Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet InsectMigration (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Migration involves the seasonal movement of large numbers of animals, usually due to shifts in resource availability. Migrants connect habitats and populations, and have significant effects on ecosystem processes. Insects are the most diverse and abundant group of terrestrial migrants, but in comparison to vertebrates, insect migration is poorly studied. In particular, we have little knowledge regarding the migratory pathways of insects, and their flight behaviour and orientation in relation to topographic barriers. Using a combination of state-of-the-art techniques, individual tracking and vertically-looking radar, I aim to identify migratory routes of insects in Europe, and investigate migratory behaviour in relation to topography. This action will be the first to track migrating insects in Europe using individual-based tracking. This unique combination of methods will provide insight into the migratory behaviour of insects at landscape and local scale and provide us with an unprecedented level of information regarding the mechanisms underlying insect migration. The objectives of the work packages in this project are: WP 1: To investigate the influence of radio-transmitters on the flight behaviour of hawk moths in the laboratory. To investigate space-use and flight behaviour of hawk moths in the field. WP2: To elucidate migratory pathways of insects across Europe using individual tracking, and to understand migratory flight and orientation behaviour in relation to topography along these routes. We will also investigate which factors influence individual departure decisions and stopovers en route. WP 3: To investigate flight behaviour and orientation of hawk hawk moths in relation to weather and topography using vertically-looking radar, at key migration bottlenecks, high altitude passes in the southern Alps.

Mots clés : insect migration, radio tracking, flight behaviour, decision rules, radar

Participants :
- Max Planck Society (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet EMO - FIT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Migration is often associated with lower well-being among minorities and with lower social cohesion in the host-society. The current project proposes that emotional similarity or fit between minority and majority members may buffer these negative effects, because fit stands for shared attributions of events and shared intentions to act, and has been linked to reduced stress and higher belonging among members of monocultural dyads and groups. However, since there are profound cultural differences in the typical emotional patterns associated with particular situations, there is often emotional misfit in intercultural interactions. My recent studies demonstrated, however, that minorities’ social contact with majority members increases their emotional fit with majority emotional patterns; yet, we don't know which processes account for this increase. The current project consists of two studies that investigate either mimicry or emotional grounding as a potential micro-process underlying emotional fit (objective1). They also assess the effect of emotional fit on the quality of intercultural interactions (objective2). The Research Fellow (RF) proposes a 2-year stay at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Fischer (mimicry-expert), including a 3-month secondment with Prof. Kashima at the University of Melbourne (expert in grounding and micro-processes of culture) to not only obtain theoretical training on mimicry and grounding, but also technical training on how to study these processes. In addition to conducting the studies, the deliverables of this project include two theoretical and two empirical articles, a behavioral coding scheme for grounding, presentations at 6 conferences and the RF’s training of transferable skills like organization, communication and leadership. This project will provide the RF with a unique skill-set, increase her visibility as an independent scholar and, therefore, importantly increase her future career possibilities.

Mots clés : emotion, emotional similarity, cultural fit, acculturation, mimicry, grounding, well being

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 177598.8 €
Projet ConscriptedVolunteer (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Militaries increasingly engage their soldiers in activities framed as ‘community engagement’ or ‘volunteering’, ranging from facilitating activities for children to delivering food to the needy. ‘Conscripted volunteering’, as I term this phenomenon, is part of a broader ‘moralization’ of contemporary society that glorifies ‘volunteering’ as a prominent route for ethical conduct. Under neoliberalism, ‘volunteering’ becomes an object of intensified political interest and promotion. While ‘volunteering’ that is facilitated by militaries can be considered as a means to enhance their public legitimacy, inspired by corporate techniques of reputation management, I propose to analyse it also as a governmentality technique that reinforces the ideological and ethical adherence of soldiers. The proposed research project explores the intensive implementation of ‘conscripted volunteering’ in the Israeli military, a military which is considered a paradigmatic case in studies of armed forces. The project provides a theoretically-informed, in-depth ethnographic account of a phenomenon that has so far been neglected in the literature. It examines why and how ‘conscripted volunteering’ emerged and became widespread in the Israeli military, how these volunteering schemes are assembled, organised and managed, and how this new type of soldiers’ engagement affects their notions of morality, citizenship and subjecthood. These questions are addressed through in-depth interviews, participant observations and content analysis. The project uniquely converges the thematic areas of military studies and volunteering research; it brings together the candidate’s expertise in studying the rise of ‘volunteering’ with the host institute’s specialization in anthropology of military and security. The project contributes to the increasing interest in military-civic entanglements, and to the critical analysis of the emergence of ‘volunteering’, and of its causes, meanings and implications.

