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Urban Cooling by Trees – Assessing and Modeling for Designing Sustainable Cities – COOLTREES
Among adaptation strategies of cities to climate change, « greening » cities i.e. reintroducing trees within cities, is probably a promising way since trees through transpir ation and shading have a significant impact on the heat balance of the surrounding atmosphere. The first general objective of COOLTREES is to assess and model the evapotranspiration of urban trees in relation with their environments, and to relate their role in the urban climate with their structural and functional traits.
Upcycling of Plastic Blends via Reactive Extrusion – UpCycle
391 million tons of plastics produced worldwide in 2021 coming from post-consumer recycled polymers. Of
Up-to-date LLM for all – LLM4all
GPT-3 only contain information that is dated pre-2021 (as of April 2023). We will thus propose new solutions
Unrevealing the neuronal circuits underlying chronic pain – PaiNetWork
This project tests the hypothesis that chronic pain is mediated by different neuronal circuits in the spinal cord dorsal horn, depending on pain etiology.
Unravelling the Mars’ atmosphere Main Mysteries (MCUBE) – MCUBE
Unravelling the Mars’atmosphere Main Mysteries
Unravelling signaling pathways involved in encystment of disease-causing amoebae – AmoCyst
Despite the multitude of actors identified during encystment (cyst formation), the exact mechanisms of encystment are not yet established. The AmoCyst project aimed at deciphering the signaling pathways involved in encystment in order to discover targets for the future development of molecules against amoebae.
Unraveling the pathophysiology of Bethlem Myopathy using a unique zebrafish model for the disease – FishandCol6
Bethlem myopathy (BM) is a misunderstood and uncurable disorder characterized by abnormal contractures and muscle weakness. The BM results from mutations in one of the genes encoding the 3 major a-chains of collagen VI (ColVI), a component of the myomatrix, but the mechanisms of action have not been elucidated. Our working hypothesis is that muscle dysfunction caused by BM mutation results from alteration in muscle excitation and/or intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis.
Unraveling the dynamics of bacterial cell wall synthesis and maturation at the nanoscale – NanoWall
coupled with in vivo and in vitro analyses. In 2021, a first study using the super-resolution fluorescence
Unraveling intra-pulse dynamics and fast energy transfer in silica glass - a pathway for smart processing using ultrafast lasers – INTRALAS
A pathway for smart processing using ultrafast lasers
Unraveling complex nucleation pathways in natural and engineered cements – NUANCE
Carbonate biominerals and engineered cements such as Portland cement are formed via the initial precipitation of disordered solids, herein called precursors. These precursors are highly hydrated and plastic, allowing the molding of intricate shapes once the cement hardens. This project addressed the factors controlling the crystallization of these precursors for both natural and engineered cements.
