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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
National Initiatives
GDR3672 - BioComp - Material Implementation of natural computation
Participant : Nicolas Rougier [member of the steering commitee] .
The GDR BIOCOMP has been officially created on January 2015 and gathers the INP, INSIS, INS2I, INSB, INC institutes of the CNRS. The goal of this GDR is to facilitate interdisciplinary exchanges in France around a common goal: the realization of bio-inspired hardware systems. More precisely, this GDR seeks to understand the mechanisms at work in biological systems to create chips based on natural computation, but also vice versa, building hardware architectures as test systems to better understand biology. In France there is a wealth of expertise in all disciplines concerned with hardware implementations of natural computation: biology, computational neuroscience, mathematics, computer architecture and computer systems, microelectronics, nanotechnology and physics. Making bio-inspired chips is extremely complex and requires advanced skills in all these disciplines. By organizing interdisciplinary meetings and conferences, the goal is hence to bring together different communities so that they can understand each other and work together.
Project Motus of the ANSES
Participant : André Garenne.
The MOTUS project (MOdulaTion dU Signal RF et effets sur le cerveau : approche in vivo et in vitro) has been recently accepted and will be financed by the ANSES (the french national agency for health security). This 3 years project includes substantial financial support as well as 2 years of post-doctoral contracts with our partner IMS regarding the effects of GSM-RF on living matter and especially neuronal activity and development. It is designed to be synergistic with the MISTERE project previously obtained (cf section 9.1.5 ). Our main involvement will concern electrophysiological data and spike trains analysis as well as the development of pharmacological protocols to test GSM-RF effects hypotheses.
Project Mimacore of the CNRS Challenge Imag'In
Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Nicolas Rougier.
Better understanding the resting states (regional interactions and corresponding functional networks in the brain when the subject is at rest) is of central interest for a systemic approach of brain understanding. As we think that this domain is not mature enough for a direct functional modeling approach, we try to get familiar with it, through this imaging study. In this exploratory study funded by the CNRS, we are associated with three teams in neuroscience developing three imaging techniques (MRS, MRI, Clarity), to explore resting states in rodents and learn more about their genesis.