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Executive Committee
Marc Rolland
Directeur des relations européennes et internationales et de la coopération du ministère de l’éducation nationale et du ministère de
l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.
Anne Grillo
Directrice de la coopération culturelle, universitaire et de la recherche, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement
international
Romain Serman
Consul Général, Consulat Général de France à San Francisco
Clément Sanchez
Professeur de Physique de la matière condensée au Collège de France et Directeur français du Fonds France-Berkeley; Member of the
Academie des Sciences
Minh-Hà Pham
Conseillère pour la Science et la Technologie, Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis
Antonin Baudry
Conseiller culturel, Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis
Nicholas B. Dirks
Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Price
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Berkeley
Larry Hyman
Executive Director of FBF; Professor, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Tyler Stovall
Professor of History, Associate Dean of Social Sciences
Carl Pennypacker
Astrophysicist at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Kenneth Sauer
Physical Biosciences Division LBNL and Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Krishna Niyogi
Physical Biosciences LBNL and Professor of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Michelle Chang
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
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Krishna Niyogi
Mission Expertise internationale
Co-Chair, Berkeley Evaluation Committee, UC Berkeley
(dedicated evaluation committee of the French Ministry
of Higher Education and Research)
Kenneth Sauer
Co-Chair, Berkeley Evaluation Committee, UC Berkeley
Larry Hyman
Executive Director of the France-Berkeley Fund, UC Berkeley
Tyler Stovall
Professor of History, Associate Dean of Social Sciences, UC Berkeley
Carl Pennypacker
Astrophysicist at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Michelle Chang
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Thera Ringhofer
FBF Program Coordinator, UC Berkeley
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Contents
D I R E C T O R ’ S M E S S A G E ................. 6
F I N A L R E P O R T S ......................... 24
F B F H i g H l i g H t s 2013-2014 ........ 10
I N T E R I M R E P O R T S ..................... 91
C H A R T S & S TAT I S T I C S ................ 17
F U N D E D P R O J E C T S BY Y E A R ...... 126
G R A N T E E S 2014 ......................... 22
F U N D E D P R O J E C T S BY F I E L D ...... 157
D i r e c t o r ’s M e s s a g e
I
t gives me great pleasure to
introduce the current annual
report of the France-Berkeley
Fund. The 2013-2014 period was
a very special one of great accomplishments and of celebration: Although initial signatures date from
1993, the first FBF grants were
awarded in 1994, thereby making
2014 the 20th anniversary of the
Fund. The 175 attendees can attest to the excitement we all felt
at the May 5 celebration of this anniversary, which featured numerous testimonials of the importance of the fund from scholars and administrators from both sides of the Atlantic and the
San Francisco Bay. As indicated in the posted program (see page
14), the energizing congratulatory remarks by representatives
of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Paris, the French Embassy in Washington, the French Consulate in
San Francisco, and the Chancellor’s Office at UC Berkeley were
matched by the exciting presentations of three highly successful FBF projects, a special plaque offered by Berkeley’s Center
for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
(CITRIS) to outgoing San Francisco Consul Romain Serman, and
the inauguration of the first France-Berkeley Fund Awards to
Frédérick Douzet (Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université
Paris 8) and Jeffrey R. Long (Chemistry, UC Berkeley) (see page
10). The ceremony in the auditorium was followed by a fabulous cocktail dinatoire poster session in the beautiful galleries
of the David Brower Center, with the animated conversations
amplified by Back to Earth Organic Catering and appropriately
arrosées by some of the finest California wines generously supplied by the John Jordan Foundation and expertly served by Rob
Davis, winemaker at Jordan Winery.
This particular year our business meeting took place in Berkeley, as we alternate every other year between Paris and Berkeley. As in the past we discussed and made decisions concerning
the current applications (which, as always, had been separately
reviewed by colleagues in France and in Berkeley), and made
arrangements for future competitions and France-Berkeley
events. In all 61 applications were received. Although approximately the same number as the 64 from 2012-13, we interpret6
ed this to be strong participation, especially as applications were
limited to UC Berkeley and UC Davis this year. (We are hoping
that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will participate
again in the very near future.) In the end we received 49 proposals from UC Berkeley and 12 from UC Davis—up from 45 and
8 last year. In the end we were able to fund 25 projects, or 41%.
This brings us up to approximately 375 projects that we have
been to fund since our inception, totaling over $2.25 million.
This past year we were able to make these awards based on
the earnings on our endowment (see page 21 of this report)
and additional contributions. We again received a $50,000
contribution from Robert Price’s Vice-Chancellor for Research
office, and for the sixth year a 50,000 Euro contribution from
the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in France. Since
funding has become more constrained in recent times, we are
especially grateful to both the French Ministry and the UC Campus for their continued contributions, and especially for their
enthusiastic support of our activities, which means so much to
us. As will be announced later, we are currently exploring ways
to make individual and business contributions easier: Since we
were not able to fund all of the projects that were deemed highly worthy, we will be seeking to expand our funding capabilities
and support more France-Berkeley grants in the near future.
As in past years, the committees worked very hard on both
sides of the Atlantic in planning and in evaluating the proposals
received. First and foremost, I would like especially to recognize
the efforts of our colleagues who submitted proposals as well
as the reviewers in France and Northern California. The 61 submitted projects came from all aspects of scholarly endeavor: 26
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from the Exact Sciences, 12 from the Applied Sciences, 11 from
Engineering, and 12 from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
As explained in our call, these projects not only bring together
established senior researchers, but necessarily involve junior
scholars, both postdoctoral fellows and graduate students engaged in research.
The France-Berkeley Fund owes its success to a number of
people. On the Berkeley side I would like again to thank Robert
Price, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research, not only for the
annual contribution of that his office makes to the FBF, but also
for “hands on” involvement in the activities of the fund. Both
Thera and I and anyone else concerned about the FBF feel we
can call on him any
time, and he always
comes through with
invaluable suggestions
and advice. As in past
years, Bob attends our
meetings on a regular
basis, contacts people
as needed, and shares
his knowledge of his
field and academics
at UC Berkeley. This
year both he and Susan Aberg went way
beyond the call of
duty, donating much
of their time and ex-
ing, for his generous support of our programs over the years. To
all you Berkeley colleagues, Thera’s and my greatest thanks!
On the French side the list is almost endless. Concerning first
those in the United States, I would like especially to thank MinhHà Pham, the Scientific Counselor at the Washington French
embassy who has taken a very deep interest in guaranteeing
the success (and expansion) of FBF activities. Minh-Hà visited
us on more than one occasion and was always available in person, on the phone, and on email to provide her perspective and
proposals and comment on ours. Also at the embassy, we are
grateful to Leah Namoune, Accountant and Administrator who
assisted with logistics, particularly with respect to marking our
the 20th anniversary. In addition,
we thank Thomas
Deschamps,
(Former Attaché
for Science and
Technology,
French Consulate,
San
Francisco)
and Stéphane Ré
(Cultural Attaché,
French Consulatte, San Francisco) for their ideas
and hard work on
behalf of the FBF.
We extend special
pertise in planning the
20th Anniversary Celebration on May 5! Another equally heartfelt
thanks goes out to the Berkeley members of the Executive Committee who put in considerable work evaluating proposals and
providing input in general: Krishna Niyogi (Professor of Plant &
Microbial Biology), Carl Pennypacker (Senior Researcher, Space
Sciences), Kenneth Sauer (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry), Tyler Stovall (Dean of the Undergraduate Division, College of Letters & Sciences and Professor of History), and Michelle C. Chang
(Professor of Chemistry). Finally, at Berkeley, I could not have
possibly gotten through this past year without the help of Thera
Crane Ringhofer, the interim Program Director, whose control
of all aspects of the FBF keeps us on track at all times. Finally, I
would like to thank Vice Chancellor of Research Graham Flem-
thanks to Thomas, Stéphane and
others at the
consulate (Gilles
Delcourt, Deputy Cultural Attaché, Hannah Loué, Cultural Affairs Coordinator, and Raegen Salais, Assistant to the Scientific Attaché and Translator) for the $5,000 grant—among other
support—for the 20th anniversary event on May 5. Finally, our
thanks and very best wishes to Former Consul General Romain
Serman, who has been a strong supporter of collaborative
France-Berkeley research.
Turning to Paris and the other side of the Atlantic, at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, we thank Marc Rolland,
Head (Chef de Service), Yannick Le Roux, Deputy Head of the
Department for Scientific Cooperation, Roger Genet, Director
of the Directorate General of Research and Innovation, and Na-
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dine Van der Tol, the Program Officer for Scientific Cooperation
with North America. It was a great pleasure to meet Roger, who
spoke at the 20th Anniversary and Nadine, who was also able
to attend. We also thank Anne Grillo, Head of Cultural, Higher
Education and Scientific Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. We also thank Andrzej Rogulski, Assistant Director for
International Relations and Nicolas Marques, Deputy head of
the Department for America, North Africa and Middle East,
both at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and
also Guillaume Kasperki, Head of International Relations at the
College de France, which hosts my French counterpart, Clément
Sanchez (see below).
This year has also been a period of transition. We acknowledge, with heartfelt thanks, the following outgoing colleagues,
officers and friends who have so helped us: Chloé Mugler, Program Officer for Scientific Cooperation with North America and
Western Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. We
thank François Delattre, former Ambassador of France to the
United States for his deep interest in the France-Berkeley Fund
and similarly Romain Serman, Former Consul in San Francisco.
Also in San Francisco, we acknowledge the many contributions
of Thomas Deschamps, former Attaché for Science and Technology. Our deepest expression of gratitude goes out to all of the
above French colleagues and supporters. We will miss you, but
hope there will be other occasions which will bring us together.
On the positive side, we are thrilled at the new people who
are already working hard with us. First, at the San Francisco consulate, we look forward to working with Pauline Carmona, the
new Consul, and Philippe Perez who has recently arrived as the
As promised above, it is with great admiration that I acknowledge the extraordinary efforts and engagement of my counterpart in France, Clément Sanchez who holds the Chaire de
“Chimie des Matériaux Hybrides” at the Collège de France, and
who has been an extraordinary person to work with. Clément
is full of ideas and always available for the long email exchange,
phone call, or personal lunch meeting, most recently on August
20 at La Petite Périgourdine in Paris.
Finally, I would like to reiterate three Berkeley-specific acknowledgements that were made at the 20th Anniversary
celebration. First, our great thanks as always to Michelle Bertho, currently on leave as Program Director, whom Thera and
I consulted on numerous occasions over this past year, as FBF
has done over nearly 10 years! There are no words to express
the strong gratitude we all feel. Second, we acknowledge again
the 17+ years that outgoing Ken Sauer has served on the FBF
advisory committee, always with extreme dedication. Not to
overlook any detail, Ken even found his own successor, like-professor in chemistry, Michelle Chang, who now devotedly serves
in his place. Finally, Thera Crane Ringhofer is quite simply amazing. She has been such a great Interim Program Director, a true
colleague and someone on whom any distracted professor such
as myself would consider him/herself lucky to rely. Thank you,
Thera, for making things so easy, for assuring that everything
flows naturally, and for making this past year such a great success for the France-Berkeley Fund. To Michelle, Ken, Thera, and
everyone, I would like to express my gratitude in what has been
an extraordinary group effort in this great year of celebration
(which I hope everyone will go on to read about in this report).
new Attaché for Science and Technology. In Paris, we are happy
to meet Madeleine Bouvier d’Yvoire as the new Program Officer for Scientific Cooperation with North America and Western
Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We welcome Pauline,
Philippe and Madeleine to the France-Berkeley Fund family!
To all, thank you for 2014, and have a great 2015!
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In Honor of Ken Sauer
D
r. Kenneth Sauer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist at LBNL, announced this year
that he will retire from the Executive and Evaluation Committees of the France-Berkeley Fund. Ken has been a faithful and tirelessly
active member of the FBF Committees almost since the inception of the
Fund. He recounted some of his own memories of the early history of the
FBF, excerpted here:
“10/25/96 I was invited to join the FBF evaluation committee by Dean
Richard Buxbaum of International and Area Studies. At that time successful applicants received ca $100,000 annually. We received 50 proposals
to evaluate.
1/97 At my first meeting Prof. Paul Rabinow was Chair, and Prof. Peter
Sahlins was Executive Director. Committee members included Didier de
Fontaine, Alain de Janvry, Morton Denn (Chemical Engineering), Sylvia
Spengler (Molecular & Cellular Biology), Gunther Stent (also MCB) and
William Webster (Engineering).
2/3/97 First reading of proposals
3/7/97 Second reading
April Evaluation Committee meeting. I read and evaluated 6 proposals of 58 submitted.
5/16/97 Executive Committee meeting in Berkeley
2003-4 Tyler Stovall, Executive Director
Michelle Bertho, Academic Coordinator
Krishna Niyogi, co-chair (with me) of Evaluation Committee
Following our final evaluation meeting, we were invited by Alice Waters to a special lunch at Chez
Panisse. She had been a Berkeley community sponsor of the FBF activities for several years.
May 2004 I attended the Executive Meeting in Paris. Kent Nagano appeared at the meeting. He was
then director of the Opera in Lyon, as well as director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. He had
probably also previously been a community sponsor of FBF when he was in Berkeley.
May 5, 2014. Celebration of 20th anniversary of FBF”
Ken Sauer was honored at the 20th Anniversary Celebration, in gratitude for his many years of formative service to the FBF. He
will be sorely missed in our regular meetings; we hope to stay in contact for many years to come.
To read more about Prof. Sauer’s illustrious career, visit
http://www2.lbl.gov/vkyachan/khsauer.html.
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France-Berkeley Fund Award
T
he France-Berkeley Fund Award for an Outstanding Young Scholar recognizes scholarly excellence, substantial contributions to activities sponsored by the France-Berkeley Fund, and profound commitment to advancing research relationships between France and the United States. The France-Berkeley Fund Award was presented this year for the first
time. Nominations were made by project PIs, and the many outstanding candidates were considered by the FBF Evaluation
Committees in France and at Berkeley, respectively. The first ever FBF awards were presented to Professor Frédérick Douzet
of the Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, and Professor Jeffrey R. long of the Department of Chemistry, UC
Berkeley.
Professor Douzet’s nomination stated, “Not only does she do path-breaking research on common issues facing both countries, but I can think of no one who has done more to help other scholars and promote this type of comparative studies...It is
one thing to accept a grant and produce good research. It is quite another to accomplish that and to also multiply the grant’s
effects with other scholars in several countries”.
Professor Long’s nomination noted that he “has maintained exceptionally strong ties with scientists in France... He is a truly
outstanding early-career scientist, who is on course to change the world through his energy-related materials research, and
who I believe epitomizes the spirit of the France-Berkeley Fund.”
Professor Clément Sanchez of the Collège de France made the award presentations at the 20th Anniversary Celebration on
May 5, 2014. The following remarks are excerpted from Professor Sanchez’ speech at the Celebration.
he main purpose [of the FBF Award] was to enhance the visibility of outstanding up-and-coming researchers who carry out extraordinary work in their fields
through FBF granted collaborations. This award is to recognize their work and to
support and promote their success in what they do. In turn, their recognized success will also
extend the global visibility of the France-Berkeley Fund. In some way they are the ambassadors of the FBF.
“Upon looking at the plethora of her accomplishments
throughout her career, there is no doubt why Professor
Frédérick Douzet deserves this award. She is clearly a natural
multitasker and passionate about her field. She has a PhD in
Geography with a sub field in geopolitics, which was awarded
with the highest distinction. She is currently the acting direcProfessor Clément Sanchez tor of the French Institute of Geopolitics and the Geopolitics
Research and Analysis Center in Paris and was selected to be
presents the FBF Awards
member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
“Frédérick was recently nominated as the Castex Chair of Cyberstrategy and has applied
for and won an extremely impressive number of grants both in Europe and in the US.
“Her book, La couleur du pouvoir (The Color of Power) was awarded two prizes in France
by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and the Geography Society.
“She has been the recipient of two FBF awards, once in 2007 when she collaborated with
the Berkeley Professor of Political Science, Bruce Cain, and again in 2011, for which she colProfessor Frédérick Douzet
laborated with Professor Jack Citrin also of Berkeley.
receives the FBF Award
“Frédérick is clearly an outstanding individual in her field who exemplifies exactly what this
award should recognize.”
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“T
he second awardee is Jeffrey long, who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a Faculty
Senior Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
“Jeff is in a field that is close to my heart, Chemistry.