Mots clés : volunteering, israel, militarization, civil society, ethnography, subjectivities, ethics, armed forces, military anthropology, neoliberalism, governmentality, humanitarianism

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165598.8 €
Projet MilkTeeth (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Milk is at the centre of two great archaeological debates, with resonance today; infant weaning and dairy food consumption. Weaning timing has implications for infant health and mortality, and is strongly influenced by culture. While there are records of cultural ideas regarding infant nursing in the past, where historical accounts are not available or are of questionable accuracy, much remains a mystery. Archaeological studies of dairy consumption have also become part of the debate regarding costs/benefits of dairy in modern diets. Individual life histories can answer questions about milk use within populations, and population trends provide insights into milk consumption within larger social and cultural contexts. MilkTeeth is a pioneering, multidisciplinary, international action combining techniques to better address questions of weaning and dairy consumption in the archaeological record, providing greater understanding of both individual and cultural relationships with milk and dairy foods, and informing modern dietary debate. MilkTeeth will use traditional techniques from bioarchaeology (carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope analysis) and novel techniques from (bio)geochemistry (calcium and strontium isotope analysis) and proteomics (detection of the dairy specific whey protein β-lactoglobulin), and will have unique access to a Synchrotron Light Source beamline for Tender-Energy Spectroscopy (diagenetic assessment and mineralisation processes) to detect direct evidence of milk consumption using human teeth. It will bring together researchers from the UK and USA with expertise in ancient human milk consumption, bioarchaology, archaeology, instrumental chemistry, (bio)geochemistry, protein analysis and particle physics. By combining these traditional and novel techniques for the first time, both will be enhanced, resulting in a more precise and robust understanding of the human relationship with milk and dairy.

Mots clés : milk, dairy, isotopes, proteomics, archaeology, bioarchaeology, weaning, calcium, strontium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, lactoglobulin, tender energy, bio geochemistry, diagenesis, mineralisation

Participants :
- Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of York (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251857.8 €
Projet Prion Respiration (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Mitochondria have a crucial role in cell survival and apoptosis, in particular in long-lived cells such as neurons. Mitochondria generate energetic potential through respiratory complexes I to IV, which constitute the electron transport chain. A number of studies demonstrates that mitochondrial integrity declines as a function of aging and dysfunctions may be exacerbated by age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Altered levels of complex I proteins have been found to be directly responsible for a decrease in energy production in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's disease. Recently, a number of nuclear encoded mitochondrial proteins, denoted as “assembly factors” (AFs), have been identified as crucial components helping the complex I assembly. Defects in AFs (due to mutations or aberrant AFs processing) may cause complex I misassembly and mitochondrial dysfunctions leading to a broad spectrum of diseases, including neurological disorders in childhood-related dieseas as Leigh syndrome. The functional role of AFs during neurodegeneration has not been investigated yet. With the “Prion Respiration” project I propose to develop a research approach aimed at the identification of the biological role of three crucial complex I AFs (namely ECSIT, NDUFAF1 and ACAD9) in cellular and animal models using prion diseases as robust system to study neurodegenerative diseases. Subsequently, the role of prions in interfering the with the correct assembly of the AFs will be investigated using structural biology approaches, as SAXS and cryo-EM methods. The structural and functional characterization of key proteins involved in mitochondrial respiration will provide insights into the underlying mechanisms involved in neuronal function and may represent novel targets for structure-based drug design strategies to prevent or diminish the oxidative stresses underlying neurodegeneration.

