Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR and other national projects

ANR program Bimod.

This ANR program, coordinated by V. Volpert (Lyon), involves 3 partners: CNRS (Institut Camille Jordan) in Lyon (V. Volpert), University Bordeaux II (P. Magal) and Inria (Bang project-team and DISCO team, Saclay IdF). It associates PDE models, both spatial and physiologically structured, with individual-based models in hybrid models to represent cancer growth (leukaemia and colorectal cancer) and therapy. It has been granted for 4 years, beginning in December 2010.

ANR Sine2Arti

Participation in the ANR project Sine2Arti. The project considers tissue homeostasis and cell reprogramming. The project is coordinated by Gregory Batt (coordinator, Contraintes research team, Inria), PIs are Oded Maler (Univ. of Grenoble) and Dirk Drasdo, an external collaborator is Ron Weiss (MIT)

ANR TOPPAZ

(url http://www-roc.inria.fr/bang/TOPPAZ/index.html )

TOPPAZ (Theory and Observations of Polymerisation processes in Prion and Alzheimer diseases) is a 3-year (2009-2012) research project financed by ANR grant “programme blanc” and headed by Marie Doumic-Jauffret.

It involves two teams, a mathematical and numerical team (B. Perthame, V. Calvez, P. Gabriel, T. Lepoutre, P. Michel, and a team in Brazil headed by J. Zubelli) and a biophysicist team headed by H. Rezaei. It has allowed to finance the post-doctoral contract of F. Charles and the 1-year grant of L. M. Tine.

The general goal is to develop new mathematical and numerical tools for polymerisation processes, in a strong link with experimentalists and with direct application to experimental data designed by the biologists' team. The achievements of ANR TOPPAZ are described in Sections 6.1.4 and 6.1.5 .

GDR DarEvCan

The GDR DarEvCan, for Darwinian Evolution and Cancer, is a interdisciplinary consortium which associates 10 teams in France around the theme of evolution and cancer, in particular evolution of cancer cell populations towards drug resistance [27] . It has held its first national meeting in December 2011 in Paris, and another one in April 2012 in Montpellier. The Bang team takes an active part in its development, which relies mainly on applying methods from evolutionary theory to cancer biology [33] . (url http://www.darevcan.univ-montp2.fr/ )

GdR EGRIN

The CNRS supports the creation of a ”research group” called EGRIN, starting in january 2013 and devoted to the modelling, analysis and simulation of gravity driven flows. J Sainte-marie is the head of the scientific committee of this research group.

(url http://gdr-egrin.math.cnrs.fr/ )

Green Stars

Participation in the Green Stars project (“Investissement d'avenir”) on the production of biofuel using microalgae in collaboration with the EPI COMORE, LOCEAN, INRAA, LOV.

PEPS PTI 'Ondes de concentration en bactéries'

People of the BANG team are involved in this project funded by the CNRS. This is a collaboration with biophysicists of the Institut Curie dedicated to the description of the collective motion of bacteria by chemotaxis.

ITMO-Cancer grant PhysCancer

Participation in the ITMO-Cancer (Aviesan) project Physics of Cancer. The project studies the impact of a constraining extracellular material on the growth and division of cells and cellular aggregates. The project is coordinated by Pierre Nassoy (Institut Curie), collaborators are Dirk Drasdo and Christophe Lamaze (INSERM).