“He’s one of the leaders of molecular magnetism. Moreover, he has contributed a great deal
to a field that is highly relevant to the present and future of chemistry. This field concerns the
molecular design of advanced coordination polymers. He has an extremely successful publication
record with over 200 articles, which have been widely cited.
“He has a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard, and has carried out an impressive number of professional services, including, chair of the division of inorganic chemistry at the ACS, Associate Editor
of Chemical Science, Deputy Director of one of the Research Centers of the Department of Energy,
the Center for Gas Separations for Clean Energy Technologies. He also belongs to the Advisory
Boards of many high-standard journals.
“This FBF Award joins a long list of dozens of accolades, including previous FBF grants and
scholarships within this fund. He has collaborated with dozens of teams who are always enthusiProfessor Jeffrey Long
astic to work with him.
receives the FBF Award
“In particular, he has a very efficient collaboration with Rodolphe Clérac, CNRS Director of Research working on the campus of the University of Bordeaux.
“Jeff is a brilliant and influential scientist, a creative and masterful synthetic chemist with a vision of how to move the field of
molecular magnetism toward potential applications in fast and efficient computing technologies. He is on course to change the
world through his energy, his passion, and his accomplishments.”
The next presentation of the FBF Awards is tentatively planned for 2017.
Photos (clockwise from top left):
Berkeley Professors Jack Citrin and Frédérick
Douzet, FBF co-PIs in 2011; Professors Clément
Sanchez (French director of the FBF), Jeffrey Long,
and Frédérick Douzet during the 20th Anniversary
Celebration program; Clément Sanchez presents
Jeffrey Long with the France-Berkeley Fund Award.
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FBF 20th Anniversary Celebration
T
he France-Berkeley Fund celebrated 20 years of supporting innovative bi-national research projects with a Franco-American evening of program and festivities on May 5, 2014. More than 150 grantees and friends of the FBF were
in attendance.
During the opening program, Professor Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berke-
ley, welcomed the guests and highlighted some of the achievements of the France-Berkeley Fund since its founding in 1993.
San Francisco Consul Général Romain Serman then gave greetings on behalf of the Consulate and the Embassy of France in
the United States. Dr. Roger Genet, Director of the Directorate General of Research and Innovation at the French Ministry of
Higher Education and Research then made remarks on the value of the bi-national collaborative research endeavors that are
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made possible by the France-Berkeley Fund. Dr. Minh-Hà Pham, Scientific Counsellor at the French Embassy in the United States
followed with a report on the many bilateral scientific activities taking place under the auspices of the Embassy’s Office for Science
& Technology.
Three keynote speakers described their FBF-sponsored research and its wider impacts:
Alexandre Bayen is a two-time FBF grantee. He is Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. His research
projects include Connected Corridors and Mobile Millennium.
Ariane Zambiras is a a Fulbright Fellow in the UC Berkeley Department of
Sociology, as well as a writer and public speaker. She was a major participant in a 2011 FBF grant examining the emergence of the Tea Party Movement in American politics.
saul Perlmutter is a 2011 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, “for the
discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe”. A three-time FBF grantee, he is a Professor of
Physics at UC Berkeley and an Astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The keynote speakers were followed by the inaugural presentation of the France-Berkeley Fund
Award. Professor Clément Sanchez, the French director of the France-Berkeley Fund, gave the award
to Professor Frédérick Douzet of the Institut Francais de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, and to Professor Jeffrey R. long of the
Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. See page 10 for more information about the FBF Award and its first laureates.
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19. Social and Political Tools of Urban Cosmopolitanism
18. The Loss of French Musical Property During World War II, Post‐War Repatriations, Restitutions,
and 21st Century Ramifications
17. On Shaking the Apple Tree: The revolutions of Eastern Europe 1989 and the “Arab Spring” 2011
16. Challenging Borders: A French Perspective on California’s New Urban Frontiers
15. Ancient Families...Modern Tools: Prosopography and Social Network Analysis in Archival Texts
14. Language as a Key to History
13. Toward localization in atmospheric flows
12. Oligomerization of thioglutamic acid in membrane-defined microenvironments
11. Are newborns programmed to walk on the Earth?
10. France Berkeley and Discovery of Dark Energy
9. Risk Societies and Governance in Mediterranean Climate Deltas & Flood-prone Waterscapes
8. The France-UC Vanilla Consortium: An International Collaboration for Genomic Research and
Germplasm Conservation for Crop Improvement of Vanilla planifolia
7. Student Science at Synchrotrons: An International Collaboration to Prepare the Next Generation
of Scientists
6. From sounds to meaning: neural representation of calls in the avian auditory cortex
5. French and US Hands-On Universe
4. Rock Mechanics + Acoustics: Helping to Understand Earthquakes, Stability and Fluid Flow
3. Action localization with sequences of movemes
2. The function of plasma membrane-associated aminoglycerolipid flippases is required for signaling
competence in the mating pheromone response pathway of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
1. Phoebe Hearst’s Cultural Legacy: Etruscan Heritage in Berkeley
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Jeffrey R. Long is Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. His 2007 FBF project with
Rodolphe Clérac, titled “Photomagnetic Metal-Cyanide Clusters”, has led to long-term
collaborations and numerous publications in the area of materials chemistry. Profs. Clérac
and Long have utilized their FBF work to successfully obtain a grant by a CNRS PICS
program, which will extend to 2016. Details about Professor Long’s inorganic chemistry
research program can be seen at http://alchemy.cchem.berkeley.edu/.
Frédérick Douzet is Professor at the Institut Français de Geopolitique of Université Paris 8.
She is a two-time FBF grantee, with projects entitled “Immigration, Segregation, and Urban
Tension in France and California” (2007, with Bruce Cain) and “Urban Frontiers in the Age
of Globalization” (2011, with Jack Citrin). Professor Douzet has used these collaborations as
springboards for further international conferences and publications. Her current research
projects can be seen at www.cyberstrategie.org.
FRANCE-BERKELEY FUND AWARD RECIPIENTS
May 5, 2014
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
4:15 pm
Commemorating Over 350 Grants Awarded Since 1994
20 TH ANNIVERSARY
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Larry M. Hyman, UC Berkeley Professor of Linguistics, has served as American Director
of the France-Berkeley Fund since 2010. He is also a three-time FBF grantee, with
collaborations focusing on historical linguistics and the languages of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Robert Price is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Political Science at
UC Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include comparative politics and African
affairs, with a special emphasis on the politics of contemporary South Africa.
Costas Spanos heads CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest
of Society) at UC Berkeley. He is also the Andrew S. Grove Professor and Chair of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Clément Sanchez is Professor of Chemistry at the Collège de France, and has served as
the French Director of the France-Berkeley Fund since 2010. His work in hybrid organicinorganic materials has led to numerous applications in environment, health and energy.
Saul Perlmutter is a 2011 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, “for the discovery of
the accelerating expansion of the Universe”. A three-time FBF grantee, he is a Professor of
Physics at UC Berkeley and an Astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Ehud Isacoff is Professor of Neurobiology and Director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience
Institute at UC Berkeley. He is a two-time FBF grantee who employs optical methods to
study signaling at neuronal connections.
Ariane Zambiras is a a Fulbright Fellow in the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology,
as well as a writer and public speaker. She was a major participant in a 2011 FBF grant
examining the emergence of the Tea Party Movement in American politics.
Alexandre Bayen is a two-time FBF grantee. He is Associate Professor in the Departments
of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering at
UC Berkeley. His research projects include Connected Corridors and Mobile Millennium.
Minh-Hà Pham is Scientific Counsellor at the French Embassy in the United States. Much
of her academic background is in the field of entomology, and she is an international expert
on insect learning and behavior, including the effects of pesticides on honey bee ecology.
Roger Genet is Director General of Research and Innovation at the Ministry for Higher
Education and Research. He carried out the majority of his scientific career in the field of
biochemistry at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.
Adjourn to Poster Session and Cocktail Dinatoire
Closing Remarks Larry M. Hyman, American Director, France-Berkeley Fund
Robert Price, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley
Costas Spanos, CITRIS, UC Berkeley
Special Recognitions presented by
Jeffrey R. Long, Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Frédérick Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8
Presentation of France-Berkeley Fund Awards Clément Sanchez, French
Director, France-Berkeley Fund
Saul Perlmutter, Physics, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Ehud Isacoff, Neurobiology, UC Berkeley
Ariane Zambiras, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Alexandre Bayen, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Civil &
Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Presentations by distinguished alumni of the France-Berkeley Fund
Report on Bilateral Activities Minh-Hà Pham, Scientific Counsellor at the
French Embassy in the United States
Remarks Roger Genet, Director of the Directorate General of Research and
Innovation, Ministry of Higher Education and Research
Greetings François Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States
Welcome to UC Berkeley Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research, UC
Berkeley
Graham Fleming is Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
He is an authority on ultrafast chemical and biological processes, focusing particularly on
the inter-relation and inter-complexity of energy, climate and photosynthesis.
François Delattre has been the Ambassador of France to the United States since 2011. His
previous positions include Ambassador of France to Canada, Consul General in New York,
and Press and Communications Director at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.
PROGRAM
SPEAKER INFORMATION
20th Anniversary Celebration
The program was brought to a close with two special recognitions. First, Professor Costas Spanos, head of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at UC Berkeley, together with Professor Alexandre Bayen, presented
Consul Romain Serman with an award honoring his enthusiastic support of scientific programs at UC Berkeley, including the
France-Berkeley Fund. In September, Mr. Serman moved on to become the director of Bpifrance USA.
Then Professor Robert Price, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley, made a speech of special recognition
honoring Dr. Michelle Bertho, longtime coordinator of the France-Berkeley Fund, for her extraordinary and tireless work in
building up the program and turning it into a model which has since been emulated by other such programs.
Professor Larry M. Hyman, the France-Berkeley Fund’s Executive Director, then welcomed everyone to the atrium for a celebratory Cocktail Dinatoire and poster session. More than 20 teams of FBF grantees presented posters of their work, sharing
information about their respective research projects and sparking ideas for new collaborations. All present enjoyed a convivial
and festive evening, celebrating 20 successful years and looking forward to many more.
Vice Chancellor Graham Fleming
welcomes the guests
Associate Vice Chancellor Robert Price
honors Michelle Bertho with a bear staff
Longtime FBF Committee Member
Kenneth Sauer
Cédric Beaume and Rudy Wenk by Dr.
Beaume’s poster
Nancy Peluso, Mia Fuller,
and Meg Conkey
Winemaker Rob Davis
(Jordan Winery)
Gabriela Borge and Patricia
Baquedano-Lopez by their poster
Jean-Marie Hombert and Roger Genet
discuss Dr. Hombert’s poster
Diplomats from the San Francisco
Consulate carry the French flag
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France-Berkeley Fund
France-Berkeley
F u n d s tat i s t i c s
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A p p l i c a t i o n s b y Ye a r a n d
by Campus
Campus
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Berkeley
26
36
43
49
54
54
46
43
65
68
45
49
Davis
11
7
20
18
21
15
20
16
12
20
8
12
LBNL
7
8
5
10
4
7
6
15
11
20
11
0
santa Cruz
3
4
7
11
16
10
16
0
0
0
0
0
TOTAL
47
55
75
88
95
86
88
74
88
108
64
61
120
100
Berkeley
80
Davis
LBNL
60
Santa Cruz
40
TOTAL
20
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
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France-Berkeley Fund
A p p l i c a t i o n s b y Ye a r a n d b y
Field of Study
Field
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Applied
sciences
7
12
19
22
20
25
28
20
28
32
10
12
Engineering
8
8
9
15
16
14
12
11
6
12
13
11
Exact
sciences
22
22
22
34
37
25
31
32
34
47
24
26
Humanities /
social sciences
10
14
25
17
22
22
17
11
20
17
17
12
TOTAL
47
56
75
88
95
86
88
74
88
108
64
61
120
100
Applied Sci
80
Engineering
Exact Sciences
60
Hum / Soc Sci
40
TOTAL
20
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
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Applications vs. Grants Awarded
Year
# Applications
# grants
%
2003
47
18
38.29
2004
55
15
27.27
2005
75
19
25.33
2006
88
19
21.59
2007
95
20
21.05
2008
86
24
27.9
2009
88
23
26.14
2010
74
21
28.38
2011
88
23
26.14
2012
108
26
24.07
2013
64
22
34.38
2014
61
25
40.98
total since 2003
804
208
25.87
120
100
80
60
Applications
Grants
40
20
0
2003
20
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
France-Berkeley Fund
France-Berkeley Fund Income
Fiscal Year
interest
LBNL
VCR Office
Ministère Recherche
& Es
Fondation
Polytechnique
Consulat
général sF
2014-2015*
$147 151
$0
$68 000
$69 100
$0
$0
2013-2014
$139 768
$0
$67 865
$67 359
$0
$5 000
2012-2013
$137 602
$50 000
$72 378
$64 290
$4 978
2011-2012
$146 759
$50 000
$48 260
$68 606
2010-2011
$154 780
$50 000
$30 000
$67 342
2009-2010
$144 403
$0
$30 000
$74 145
2008-2009
$172 100
$10 000
$30 000
$70 561
2007-2008
$142 052
$30 000
$30 000
2006-2007
$151 266
$30 000
$30 000
2005-2006
$132 446
$30 000
2004-2005
$132 801
$30 000
* Projected
M a r ke t Va l u e
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
$4 112 431
$3 988 138
$3 040 735
$3 200 951
$3 638 823
$3 644 363
$3 832 608
$4 149 270
France-Berkeley Fund Market Value
$4,500,000
$4,000,000
$3,500,000
$3,000,000
$2,500,000
$2,000,000
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2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
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grantees 2014
Joonhong Ahn, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Franck Guarnieri, Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises, Mines Paris Tech
International workshop on radiological resilience in nuclear power utilization: a new paradigm of safety
Martin s. Banks, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley
Yves trotter, CNRS CERCO, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Binocular vision in humans & primates
Leo Blitz, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Edith Falgarone, Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
The Origin of Turbulence in Star Forming Clouds
Julian Borrill, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Radek Stompor, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, CNRS/Université Paris Diderot
Exploring the Universe’s Dark Sector with Current Cosmological Data Sets
Siobhan Brady, Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis
Patrick Laufs, INRA, Versailles
Deciphering the Transcriptional Network Controlling Leaf Margin Development in Arabidopsis thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta
Neil Davies, Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California, Berkeley
Joachim Claudet, CRIOBE USR 3278 CNRS-EHPE, Université de Perpignan
Modeling the Moorea Social-Ecological System (MoSES): Linking Socio-economy to Ecological Processes
Mary Firestone, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Romain Barnard, UMR Agroécologie, INRA Dijon
Response of Soil Microbial Activity to Changes in Precipitation Patterns
Allen Goldstein, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Aumont, LISA, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil & Paris Diderot
Understanding the Aerosol Composition from Oxidation of Long-chain Alkanes Using Novel Measurements and Modeling
Martin Head-gordon, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Eleonora Luppi, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Quantum Chemical Calculations of Molecular High Harmonic Generation Spectra
Ronald Hendel, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Jan Joosten, Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Université de Strasbourg
How Old is the Hebrew Bible? : A Textual, Historical, and Linguistic Study
Elaine Landry, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Marco Panza, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris 1
Ontological Commitment in Mathematics
Kai Liu, Physics Department, University of California, Davis
Dafiné Ravelosona, NanoElectronics Department, Institut d’électronique fondamentale, Université Paris Sud
Tailoring Magnetic Nanostructures for Advanced Magnetic Recording Media Applications
Bryan D. McCloskey, Department Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Dominique Guyomard, Institut of Materials Jean Rouxel (IMN), Nantes
Energy Storage Research — Understanding Interfacial Degradation Processes in Li-ion Battery Systems
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g r a n t e e s 2 0 1 4 ( c o n t. )
Lev Michael, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Rose, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lyon 2
The Morphological Phylogenetics of Southern Tupí-Guaraní Languages
scott Moura, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Florent Di Meglio, Centre Automatique et Systèmes, Mines Paris Tech
Analysis and Control of Grid-Integrated Plug-in Electric Vehicle Fleets
Jeffrey B. Neaton, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Fabien Bruneval, Service de Recherches de Métallurgie Physique, CEA Saclay
New Methods for Excited States of Complex Open-Shell Systems from Solids to Molecules
James F. O’Brien, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
François Foure, UFR IM2AG, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Real-time Simulation Methods for Interactive Surgical Simulation and Planning
Per-Olof Persson, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Stamm, Laboratoire J. L. Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Sub-cell Limiting for Shock-capturing in High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ellen Robey, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Paola Romagnoli, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse-Purpan, Université de Toulouse
Cross-talk between Regulatory T cells in the Thymus and its Role in Preventing Autoimmunity
John Searle, Department of Philosophy, University of Californaia, Berkeley
Friederike Moltmann, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris 1 / ENS / CNRS
The Action-Product Distinction and its Importance in Speech Act Theory and Social Ontology
Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Jérôme gattacceca, Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université Aix-Marseille
Furthering Understanding of Planetary Magnetism through the Study of Magnetization in Terrestrial Tmpact Craters
Taka’aki Taira, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Florent Brenguier, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Joseph Fourier
Time-Lapse Monitoring of Stress-Induced Changes in the Seismogenic Crust
Jean Walrand, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Loiseau, Réseaux et sécurité, EURECOM Campus SophiaTech
Multi-armed Bandit Games and Applications
Bin Yu, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Julien Mairal, INRIA Grenoble, LEAR Team
Invariant Image Representations and High Dimensional Sparse Estimation for Neurosciences
Qing Zhou, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Hofer, UFR de Pschologie, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3
Teacher Socialization of Children’s Emotional Competence in Early Education Classrooms: A Cross-Cultural Study
