Call for students applications. Academic year 2023-2024
In the framework of the Chemistry Biology Health (CBH) Graduate School of Université Grenoble Alpes, the Grenoble Alliance for Integrated Structural and Cell Biology (GRAL) funds MSc (Master 2) research scholarships.
We seek motivated candidates who did not study for their BSc in Grenoble and are planning to:
- attend one of the following Master programmes (2nd year MSc / Master 2 / M2) at Université Grenoble Alpes (taught in English):
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- Master in Biology:
- Master in Plant Biology:
- Master in Health Engineering:
- & do a research internship in Integrated Structural & Cell Biology at one of the labs associated with the GRAL programme in Grenoble: BGE, BioSanté, IBS, LCBM, and LPCV (see list of possible projects below).
A maximum of 6 GRAL scholarships are offered to cover the academic year from September 2023 to June 2024, which includes 4 months of courses and 6 months of research internship for most programmes.
The amount of the scholarship is 5000 € paid during the 1st semester and an internship grant (‘gratification de stage‘) during the research internship (ca. 550€ per month).
The call is open to EU and non-EU students.
The candidates must not have studied in Grenoble for their BSc, and either have moved to Grenoble for the 1st of Master or move to Grenoble for the 2nd year of Master.
The student must apply to one of the above mentionned Master programmes at UGA and must contact the potential supervisor(s) of their research internship.
TO APPLY: the candidates must send a unique pdf file to anne-mathilde.thierry _at_ ibs.fr (e-mail subject: M2-2023-LastName) before May 14th 2023 (23:59, CET), including:
- A cover letter indicating the selected MSc programme at Université Grenoble Alpes, and 2 choices (ranked) for the 6-month research internship project
- A CV
- Diplomas and copies of academic transcripts for the last 2 academic years (translated to French or English if appropriate)
- For non-native English speakers, level of language proficiency (e.g. TOEIC, Bulats, etc.)
- One letter of recommendation
- E-candidate portal application number, if known
The applications will be evaluated by a selection committee composed of representatives of the GRAL Directory and the Master programmes.
The scholarship is conditional to the registration to one of the above programmes of the master’s degree in Biology, Plant Biology, or Health Engineering of Université Grenoble Alpes, and to the recipient maintaining a satisfactory academic record in the programme. The application and admission to a 2nd year MSc programme (M2) at Université Grenoble Alpes is fully independent of the GRAL Scholarship. Application deadlines may differ between the different programmes. See admission requirements on Université Grenoble Alpes’s website: http://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/grandes-missions/formation/candidatures-et-inscriptions/
Schedule:
- Opening of the call for applications: March 2023
- Applications must be submitted by May 14th 2023
- Results: June 2023
List of research internships available for the GRAL Master 2 Research Scholarship.
Academic Year 2023-2024
A maximum of one scholarship per research group/team will be funded by GRAL.
| Supervisor | Host lab | Title of the M2 research internship |
| Emmanuelle Tillet | BioSanté – BAL team | Liver or cardiac BMP10 : circulating forms and vascular functions Summary – Tillet |
| Catherine Picart & Paul Machillot | BioSanté – BRM team | Control of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation using biomimetic films: the early steps Summary – Picart |
| Nadia Cherradi | BioSanté – IMAC team | Impact of aberrant Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway on extracellular vesicles secretion and function in adrenocortical cancer Cherradi |
| Nadia Alfaidy | BioSanté – MAB2 team | Characterization of the informational value of EG-VEGF as a biomarker of preterm births in an infectious context Summary – Alfaidy |
| Mohamed Benharouga | BioSanté – MAB2 team | PMN transmigration in cystic fibrosis: Roles of EG-VEGF and cellular prion (PrPC) proteins in inflammation Summary – Benharouga |
| Christel Marquette | BioSanté – MAB2 team | Role of prokineticin receptor antagonist in long-term cerebrovascular dysfunction Summary – Marquette |
| Jean-Baptiste Reiser | IBS – CAID group | New antiviral IgMs for structural and biophysical studies in complex with their target Summary – Reiser |
| Elisabetta Boeri Erba | IBS – Epigen group | Sequencing soluble and membrane proteins using mass spectrometry Summary – Boeri Erba |
| Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye & Carlo Petosa | IBS – Epigen group | Nuclear import of HIV-1 Rev: a comprehensive analysis of molecular interactions with host cell proteins Summary – Noirclerc-Savoye |
| Dominique Bourgeois | IBS – I2SR group | Optimization of data analysis for quantitative super-resolution fluorescence microscopy Summary – Bourgeois |
| Dominique Housset | IBS – MEM group | Development of 3D nano-sized protein crystal electron diffraction for structural biology Summary – Housset |
| Jean-Luc Pellequer | IBS – MEM group | Atomic force microscopy topography and reconstruction of large biological complexes Summary – Pellequer |
| Eugenio de la Mora | IBS – Metalloproteins group | Modular enzymes for synthetic chemistry Summary – de la Mora |
| Franck Fieschi & Cédric Laguri | IBS – MP group & NMR group | Characterization of bacterial recognition by C-type lectin receptors from the antigen presenting cells Summary – Fieschi |
| Jérôme Boisbouvier | IBS – NMR group | Structural and Functional investigation of ClpX/ClpP proteolytic machine in action Summary – Boisbouvier |
| Pauline Macheboeuf | IBS – Patbac group | Architecture and reprogramming of the colibactin-producing complex for novel antibacterial development Summary – Macheboeuf |
| Wim Burmeister & Nicolas Tarbouriech | IBS – VRM group | Structural and functional study of the telomere-binding proteins of vaccinia virus Summary – Burmeister |
| Thibaut Crépin | IBS – VRM group | Toward the structure of Borna disease virus nucleocapsid Summary – Crépin |
| Christel Carles | LPCV – ChromDev team | Epigenetic editing effect on chromatin and gene regulation in plants Summary – Carles |
| Romain Blanc-Mathieu & Jérémy Lucas | LPCV – Flo_Re team | Meta-analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factors DNA binding sites properties integrated in a structural classification Summary – Blanc-Mathieu |
| Renaud Dumas & François Parcy | LPCV – Flo_Re team | Patterning the flower: analysis of the LEAFY-WUSCHEL interaction Summary – Dumas |
| Alberto Amato & Yannick Sérès | LPCV – Lipid team | Characterization of genes involved in plastid lipids synthesis and structural arrangement of thylakoids in diatoms Summary – Amato |
| Morgane Michaud | LPCV – Lipid team | Role of OMP24 in the regulation of plastids-mitochondria contact sites in response to phosphate starvation in plants Summary – Michaud |
| Jonathan Przybyla-Toscano & Patrice Catty | LPCV – MetalStress team & LCBM – BEE team | Biochemical and structural characterization of Casparian strip membrane domain protein 1 from Arabidopsis thaliana Summary – Przybyla-Toscano |