FACCTS Projects Supported in 2015 Project Title Field Chicago PI Department PI in France Affiliation Dynamic Spatiotemporal Brain Analyses Using High Performance Electrical Neuroimaging Neuroscience Stephanie Cacioppo Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience Paolo Bartolomeo INSERM Architectures and Dynamical Evolution of Observed Planetary Systems Astronomy & Astrophysics Daniel Fabrycky Astronomy & Astrophysics Jacques Laskar CNRS, ASD, IMCCE Observatoire de Paris Cell & Developmental Biology Michael Glotzer Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology Thomas Lecuit IBDM, CNRS, University of Aix-Marseile Physics Luca Grandi Physics Davide Franco APC Paris / CNRS Development of a Generic Computational/Experimental Approach to Discover New Metabolic Pathways Microbiology, Synthetic Biology Christopher Henry Computation Institute Matthieu Jules Micalis Institute, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France Micropatterning of Actin Cytoskeleton Competition Cell Biology, Biochemistry David Kovar MGCB, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology Alphée Michelot CNRS / Université de Grenoble DAMIC: A Novel Dark Matter Experiment Astronomy & Astrophysics Paolo Privitera Astronomy & Astrophysics Antoine Letessier-Selvon IN2P3-CNRS, University of Paris VI & VII Applications of Birational Anabelian Geometry to Grothendieck-Teichmüller Theory, Algebraic Cycles, and Galois Theory. Mathematics Aaron Silberstein Mathematics Pierre Lochak Paris VI (Jussieu) Tracer Applications of Noble Gas Radionuclides to Hydrological Systems in Paris Basin Geoscience, Hydrology Reika Yokochi Geophysical Sciences Bernard Marty Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie/CRPG-CNRS Optogenetic Analysis of Cell Division and Tissue Morphogenesis Dark Matter Detection with Noble Liquids: Study of Light and Charge Production Mechanisms at LowEnergy