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Alejandro Aguilar & Jean-Marc Bizau .........................................................................................................................26
First absolute single-photon double photoionization cross section measurements of the fundamental 2-electron negative ion:H-
Alexandre M. Bayen & Paola goatin ...........................................................................................................................28
Optimal traffic flow managemetn with GPS enabled smartphones
David Chandler & Benjamin Rotenberg ......................................................................................................................31
Optimizing self-assembly of complex colloidal systems using transition path sampling
Steven Conolly & Xavier Maître ..................................................................................................................................33
Aerosol deposition in the airways with phase-imaging tools for inhaled drug delivery
Beverly Crawford & Denis Roland ...............................................................................................................................36
Civil society formation in political transitions: culture & identity in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Maghreb/Machrek 1980-2011
Marla Feller & David DiGregorio.................................................................................................................................39
Dendritic processing of synaptic input in retinal interneurons
Daniel Fletcher & Patricia Bassereau ..........................................................................................................................40
Mechanical induction of transcellular tunnels
Jack L. Gallant & Bertrand Thirion ..............................................................................................................................42
Improving fMRI by using anatomical data to constrain functional models
igor V. grigoriev & Francis M. Martin..........................................................................................................................45
Uncovering evolutionary origins & mechanisms of mycorrhizal symbiosis & wood decay machinery in forest ecosystems by comparative genomics
Ehud isacoff & Nicole Ropert ......................................................................................................................................50
Optogenetic probing of the mechanisms and function of gliotransmission
Sanjay Kumar & Manuel Théry ...................................................................................................................................53
Engineering and dissecting the micro-architecture of actomyosin stress fibers
Stephen R. Leone & Ian R. Sims ..................................................................................................................................55
Direct measurements of reaction pathways for interstellar and planetary low-temperature chemistry
Bo Liu & David Bouchez..............................................................................................................................................58
Uncovering an interactive protein network that regulates microtubule nucleation and organization for plant cell growth
stephen g. louie & gérard Martinez ..........................................................................................................................60
Joint experimental and theoretical study of electron-electron and electron-photon interactions in graphene-based compounds
Kunxin Luo & Delphine Javelaud ................................................................................................................................65
Hippo signaling and Ski in human melanoma development
Jitendra Malik, Zaid Harchaoui & Cordelia Schmid ......................................................................................................68
Large-scale learning for image and video interpretation
geoffrey Marcy & guillaume Hebrard ........................................................................................................................70
A transatlantic characterization of extrasolar planets
Charles Marshall & Hélène Morlon.............................................................................................................................72
Integrating molecular phylogenies and the fossil record
Stephanie L. Mudge & Antoine Vauchez .....................................................................................................................75
When theory matters: law, economics, and the scholarly production of “Europe,” 1990-2010
Véronique Munoz-Dardé & Luc Foisneau ....................................................................................................................77
A Theory of Justice forty years on
Vern Paxson & Renata Cruz Teixeira............................................................................................................................80
Understanding user perspectives of internet performance
Kenneth Ribet & Ariane Mézard .................................................................................................................................82
Summer graduate school: new geometric techniques in number theory
Michael A. Rogawski & Jean-Pierre Mothet ................................................................................................................84
Role of D-serine in migraine
John W. taylor & tatiana giraud .................................................................................................................................86
Fungal ecological genomics
Jeremy W. Thorner & Robert Arkowitz .......................................................................................................................89
Requirements, molecular roles and distribution of membrane phospholipids in yeast external signal-dependent polarized growth
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Alejandro Aguilar
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Marc Bizau
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Institut des Sciences Moléculaire d’Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Sud
First Absolute Single-Photon Double Photoionization Cross Section
Measurements of the Fundamental 2-Electron Negative Ion: H-
Start Date: May 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The goal of the project was to measure the absolute single-photon double photoionization cross section of atomic
negative ions of hydrogen (H-), a fundamental 2-electron system, for the study of electron correlations which are stronger in H- than in the helium atom. This measurement is also
very important for astrophysics since, as H- ions are present
in stellar atmospheres. To reach this goal, experimental sessions were scheduled at the SOLEIL French synchrotron radiation facility in Saint-Aubin to measure the cross section from
threshold to 30 eV photon energy, and at the Advanced Light
Source (ALS) in Berkeley to perform the measurements at
higher energy. The measurements at SOLEIL were performed
in December 2011. They revealed the existence of collisional
processes forbidding the measurement during this first attempt. Nevertheless, they were essential for attempting the
following experiments, allowing us to understand the problems and develop a strategy to overcome them. A first set of
experiments were performed at the ALS in 2012. At the low
energies, the contamination by higher order radiation from
the undulator and the low cross section for the double photoionization process made these measurements extremely
difficult and unreliable. Custom filters were ordered for these
measurements. The filters did not performed as expected
(according to manufacturer’s predictions), but first measurements gave cross section of the order of theoretical values.
Since these filters did not work to obtain accurate results, the
French group constructed a 4-mirror filter. This filter was tested in France and shipped to ALS. A second set of experiments
were performed at the ALS in December 2013. The new filter
worked properly, despite a much lower transmission than
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expected, allowing the successful measurement of the cross
section between 17 and 40 eV.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
French participants:
• Francis Penent (LCPMR, Univ. ParisVI senior scientist)
• Jean-Marc Bizau (ISMO, Univ. Paris-Sud, senior scientist)
• Denis Cubaynes (ISMO, Univ. Paris-Sud, senior scientist)
• Ségolène Guilbaud (ISMO, Univ. Paris-Sud, associate professor)
• M. al Shorman (ISMO, Univ. Paris-Sud, PhD student)
US participants:
• Alejandro Aguilar (ALS, LBNL, Berkeley, Beamline
Scientist)
• Nora Berrah (Physics, Western Michigan U., Michgan,
prof. – currently: Physics, U. Conn., Connecticut prof.)
• Rene C Bilodeau (Physics, Western Michigan U.,
Michigan, Senior Research Fellow; and ALS, LBNL)
• Dan Gibson (Physics, Denison U., OH, prof.)
• Welsley Walter (Physics, Denson U., OH, prof.)
• Ileana Dimitriu (Physics, Hobart and William Smith
Colleges, Assistant prof.)
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
One paper in preparation.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
While there has been a long history of collaboration between
N. Berrah’s group and the French group, this project generated a larger collaborative effort with the Berkeley group.
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Alejandro Aguilar
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Marc Bizau
Institut des Sciences Moléculaire d’Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Sud
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First Absolute Single-Photon Double Photoionization Cross Section
Measurements of the Fundamental 2-Electron Negative Ion: HThe funds were central to the successful completion of the
project and allowed for the construction of new equipment
and exchange of expertise necessary for the successful completion of the project.
We strongly regret that future collaboration is considerably
compromised by the unfortunate budgetary decision to drastically reduce the activity and staff of Atomic and Molecular
Physics at the ALS (including the loss of key collaborator, Alex
Aguilar). However, if the situation changes, the foundation
and interest for future collaborations has now been well established.
Custom filters:
1606$
4 mirror filter transport from Orsay to ALS:
740$
Flights and 1 week mission for experiment at ALS
for F. Penent and J.M. Bizau
5400$
4 mirror filter return to France:
TBD
We will not solicit additional funding for this project.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We greatly appreciate the flexibility of the France-Berkeley
Fund and the high efficiency of its administrators, which
greatly facilitated the success of this experiment.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
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Alexandre M. Bayen
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Paola goatin
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Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée Research Center, Inria
Optimal Traffic Flow Management
with GPS Enabled Smartphones
Start Date: 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
Part I: A Continuous Junction Model with On-ramp Buffer
Hydrodynamic models have commonly been used in the literature to describe the macroscopic evolution of vehicular
traffic on roads and have been successfully generalized to
networks in recent years.
We proposed a new junction model for highway ramps in
the continuous setting and a Godunov discretization of the
model for ramp metering control. The model consists of the
Lighthill-Whitham-Richards traffic flow model on a junction
composed of one mainline, an on-ramp, and an off-ramp,
which are connected by a node. In particular, a partial differential equation (PDE) describes the evolution of the vehicle
density on the mainline, and an ordinary differential equation
(ODE) describes the evolution of the queue length at the onramp which is modeled by a buffer to ensure that boundary
conditions are satisfied in a strong sense. The off-ramp is
treated as a sink, and a priority parameter is introduced to
ensure uniqueness of the solution, as well as a good representation of field experiences. The definition of the solution
of the Riemann problem at the junction is based on a linear
programming optimization problem. Existence and uniqueness of the solution of the corresponding Riemann problem
was proved.
This approach is extended to general networks. The problem is discretized using a Godunov scheme that takes into
account the effects of the on-ramp buffer, and allows it to
take into account the possible creation of new waves when
the buffer empties.
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Part II: Optimization of Networked PDE System via Adjoint-based Control
Systems of conservation law and balance law PDEs are often
useful for modeling coupling of physical dynamical systems.
Such applications include supply chain systems, gas pipeline
flows, and transportation networks. These systems often have
actuation points, where a manager has partial control of the
system and seeks to influence its behavior or performance. In
the context of traffic networks, we specifically consider the
use of traffic lights to improve the performance of the network and alleviate congestion. We investigated methods for
controlling such networks using knowledge of the dynamics
of the underlying system.
The approach we developed is a systematic methodology
for converting an optimal control problem with PDE network
constraints (e.g., maximize throughput or minimize total travel time) into a discrete time and space finite horizon optimal
control problem. Such a method allows us to calculate control schemes which not only react to current conditions in
the network but also anticipate future responses in the state.
We detailed the building blocks of the Godunov discretization scheme and a Riemann solver at network junctions to not
only map an infinite-dimensional continuous problem into
the discrete domain, but also as a way of easily deriving the
first-order variation of the dynamics on the network, which is
a necessary step in efficiently computing the gradient of the
constrained objective with respect to the control parameters.
The gradient computation is done via the adjoint-method,
which we have shown to scale linearly in both computation
and memory complexity with the time-horizon and network
size, a property of the sparse coupling of the dynamics in the
network structure.
We have derived a discrete time and space model for freeway traffic networks for ramp metering traffic control using
the above approach. Using a realistic and practical model
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Alexandre M. Bayen
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Paola goatin
Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée Research Center, Inria
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with GPS Enabled Smartphones
of a 20-mile-long freeway stretch in Southern California, we
have shown the approach to be robust to significant errors
in estimating initial conditions, boundary conditions, and
model parameters, demonstrating the highly practical and
applicable nature of the work. Furthermore, we have shown
the running time to be well within the realm of real-time applications for large freeway networks.
Part III: Discrete-time System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment (SO-DTA) with Partial Compliance for Horizontal Queuing Networks
In this work, we formulate the system optimal dynamic traffic
assignment problem with partial control (SO-DTA-PC), using a
traffic dynamics model similar to the Cell Transmission Model (CTM), which is a Godunov discretization of the LighthillWhitham-Richards (LWR) partial differential equation (PDE)
with a triangular fundamental diagram.
We propose solving the SO-DTA-PC problem with the
non-linear traffic dynamics and limited OD data with complete split ratios as a non-linear optimal control problem.
This formulation generalizes to multiple sources and multiple
destinations. There is a vast literature on optimization techniques for non-linear control problems that can be utilized
to solve this problem. While gradient-based methods do not
provide any guarantees of converging to the optimal solution
in non-linear optimization problems, they can still be used
to find local minima, and it is a common approach to use
gradient descent methods with multiple start points. One of
the main computational challenges in this approach is the
efficient computation of the gradient, since this computation
must be repeated a large number of times. We show how the
structure of our dynamical system allows for very efficient
computation of the gradient via the discrete adjoint method. If the state vector is n dimensional and the control vector
is m dimensional, direct computation of the gradient takes
O(n2m) time. The adjoint methods reduces the complexity to
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O(n2 + nm), but the structure of our system allows for further
reduction of the complexity to O(n + m) by avoiding a matrix
inversion and solving the system via backwards substitution.
We also present methods to reduce the sensitivity of the convergence time to algorithm parameters such as the step size
in gradient descent and coefficients of the barrier functions.
It should be noted that this work currently only considers
computing the optimal allocation of the cooperative agents
and does not consider the corresponding response from the
selfish agents. It is clear that a change in the network state
will result in response by the selfish agents as in Stackelberg
games. Finding the optimal control for a Stackelberg game is
NP Hard in the size of the network for the class of increasing latency functions even in the case of the static problem,
and it is common to use approximate strategies. We wish to
extend this work in the future to consider the Stackelberg response to the SO-DTA-PC problem.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
•
•
•
•
•
Paola Goatin – Reasearch Scientist Inria Sophia Antipolis
Méditerrénée
Maria Laura Delle Monache - Doctoral Student Inria
Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée
Walid Krichene – Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Jack D. Reilly – Ph.D. candidate, CEE Systems Engineering,
UC Berkeley
Samitha Samaranayake – Ph.D. Candidate, CEE Systems
Engineering, UC Berkeley
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
M.L. Delle Monache, J. Reilly, S. Samaranayke, W. Krichene,
P. Goatin, and A. Bayen – A PDE-ODE model for a junction
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Alexandre M. Bayen
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Paola goatin
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Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée Research Center, Inria
Optimal Traffic Flow Management
with GPS Enabled Smartphones
with ramp buffer. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics
74(1) (2014), 22-39
More publications in review.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
Numerical analysis work has been performed by the INRIA
team, while control and optimization work has been performed by the UC Berkeley team, thus showing great complementarty between the expertises of the two teams. Collaboration resulted in more interactions, and leverage of the
funds to get additional funds (ORESTE specific funding at INRIA) and Caltrans funds at UC Berkeley. Funds will be used for
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future research on the same topics, as well as for integration
to the Connected Corridors project.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
See attachment on funding schedule (available upon request
from FBF).
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
Program is very efficient as is. Celebrations of the anniversary of the fund as recently done are extremely productive for
raising the visibility of the different projects.
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David Chandler
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Rotenberg
Chimie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Optimizing Self-Assembly of Complex Colloidal Systems
using Transition Path Sampling
Start Date: December 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The project began with Pr. Chandler visiting Paris in December 2012. During that time, we came to appreciate that
one of the possible side projects identified in the proposal
offered the best opportunities for both short-term impact
and longer-term collaboration. Our collaboration since that
time has been devoted to that theme, namely how to gain
microscopic insights from the analysis of charge fluctuations
in a nanocapacitor, using molecular simulation in conjunction
with a novel method of statistical analysis. To facilitate that
collaboration, Dr. Rotenberg visited Berkeley twice in 2013.
Nanocapacitors are considered as model systems for new
classes of advanced materials, especially those that might be
relevant for efficient production of energy from renewable
resources. A phenomenon known as “supercapacitence” has
been recently discovered, but an explanation has remained
elusive. The phenomenon presents the promise of developing efficient energy storage devices and highly sensitive
voltage detection devices. Dr. Rotenberg and his group had
developed techniques for studying nanocapacitors with molecular simulation. Pr. Chandler and his group had developed
techniques for studying large fluctuation effects in nanoscale
molecular simulations. By combining the two efforts, it became possible to understand the phenomenon of supercapacitence.
The first paper coming from this collaboration appeared in
2013 in Physical Review Letters. That work demonstrated the
ability to combine Rotenberg’s molecular simulations with
Chandler’s statistical methods of analysis. The second paper
will appear a few days from now as an article featured on the
cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. It presents the
results of applying this new theoretical approach to uncover
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the mechanism of supercapacitence. The work demonstrates
previously unsuspected heterogeneity that spontaneously
emerges from the forces between electrodes and ionic liquids. This heterogeneity, in the plane of the electrode, is a
broken symmetry that is responsible for large charge-density
fluctuations and thus large capacitance. Underlying order
parameters and simplified predictive models are under further investigation by our groups.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Pr. David Chandler, Professor of Chemistry, University of
California, Berkeley
Dr. Benjamin Rotenberg, CNRS Researcher, Université
Pierre et Marie Curie
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Limmer, D.T., C. Merlet, M. Salanne, D. Chandler, P.A. Madden, R. van Roij, B. Rotenberg, “Charge fluctuations in
nano-scale capacitors,”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 106102.1-5
(2013).
Merlet, C., D. T. Limmer, M. Salanne, R. Van Roij, P. A. Madden, D. Chandler and B. Rotenberg, “The electric double
layer has a life of its own,” arXiv:1404.0343 (2014) and in
press in Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2014).
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
Prior to this grant, Pr. Chandler had met Benjamin Rotenberg
during visits to the UK (where Rotenberg had collaborators),
and on a few occasions, Dr. Rotenberg had attended the annual Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting. While it was
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clear that the two shared some common scientific interests,
the catalyst for a productive collaboration was absent until the funding of this FBF Grant. The grant nucleated and
melded a team that has proved to be remarkably successful.
One of the students on who participated in the joint project,
David Limmer, who is now at Princeton, continues to work
on related projects. Pr. Chandler’s group also continues on
related projects. Dr. Rotenberg plans future visits to Berkeley,
and Pr. Chandler plans future visits to Paris, both to continue
the science that was initiated with the FBF support.
In summary: This FBF Grant facilitated collaboration and
accomplishment that would not have occurred without the
grant. Both French and Berkeley groups have benefited, and
related work will continue.
side funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Final accounting of collaboration expenses:
Chandler travel expenses to France
$ 4318.88
Rotenberg travel expenses to UCB twice
5415.45
Publication of reprints (partial cost)
250.00
---------------Total expenses
$ 9984.33
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We are pleased to have been awarded an FBF Grant, and we
have benefited from the Grant. While additional funds could
have been used to good effect, the amount provided was
enough to nucleate a fruitful collaboration.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional out-
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Steven Conolly
Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Maître
Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités, CNRS — Université Paris-Sud
Aerosol Deposition in the Airways with
Phase-Imaging Tools for Inhaled Drug Delivery
Start Date: June 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The overall goal of our FBF effort was to “cross-pollinate”
research between two outstanding biomedical imaging engineering research labs. One was in the US (Conolly lab at
UC Berkeley), and one in France (Luc Darrasse’s lab at the
University of Paris, South). Each lab is pioneering a new biomedical imaging modality that holds great promise for the
future of lung imaging. The University of Paris group is one of
the strongest in the world in a new imaging technique called
Hyperpolarized Gas MRI. The UC Berkeley group is one of the
pioneers of Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI). Since these new
imaging modalities are too new to be commercially available,
the two laboratories created their own prototype scanners.
We focused on in vivo imaging of inhaled therapeutics.
This is an important challenge because
• Conventional non-invasive imaging methods (e.g.,
MRI and Ultrasound) typically fail in the lung, or these
methods are too invasive (e.g., PET, CT), and
• The unique physics of Magnetic Particle Imaging and
Hyperpolarized Gas MRI show great promise for tracking
therapies in the lungs. This is a magnetically hostile
environment for conventional MRI studies, due to very
short T2* in the lung from 10 ppm susceptibility variations near the air-filled alveoli. MPI is totally immune to
these variations. Low-field Hyperpolarized gas is orders
of magnitude more immune to these susceptibility variations than conventional MRI.
The most important collaborative work occurred at the International Workshop on MPI, hosted by the Conolly lab at
UC Berkeley last year. We exchanged ideas and engineering
“trade secrets”. We also directly compared imaging studies
in terms of sensitivity, spatial resolution and contrast. These
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are the most important attributes for any imaging modality.
Since there is no conventional method of monitoring pulmonary treatments, perhaps our single most important output is
establishing the principles for quantitatively comparing pulmonary therapy monitoring methodologies. Indeed, we hope
that the commercial vendors (GE, Siemens, Philips) will begin
to manufacture scanners based on our research prototypes.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Prof. Luc DARRASSE, University of Paris-South
Xavier Maitre, PhD, Research University Paris-South
Prof. Steven Conolly, Full Professor and Endowed Chair,
Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer
Sciences.
Patrick Goodwill, PhD Research Scientist at UC Berkeley
Bioengineering
Emine Saritas, PhD, current position: Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey; formerly a Postdoc at the Berkeley Bioengineering lab.
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
France-Side Publications
Ginefri JC, Rubin A, Tatoulian M, Woytasik M, Boumezbeur
F, Djemaï B, Poirier-Quinot M, Lethimonnier F, Darrasse L,
Dufour-Gergam E. “Implanted, inductively-coupled, radiofrequency coils fabricated on flexible polymeric material:
application to in vivo rat brain MRI at 7 T.” J Magn Reson.
2012 Nov; 224:61-70. Epub 2012 Sep 20. PMID: 23041797
Chauvet D, Marsac L, Pernot M, Boch AL, Guillevin R, Salameh
N, Souris L, Darrasse L, Fink M, Tanter M, Aubry JF. “Targeting accuracy of transcranial magnetic resonance-guided
high-intensity focused ultrasound brain therapy: a fresh
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Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Maître
Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités, CNRS — Université Paris-Sud
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cadaver model.”J Neurosurg. 2013 May; 118(5):1046-52.
Epub 2013 Mar 1. PMID: 23451909
Lambert S, Ginefri JC, Poirier-Quinot M, Darrasse L.
“High-temperature superconducting radiofrequency probe
for magnetic resonance imaging applications operated below ambient pressure in a simple liquid-nitrogen cryostat.”
Rev Sci Instrum. 2013 May; 84(5):054701. PMID: 23742569
Martin L, Maître X, de Rochefort L, Sarracanie M, Friese M,
Hagot P, Durand E. “Phase-contrast velocity mapping for
highly diffusive fluids: Optimal bipolar gradient pulse parameters for hyperpolarized helium-3.” Magn Reson Med.
2013 Nov 11. PMID: 24407833.
Tardieu M, Poirier-Quinot M, Sinkus R, Darrasse L, Maître
X. “Space and phase normalisations in motion correction
for magnetic resonance elastography.” Comput Methods
Biomech Biomed Engin. 2013;16 Suppl 1:294-6. PMID:
23923948.
Laistler E, Poirier-Quinot M, Lambert SA, Dubuisson RM, Girard OM, Moser E, Darrasse L, Ginefri JC. In vivo MR imaging of the human skin at subnanoliter resolution using
a superconducting surface coil at 1.5 tesla. J Magn Reson
Imaging. 2013 Dec, 31. PMID: 24382749
Kriegl R, Ginefri JC, Poirier-Quinot M, Darrasse L, Goluch S,
Kuehne A, Moser E, Laistler E. “Novel inductive decoupling
technique for flexible transceiver arrays of monolithic
transmission line resonators.” Magn Reson Med. 2014, Apr
17. PMID: 24753115 .
UC Berkeley-Side Publications
Kim TN, Goodwill PW, Chen Y, Conolly SM, Schaffer CB, et al.
“Line-Scanning Particle Image Velocimetry: An Optical Approach for Quantifying a Wide Range of Blood Flow Speeds
in Live Animals. “PLoS ONE 7(6): e38590. Epub 2012 Jun 26.
PMID: 22761686. PMCID: PMC3383695.
Goodwill PW1, Saritas EU, Croft LR, Kim TN, Krishnan KM,
Schaffer DV, Conolly SM . “X-space MPI: magnetic nanopar34
ticles for safe medical imaging.” Adv Mater. 2012 Jul
24;24(28):3870-7. PMID: 22988557. PMCID In Progress.
Lillaney P1, Shin M, Conolly SM, Fahrig R. “Magnetostatic
focal spot correction for x-ray tubes operating in strong
magnetic fields using iterative optimization.” Med Phys.
2012 Sep;39(9):5567-83. PMID: 22957623. PMCID:
PMC3436919.
LR Croft, PW Goodwill, SM Conolly, “Relaxation in X-space
Magnetic Particle Imaging”, IEEE Trans Med Imag, 31(12):
2335-42, December 2012,31. PMID: 22968211. PMCID:
PMC3799947.
JJ Konkle, PW Goodwill, OM Carraco-Zevallos, SM Conolly,
“Projection Reconstruction Magnetic Particle Imaging”,
IEEE Trans Med Imag, 32(2):338-47, February 2013. PMID:
23193308. PMCID: PMC3799838.
EU Saritas, PW Goodwill, LR Croft, JJ Konkle, K Lu, B Zheng,
SM Conolly, “Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) for NMR and
MRI Researchers”, J Magn Reson, 229:116-26, April 2013.
PMID: 23305842. PMCID: PMC3602323.
K Lu, PW Goodwill, EU Saritas, B Zheng, SM Conolly, “Lineary
and Shift-Invariance for Quantitative Magnetic Particle Imaging”, IEEE Trans Med Imag, 2013. 2013 Sep;32(9):156575. PMID: 23568496. PMCID: PMC3839681.
JJ Konkle, PW Goodwill, EU Saritas, B Zheng, K Lu, SM Conolly,
“Twenty-Fold Acceleration of 3D Projection Reconstruction
MPI”, Biomed Eng, 2013. 2013 Dec;58(6):565-76. PMID:
23940058, PMCID In Progress.
EU Saritas, PW Goodwill, GZ Zhang, SM Conolly. “Magnetostimulation Limits in Magnetic Particle Imaging”, IEEE
Trans Med Imag, 2013. 2013 Sep;32(9):1600-10 PMID:
23649181, PMCID In Progress.
Shapiro MG, Goodwill PW, Neogy A, Yin M, Foster FS, Schaffer DV, Conolly SM. “Biogenic gas nanostructures as ultrasonic molecular reporters”, Nat Nanotechnol, 2014
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Steven Conolly
Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Maître
Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités, CNRS — Université Paris-Sud
Aerosol Deposition in the Airways with
Phase-Imaging Tools for Inhaled Drug Delivery
Apr;9(4):311-6. Epub 2014 Mar 16. PMID: 24633522, PMCID: PMC4023545.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The two groups met and communicated on several occasions.
We bonded over the shared challenges of building prototype
scanners within a University environment. This bond was a
crucial cultural “link”. It may be surprising, but there are only
about ten research labs in academia (world-wide) that build
their own biomedical imaging scanners! Innovation appears
to be universally celebrated in the media, but to be brutally
frank, engineering innovation is truly only celebrated many
years after success is apparent! Moreover, we made excellent progress on determining the optimal methods to track
inhaled therapeutic treatments.
Looking to the future, the Conolly lab is now in direct communication with a startup in North Carolina (Liquidia, Inc) and
more established pharmaceutical delivery company (Nektar,
San Francisco, CA). These contacts were initiated in no small
part due to the FBF collaborative effort in tracking inhaled
therapeutic agents. Neither lab has yet established direct
government funding for this research, but this is absolutely
the longer-term goal. Indeed, the Conolly lab is now collabo-
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rating with a drug delivery specialist at UCSF, Prof. Tejal Desai.
She is one of the world’s leaders in drug delivery and she is
now enthusiastic to investigate whether MPI can non-invasively track her drug delivery micro-scale devices inside small
animals, and one day, inside humans.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
To continue our strong collaborative relationship, Xavier
Maître and Luc Darrasse used the France-Berkeley funds to
visit UC Berkeley for the 2013 International Workshop on
Magnetic Particle Imaging. This was the first time the workshop had ever been held in the United States. The Conolly
lab hosted the event, and had over 200 visitors from around
the world to share our research with, and allowed Maître
and Conolly to work together intensively. The total expenses for the trip came to approximately $4,743.12. In addition,
the Conolly Lab spent funds on imaging modality supplies to
further improve the collaborative work with Maître’s lab. In
addition, we supported a part-time stipend and research supplies for a research scientist to develop core-nano-particles
for the project to improve our imaging resolution and SNR.
The total expenses for the Conolly Lab came to approximately
$5,000.00.
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Beverly Crawford
Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Roland
Academy of Dijon and Director of Studies in the History of Science Centre Po (Paris)
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Civil Society Formation in Political Transitions:
The Evolution of Culture and Identity in Latin America,
Eastern Europe, and Maghreb/Machrek 1980 -2011
Start Date: June 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
We wrote an article comparing the Arab Spring of 2011 to
the uprisings against Communist regimes in Eastern Europe,
1989. Despite the obvious vast differences—in the international environment, in the demographics of those who took
to the streets, and in the actual vs. potential role of capitalism
in the economies of both regions, the unfolding of the two
revolutions was strikingly similar. Both were able to topple
entrenched regimes which had long remained in power in
the absence of political opposition. in both cases, the military
stood down, refusing to use violence to quell protest, unrest,
and revolution…… This assurance that the main apparatus
of state violence would not act to undercut their efforts signaled to protestors that the opportunity was ripe to make
moves against regimes that had lost their legitimacy in the
eyes of key elites. In both cases, the powerful incitement of
revolutionary action in one place ( union uprisings in Poland
in 1989, and the several-months long reaction to the self-immolation of fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia in 2011)
gave rise to a regional snowball effect of protestors who felt
suddenly empowered to break the wall of silent dissent, organize collective action, and take steps towards their various
post-revolutionary futures.
Many observers have argued that the two cases cannot
easily be compared: In Eastern Europe, a monolithic, secular
ideology was toppled; in Egypt and Tunisia, many ideologies
prevailed, and religion played a powerful role. The history of
Eastern Europe was part of the wider European experience;
the Middle East has been considered part of the “Global
South,” and has had a complex relationship with Western
powers. The influence of Gorbachev’s reforms spread to the
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Soviet sattelite countries; in the Middle East, repressive regimes persisted.
We argue, however, that the two revolutions have similar
causes. Both regions suffered from economic collapse and
rapid decline in the standard of living, and previous protests
in both regions had economic roots; although people were
still working in Eastern Europe, their wages were meaningless; foodstuffs had to be procured from garden plots and
on the black market, basic services broke down, including
access to heat and water, and with the economic stagnation,
all citizens were affected equally. High unemployment characterized Egypt and Tunisia, and the region was characterized
by vast economic inequality. Both regions suffered under
repressive regimes. Civil society actually flourished in both
places before the revolutions, underground in Eastern Europe, and openly in Egypt and Tunisia. Civil society activists in
both regions were harshly punished when caught, but nonetheless a collective awareness of dissent, nurtured through
an underground grassroots press in Eastern Europe and social media and growing community meetings in Tunisia and
Egypt, grew in both regions in the years before the revolutions. Western NGOs played an important role in fanning the
flames of dissent by supporting human rights and labor organizations—through the Helsinki Process in Eastern Europe,
initiated in 1975, and through the Euro-Med Partnership and
activist groups in Egypt and Tunisia, which began to take off
after 1995. Despite this growing collective dissatisfaction and
awareness of dissent, large segments of the population were
quiescent, people hid their dissatisfaction until it appeared to
be safe to turn against the repressive regime. During that period of what Kuran calls “preference falsification” the base of
support for the regime was increasingly fragile, even among
political elites. As elite loyalty weakened, despots lost their
will to supress dissent, and as populations became aware of
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Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Roland
Academy of Dijon and Director of Studies in the History of Science Centre Po (Paris)
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the “self-abandonment” of the ruling powers, the “bandwagon effect” led thousands to take to the streets.
