To support research that interacts with the life sciences, the Maths SV program offers funding for semesters or sabbaticals for teaching and research staff on the Paris-Saclay campus, to initiate or carry out projects at the interface with the life sciences. To encourage the emergence and maintenance of lasting links, these semesters or years must be spent in total "immersion" in life science laboratories (biology, ecology, medicine, etc.). The successful teacher-researcher must be hosted full-time in a life sciences laboratory, where he or she will reside for the entire semester or year. A CV, a 3-page description of the project and a letter of invitation from the director of the host laboratory supporting the project and agreeing to provide an office for the duration of the semester or year are all required.
For all inquiries, please contact the Maths SV scientific manager Céline Lévy-Leduc.
Immersions already completed (subsidized by LMH)
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Camille Coron, Associate Professor at the LMO. Immersion in the "Evolution Genomes Behavior Ecology" Laboratory (EGCE), in the Tropical Insect Diversity, Ecology and Evolution team (CNRS, Gif-s/-Yvette). The project focused on demo-genetic modeling, taking the environment into account, and its application to biological control strategies. The immersion led to the finalization of 5 articles, including one in collaboration with Stéphane Dupas (researcher at EGCE) and Arnaud Becheler (PhD student at EGCE). The semester also saw the submission of a research project to the Institut Pascal. The aim of this program is to bring together biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists for one month, in order to gain a better understanding and predictive capacity of the evolution of biodiversity, via the emergence of a new discipline: environmental demogenetics.
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Astrid Decoene, Associate Professor at the LMO. Immersion at the Hepatobiliary Center of Paul Brousse Hospital (Villejuif, 2nd semester 2013-2014). Project focused on modeling liver regeneration. The immersion provided the opportunity to initiate two works on liver regeneration modeling. This modeling is based on ODE models for liver cell growth and the circulation of bile acids in the body. The parameters of these models are estimated from experimental data. This semester also saw the development of work on blood flow in the aorta, combining numerical simulations with MRI images, in collaboration with the IR4M (Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités) laboratory (Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités).