Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Partners

Declared Inria International Partners

• Nadia El-Mabrouk, from the University of Montreal in Canada, came as an Inria invited researcher in 2012 and 2013. Since then we have several co-authored papers, including one submitted this year, and a co-edited book.

• Cedric Chauve from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, is a very regular collaborator of Eric Tannier. We still have a publication in preparation. Cedric was visiting the LBBE lab in june 2014. We obtained a PIMS (Pacific Institute of Mathematics Studies) grant for a visit in 2015.

• Istvan Miklos, from the Renyi Institute in Budapest, is a regular collaborator of Eric Tannier, and we have a co-publication in 2014 [22] .

• Joao Meidanis, from the University of Campinas in Brazil, is a collaborator of Eric Tannier. Priscila Biller, supervised by J. Meidanis, is spending 12 months in the Beagle team.

Informal International Partners

• Wolfgang Banzhaf (New Foundland Memorial University, Canada). Together with Wolfgang Banzhaf, we initiated a theoretical work on the concept of "open-endedness". We are currently writing a collective position paper to precisely define this currently informal concept and to design minimal conditions to simulate it in silico.

Participation In other International Programs

• Dopaciumcity (2014-2016): Dopamine modulation of calcium influx underlying synaptic plasticity. Partners: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (Kim L. Blackwell, US project leader) Collège de France, Paris, France (Laurent Venance, French project leader) Inria Rhône-Alpes, France, (H. Berry) from the ANR-NSF-NIH Call for French-US Projects in Computational Neuroscience.

• User-friendly Phylogenomics (2014): Bayesian simultaneous reconstruction of gene trees and species trees. France Berkeley Fund. Inria Participants: Eric Tannier. Common project with J. Huelsenbeck’s lab (UC Berkeley, USA) on the development of probabilistic models of genome and sequence evolution to simultaneously reconstruct gene trees and species trees, and thus study how species and their genomes have changed through time.

• ANR/NSF Bilateral programme for Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS): Modelling the vocal apparatus of birds (2013-2016) This joint project with F. Theunissen (UC Berkeley, USA) aims at modelling the vocal apparatus of birds (Zebra Finches) to recreate vocal range of this bird using a sparser representation than the spectrum. This new representation can be used as a new parameter space to test acoustic neural coding. This collaboration has been granted by ANR/NSF Bilateral program for Collaborative Research in Computtional Neuroscience (CRCNS)(CRCNS 2012), which promotes collaborations between French and American teams. Beagle (H. Soula) is coordinator of the project for the French side and supervises the modeling aspects.