We conclude that despite differences in region, culture, the
international environment, conditions of repression, and approaches of the protesters to the role of capitalism and even
democracy in the post-revolutionary environment, a strikingly similar confluence of forces in Eastern Europe in 1989 and
Egypt and Tunisia in 2011 worked together to spark revolutions that surprised seasoned analysts, and were similar in
their snowball effects, their essentially non-violent approaches, and their successful toppling of entrenched regimes.
In our original project, we intended to compare the 1980s
democrated revolutions of Latin America to these two cases.
We saw many similarities; growing dissent and protest, essential non-violence, and self-abandonment of authoritarian
regimes. We were unable to complete this last case. In March
2012, Professor Rolland took on the position of Rector of
March 2012 of the Academy of Guyana, and his administrative duties did not allow him the time to focus on this part of
the joint project. In fact, the two cases that we did complete
are quite large, and we have only just completed writing up
our findings.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Benjamin Shaub, undergraduate student,UCB
Simele Rodrigues, Ph.D Candidate, University of Strasbourg
Mariejo Ferreira, post-doctoral researcher, Political
Studies Institute in Poitiers, France
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
“On Shaking the Revolutionary Apple Tree: Eastern Europe
1989, Arab Spring 2011” submitted to Comparative Political Studies
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4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
During June and July 2013, Professor Crawford was in residence in France to write a joint conceptual framework for the
project. Rolland and Crawford worked together in Berkeley
in August 2013 on the framework. Throughout 2013-14, we
researched and wrote up our findings. We will continue to
work on this project together. The result will be a book that
includes the case of Latin America.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
We spent FBF funds on travel, and lodging, for collaboration.
Crawford conducted interviews in the former GDR and in the
Czech Republic. Our Skype phone conversations and collaborative writing were provided free of charge by our universities’ infrastructure. We are soliciting outside funding for
Seminars at the Berkeley EU Center of Excellence/Seminar
Sciences Po, Centre d’histoire/Centre d’études des relations
internationales (CERI) in Paris, the FARE laboratory in Strasbourg.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We are grateful to FBF for funding this important project. The
flexibility of the France-Berkeley Fund has been key to the
success of this program, since we extended our project for
one year due to Professor Rolland’s new role and responsibilities as a university and institute Rector. This project has
helped strengthen the relationship between the Sciences Po,
the University of Strasbourg, and the Institute of European
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Studies at UC Berkeley. Both Professor Rolland and Professor
Crawford have given lectures on this topic at the European
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University of Viadrina and the Free University in Berlin, Germany.
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Marla Feller
Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
David DiGregorio
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Dendritic Processing of Synaptic Input in Retinal Interneurons
Start Date: December 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The project proceeded remarkably close to the original proposed timeline and goals. Anna Vlasits, a graduate student
in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Program visited Institut Pasteur for two separate 6 week visits to conduct experiments
in collaboration with Drs. Alex tran-Van-Minh and Digregorio.
The data gathered during this time was presented at the Gordon conference entitled “Dendrites: Molecules, Structure &
Function” which was held May 18-24, 2013 in Les Diablerets,
Switzerland and at the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting,
February 15-18, 2014 in San Francisco, CA. Dr. DiGregorio
traveled to UC Berkeley to consult on microscopes here
that would allow for us to continue some aspects of the experiments. Dr. Tran Van Minh also visited the lab after the
Biophysical Society meeting to consult on methods for conducting voltage-sensitive dye imaging experiments. These
experiments are ongoing in the Feller lab at Berkeley.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Marla Feller, Professor, UC Berkeley
David Digregorio, Associate Researcher, Pasteur Institut
Anna Vlasits, Ph. D. student in the Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program, UC Berkeley
Alexandra Tran-Van Minh, postdoctoral researcher
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3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
No publications yet, but 2 conference abstracts.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The project has generated a productive collaboration between these two individual labs. It has provided Anna an opportunity to conduct her research using state-of-the-art neurophysiology and imaging methods and has provided Alex
with training in visual system neurophysiology. In addition,
during Dr. DiGregorio’s visit to UC Berkeley, he gave a seminar
that was extremely well attended and met with several faculty to discuss current research. At least one addition collaboration of Dr. DiGreorio and another MCB faculty is starting as
a result of that.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Final accounting:
Anna – trip 1 to Paris – travel + lodging $2200
Anna – trip 2 to Paris – travel + lodging $2300
David – trip to UC Berkeley $1600
Reagents (caged glutamate) $2900
Anna Vlasits has used the preliminary data to apply a predoctoral fellowship from National Institutes of Health. We
just heard that she received it! It is likely to contribute to the
renewal of my RO1 from NIH.
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Daniel Fletcher
Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Bassereau
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Mechanical Induction of Transcellular Tunnels
Start Date: June 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The goal of this project is to determine the physical factors
that influence the formation of transcellular macroaperture
tunnels in endothelial cells. These tunnels have been observed in cells that were exposed to bacterial toxin such as
EDIN and C3 and they serve as entry sites for pathogens to
invade the underlying basement membrane and tissue. The
mechanism by which the toxin induces macroaperture formation is still not well understood. However, the EDIN and
C3 toxins have been previously shown to disrupt the activity
of myosin, which is necessary for the cytoskeletal integrity
of the cells. Disruption of the cytoskeleton is believed to increase the likelihood that the dorsal and ventral membranes
of the cell come into contact and fuse to form a transcellular
tunnel. We hypothesized that these macroapertures can be
generated through external mechanical forces that physically
bring the two membranes in close apposition to each other. To test this hypothesis, we used atomic force microscopy
(AFM) to apply localized mechanical forces and combined
this technique with total internal reflection fluorescence
(TIRF) microscopy to visualize the formation of a macroaperture in the cell.
Briefly, a tipped AFM cantilever was used to indent a spread
cell for a fixed time and retracted while the cell was imaged
at 2 second intervals with TIRF. The cells were stained with
a membrane dye to detect opening of transcellular tunnels.
The minimum force required to generate macroapertures
was determined by increasing the applied force in a stepwise
manner until a macroperture was formed. We performed our
experiments on human endothelial vascular endothelial cells
(HUVECs), which have been previously found to form transcellular tunnels when exposed to EDIN/C3 toxin. We intro40
duced the toxin to the cells by adding the toxin to the media
or by expressing the toxin in the cells by transfection.
We demonstrated that mechanical forces are sufficient to
induce the formation of transcellular macroaperture tunnels
in HUVECs in the absence of toxin. We observed localization
of the I-BAR domain of MIM and actin around the edges of
the macroaperture, similar to toxin-induced macroapertures.
By quantifying the forces used to induce macroaperture formation, we found that cells that have been exposed to the
EDIN/C3 toxin formed macroapertures at much lower forces
than cells that were not exposed to the toxin. We also found
that macroapertures could be induced with less force and
higher frequency in cells that had minimal actin cytoskeletal structure. Our results are consistent with previous studies that highlight the importance of cytoskeletal integrity in
maintaining cell shape and the role of EDIN/C3 in disrupting
the cytoskeleton to induce macroapertures. To determine if
mechanically-induced macroapertures are dependent on cell
adhesion, we indented cells that were plated on coverslips
that were coated with different extracellular matrix (ECM)
proteins – gelatin and fibronectin. Our preliminary findings
suggest that ECM does not significantly affect macroaperture
formation in HUVECs.
Since substrate stiffness has been shown to influence cell
mechanics, we sought to determine if macroaperture formation is also dependent on stiffness. We plated HUVECs
that were transiently expressing EDIN on fibronectin-coated
polyacrylamide gels of different stiffnesses and measured the
average number of apertures per cell. We found that more
cells formed macroapertures when they were cultured on
a stiff substrate compared to a soft substrate. We also observed a positive correlation between cell spread area and
the number of macroapertures per cell. Our findings support
a previously proposed model that thinning of the cells due to
increased spread area could increase the likelihood of fusion
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Daniel Fletcher
Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Bassereau
Laboratoire Physico-Chimie, Institut Curie
Mechanical Induction of Transcellular Tunnels
between the dorsal and ventral membranes to generate macroapertures.
In summary, the results from our work show that transcellular macroaperture tunnels can be initiated by mechanical
force, thus highlighting the physical nature of this membrane
fusion process. Our study also suggests that the cytoskeleton could provide resistance against spontaneous formation
of macroapertures, a mechanism that could be hijacked by
bacterial pathogens to breach the protective endothelial barrier. We successfully accomplished the original goals of our
France-Berkeley proposal, and this work has inspired new
research on the mechanics of membrane-membrane interactions.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Kevin Webster – PhD student (UC Berkeley)
Caroline Stefani – PhD student (Nice)
Win Pin Ng – PhD student (UC Berkeley)
Carmen Chan – PhD student (UC Berkeley)
Coline Prévost – PhD student (Curie Institute)
Patricia Bassereau – Professor (Curie Institute)
Emmanuel Lemichez – Professor (Nice)
Daniel Fletcher – Professor (UC Berkeley)
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Publications resulting from this collaboration are still in
preparation.
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ships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
Support from the France-Berkeley Fund was essential for
creating this collaboration and providing the opportunity for
Dr. Patricia Bassereau and Caoline Stefani to visit UC Berkeley
for an extended period to begin the experimental work. We
have continued discussions regarding experimental priorities
and results, and we plan to complete a joint paper describing the findings supported by this grant. The flexibility of the
France-Berkeley Fund in supporting travel, housing, and supplies, as needed for the project, was very important for the
success of this project. We do hope to continue collaborating
on future membrane reconstitution projects.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
The majority of funds have been expended to enable collaborators to bring samples and visit the Berkeley campus, where
the experiments are conducted on a customized AFM-TIRF
system. A modest amount of funding ($2500) remains to cover supplies costs for completion of the planned experiments.
We anticipate that the full funding amount will be expended
by the end of the project.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We sincerely thank the France-Berkeley Fund for making this
collaboration possible.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relation-
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Jack L. Gallant
Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Bertrand Thirion
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Improving fMRI by Using Anatomical Data
to Constrain Functional Models
Start Date: June 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
From anatomical to functional connectivity
Some experiments conducted on both sides (see e.g. [1])
convinced us that the use of anatomical connectivity as measured by diffusion MRI to inform functional MRI multivariate
models was rather premature, especially in the short timeline
of the project. For this reason, we decided to to shift the focus of this project from anatomically informed to models to
purely functional models of brain connectivity and function
that incorporate functional covariance information.
Improvement of encoding models through low-rank constraints
The analysis of fMRI data in response to stimuli is often divided into the two categories of forward (encoding) and
backward (decoding) models. Whereas forward or encoding
models are intended to model brain activity as a function of
the stimulus, backward or decoding models attempt to infer
the stimulus from brain activity. Both paradigms are useful in
fMRI data analysis, but solve different problems and have different advantages and drawbacks. In their purest forms, both
of them are inherently univariate in their dependent variable,
i.e. forward models use a stimulus-dependent design to predict activity in every target voxel separately and backward
models use brain activity to predict every target property of
the stimulus separately. While both of these approaches already yield remarkable results, they do not take into account
the covariance structure of the dependent variables.
Here we concentrate on linear forward models and examine a potential way of incorporating the dependent variable
covariance structure in the analysis in order to improve model performance. Note that linear models are fully separable in
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dencies between dependent variables can only be realized
at training time. Predictions of held-out responses, however,
are not affected by the constraints of inter-target dependencies. One possibility for taking into account covariance in the
neighborhood structure is to encode it as a penalty acting
on differences in model weight maps between neighbors, as
encoded by a neighborhood graph. This can be achieved, e.g.
by solving a multitask ridge regression problem on the neighborhood indicator graph.
Using a low-rank penalty leads to global systematic increases in predictive power, most likely due to elimination of voxel-independent noise due to implicit smoothing. However,
though this method may improve denoising, it may be detrimental to the modeling of the signal. Neighboring voxels may
have dissimilar responses, and forcing voxels to have similar
activations to their neighbors may result in imposing a constraint that deviates from the ground truth.
One potential remedy to this problem is to allow activations of chosen regions to vary freely in a subspace that is
smaller than the original feature space. The choice of this
shared subspace is data- driven. Making the number of dimensions in the shared subspace smaller than the number of
dependent variables projected to it reduces noise and results
in an optimal subspace for signal modeling.
This analysis is still a work in progress, but it will be completed and published soon.
Several angles of analysis can be chosen. The main question we ask in this report is “Does enforcing local neighborhoods to draw predictions from the same subspace of feature
space, but varying freely within this subspace, improve predictive accuracy?”. The evaluation of this question needs to
take into account that the answer may vary spatially across
the brain, with respect to the region size on which this type of
claim can hold and dimensionality of the subspace for which
this claim can hold. For a fixed set of regions, one may identiFrance-Berkeley Fund
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Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Bertrand Thirion
Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France
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Fig. 1. Flat maps showing best improvement in correlation score over ranks for a radius of 6mm.
Fig.2 Strongest relative improvement on 1000 best improved voxels as a function of rank for
radius 12mm. Note that their absolute value is still rather low.
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Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
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fy for each voxel which region and which subspace dimension
yield an optimal prediction.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
UC Berkeley:
• Jack Gallant
• Alexander Huth
• Natalia Bilenko
INRIA:
• Bertrand Thirion
• Michael Eickenberg
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Michael Eickenberg, Fabian Pedregosa, Senoussi Mehdi,
Alexandre Gramfort, and Bertrand Thirion. Second order
scattering descriptors predict fMRI activity due to visual
textures. In 3nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging, Philadelphia, États-Unis, June
2013.
Gael Varoquaux, Michael Eickenberg. Total variation meets
sparsity: region-inducing penalties segment functional
brain modules. Submitted to NIPS 2014.
Michael Eickenberg, Alexander G. Huth, Natalia Y. Bilenko,
Bertrand Thirion, Jack L. Gallant, Reduced-Rank Regression
boosts the accuracy of high-dimensional encoding models.
In prep.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The project has mostly consisted of graduate student visits
between the two labs: mutual visits have taken place, so that
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each partner becomes familiar with how the other partner’s
lab handles data and with the main technical issues faced by
each lab. Code, data and simulation programs have been exchanged between the partners (code and data: from Berkeley
to Neurospin). Also, the partners have been able to compare
strategies for data acquisitions (imaging parameters, processing choices).
One year is short, and though starting the collaboration
was fruitful, there is now more work ahead than what we
have been able to achieve. For instance, the use of structured
sparsity technique is interesting to both labs yet we haven’t
been able to have an exchange on it.
The project is thus currently a vast work in progress, and
there will be continued collaboration between the partners
in the future. The formalization of the collaboration within a
joint grant would be well suited for that.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
The money was spent on travel and accommodation expenses for exchange visits between graduate students from each
partner lab: visit of M. Eickenberg in UC Berkeley (May 2013),
of
A. Huth and N. Bilenko in Saclay in Nov. 2013 (one week
each time).
We were not able to put together an ANR-CRCNS computational neuroscience proposal last year, but wish to do so for
the next call.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
2 years rather than 1 year would be great.
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Igor V. Grigoriev
Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francis M. Martin
Lab of Excellence ARBRE, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique—Nancy
Uncovering Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms
of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Wood Decay Machinery
in Forest Ecosystems by Comparative Genomics
Start Date: October 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
Our project was focused on strengthening collaboration
between LBNL, INRA, and a larger scientific community to
explore associations between trees and fungi in forests. Significant progress has been achieved for each of the key objectives:
1. Strengthen collaboration between INRA and JGI (LBNL) in
analysis of multi-dimensional datasets on tree-microbial interactions within the context of forest ecology and management.
By developing a very strong collaboration, JGI and INRA
served as crystallization centers for building very large communities of researchers interested in genomics of interactions
between plants and fungi in Europe and US and developed a
framework for international research in this area.
Three major genomics projects with Igor Grigoriev and
Francis Martin as co-PIs are funded by DOE and are in progress at JGI: Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative, Exploring the
Symbiotic Transcriptomes, and Metatranscriptomics of Forest Soil Ecosystems with 100s of genomics experiments. Several genomics projects were done across institutional boundaries, for example, several Laccaria bicolor strains, for which
genomes were sequenced at JGI and transcriptomes at INRA,
with both sides playing active role in data assembly, annotation, and analysis. Two genomics databases, JGI MycoCosm
focused on annotated genomes and community curation and
INRA Mycor Web focused on transcriptomes and community
interactions, nicely complement each other.
