Melbourne CNRS Network Symposium

• Jean-Paul Toutain (Director CNRS Oceania office)
• Frederic Hollande (MCN Academic Lead)

The roundtable discussion will focus on the joint PhD experience, the benefits, challenges and the impact on the research experience.

• Prof Tim Fletcher [MCN Melbourne Supervisor]
• Dr Gwyneth Ingram [MCN ENS Lyon Supervisor]
• Prof Sammy Bedoui [Academic Lead – The Bonn and Melbourne Research and Graduate School]
• Mr Alex Verhoijsen. [MCN Graduate Researcher]

Moderator: Prof Sandra Kentish [Academic Lead – RWTH Aachen-Melbourne joint PhD program]

A brief 10-minute intermission.

This is an opportunity for ongoing MCN joint PhD candidates, Australian and French project supervisors and external guests to network and to socialise.

More than ever, it is vital today’s scientists share the outcomes and relevance of their work with non-scientists. This workshop will focus on the key ways scientists can get their message out to non-scientists: writing for the public in particular the style of writing that is most effective for communicating about science with non-scientific audiences.

Examples of success stories of joint research collaboration between France and Australia hosted by:

• Jean-Philippe Diguet/Anna-Ma Wyatt (CROSSING IRL lab, Adelaide)
• Cyril Botté/Geoffrey McFadden-Malcolm McConville (Apicololipid Program)

Chair: Jean-Paul Toutain (Director, CNRS Oceania office)

Speakers:

• Alex Verhoijsen + Bingqing Yi: Modeling of multivariate data with complex dependence structures using copulas
• Paulo Vitor Ribeiro Marques da Silva + Maria Gisi: New monitoring technologies serving a better understanding of land and river degradation in urban areas
• Thi Nguyen + Nesrin Shamas: Atmospheric Chemistry of Silicon Compounds and their Role in Indoor Air Quality
• Morgan Brisset + Nathalie Karam: Characterising the role of netrin-1 and its dependence receptors in drug tolerance and treatment-induced plasticity of metastatic human CRC
• Runjue Yao + Amelie Bauer: Role of tissue mechanics in regulating seed growth
• Remi Vuillemot + Abolfazal Mirzadeh: Études de la structure et de la dynamique de l'ATPase humaine p97 par cryo-tomographie électronique et par de nouvelles méthodes d'analyse d'images

Chair: Kathryn Russell

Speakers:

• Sebastien Dejean (University of Toulouse)/Kim-Anh Le Cao (School of Mathematics and Statistics)
• Philippe Peylin (University of Versailles)/ Peter Rayner (School of Earth Sciences)
• Karine Sellegri (University Blaise Pascal Clermont)/ Robyn Schofield (School of Physics)
• Romain Postoyan (Universite de Lorraine)/ Dragan Nesic (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
• Sara Diglio (SUBATECH, Nantes) / Luigia Elisabetta BARBERIO (School of Physics)