Mots clés : mitochondria, respiratory complex i, neurodegeneration, prion diseases, prions, complex i assembly, factors, mcia complex, transgenic mice, crispr cas9, mitochondrial, neurobiology

Participants :
- University of Trento (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171473.28 €
Projet REPROGRAMIT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Mitochondria participate during the metabolic reprogramming of naive T cells. However, the molecular mechanisms by which mitochondria regulate T cell differentiation remain elusive. The project aims at revealing the mechanisms behind mitochondrial function and lineage specification and maintenance. Combining high-throughput analysis of gene expression and chromatin epigenetic status with biochemical, metabolic, cellular, and in vivo and in vitro approaches, we want to assess how mitochondria coordinate the metabolic status of the cell to transcriptional and epigenetic changes to control T cell differentiation and function in distinct inflammatory environments. For that our challenges are; (Obj.1) To investigate the role of mitochondrial dynamics in the metabolic reprogramming of T cell differentiation, (Obj.2) To study how metabolic pathways shape the transcriptional and epigenetic networks of the T cell lineages, (Obj.3) To identify mitochondria-to-nucleus signaling pathways that regulate T cell differentiation through modification of the transcriptional and epigenetic landscape, and (Obj.4) To investigate the therapeutic potential of reprogramming mitochondrial function in T cell responses against infection and cancer. REPROGRAMMIT will unveil significant breakthrough on (1) how mitochondria regulate the metabolic profiles of the distinct T cell subsets, (2) the identification of molecular candidates that reverse or modify T cell transcriptional programs through regulation of mitochondrial function, (3) the understanding on how nutrient availability and metabolic intermediates shape T cell differentiation and plasticity. In sum, REPROGRAMIT puts forward an ambitious and multidisciplinary but feasible program with the wide purpose of identifying novel checkpoints based on the crosstalk between mitochondria and the epigenome, with the final goal to modulate T cell immune responses against infection and cancer by reprogramming mitochondrial function.

Mots clés : immunometabolism, mitochondria, t cell differentiation, mitochondrial dynamics, oxphos, opa1, plasticity, mitochondria to nucleus signaling, metabolic reprogramming, metabolic competition

Participants :
- Max Planck Society (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 171460.8 €
Projet REL-NET (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Mixed religious identities and interfaith relations represent one of the most crucial and debated phenomena in the 21st century. The revival of the religious dimension in the world is evident in the growing religious implications in modern and contemporary wars. The REL-NET project tackles these global issues through the analysis of a significant case study that has been overlooked in the historiography: the history of Christian–Jewish transnational networks between Israel, Palestine, the Middle East, Europe and the United States after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In particular, I will focus on the history of the St James Association (SJA) since the end of the 1940s. The SJA is a community formed by Holocaust survivors who converted to Christianity, moved to Israel and settled in the mainly Arab Jerusalem Church. Some SJA members became well-known intellectuals who developed an international network that influenced Christian–Jewish–Muslim relations during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and on a global scale. Using multiple and interdisciplinary methodologies and an unprecedented mass of unpublished archival documentation disseminated all over the world will lead me to retrace the strands that contributed to the new relations between Jews and Christians while also engaging Muslim communities. Involving an extensive programme of teaching, language, digital and project management training at Fordham and Ca’ Foscari universities and under the supervision of two leading scholars in these fields, the MSCA-GF will give me the extraordinary opportunity to outline a new framework for the historical appraisal of religious relationships in the contemporary world, delivering innovative outputs in terms of academic products and in disseminating them to a larger and non-specialist audience and significantly advancing my already solid experience within European research programmes (ERC and ERASMUS), which will decisively enhance my academic career.