We established regular communication and working visits
to exchange data and tools, experimental and computational
techniques, and general expertise developed in each laboratory. Collaboration between our two institutes facilitated
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interactions between larger scientific communities on both
sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
2. Organize several workshops to bring researchers from different disciplines to develop new resources and strategies in
the framework of microbial interactions in forest ecosystems
PIs of this project organized four workshops in Europe:
three on Mycorrhizal genomics (Nov 2012: Nancy, France;
July 2013: Leipzig, Germany; March 2014: Seville, Spain) and
one on plant-fungal interactions in forest ecosystems (Nov
2012: Nancy, France) with a total of over 150 participants.
Summaries of these discussions have been published (Marmeisse et al., 2013; Labbé et al., 2014).
Several workshops were also organized in the US to attract
new groups of researchers into international genomics initiatives: workshops in Pacific Grove, CA (March 2013), Austin,
TX (Aug 2013), Walnut Creek, CA (March 2014) with a total of
over 300 participants.
The Mycorrhizal Genomics Consortium has grown significantly and now actively contributing to the new 1000 Fungal
Genomes project, co-authored by both PIs of this project. Igor
Grigoriev visited INRA Labs and other institutes in Europe,
South America, and Canada to bring additional participants
to study of plant –fungal interactions and extend collaboration between JGI, INRA, and other institutes. Francis Martin
chaired the Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference in 2013 and
visited labs in Europe and Asia to recruit new participants for
these large scale genomics initiatives.
3. Provide training opportunities and support for young researchers
Martin’s lab (INRA-Nancy) hosted Alan Kuo from JGI to discuss developments in genome sequencing and annotation.
Grigoriev’s lab (JGI-LBNL) hosted Emannuelle Morin from
INRA at JGI for 2 weeks to train her on use of JGI annotation
pipeline and support her annotation of new mycorrhizal genomes.
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Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francis M. Martin
Lab of Excellence ARBRE, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique—Nancy
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Close interactions between two teams took place at several
meetings and workshops with several opportunities for talks
and poster presentations for younger researchers (Asilomar
Fungal Genetics Conference – March 2013, Pacific Grove, CA;
JGI User Meeting - March 2014, Walnut Creek, CA; European
Conference on Fungal Genetics - March 2014, Seville, Spain)
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Igor Grigoriev, Head, Fungal Genomics Program, JGI-LBL
Francis Martin, Head, Lab of Excellence ARBRE, INRANancy
Alan Kuo, bioinformatics analyst, JGI-LBL
Robert Riley, bioinformatics analyst, JGI-LBL
Robin Ohm, bioinformatics analyst, JGI-LBL
Annegret Kohler, INRA engineer, transcriptomics, INRANancy
Emannuelle Morin, INRA bioinformatics engineer, INRANancy
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
MARMEISSE R, NEHLS U, OPIK M, SELOSSE MA, PRINGLE A.
(2013) Bridging mycorrhizal genomics, metagenomics and
forest ecology. New Phytologist 198(2):343-6
LABBE J, UEHLING J, PAYEN T, PLETT J (2014) Fungal biology:
compiling genomes and exploiting them. New Phytologist
203: 359–361
TISSERANT E, MALBREIL M, KUO A, KOHLER A, SYMEONIDI
A, BALESTRINI R, CHARRON P, DUENSING N, FREI DIT FREY
N, GIANINAZZI-PEARSON V, GILBERT B, HANDA Y, HERR J,
HIJRI M, KOUL R, KAWAGUCHI M, KRAJINSKI F, LAMMERS P,
MASCLAUX FG, MURAT C, MORIN E, NDIKUMANA S, PAGNI
M, PETITPIERRE D, REQUENA N, ROSIKIEWICZ P, RILEY R,
SAITO K, SAN CLEMENTE H, SHAPIRO H, VAN TUINEN D,
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BECARD G, BONFANTE P, PASZKOWSKI U, SHACHAR-HILL
Y, TUSKAN GA, YOUNG JPW, SANDERS IR, HENRISSAT B,
RENSING SA, GRIGORIEV IV, CORRADI N, ROUX C, MARTIN
F (2013) The genome of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus
provides insights into the oldest plant symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA Doi: 10.1073/
Pnas.1313452110 (Recommended by The Faculty Of 1000)
RILEY RW, SALAMOV AA, BROWN DB, NAGY LG, FLOUDAS D,
HELD BW, LEVASSEUR A, LOMBARD V, MORIN E, OTILLAR R,
LINDQUIST EA, SUN H, LABUTTI KM, SCHMUTZ J, JABBOUR
D, LUO H, BAKER SE, PISABARRO AG, WALTON JD, BLANCHETTE RA, HENRISSAT B, MARTIN F, CULLEN D, HIBBETT DS,
GRIGORIEV IV (2014) Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/
brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi. Proceedings
Of The National Academy Of Sciences USA, Doi/10.1073/
Pnas.1400592111
PENDLETON AL, SMITH KE, FEAU N, MARTIN FM, GRIGORIEV
IV, HAMELIN R, NELSON CD, BURLEIGH JG, DAVIS JM (2014)
Duplications and losses in gene families of rust pathogens
highlight putative effectors. Frontiers in Plant Sciences,
Doi: 10.3389/Fpls.2014.00299
NAGY L, OHM R, KOVÁCS G, FLOUDAS D, RILEY R, GACSER A,
SIPICZKY M, DAVIS J, DOTY S, DE HOOG GS, LANG BF, SPATAFORA J, MARTIN F, GRIGORIEV IV, HIBBETT D (2014) Latent
homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies
the repeated emergence of yeasts. Nature Communications, in press
Books:
MARtiN F (2013)the Ecological genomics of Fungi. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
including the following chapters:
GRIGORIEV IV. A changing landscape of fungal genomics. pp
3-20.
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Igor V. Grigoriev
Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francis M. Martin
Lab of Excellence ARBRE, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique—Nancy
Uncovering Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms
of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Wood Decay Machinery
in Forest Ecosystems by Comparative Genomics
MARTIN F & KOHLER A. The mycorrhizal symbiosis genomics.
pp169-190.
MARtiN F (2014) genomics of Plant-Related Fungi. Advances In Botanical Research. Elsevier.
including the following chapters:
KUO A, BUSNELL B, GRIGORIEV IV. Fungal Genomics: sequencing and annotation. pp 1-52
KOHLER A & TISSERANT E. Exploring the transcriptome of mycorrhizal interactions. pp 53-78.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
Although collaborations between INRA (France) and JGI/
LBNL(Berkeley, CA) started several years ago with genomics
projects of the first sequenced poplar tree, its first sequenced
symbionts and pathogens, this FBF funded project helped to
bring this collaboration to the next level, to organize a larger
community of researchers and to explore evolutionary origins and mechanisms of plant-fungal interactions in forest
ecosystems using genomics approaches. These efforts have
been very successful and led to new larger collaborative opportunities. Seven new genomics projects with joint participation from France and US were selected by JGI Community
Science Program in 2013-2014 and in progress at JGI. One of
them is the project by Martin et al. (2013) Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative: Exploring the Symbiotic Transcriptomes
(http://proposals.jgi-psf.org/pmo/proposals/978).
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5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
November 2012: $2,350 – travel arrangements for Igor Grigoriev to participate in 2nd Mycorrhizal workshop
July 2013: $3,500 – Igor Grigoriev’s travel to 3rd Mycorrhizal
workshop and visit of INRA labs
March 2014: $4,150 – Emmanuelle Morin’s travel to JGI User
Meeting and visit of Grigoriev’s Lab at JGI/LBNL
The main publication focused on evolution of mycorrhizal
and wood decay fungi is expected to be submitted to Science
or Nature in summer 2014. It will be followed by a special
issue of New Phytologist including several in-depth analyses
of genomics data. Work on comparative analyses of a larger
collection of mycorrhizal and wood decay genomes continues. We’ll seek additional funding from FBF, DOE, NSF and
other funding agencies to further expand international collaboration around large-scale genomics initiatives.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We would like to thank the France-Berkeley Fund for this
excellent opportunity to engage a large scientific community including the next generation of scientists into genomics
research of plant-microbial interactions in forest ecosystems.
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Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Ropert
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Optogenetic Probing of the
Mechanisms and Function of Gliotransmission
Start Date: December 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The objectives of the project were the following:
1) To extend our repertoire of optogenetic tools to activate
astrocytes to newly developed light-controlled versions of
the glutamate-gated G protein coupled receptors (GPCR) of
the mGluR family (LimGluR);
2) To develop new viral constructs and transgenics to express the light-gated glutamate receptor (LiGluR) and LimGluRs along with genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators in astrocytes of intact mouse brain;
3) To study the impact of gliotransmission on neurotransmission in cortical brain slices.
1) Developing new glutamate-gated GPCR to activate astrocytes.
Several new LimGluRs have been made and their ability to
modulate neuronal activity has been demonstrated both in
vitro and in vivo at Berkeley by the team of Ehud Isacoff [1].
The ability of the LimGluR to modulate astrocyte activity has
been tested at Paris Descartes by the team of Nicole Ropert. The effect of LimGluR photoactivation on cAMP level has
been demonstrated in cultured astrocytes using total internal
refection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy. It has also been
shown that LimGluR photoactivation modulate the glutamate
transport by the astrocytes in culture (Li et al., manuscript
submitted).
2) Specific targeting of reporter genes to astrocytes in situ.
The team of Nicole Ropert at Paris Descartes has tested
several viral and transgenic approaches to express specifically reporter genes in the astrocytes of adult mouse cortex. The conditional Cre-Lox strategy was validated by using,
first, intracortical injection of flexed adeno-associated virus
(AAV-flexed-EGFP) in GLAST-CreERT2 and Cx30-CreERT2 mice
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to express specifically EGFP in astrocytes, and second, by
crossing Cre-dependent GCaMP3 expressing mouse with the
same Cre mice. Our experiments show that the transgenic
approach should be favored to express reporter genes bigger
than the packaging capacity of the AAV vector, and to avoid
reactive astrocytes induced by AAV injections (manuscript in
preparation).
3) Communication between astrocytes and neurons.
The release of neuroactive gliotransmitter relies on astrocytic
Ca2+ rise however the exact relation between Ca2+ signals and
gliotransmitter release is far from been understood. In particular understanding how the various sources of Ca2+ (transmembrane Ca2+ influx, transmembrane Ca2+ transport, and
Ca2+ release from internal stores) contribute to the release
of the various gliotransmitters (glutamate, ATP, adenosine,
D-serine, GABA), is still enigmatic. To address this question,
we want to record astrocytic Ca2+ signals and study their impact on neuronal activity by mimicking the Ca2+ signals using
light-gated Ca2+ permeable channels and receptors.
Previous studies using membrane-permeable chemical
Ca2+ indicators which label both neurons and astrocytes could
not report Ca2+ signals from the thin astrocytic processes.
Preliminary results from the team at Paris Descartes using a
genetically encoded Ca2+ indicator, GCaMP3, showed that it
is a very valuable tool to monitor Ca2+ activity in the thin glial
processes in situ using acute cortical slices and two-photon
microscopy. By crossing the Cre-dependent GCaMP3 mice
with either GLAST-CreERT2 or Cx30-CreERT2 mice, we specifically labeled cortical astrocytes and monitored Ca2+ activity
in the thin glial processes in response to metabotropic and
ionotropic purinergic agonists. Our results demonstrate that
previous experiments by monitoring only the somatic region
of astrocytes have only seen the upper part of the iceberg,
and they have underestimated the effects of ATP and adeFrance-Berkeley Fund
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Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Ropert
Physiologie Cérébrale, Université Paris Descartes
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nosine on astrocyte Ca2+ signaling in the thin processes (manuscript in preparation).
The team of Nicole Ropert has demonstrated that the photoactivation of a light-gated Ca2+-translocating channelrhodopsin (CatCh) triggers reliable Ca2+ rise in cultured astrocytes
[2]. CatCh is a smaller protein than LiGluR or LimGluR therefore it can be inserted into the AAV vector together with a
fluorescent protein. Therefore we will test the effect of CatCh
photoactivation using, first, a flexed-CatCh-AAV construct,
and, second, a Cre-dependent CatCh mouse line. We have established a holographic system to shape the photoactivation
according to the local events recorded in the GCaMP3-expressing mice. The impact of the light-gated astrocytic Ca2+
signals on neuronal activity will be studied using patch-clamp
electrophysiological recordings.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Nicole ROPERT, PI, DR2 CNRS
Dongdong LI, CR1 INSERM
Karine HERAULT, Engineer INSERM
Elke SCHMIDT, PhD student, Ecole Doctorale Frontières
du Vivant (Defense end of 2014)
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
1. Levitz et al, 2013, Optical control of metabotropic glutamate receptors, Nature Neuroscience V16 p507-516
2. Li et al, 2012, Optogenetic activation of LiGluR-expressing
astrocytes evokes anion channel-mediated glutamate release, Journal of Physiology V590 p855-73
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ships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
A major puzzle in neurobiology is: what do glia do in the
brain? Why are there so many astrocytes? Why are they so
intimately interdigitated with neuronal synapses? Why do
they respond to and release transmitters? The collaboration
between Berkeley and Paris Descartes has been essential to
apply new optogenetic tools to study in a specific manner the
communication between the major class of synapse-associated glia—astrocytes--and neurons. The work followed on the
heels of a sabbatical of Isacoff in Paris where his lab’s first
optogenetic tools were used: ones that are foreign to astrocytes, but powerfully control an aspect of their function. But
the real goal was to get optogenetic control over the natural
astrocyte receptors. That was the plan of the FBF collaboration. It succeeded, by generating the first light-controlled
astrocyte glutamate receptors, the mGluRs. The first of these
was used in astrocytes by the Ropert group and provided
key evidence for the biological role of one class of cell signaling event in astrocytes that could affect the function of
nearby neurons and thereby the operation of the circuit in
which they are embedded. The collaboration will continue in
the next few years with an exchange of trainees and visits by
Isacoff and Ropert to each other’s labs. The goal: to carry out
the next set of experiments in the live mouse brain.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
The funds were spent on supplies in the Isacoff lab that were
used to generate the optogenetic tools, their delivery methods, and functionally assess these. These were then supplied
to the Ropert lab. An Excel file [obtainable upon request from
the FBF office] lists the purchases.
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On the strength of the progress supported by FBF, the
Isacoff lab applied for and received funding of 2 grants that
are part of the federal BRAIN Initiative: A 2-year grant from
NSF-EAGER (IOS-1451027) ($100K per year, direct) and a
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3-year grant from NIH (U01 RFA-NS-14-008) ($225K per year,
direct). This funding will support parallel studies on glial-neuron interactions in zebrafish and support the continued effort
on the mammalian system in collaboration with Ropert.
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Sanjay Kumar
Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Manuel Théry
Physics of Cytoskeleton and Morphogenesis, CEA Grenoble/Hopital St. Louis, Paris
Engineering and Dissecting
the Micro-Architecture of Actomyosin Stress Fibers
Start Date: June 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
This project had two goals: To eludicate relationships between: (1) Actomyosin stress fiber (SF) length and SF mechanics; and (2) SF location and SF mehcanics. Both aims heavily
leveraged single-cell photopatterning technologies from the
Théry Lab in France and femtosecond laser nanosurgery from
the Kumar Lab at UC Berkeley. Our first goal with this project
was to successfully translate the photopatterning technology
from the Théry Laboratory to the Kumar Laboratory. Thanks
to close communication and data sharing, as well as Dr.
Théry’s FBF-supported visit to the US in December 2012 and
our encounters at various scientific meetings, we successfully accomplished this within the first 6-9 months. Since then,
the Kumar Laboratory has been combining these patterning
approaches with femtosecond laser nanosurgery to address
both aims. We have made significant progress on Aim 1, having created patterns that give rise to SFs spanning a range
of well-controlled lengths and applied nanosurgery to characterize the viscoelastic properties of these SFs. We are currently in the stages of verifying our preliminary data, which
we plan to present publicly for the first time at a Gordon
Research Conference (GRC) in June 2014. We are also beginning to make progress on Aim 2, where we have focused on
designing patterns that place SFs at the center or periphery
of the cell with the goal of asking whether this location influences SF mechanics and contributions to traction force and
shape stability. In previous work, we had shown that these
two SF locations are associated with very different viscoelastic properties, which in turn are regulated by different cellular
signaling systems. Thus, this work may offer the opportunity
to connect molecular events to more micro- and macroscale
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events. At present, we are generating our patterns and beginning to conduct laser nanosurgery studies.
This work is being led by a third-year PhD student, who will
present this work in poster form at the GRC on Signaling by
Adhesion Receptors and has begun to assemble high-quality
data towards a publication. Notably, this student was also
recognized with a prestigious HHMI International Predoctoral
Fellowship based in part on data and ideas associated with
this project.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
UC BERKELEY
• Sanjay Kumar, Associate Professor
• Elena Kassianidou, Doctoral Student
CEA GRENOBLE/HOPITAL ST. LOUIS
• Manuel Théry, Group Leader
• Timothée Vignaud, Doctoral Student
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
While we have a publication in preparation, we do not yet
have one accepted.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
This work would not have been possible without transfer
of technologies and capabilities between UC Berkeley and
CEA Grenoble. Specifically, through close communication,
exchange of protocols, and critical discussion of data, Dr.
Thery’s group has helped establish a core technology in Dr.
Kumar’s group that did not previously exist and promises to
significantly impact research in his group for years to come.
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Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Manuel Théry
Physics of Cytoskeleton and Morphogenesis, CEA Grenoble/Hopital St. Louis, Paris
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the Micro-Architecture of Actomyosin Stress Fibers
Similarly, the Kumar Lab has offered its experience with femtosecond laser nanosurgery to the Théry group, which has
established this technology in its lab as well. Drs. Théry and
Kumar have applied for one collaborative NIH grant together
and will soon be applying for another, and if these efforts are
successful it will ensure continued interaction for the next
few years. In addition, Dr. Kumar served as an external referee on the thesis committee of one of Dr. Théry’s PhD students
and attended the defense during his visit to Grenoble and
Paris in November 2013.
underway and is on track to lead to a manuscript for publication. If needed, modest portions of these funds may also
be used to support publication charges and/or expenses to
attend scientific meetings to present project research. We
are grateful to the France-Berkeley fund for allowing us a nocost extension through December 31, 2014, by which time
we expect to have fully spent remaining funds.
As mentioned earlier, we have applied for two NIH grants
together and plan to continue actively exploring joint funding
opportunities, most likely via NSF, NIH, HFSP, and the EU.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
We have expended the majority of our funds. Key expenses
have included:
• Travel for Kumar from UC Berkeley to Paris and Grenoble
to discuss research and serve on Vignaud’s thesis committee (November 2013)
• Travel for Théry from France to San Francisco to discuss
research with Kumar and his laboratory members and
attend the American Society for Cell Biology Meeting
(December 2012)
• Materials and supplies: reagents for cell culture and
molecular biology, extracellular matrix proteins, photomasks, expenses associated with microfabrication and
imaging
We plan to expend the small remaining surplus on materials and supplies relevant to the project, which is still actively
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We are enormously grateful to the France-Berkeley Fund for
supporting our research. This opportunity was particularly
timely and fruitful, as we had known of each others’ work for
many years and briefly met at scientific conferences, but until now lacked the resources and momentum to collaborate.
The France-Berkeley Fund enabled us to launch a substantial effort that has already made enormous infrastructural
and educational contributions to both laboratories and, we
hope, will lead to dedicated research funding. Notably, this
award has also served as a pathway for Kumar, who chairs a
PhD program at Berkeley, to serve on a French doctoral defense committee. This experience has greatly helped both
of us recognize and appreciate the many cultural similarities
and differences between the American and French systems
of graduate education and will surely influence how we approach this at our home institutions in the future.
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Stephen R. Leone
Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ian R. Sims
Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1
Direct Measurements of Reaction Pathways for
Interstellar and Planetary Low-Temperature Chemistry
Start Date: June 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The project was initiated in June 2012, and ran until December 2013, with a 6-month extension. Four collaborative visits
have been undertaken during the project period. The visits
were organized around allocated beam time on the Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS)
synchrotron in Berkeley, a large scale facility which provides
tunable vacuum ultraviolet light to enable (in our case) the
direct detection of the products of elementary reactions of
importance for the chemistry of interstellar molecular clouds
and planetary atmospheres.
the first collaborative visit in June 2012 was by Prof. Sims
and his graduate student Martin Fournier, partly funded by
the FBF, and partly by funds from Rennes. They worked with
Dr Jordy Bouwman (postdoctoral fellow within Prof. Leone’s
group) and Dr Kevin Wilson (Deputy Director of the Chemical
Dynamics Beamline at the ALS) on the determination of the
products of elementary gas-phase reactions at low temperatures. The period was spent principally in learning how to use
the instrument, and preliminary results were obtained on
the reaction of the C2H radical with isomers of butene, C4H8.
These reactions are of interest particularly for understanding
the chemistry of the cold, dense atmosphere of Titan, one of
Saturn’s moons.
A second visit was undertaken in December 2012 by Martin Fournier to complete the study, and the results were
analysed and interpreted in the first half of 2013, resulting
in a joint publication (see [1] in question #3 below). A third
visit was made by Prof. Sims to Berkeley in May 2013, this
time to work with another postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Leone’s group, Dr. Jessica Lockyear. A sister instrument to the
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vanced capabilities for product detection (the capability to
detect multiple products at the same time), though only at
room temperature in this case. Reactions of the cyano radical
CN with methanol, ammonia and 1,3-butadiene were studied, as well as reactions of the methylidyne radical CH with
methanol, ethane and methyl vinyl ketone. Complementary low temperature rate constant measurements have also
been performed in Rennes on the CN + methanol reaction.
The results of this work are currently being analysed, and are
expected to result in a number of further joint publications.
The project was slightly delayed versus the original timeline owing to the shutdown of the ALS in the first quarter of
2013, and a 6-month extension to the project was requested
and granted. A fourth and final extended 4-week visit was
then made by Martin Fournier in November-December to
work with Dr Jessica Lockyear, Dr Kevin Wilson and his postdoc at the ALS Dr Benjamin Kirk. Previous work on the products of C2H radical reactions with 1,3 butadiene, 1-butyne
and vinyl acetylene suffered from unwanted dissociation of
the hydrocarbon by the 193 nm UV laser used to produce
the C2H radicals by photolysis of HCCH or CF3CCH. In Rennes
we have developed a new, safe synthesis of bromoacetylene,
BrCCH, which can be photolysed at 248 nm where the hydrocarbon precursors do not absorb and are therefore not
dissociated. Thanks to the last part of the France Berkeley
Fund grant, combined with support from the Université de
Rennes 1 Physical Sciences Graduate School, Martin Fournier
was able to bring over to the ALS the synthetic glassware,
and then to visit for two runs at the ALS where he synthesised this precursor, first on the ‘kinetics machine’ where the
products of the above reactions were determined at room
temperature, and then on the low temperature Laval nozzle
machine, where unfortunately technical issues meant that
the low temperature work had to be postponed. Nonetheless, sufficient data were gathered to form the basis of one
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Stephen R. Leone
Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ian R. Sims
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joint publication on the products of the C2H + 1,3 butadiene
reaction, proposed to form benzene in a one-step reaction in
cold space environments (see [2] below), as well as several
further publications in preparation.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Professor Stephen R. Leone, Professor of Chemistry and
Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Ian R. Sims, Distinguished Professor of Physics,
Université de Rennes 1, France
Dr Kevin R. Wilson, Deputy Director for Science for the
Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Dr Jordy Bouwman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical
Dynamics Beamline, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory now at Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dr Jessica F. Lockyear, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical
Dynamics Beamline, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr Benjamin Kirk, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical
Dynamics Beamline, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
Mr Martin Fournier, PhD student, Institute of Physics
Rennes, UMR 6251 Université de Rennes 1 – CNRS,
Rennes, France
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
[1] J. Bouwman, M. Fournier, I. R. Sims, S. R. Leone, and K. R.
Wilson, Reaction Rate and Isomer-Specific Product Branching Ratios of C2H + C4H8: 1-Butene, cis-2-Butene, trans-2Butene, and Isobutene at 79 K, J. Phys. Chem. A 117 (2013),
5093-5105.
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[2] J. F. Lockyear, M. Fournier, I. R. Sims, J. C. Guillemin, C.
A. Taatjes, D. L. Osborn, and S. R. Leone, Formation of Fulvene in the Reaction of C2H with 1,3-Butadiene, Int. J. Mass
Spectrom. (2014), under review.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The expertise of the Sims group in astrochemical reaction kinetics was able to be combined with the world class facilities
and expert staff at the Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the
ALS thanks to FBF travel assistance to bring French staff over
from Rennes to Berkeley for four visits associated each time
with experiments on the Beamline. The collaboration has resulted in the award of funds from the Université de Rennes 1
in part to fund further collaboration and also to assist in setting up an International Research Group (GDRI Groupement
De Recherche Internationale) funded by the CNRS.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
See detailed budget on next page. We plan on requesting further support from the Université de Rennes 1 as well as the
French CNRS to support these collaborations.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We would just wish to express our thanks to the France-Berkeley Fund for the award which has been very helpful and enabled a fruitful collaboration to be created between the low
temperature astrochemistry group of Professor Sims and the
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Stephen R. Leone
Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ian R. Sims
Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1
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chemical dynamics groups of Professor Stephen Leone and
Dr Kevin Wilson.
Date
June 2012
Event
Visit by Ian Sims and Martin
Fournier to undertake preliminary
experiments with Kevin Wilson and
Jordy Bouwman at the ALS
November 2012
Visit by Martin Fournier to measure
C2H + butene reaction products with
Kevin Wilson and Jordy Bouwma`n at
the ALS
May 2013
Visit by Ian Sims to the ALS to work
with Jessica Lockyear on reactions of
saturated species using the Sandia
kinetics machine
November/
December 2013
Extended visit by Martin Fournier to
undertake new measurements on
C2H reactions using BrCCH precursor
at the ALS, working with Jessica
Lockyear, Ben Kirk and Kevin Wilson
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Travel for MF and IRS
Amount / Us $
Covered by Université
de Rennes 1
Accommodation for MF at LBL
Guest House
1485.00
Airfare
1101.40
Accommodation and meals
1072.03
Airfare
1151.09
Accommodation at the Women’s
Faculty Club
1231.50
Rental car etc
387.78
Meals (per diem)
840.00
Airfare
713.58
Accommodation
Covered by Université
de Rennes 1
Meals (per diem)
2017.42
Total
9999.80
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Bo Liu
Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
David Bouchez
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Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon
Uncovering an Interactive Protein Network that Regulates
Microtubule Nucleation and Organization for Plant Cell Growth
Start Date: July 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The long-term goal of this project is to elucidate molecular
mechanisms that regulate microtubule nucleation and organization during cell division and expansion in flowering plants.
Because microtubules directly control essential events during
plant cell growth, like chromosome segregation and cell wall
patterning, they have to be organized into developmentally
important arrays in spatially and temporally regulated manners. The two laboratories share common interests in dissecting regulatory mechanisms and have discovered a number of key proteins. In fact, the Bouchez laboratory focuses
on genetic aspects of division plane determination in plants,
while the Liu laboratory uses biochemistry and cell biology
approaches to learn how microtubules are remodeled during
plant cell division. Through independent studies carried out
earlier, we have learned that the 8-protein complex augmin
plays a critical role in the localization of the γ-tubulin complex on microtubules of different arrays, and TON1 regulates
the organization of microtubules in the cortical preprophase
band that marks the division plane. Specifically, we aimed
to test whether augmin and TON1 interacted directly or indirectly.
To date, the two laboratories have purified the augmin
complex and the TON1 protein complex. It was found that the
purified augmin complex did not contain proteins identified
in the TON1 complex, neither were augmin proteins co-purified with TON1. Thus we concluded that these two protein
complexes do not physically interact directly in vivo, and they
probably regulate microtubule nucleation and organization in
two distinct pathways. However, transient or labile interactions between the two complexes remain an open possibility.
Alternatively, the augmin and nucleation complexes may be
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a target for regulation by the TON1-TON2/FASS complex, by
means of its protein phosphatase activity. The Bouchez group
is developing an in vitro PP2A phosphatase assay that will
be available for conducting activity tests on phosphorylated
forms of Arabidopsis augmin, as phosphorylated forms exist
for several subunits. In addition, recently results published by
Kirik et al. (2012) indicated that the TON1 complex is involved
in microtubule nucleation, and we have recently obtained
yeast two-hybrid evidence that TON2/FASS interacts with elements of the nucleation machinery. Based on these findings,
our ongoing experiments have been revised and will more
likely lead to informative findings.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
•
•
•
Bo Liu, Professor
Y.-J. Julie Lee, Associate Plant Biologist
David Bouchez, Senior Scientist
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
At the current stage, investigations are still underway. A
relatively complete story will be developed after collecting
additional data and summarized as a manuscript for a leading
journal in the field of plant/cell biology. The FBF funding will
be acknowledged.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
Previously, the two laboratories did not have direct interactions and were known based on reading each other’s publications. Stimulated by the FBF program, colleagues from
the two laboratories had face-to-face discussions. While the
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Bo Liu
Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
David Bouchez
Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon
Uncovering an Interactive Protein Network that Regulates
Microtubule Nucleation and Organization for Plant Cell Growth
two laboratories have their own emphases of proteins of interest, it became eminent that the interaction between these
proteins will have to be tested via genetics and biochemical
approaches expertized in the two laboratories. For example,
one possibility is that the microtubule nucleation activity of
the augmin complex is regulated by the TON1-TON2/FASS
protein phosphatase complex through protein dephosphorylation. When additional funds become available, junior
scientists can be sent to each other’s institutions in order
to carry out extensive experiments aimed at testing protein
phosphorylation and dephosphorylation at distinctive stages
of cell division, as well as assaying how these events may affect the organization of the plant specific microtubule array
called preprophase band. We look forward to strengthening
future collaborations.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Funds were spent in the following categories:
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2)
3)
4)
Molecular and cellular biology reagents
$4,000
Antibody production
$2,500
Recharge fees at the imaging facility
$1,500
Travel
$2,000
In order to expand the collaboration between the two
laboratories, it would be essential to secure additional funds
that would place a full-time postdoctoral fellow or graduate
student on the project for a longer period of time like three
years. Potential agencies for extramural funds are the Human
Frontiers Science or possible future calls from joint programs
at the National Science Foundation of USA and the Agence
Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) of France.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
This is an excellent program that stimulates collaborations
between UC laboratories and colleagues in France. It would
be even more helpful if personnel cost like stipend were allowed.
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Stephen G. Louie
Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez
CNRS-LNCMI, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
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Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of Electron-Electron and
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene-Based Compounds
and Topological Insulators with Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Start Date: September 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
As described in the original project proposal, the general goal
of this project was to understand how electron-electron and
electron-phonon interactions affect the electronic and optical properties of graphene-based materials and topological
insulators as manifested in their magneto-optical spectra.
The accomplished work is in accordance to the proposed
goal, with a focus on graphene because of experimental limitations in access to high field resistive magnets. We have collected magneto-optical spectra of various graphene samples
and have performed theoretical modelling and analysis of the
obtained data.
Our analysis reveals signatures of valley-symmetry breaking in graphene, which is a phenomenon caused by electron-electron interactions. This symmetry breaking is extensively discussed in the literature from the theoretical point
of view, but has only been observed in transport measurements. Our work provides the first optical confirmation of the
valley-polarized nature of the ground state.
The details of the experiment and theoretical modelling
are given in the attached supporting documents.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
•
•
•
Steven G. Louie, Professor
Gérard Martinez, Professor
Liang Z. Tan, doctoral student
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
A manuscript is in preparation. We plan to submit it to Nature
Physics or Physical Review Letters. We expect a publication
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in a high-impact journal because this work represents the
first optical observation and introduces a new theoretical
perspective on an important topic of great current interest in
condensed matter physics.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
We have collaborated very closely over the course of this
project. There have been many fruitful discussions, particularly during the visits to Grenoble and Berkeley. These
discussions have greatly increased our understanding of
many-body physics in graphene, and have benefited both experimental and theoretical sides of the collaboration. We will
certainly continue to work together in the future.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
An amount of $6,000 was spent on accommodation and travel expenses for two separate visits of Liang Z. Tan to Grenoble. An amount of $3,000 was spent on accommodation and
travel expenses for the visit of Gérard Martinez to Berkeley.
We anticipate requesting support for future activities along
the direction of our France-Berkeley Fund project from the
NSF.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
Our collaboration has been extremely fruitful. The travel
fund provided by the France-Berkeley Fund made the success
of our project possible.
