With the Académie des Sciences in 2015

ENCOURAGING THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

For the Younger Researchers in Biology, the

AXA-Académie des Sciences Awards

The Académie des Sciences fosters the dynamism and creativity of the younger 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.

On 26 May 2015

, this operation celebrated its 10 years of existence with six new young laureates:

• Bérangère Pinan-Lucarré and her research director Jean-Louis Bessereau

– University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR5534, Villeurbanne:

Organiser la synapse et déterminer son identité grâce à la Punctineb

[Organizing the Synapse and Determining its Identity through Punctineb];

• Raphaël Méheust and his research director Sylvain Billiard – Évo-Éco-

Paléo unit, University of Lille 1, CNRS UMR8198, Villeneuve d’Ascq:

Contrôle d'une hiérarchie de dominance par des petits ARNs non

codants chez Arabidopsis

[Controlling a Dominance Hierarchy Through

little Non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis];

• Aurore Fleurie and her research director Christophe Grangeasse – Bases

Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, CNRS UMR5086,

University of Lyon 1:

Division de la cellule bactérienne: au commencement était une balise moléculaire

[Division of the Cell:

in the Beginning was a Molecular Beacon];

• Karim Majzoub and his research director Jean-Luc Imler – Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), CNRS

UPR9022, Strasbourg:

Découverte d’une protéine impliquée dans la traduction sélective: des virus d’insectes à

l’hépatite C

[Discovery of a Protein Involved in Selective Translation: from Insect Virus to Hepatitis C]

;

• Adel Al Jord and his research director Alice Meunier – IBENS (Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure),

Inserm U1024, CNRS UMR8197, Paris:

De 2 à 100: Comment une cellule amplifie ses centrioles pour nucléer des

cils motiles

[From 2 to 100: How a Cell Amplifies its Centriols to Nucleate its Motile Cilia]

;

• Mathieu Pinot and his research director BrunoAntonny – Institute of Molecular andCellular Pharmacology (IPMC),CNRSUMR7275,

University of Nice,Valbonne:Voyage au coeur de la biomécanique desOméga-3 [AJourney to theHeart of Omega-3Biomechanics].

The

Comptes Rendus

de l’Académie des Sciences

Created in 1835 by the French physicist Arago, who was then the Secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie, the

Comptes Rendus de

l’Académie des Sciences

is a review in French and English that enables researchers to make their research promptly known to the wide

international scientific community.

This set of seven series spans the whole field of scientific research, as its titles make it obvious:

Mathématique, Mécanique, Chimie,

Biologies, Geoscience, Physique

and

Palevol

. Each series is driven by its editor-in-chief with the assistance of its editorial

board. The

articles submitted are evaluated by two scientists of recognized expertise in the field. These may be notes, announcing

significant,

new results, or summaries that provide clarification, or conference proceedings, or other publications such as thematic

issues, under

the direction of guest editors-in-chief from France or abroad.

Altogether, 630 articles have been published in the 2015

Comptes Rendus

and 21 thematic issues have come out (2 from the

Mécanique

series, 8 from

Physique

, 5 from the

Chimie

series, 2 from the

Biologies

series, 1 from the

Palevol

series and 3 for the

Geoscience

series).

Until the end of 2015, the

Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences

were available for hard copy or online subscriptions for individuals (EM

Consulte) or groups (ScienceDirect), abstracts being published for open access on the two websites. On 1 January 2016, a new version was

launched with free access to the articles emanating from French laboratories. Moreover, the articles published between 1835 and 1995 have

been digitized by the

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

and may be accessed through its website

www.gallica.bnf.fr.

http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Colloques/les-grandes-avancees-francaises-en-biologie-presentees-par-leurs-auteurs-2015.html

De gauche à droite : Raphaël Méheust, Aurore

Fleurie, Adel Al Jord et Sébastien Candel