INMED

The Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée - Inmed is one of France's leading neuroscience research centers (a joint Inserm/Aix Marseille Université unit), under the direction of Rosa Cossart. Central themes include brain development, neuronal plasticity and associated neurological pathologies, as well as computational modeling of the neural processes underlying these phenomena.

Inmed's scientific strategy is to bring together groups with a common goal, integrating innovative experimental approaches and methods from computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. These multidisciplinary approaches enable us to study, model and precisely manipulate the structure and function of synapses and neural circuits at several levels of analysis

Inmed comprises 11 teams:

Early activity in the developing brain
Cortical Circuits
Cortico-Basal Ganglia and Behavior
Neural coding and plasticity in epilepsy
Cortical development
Development of hippocampal cognitive maps
Perinatal imprinting and neurodevelopmental disorders
Neural mechanisms of spatial cognition
Coding and neuronal dynamics
Gender and developmental vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders
Neural circuits and coding

Focus on research teams working in the field of AI/Health

AI and computational neuroscience: Inmed actively exploits advanced computational approaches and artificial intelligence to analyze, classify and predict animal behavior, while optimizing the exploitation of data from its imaging platforms (InMagic, CircuitPhotonics). The tools used include machine learning techniques for pose estimation, multimodal data analysis, and deep learning to model behavioral and neural dynamics. These approaches make it possible to extract complex latent rules from large multimodal and temporal databases, build behavioral prototypes, and develop powerful predictive models to understand and anticipate underlying neurobiological mechanisms using a reverse engineering approach.