Education
Who is this program for?
It is intended for students who hold a Master's degree (or equivalent) from a university outside France and who have not worked or resided in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years preceding their recruitment.
The selection of the PPU-IMAGINE program is organized by Institut Imagine and selected students carry out their research in one of Institut Imagine lab.
Why join Institut Imagine?
By joining the program, students gain access to a stimulating and ideal environment for the training and career development of young researchers.
In addition, students can expand their knowledge by taking specialized courses and benefiting from an extensive seminar program with speakers from around the world. Students enrolled in the IMAGINE program will have access to the following activities or workshops offered by the PPU program.
- Workshop on Integrity and Ethics
- French Courses
- Retreat
- Thematic Club
- Robotics workshop
- Meeting with the Dean
- General workshops
- Other PPU social activities (Luncheons)
The call for applications is open from September 18 to November 2, 2020 and students are selected on a competitive basis. Candidates are first pre-selected by the host laboratories and their applications are then presented to a selection committee.
Candidates selected by the selection committee are then interviewed. Selected students start in the following October.
Doctoral students selected to follow this programme at Institut Imagine will benefit from a specific 3-year employment contract with a net pre-tax salary of €2,000 (including health insurance, mutual insurance and provident funds) and the possibility of accommodation at the Cité International Universitaire de Paris.
At the end of their studies (usually three years), students support their PhD according to European guidelines.
Call for Applications 2020
If you are interested in one of the projects, please contact the project leader directly with a copy to elodie.dandelot@institutimagine.org.
For further information on this call for projects, please contact Elodie Dandelot.
Identifying inborn errors of immunity predisposing to severe forms of COVID-19
Laurent Abel | Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases Laboratory
KEYWORDS: Severe viral infections, human genetics, inborn errors of immunity, next generation sequencing, COVID-19, influenza, computational genetics
Genetic and pathological mechanisms involved in developmental defects of the cerebelLum
Vincent Cantagrel | Developmental brain disorders laboratory
KEYWORDS: Cerebellum, Cognitive and motor defects, development, zebrafish, iPSCs.
The human genetic and immunological basis of invasive pneumococcal disease
Bertrand Boisson | Human genetics of infectious diseases Laboratory
KEYWORDS: severe bacterial infection, Streptococcus pneumoniae, inborn errors of immunity, NF-kB pathway
Genetic Dissection of severe viral infections
Emmanuelle Jouanguy | Human genetic of infectious diseases Laboratory
KEYWORDS: viral infections, genetic predisposition, interferons
Single cell approaches for the study of inflammatory intestinal disease
Nadine Cerf-Bensussan | Laboratory of Intestinal Immunity
KEYWORDS: inflammatory bowel diseases, monogenic disorders, single cell approaches
DNA damage/repair coupling as a safeguard against genetic instability: V(D)J recombination as a paradigm
Jean-Pierre de Villartay | Genome Dynamics in the Immune System Laboratory
KEYWORDS: V(D)J recombination, DNA damage and repair, Genome instability, Cancer
Integrated Gene and Proteomic Signatures in Darier and Hailey-Hailey Diseases
Alain Hovnanian | Genetic skin diseases: from disease mechanisms to treatments Laboratory
KEYWORDS: genetic skin disease, Darier disease, Hailey-Hailey disease, mRNA sequencing, proteomics, epidermal differentiation, acantholysis, calcium, SERCA2, SPCA1
From novel mutations to development of animal models in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Edor Kabashi | Translational Research for Neurological Diseases Laboratory
KEYWORDS: ALS, C9orf72, neuron-glia interactions, drug screening
Understanding FGF signaling to treat spinal defects
Legeai-Mallet Laurence | Molecular and physiopathological bases of osteochondrodysplasia Laboratory
KEYWORDS: Axial skeleton, Intervertebral disc, Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3, dwarfism
Programmed Cell Death of transient neurons in normal and pathological development of cortical circuits
Alessandra Pierani | Genetic and Development of Cerebral Cortex Laboratory
KEYWORDS: programmed cell death, transient neurons, cerebral cortex, development, epilepsy
Graph representation learning on clinical & multi-omics data for improved rare-diseases diagnosis and patient-stratification
Antonio Rausell | Clinical Bioinformatics Lab
KEYWORDS: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-omics, Rare diseases, Genetic diagnosis, Patient stratification, Graph-representation learning
Identification and characterization of intronic variants in hereditary renal diseases
Sophie Saunier | Laboratory of hereditary kidney diseases
KEYWORDS: rare renal diseases / intronic variants / induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) / kidney organoids
Actin cytoskeleton in cell migration in 3D-environments
Fernando Sepulveda | Molecular basis of altered immune homeostasis laboratory
KEYWORDS: actin, cell migration, leukocytes, primary immunodeficiencies, microdevices
