Les cellules humaines vont toutes subir des dommages à l’ADN durant leur vie. Ces dommages peuvent être causé par des facteurs environnementaux ou biologiques, mais la majorité du temps ces lésions vont être réparées par une des multiples voies de réparation de l’ADN de la cellule. Quand le dommage n’est pas réparé ou s’il est […]

Herbivorous insects constitute the majority of our planet’s terrestrial biodiversity, but the species that are best studied are those that are considered pests. This project surveys taxonomic and functional diversity of defoliator communities in both plantations and natural regeneration of white spruce, and relates it to foliar damage and consequences for tree growth. Climate disruption […]

Le stage s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une thèse de doctorat réalisée au sein de l’équipe S4M du LAAS-CNRS portant sur le « Développement et mise en place d’un système de surveillance, d’alerte et d’accompagnement motivationnel pour le maintien à domicile des personnes âgées ». Le stage portera sur l’identification et la détection des changements de […]

Rhythmic music naturally urges us to move. This is visible when they spontaneously move or dance with music, even without being consciously aware of aligning movements to the musical pulse. Moving to the beat of the music (Auditory-Motor Synchronization – AMS) is a widespread behavior involving the fine coordination of a motor rhythm with an […]

Deep learning has the potential to increase efficiency of many routine tasks in medical image analysis. For instance, segmentation, the detection of the boundaries of specific target structures like organs or tumors, is a tedious and time-consuming chore for clinicians. Robust deep learning models could assist medical personnel for this type of task. However, automatic […]

L’épuration des eaux usées par biofiltration est de plus en plus fréquente en raison de la compacité et des performances épuratoires de ce procédé. L’implantation en usine de ce type de traitement est bien connue, mais la manière de l’opérer reste à perfectionner. C’est au niveau des pertes de charge que le bât blesse; la […]

Les modalités dont les sociétés parviennent à gérer les ressources naturelles varient d’un pays à l’autre et entre les territoires qui les conforment. Ce projet porte sur une analyse comparative des arrangements institutionnels mis en œuvre par deux fédérations, comme l’Argentine et le Canada, a fin d’administrer leurs ressources en eau. À partir de l’étude […]

Temporal management and speech fluency in discourse can be impaired in individuals with speech and language disorders. To date, it is unclear how temporal organisation of speech is influenced by higher-order language functions like discourse planning abilities, as well as exterior communication demands (e.g., conversation partners). Studies on different populations with discourse impairments (e.g., traumatic […]

The project is aimed at exploring how the assembly of bacterial communities is determined due to interactions between individuals, spatial distribution, movement constraints and secretion of substances that affect bacterial growth. To do this, we will combine both a mathematical and an ecological approach. The mathematical approach will make use of abstract tools in mathematical […]

This project emphasizes on the invasive proliferation of obnoxious wetland plant, Phragmites australis in Canada and India, impacting the economy and ecology of both the countries. We focus on understanding the relationship of soil microbes and this plant species, whether soil microbiota aids in its successful invasive spread. In view of the growing pollution in […]

Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental speech motor disorder characterized by dysfluencies. There is no consensus yet on the underlying causes of this disorder, but one hypothesis suggests that people who stutter have impaired rhythmic and timing abilities. Stuttering symptoms can be reduced for example when speaking to a metronome or reading aloud with other people. This […]

This project will investigate the duty cycle of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), by studying the Xray features present in the inner regions of our Galaxy. The X-ray light emitted by Sgr A* over the last several centuries is still propagating in the central molecular zone, generating X-ray echoes. The […]