Mots clés : christian jewish relations, state of israel, israeli palestinian conflict, catholic church, conversions, religious history, religious networks, history of the middle east, jerusalem, holy see

Participants :
- Fordham University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269002.56 €
Projet MARIS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Mixotrophy, i.e. the use of photosynthesis and prey uptake for growth, is increasingly recognized as a major trophic strategy for small (≤ 20 µm) phytoflagellates, which are responsible for a significant fraction of global primary production. In fact, marine primary production in many areas is now thought to be supported by organic P and Fe derived from prey. Despite this, a consistent picture of the overall relevance of bacterivory in open ocean and coastal mixotrophic small phytoflagellates (MSP) is lacking. Additionally, a strict dichotomy between `phytoplankton´ and `zooplankton´ is still overwhelmingly employed in models predicting the flow of matter and energy through marine systems, leading to potentially flawed and misleading predictions on ecosystem productivity and the health of global fisheries. This is especially significant when considering that anticipated environmental changes related to climate change are expected to shift the phototrophy/mixotrophy balance, with largely unknown consequences. The present study will combine culture and field work to 1) determine how shifts in environmental conditions related to e.g. season, influence coastal MSP abundance, identity and bacterivorous impact on the whole prokaryotic community, and on specific prokaryotic groups, such as unicellular cyanobacteria; and 2) analyze the importance and basic regulation of bacterial uptake for understudied coastal MSP. The proposed project excellently fuses the expertise areas of the experienced researcher, Dr. Anderson (bacterivory and predator-prey interactions), with the supervisor, Prof. Hansen (mixotrophic phytoflagellates) and the international collaborators, Prof. Jürgens (protist diversity and microbial food web interactions) and Prof. Scanlan (unicellular cyanobacteria), leading to an optimal exchange of knowledge for a successful project outcome. It will additionally restart and further the promising scientific career of Dr. Anderson after her maternity break.

Mots clés : mixotrophy, protists, phytoflagellates, bacterivory, coastal marine systems

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212194.8 €
Projet MoRE2020 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : CLOSED

MoRE2020 is a continuation and further development of the FP7-Marie Curie-COFUND programme called “Mobility for Regional Excellence” (MoRE), which Region Västra Götaland was granted in December 2013 (grant agreement no 608743). The half-term external evaluation of the MoRE programme indicated very positive results. MoRE2020 will offer experienced researchers new and exciting mobility experiences in internationally renowned research and innovation milieus with excellent working conditions and strong triple helix components. It aims to contribute to increasing the attractiveness of research and innovation careers in Europe, to foster excellence across the Union through smart specialisation, and to increase international cooperation. MoRE2020 is a moderately scaled programme – a total of 20 incoming/outgoing fellows will be supported throughout the programme period. Being a small programme, it will compete on quality rather than on quantity. Key features of the MoRE2020 programme: • The programme covers incoming and outgoing mobility • There are no geographical restrictions regarding host research and innovation milieus abroad • The programme will be open to experienced researchers of all nationalities • The fellowships will be awarded for 12 months during a 24 months period • The applicant is an experienced researcher together with a research and innovation milieu in Västra Götaland • Only employment contracts, no stipends, are allowed • The programme allows research in a broad number of fields connected to smart specialisation areas in Västra Götaland • The applicant milieu in Västra Götaland co-finances approximately 25% of the fellowship, to ensure a strong commitment to the career development of the researcher and to the success of the project • Applications will be evaluated in a transparent international peer-review process

Mots clés : researcher, mobility, v stra g taland, research driven clusters, cofund, more, triple helix, smart specialisation, excellence, innovation, regional programme

Participants :
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Gothenburg (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University West (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Region Västra Götaland (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 708000.0 €
- University of Borås (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Chalmers University of Technology (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Skövde (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €