coordinate for a task.

🐝Asian hornets arrived in Europe around 2004. Since then, they’ve became a major threat for honey bees.
Mathilde Lacombrade studies the behavioral impact of some fungi as a tool for biological control of Asian hornets.

🐭 What are the epigenetic mechanisms of cognitive aging?
Célia Bak studies the modification of gene regulators in the brain of aged mice that may contribute to their memory deficits.
@Celia_Bak_

🖥Modeling how insect pollinators are flying for harvesting and going back to their nest can be useful to ameliorate pollination.
Ana Morán is using mathematics and physics to understand how insects chose their routes.
@_AnaMoran

🪰Males are more or less attractive depending on their life experience.. also in the world of female drosophila!
This is what Laure-Anne Poissonnier studied during her postdoc at the #CRCA
@AnnePoissonnier

🕷Most of spiders lives in groups during their youth, then becomes solitary and shows aggressiveness against their conspecifics during adulthood.
Emilie Mauduit studies the mechanisms underlying this shift from social to solitary life, which can be a key to understand sociality.

🧠Does abnormal brain activity during sleep affect cognition in Alzheimer’s disease patients?
During her PhD, Anna Szabo observes the link between these aberrant brain activity and cognition in patients, and studies the underlying mechanisms using mouse models.
@annabszabo

🧫Carbon nanotubes are now widely used, and can be found in our environment. Could they modify the functioning and the behavior of a cell?
Manon Ternois uses Physarum polycephalum aka #bob to explore how exposure to carbone nanotubes can affect an organism biology and behavior.

🐁 Nociceptin increases in the brain after chronic stress, and may modify learning and memory processes.
During her PhD, Flora D’Oliveira Da Silva aims at understanding how this neuropeptide impacts memory and synaptic connections in mice.
@floraDoliveira

🐝 Neuropeptide F is involved in satiety in insects.
During her PhD, Louise Bestea showed that this peptide also acts on responses to sugar, odors, and learning capacities in honeybees, potentially modulating their harvesting behavior.
@LBestea

🪰 Nutrition impacts brain function, and the development of neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein aggregation such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
For her PhD, Inès Noureddine evaluates the impact of diets on drosophila models of AD and PD.

🍯 Tracking honeybees in different conditions is key to know how they’re affected by their environment.
As an assistant engineer, Blandine Mahot-Castaing develops tools such as connected hives to determine the environmental parameters that are detrimental to honeybee’s survival.

🐁 Some genes code for small RNAs that are crucial for cell function.
During her PhD, Julie Riviere evaluates the impact of the loss of small RNAs expressed in the brain and involved in the Prader-Willi syndrome on the sleep and cognitive functions of mice.
@JulieRiviere31

😊That’s it! If you wanna to discover more about these 15 talented women and their scientific journey, check this:

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