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Causes and consequences of invasions of aquatic ecosystems by non-native salmonids – SalmoInvade
Background: Salmonids are among the most important fish in Europe. They are targets for recreational and commercial fishery, part of our cultural heritage, and serve as flagship species for river restoration. Because of their value, salmonids have been translocated widely outside their native range
Soluble mediators of the immune system against Aspergillus fumigatus – COMASPIN
1. To decipher the influence of Aspergillus fumigatus morphotypes and their cell wall components on the activation of the soluble mediators of the immune system: A. fumigatus cells are covered by a thick cell wall, which is mainly composed of different polysaccharides, pigments and proteins that are
Irradiation of astrophysical ices – IGLIAS
The main goal of this project was to design and to build a new ultra high vaccum chamber (10-10mbar). WIth this device, icy samples can be prepared at 10K. It allows to follow in situ irradiation effects using infrared spectroscopy. This equipment will be installed on the beam lines of our national
Invasive seaweeds in rising temperatures: impacts and risk assessments – INVASIVES
Europe is a hot-spot for aquatic introductions with nearly 900 alien species reported at present. Introduction of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) is regarded as a serious threat to European biodiversity and ecosystems. Introduced seaweeds represent one of the largest groups of marine aliens in Europe,
Quinolinate synthase, an iron-sulfur protein as a key target for the design of antibacterial agents – NADBIO
The nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide (NAD) is synthesized in all living organisms from quinolinic acid (QA). However, the biosynthesis of QA differs between organisms. In eukaryotes it is produced via the degradation of tryptophan whereas in prokaryotes it is synthesized via two enzymes: L-aspart
The Chirality of Genes – CHIRGEN
The asymmetric photochemistry of nucleotide precursor molecules at synchrotron SOLEIL is dependent upon on the chiroptical properties of these molecules and will most certainly initially yield only small enantiomeric excesses (e.e.s), as we have already observed for amino acids. Thus any asymmetry p
The role of the Initial Accent in prosodic structuring in French - from phonology to speech processing – PhonIACog
The present project aims at describing the characteristics of the French accentual system in order to bring to light the underlying phonological structure of this language. It addresses the status of the bipolar pattern /IA FA/ (initial accent-final accent), considered as the basic metric pattern in
Learning High-level Representations of large Sparse Tensors – EVEREST
The general direction of the project is to define new ways of representing multi-relational data, with a focus on knowledge bases data, these directed graphs whose nodes corresponds to concepts and edges to relations among them. The main objective of EVEREST ifs to propose methods to model such data
STructuring by Inversion the Local InterStellar Medium – STILISM
Our objective is to provide a realistic and detailed three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the interstellar matter (ISM) distribution in the Sun vicinity, within a kiloparsec wide volume. This 3D distribution of gas and dust, based on the inversion of distance-limited data and their combination with int
The New IRAM KID Arrays (NIKA): a continuum camera for millimeter wave astronomy – NIKA
In May 2011, IRAM (Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique) issued a call for tender for the next generation continuum instrumentation of the 30-m telescope at Pico Veleta (Spain). The NIKA (New IRAM KIDs Arrays) consortium answered with a detailed proposal to build a large-format, dual-color (150
