Success for ParaFrap students at MPM2023 

Parafrap students won numerous awards at the MPM 2023, Woods Hole USA, 17-21 September 2023. 
A warm congratulations to all !

• Parul Sharma (2nd year PhD under the supervision of Brice Rotureau in Philippe Bastin’s team, Paris) - Talk Award,
• Sheena Dass (alumni, former Cyrille Botté PhD, Grenoble) - Honorable Mention Talk Award,
• Mohammad El Kadri (2nd year PhD in Frédéric Bringaud’s lab Bordeaux) and Pratima Gurung (alumni, former Jose-Juan Lopez-Rubio’s PhD, Montpellier) - Honorable Mention In-person Poster Awards

In addition, 3 other prizes were awarded to members of the ParaFrap labs

• Martina Shahinas (Mohamed-Ali Hakimi Lab) and Parul Singh (Artur Scherf /Jessica Bryant Team) - Honorable Mention Talk Awards
• Marta Mendonça Cova: (Maryse) - In-person Poster Award

Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) within the OneHealthdrugs (CA21111) network
1st CALL for applications 2023 

The 1st STSM Call of the Action CA2111 OneHealthdrugs is launched. Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) is for PhD students and postdocs, or young scientists, wishing to spend 3 months in a European or associated country, or in Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, Togo, ...). These grants (about 9 grants of 3000 euros) have to be spent before the end of August 2023.

Evaluation process: on a ”first come first served” basis.
Call closure: when all STSMs are granted/STSM budget is allocated.

NOTE: STSM must be concluded before 31/08/2023.

Each Application must be submitted form the Applicant’s user profile on the e-COST portal: www.cost.eu, and then : https://e-services.cost.eu/activity/grants

The documents that the Applicant must upload into the e-COST are:

• STSM grant Application (based on the "STSM-application-template CA21111"; disregard the e-COST template)
• Confirmation of the host on the agreement from the host institution in receiving the applicant
• Other documents required by the Action [i.e. 1) Letter of support from the Home Institution; 2) CV; 3) Signed statement. The contents of the documents 1, 2 and 3 are detailed in pp6-7 of the "1stSTSM call for applications CA21111 - Guidelines"]

In attachment the Application Form template, Guidelines for this call and Userguide for applications into the e-COST portal. For inquiries, please refer to the Grant Award Coordinator, Dr. Elisabeth Davioud-Charvet (elisabeth.davioud (at) unistra.fr).

1stSTSM_call_for_applications_CA21111_-_Guidelines.pdf

Grant-Awarding-userguide_Nov2021.pdf

STSM-application-template_CA21111.docx

[Publication]

Les derniers travaux de Rania Najm, Hiba El Hajj, Maryse Lebrun & leurs collègues sont publiés dans PNAS. Les auteurs apportent des connaissances importantes sur les acteurs moléculaires de l'invasion des bradyzoïtes et développent une stratégie vaccinale ciblant l'invasion des bradyzoïtes et des tachyzoites de Toxoplasma gondii.

Travaux publiés dans PNAS : Najm, R., Ruivo, M.T.G., Penarete-Vargas, D.M., Hamie, M., Mouveaux, T., Gissot, M., Boulanger, M.J., El Hajj, H., Lebrun, M., (2023). Invasion of Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites: Molecular dissection of the moving junction proteins and effective vaccination targets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2219533120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2219533120.

LabEx ParaFrap wishes you happiness, health, science and success for 2023.

First news from the network this year: the ParaFrap webinars will be back in 2023, as in previous years, every second Thursday of the month at 3pm. If you are not yet on the webinar mailing list to receive all the information, sign up.