With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

With the Académie des Sciences in

2013 - 2014

AXA- Académie des Sciences Award

The Académie des Sciences fosters the dynamism and creativity of young French researchers. Every year, on the initiative of Académie

Member Pascale Cossart, Great Breakthroughs in Biology gives the floor to six young biologists whose discoveries are of major

importance, accompanied by their research directors. Speakers are selected by a jury following a national call for applications and

each laureate receives a prize (€2,500) from the Axa Research Fund.

2013 Laureates (4 June 2013)

•

Céline Bellard and Franck Courchamp, ESE Lab, Orsay:

The

impacts of climate change on biological invasions;

•

Filipe De Vadder and Gilles Mithieux, Claude Bernard

University, Lyon:

Neuronal dialogue between the intestine

and the brain, as initiated by the intestinal microbiota;

•

Marianne Bjordal and Pierre Leopold, Institute of Biology

Valrose, Nice:

Nutrient perception in the brain and food

intake control;

•

Ana Jimenez and Franck Perez, Institut Curie, Paris:

On the

repair of damaged plasma membranes;

•

Irene Dang and Alexis Gautreau, Structural enzymology

and biochemistry laboratory, Gif-sur-Yvette:

Discovery of

Arpin, a protein which slows down the migration of the cell

and enables it to spin;

•

Benjamin Ezraty and Frédéric Barras, Mediterranean

Institute of Microbiology, CNRS - University of Aix-Marseille:

The role played by iron in bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

2014 Laureates (10 June 2014)

•

Thomas Sexton and Giacomo Cavalli, Institute of Human

Genetics, Montpellier:

A three-dimensional map of the

genome of the drosophila;

•

Michael Lang and Virginie Orgogozo, Institut Jacques-

Monod, Paris:

The dependency mechanisms of drosophila

on a cactus;

•

Monica Rolando and Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur,

Paris:

An unforeseen reprogramming of host cells by

Legionella pneumophila;

•

Nicolas Garreau de Loubresse and Marat Yusupov, Institute

of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg:

A pioneer analysis of the structure of yeast ribosome;

•

Elphège Nora and Edith Heard, Institut Curie, Paris:

A new

operating principle for the architecture of chromosomes;

•

Mariana Alonso and Pierre-Marie Lledo, Institut Pasteur,

Paris:

The role played by neo-neurones in the learning

process and memory of the adults.

From left to right: Céline Bellard, Filipe de Vadder, Marianne Bjodal, Ana

Jimenez, Irène Dang and Benjamin Ezrati.

From left to right: Thomas Sexton, Michael Lang, Monica Rolando, Nicolas

Garreau de Loubresse and Mariana Alonso.