ERC Starting Grants 2024 winners

Starting Grants from the European Research Council are awarded to young scientists and academics throughout Europe. Among the projects funded, seven were submitted by researchers from the Aix-Marseille site! Congratulations to all!

• Hugo Bisio Sabaris, scientist at the Information génomique et structural laborartory (amU/CNRS), has been awarded funding for his project entitled: Projet ViDaMa - Proving causality of liquid-liquid phase separation for the acquisition of nuclear-like functions by Giant Viruses Viral Factories.

Find out more about him on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

• Fanny Cazettes, scientist at the Institut de neurosciences de la Timone (amU/CNRS), has been awarded funding for her project entitled: Projet DIVERSE - Understanding diversity in decision strategy: from neural circuits to behavior.

Find out more about her on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

• Isabelle Dautriche, scientist at the Centre de recherche en psychologie et neurosciences (amU/CNRS), has been awarded funding for her project entitled: Projet ThoughtOrigins - Developmental and evolutionary origins of the language of thought.

Find out more about her on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

• Maud Gratuze, scientist at the Institut de Neurophysiopathologie (amU/CNRS), has been awarded funding for her project entitled: Projet SynApoE - Unravelling ApoE4 contribution to tau-mediated synaptic degeneration in AD by combining advanced proteomics and super resolution microscopy.

Find out more about her on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

• Baptiste Libé-Philippot, research fellow at the Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (amU/CNRS), has been awarded funding for his project entitled: Projet hCerebEvol - Elucidating the cellular and molecular divergence of the human cerebellum.

Find out more about him on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

• Ashleigh Shannon, scientist at the Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques laboratory (amU/CNRS), has been awarded funding for her project entitled: Projet NidoRep - Nidovirus replication complexes: How enzymes shape viral genomes.

Find out more about her on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

• Olivier Sulpis, scientist at the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (amU/CNRS/IRD/INRAE), has been awarded funding for his project entitled: Projet Deep-C - Deep-sea carbonates under pressure: mechanisms of dissolution and climate feedback.

Find out more about her on the website of the Provence and Corsica CNRS delegation.

Details of all the selected projects can be found on the website of the Mission Europe pour la Recherche, the one-stop-shop set up by amU, CNRS, Inserm and IRD to support researchers on the Aix-Marseille site in their Research and Innovation projects.