📣 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! 📣 494 bright minds awarded €780 million to fund research ideas at the frontiers of science. Find out who, where & why 👉 europa.eu/!hrxyBp 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG Horizon Europe🇪🇺 EUScience&Innovation🇪🇺

Empowering early-career researchers is at the heart of the mission of European Research Council (ERC). 📢 This is why the ERC has awarded 494 Starting Grants to young scientists, with a funding of nearly €780 million. ↓ Learn more about how these grants support research in diverse fields.

Why was Michel Barnier chosen as French prime minister? Listen to Rym Momtaz, from Carnegie Europe, on the latest episode of #BBCNewscast bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

We’re launching our new group leader call: 👉 4 open positions! We're recruiting both junior and senior profiles, who use and develop AI methods and mechanistic mathematical models to address fundamental questions in biology. vib.ai/en/opportuniti…

Au menu de #SciencesChrono aujourd'hui. Côté histoire des sciences, un neuromythe à la peau dure, celui du cerveau reptilien chez les humains. Dans l'entretien archéologique : l'identification récente d'un sarcophage de Ramsès II tinyurl.com/23bqox5v

« Je sais aussi que nombre de nos compatriotes ont voté ce jour pour moi, non pour soutenir les idées que je porte, mais pour faire barrage à celles de l’extrême droite. J’ai conscience que ce vote m’oblige. » Emmanuel Macron, au soir du second tour de l'élection présidentielle

Researchers have found that the parts of the brain that grew the most during human evolution are the parts that are now the most susceptible to aging. 1/

Human neurons are incredibly complex and Purkinje cells are, by far, the largest in our brain. We give a detailed characterization of their dendrite and spine morphology and distribution across cerebellar regions compared with mouse. Check it out!

Just out from the lab: "Molecular programs guiding arealization of descending cortical pathways". We look at inter-areal molecular diversity of "corticospinal" neurons during dev & reassign axon projections to more proximal targets using type-specific TFs. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Magnifique Calanque de Mugel, la Ciotat.

Join us in celebrating #InternationalDemocracyDay. Relive 'Nobel Prize Dialogue: Fact & Fiction - The Future of Democracy” BozarBrussels, when The Nobel Prize Peace & Science laureates, Demis Hassabis, Věra Jourová, & ERC grantees shared their insights. 🎥 bit.ly/3OZGLG7

We're organizing an Inaugural Symposium for our new center VIB.AI on 20th Nov 2024 with talks by Kortemme Lab Fraternali Lab Ben Lehner David Kelley Žiga Avsec gagneurlab Oliver Stegle Lucy Colwell & Amos Tanay vibconferences.be/events/vibai-s… -> AI in Biology

Our paper on the GAP domain KO knockout rat is out, super collaboration between many groups. Well done Danai Katsanevaki Sam Booker Osterweil lab SIDB L Mizen Darren Walsh atsushi wada cell.com/cell-reports/f…