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SiC: d = 32 µm
0.25
0.30
Fig. 1: Absolute transmission spectrum at
B=0 T of the sample Gth3N. The spectrum
reflects essentially the features related to
the SiC substrate.
Far infra-red magneto-optical experiments have been performed at magnetic field strengths B
up to 35 T and at a fixed temperature of 1.6 K. The light (provided and analyzed by a Fourier
transform spectrometer) was delivered to the sample by means of light-pipe optics. All
experiments were performed with non- polarized light, in the Faraday geometry with the wave
vector of the incoming light parallel to the magnetic field direction and perpendicular to the
plane of the samples. A Si bolometer was placed directly beneath the sample to detect the
transmitted radiation. The response of this bolometer is strongly dependent on B. Therefore, in
order to measure the absolute transmission TA(B,ω), we used a sample-rotating holder and
measure, for each value of B, e reference spectrum through a hole. These spectra are in turn
normalized with respect to TA(0,ω) to obtain a relative transmission spectrum TR(B,ω) which
only displays the magnetic field dependent features.
The samples are in fact multi-layer epitaxial graphene grown on a SiC substrate. The present
study required some special care because the SiC substrate develops a strong double phonon
structure in absorption around the energy of interest as shown in Fig.1. Thin SiC substrates are
not commercially available and , in the present case, we have been lead to thin down these
substrates to thicknesses d lower than 40 µm.
Gth3N
K- phonon
Γ- phonon
35T
Fig. 2: Relative transmission spectra of the sample Gth3N for
different values of the magnetic field up to 35 T.
12T
0.12 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.20 0.22 0.24 0.26
Energy (eV)
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.1
We report in Fig.2 the relative transmission spectra on sample Gth3N for different magnetic
field values between 12 and 35 T.
0.15 0.20
Energy (eV)
Γ phonon
Among the different possibilities of investigations on such a large domain of physics, we have
chosen to concentrate our studies on the observation of the interaction between electrons
and the Γ phonon in Graphene. The technique consist in measuring the magneto-optical
transmission spectra in the far-infrared corresponding to the transitions between Landau levels
n=0 and n= ± 1 and to follow the intensity of this transition when it crosses the energy of the Γ
phonon (0.196 eV).
0.10
K phonon
Gth3N: B = 0 T
0.0
0.05
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
Experimental results:
Absolute transmission
Relative transmission
General aspects and techniques:
Experimental results
Steven G. Louie and G. Martinez
M.Orlita, Liang Z. Tan, M. Potemski, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer,
Joint experimental and theoretical study of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in
graphene-based compounds and topological insulators with magneto-optical spectroscopy.
France-Berkeley fund: Grant ID #: 2012-0019
Supplementary information for the final report of the
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Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez
CNRS-LNCMI, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of Electron-Electron and
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene-Based Compounds
and Topological Insulators with Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
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Γ phonon
Energy (eV)
0.16 0.18 0.20 0.22 0.24 0.26
Gth3N
35T
34 T
33 T
32 T
31T
30 T
29 T
28 T
27 T
Fig. 3: Absolute transmission spectra of the
sample Gth3N for different values of the
magnetic field between 27 and 35 T. A high
energy component of the main line
develops resulting in a splitting for largest
values of the field. This occurs for energies
larger than the Γ phonon energy (0.196 eV).
Re(σ𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 (ω, B))
ε0 c
A very rough treatment of the data has been first done by a de- convolution of them with two
Lorentzians of equal width (but magnetic field dependent). This approach gives the following
results displayed in Fig.4. The same procedure has been applied to a second sample (named S4)
but only investigated up to 34 T.
Therefore the spectra reflect mainly the component σxx of the conductivity.
T(ω, B) ≈ 1 − β
In general and for a single graphene layer on top of a substrate and in a range of energies where
the substrate is non dispersive, the transmission T is given by:
1.9
1.8
1.7
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
CR energies (meV
The evolution of the main lower energy line varies at low fields like B1/2 with a
coefficient depending on the Fermi velocity vF and ends at higher fields with a
similar dependence but with a smaller value of vF. This is by itself a sign of some
interaction. The transition between the two dependences occurs at an energy
corresponding to that of the Γ phonon.
The second component appears at energies larger than that of the Γ phonon.
In principle, in the one electron picture, it is not possible to explain the occurrence of
an additional transition line at higher energies than the main transition line.
It is clear that the Γ phonon plays a role in that matter though it should not! The
reason why it should not is that in the simple picture for graphene with two inequivalent valleys K and K’ but with the same symmetry the electron-phonon
interaction g(K)= -g(K’). Therefore, in the infra-red, the Γphonon is inactive.(And
indeed we don’t see it!).
As a result, the observed interaction is very likely the signature of the symmetry breaking of
the n =0 Landau level as inferred from transport data2 and theoretical models3.
(iv)
(ii)
(iii)
(i)
Though the procedure is quite rough, it provides some very important information.
Fig. 4: Cyclotron Resonance (CR) energies, resulting from the
de-convolution of the transmission traces, as a function of B1/2.
Open dots :sample Gth3N and full dots : sample S4.
SQRT(B) (T1/2)
230
225
Gth3: empty dots
220
S4: full dots
215
210
205
200
195
Γ phonon energy
190
1/2
185 F2(B) = 36.5*B
180
175
F1(B) = 35.85*B1/2
170
4.6 4.8 5.0 5.2 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.0
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Relative transmission
The relative transmission spectra display two anomalies: first, a depletion of the oscillator
strength of the transition around 0.15 eV corresponding to the interaction with the K-phonon.
This interaction has been previously analyzed1 and will not be discuss any longer here. A second
anomaly appears for fields larger than about 27 T and results in an asymmetric broadening of
the absorption line which increases with B and finally results in a splitting of this line. This is
clearly seen in Fig.3.
Stephen G. Louie
Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez
CNRS-LNCMI, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of Electron-Electron and
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene-Based Compounds
and Topological Insulators with Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
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(1) M.Orlita, Liang Z. Tan, M. Potemski, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, Steven G. Louie and G.
Martinez , Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 247401 (2012)
(2) A. F. Young et al., Nature Physics 8, 550 (2012)
(3) M. Kharitonov , Phys. Rev. B 85, 155439 (2012)
References:
These experiments have been done in the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of Grenoble.
Besides the difficulty to obtain good quality samples, the main reason why there was such a
delay between the original plan and the actual one is that the access to high field resistive
magnets is very limited: one can expect in the best case to have two sets (4days) of
experiments per year. We finally succeeded but it took one more year than expected.
Conclusion from the experimental side.
At present we are treating the experimental information on a real physical basis with the
model which has been elaborated by the theory group of Berkeley. The overall agreement
seems very good and the project will certainly result in a high standard publication.
Results and discussion:
The fitting parameters of our model are the broadening energy and the valley-symmetry breaking
energy scale. The spin-splitting energy scale is fixed at the Zeeman energy.
We calculate the absorption spectrum by considering transitions from the n=0 Landau level to the
n=+1, -1 Landau levels. These transitions are allowed to interact with the phonons in graphene. The
phonon frequency and the electron-phonon interaction are obtained from first-principles density
functional theory calculations.
Figure 5: Schematic of the four sublevels of the n=0 Landau level in graphene, corresponding the the
valley (K/K’) and spin (red/blue) degrees of freedom.
We model the n=0 Landau level of graphene as consisting of four sublevels, corresponding to the
valley and spin degrees of freedom. We include symmetry breaking by allowing the spin and valley
sublevels to have different energies (Figure 5.) Each sublevel is broadened by the same amount.
Description of model:
Theoretical analysis of data
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M.Orlita, Liang Z. Tan, M. Potemski, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer,
Joint experimental and theoretical study of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in
graphene-based compounds and topological insulators with magneto-optical spectroscopy.
France-Berkeley fund: Grant ID #: 2012-0019
Supplementary information for the final report of the
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Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez
CNRS-LNCMI, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
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Figure 7: Calculated magneto-absorption spectrum for the case of spin-symmetry breaking
(ferromagnetic ground state).
We have shown that the n=0 Landau level of graphene is in a valley polarized ground state. We are
able to explain the experimental absorption spectrum, including the emergence of a second peak
above the optical phonon energy. Our work is the first optical probe of the SU(4) symmetry breaking
in graphene in high magnetic fields, which has previously been studied using transport measurements
only.
Conclusion:
The calculated spectrum is relatively insensitive to the carrier density as long as the n=0 Landau level
has filling factor between 0 and 2. This explains why the two different samples show such similar
spectra.
We can understand this result from the symmetries of the electron-phonon interaction. The phonon
couples only to the valley anti-symmetric transitions from the n=0 to the n=1 Landau level. However,
light couples only to the valley symmetric transitions. In the absence of valley symmetry breaking, the
phonon should not appear in the absorption spectrum.
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Figure 6: Calculated magneto-absorption spectrum for the case of valley-symmetry breaking.
Our calculations indicate that graphene is in a valley-symmetry broken ground state in our samples.
We are able to reproduce the features of the experimental data when the valley-symmetry breaking
energy scale is larger than the Zeeman energy (Figure 6). On the other hand, the spectrum contains
only a single peak if the system is in a spin-symmetry breaking state, that is, a ferromagnetic ground
state (Figure 7).
Stephen G. Louie
Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez
CNRS-LNCMI, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of Electron-Electron and
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene-Based Compounds
and Topological Insulators with Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
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Kunxin Luo
Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Delphine Javelaud
Institut Curie INSERM U1021
Hippo Signaling and Ski in Human Melanoma Development
Start Date: September 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
Melanomas are malignant tumors of the melanocytes that
occur predominantly in the skin, eye and mucosa and are the
most lethal form of Skin tumors, representing 75% of death
from skin neoplasia. Although advances have been made in
the discovery of new drugs (e.g. inhibitor of B-Raf), systematic therapies are limited, and advance melanomas respond
poorly to most forms of treatment. We therefore aim to
identify the molecular events that contribute to melanoma
development and to improve therapeutic strategies for melanoma.
The transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) pathway, signaling through the Smad proteins, has been shown to play
important and complex roles in melanoma development and
progression. Ski is a critical negative regulator of the Smad
proteins by binding to all three Smads and repressing their
transcriptional activity in the nucleus. Our previous study has
shown that the ability of Ski to repress Smad signaling does
not appear to be a rate-limiting step for melanoma transformation. To the contrary, downregulation of Ski by TGFβ
signaling appears to be necessary for melanoma metastasis,
suggesting that Ski may exert an anti-tumorigenic role in melanoma progression. In search for other Ski targets in melanoma, we recently discovered that Ski is a potent inhibitor
of the YAP/TAZ proteins of the newly defined Hippo signaling
pathway.
The Hippo pathway plays critical roles in the control of
organ size, self-renewal and expansion of stem cells and tissue-specific progenitor cells, as well as tumorigenesis. At the
center of this pathway are the transcription effectors, YAP
and TAZ (two highly homologous proteins that are often written as TAZ/YAP), that together with DNA binding co-factor
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TEAD, activate transcription of many genes that promote cell
proliferation, survival, EMT and metastasis. Overexpression
or activation of
YAP and TAZ has been found in many malignant human
cancer cells and has been shown to be critical for tumor metastasis.
The goal of this proposal is to determine the role of Hippo
signaling pathway in melanoma development and how its activity is modulated by crosstalk with TGFβ pathway through
Ski. We will evaluate if inhibition of TAZ/YAP by Ski plays a
role in limiting the metastatic potential of melanoma. We
proposed to study the expression patterns and activity of
Hippo signaling effector YAP/TAZ in human melanoma cell
lines and tissues and whether they correlate with Ski activity/
expression. Towards this end, we have profiled Hippo pathway component expression in a panel of human melanoma
cell lines and melanocytic lesions, and characterized the capacity of YAP and TAZ to control melanoma cell behavior. YAP
and TAZ immuno-staining in human samples revealed mixed
cytoplasmic and nuclear staining for both proteins in benign
nevi and superficial spreading melanoma. TAZ was expressed
at higher levels than YAP1/2 in all cell lines and in those with
high invasive potential.
We also proposed to study whether alteration of TAZ/YAP
expression affects melanoma cell transformation, survival
and migration and whether alteration of Ski expression affects these processes. We showed that stable YAP or TAZ
knockdown dramatically reduced the expression of the
classical Hippo target CCN2/connective-tissue growth factor
(CTGF), as well as anchorage-independent growth, capacity
to invade Matrigel, and ability form lung metastases in mice
following tail-vein injection. YAP knockdown also reduced
invasion in a model of skin reconstruct. Inversely, YAP overexpression increased melanoma cell invasiveness, associated
with increased TEA domain-dependent transcription and
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Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Delphine Javelaud
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CCN2/CTGF expression. Together, these results demonstrate
that both YAP and TAZ contribute to the invasive and metastatic capacity of melanoma cells and may represent worthy
targets for therapeutic intervention. We have performed
detailed mechanistic studies on how Ski regulates TAZ/YAP
expression and activity in malignant breast cancer cells and
showed that Ski potently inhibits TAZ/YAP activity by inducing
degradation of TAZ and cytoplasmic retention of YAP. Since
TAZ/YAP promotes malignant progression of melanoma, our
result is consistent with our earlier model that Ski functions
as a tumor suppressor in melanoma. We are in the process of
reproducing the similar experiments in malignant melanoma
cell lines.
Finally we proposed to study the crosstalk between TGFβ
signaling and YAP/TAZ in melanoma progression and whether
Ski mediates this crosstalk. A previous study has reported
that Hippo signaling (activated by cell-cell contact and cell
density) can block TGFβ-induced cytostatic responses via sequestration of activated SMAD complexes in the cytoplasm
by phospho-YAP/TAZ. We provide evidence that inhibition of
TGFβ signaling by cell-cell contacts is restricted to polarized
epithelial cells and independent from cytoplasmic YAP and
TAZ. Rather, loss of TGFβ responsiveness in polarized cells
is strictly apical, due to a strict and unique basolateral TGFβ
receptor I and II distribution upon establishment of cell-cell
contacts. Thus, cell type-specific inhibition of TGFβ signaling
by cell density reflects polarity domain-specific TGFβ receptor localization, irrespective of Hippo pathway activation.
We also examined whether TGFβ stimulation in melanoma
cells could affect YAP/TAZ expression and activation via downregulation of Ski. We noticed that while TGFβ readily downregulated Ski expression in all malignant cancer cell lines, its
effect on TAZ/YAP expression was not highly consistent. It
turned out that TGFβ also affected the expression of SnoN, a
molecule highly homologous to Ski but exerting the opposite
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effects on TAZ/YAP signaling. The final outcome of TGFβ stimulation in various malignant cancer cell lines depends on the
relative expression levels of Ski and SnoN and the strengths
of their regulation of TAZ/YAP. Clearly more studies are needed to decipher the detailed mechanisms involved.
In summary, the support from FBF allowed us to start a
significant and productive collaborative project. We have obtained interesting results from this initial stage of study and
would like to expand our collaboration through other funding
mechanisms.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
UC Berkeley:
• Kunxin Luo: PI, Professor;
• Erwan le Scolan: postdoctoral associate;
• Juliet Rashidian, postdoctoral fellow.
Curie Institute:
• Delphine Javelaud: Senior Scientist
• Alain Mauviel: Group Leader
• Flore Nallet, PhD student
• Cristele Gilbert: research staff
• Véronique Marsaud: research staff
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Flore Nallet-Staub, Xueqian Yin, Cristèle Gilbert, Véronique
Marsaud, Saber Ben Mimoun, Delphine Javelaud, Edward
B. Leof, and Alain Mauviel. Cell Density Sensing Alters
TGF-beta Signaling in a Cell Type-Specific Manner, Independent from Hippo Pathway Activation. Submitted to Developmental Cell.
Nallet-Staub F, Marsaud V, Li L, Gilbert C, Dodier S, Bataille V,
Sudol M, Herlyn M, Mauviel A. Pro-Invasive activity of the
France-Berkeley Fund
Kunxin Luo
Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Delphine Javelaud
Institut Curie INSERM U1021
Hippo Signaling and Ski in Human Melanoma Development
Hippo pathway effectors YAP and TAZ in cutaneous melanoma. J Invest Dermatol. 2014 Jan;134(1):123-32.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
This is a collaborative project combining the expertise and
resources of both Berkeley and French scientists. Dr. Javelaud and her colleague, Dr. Alain Mauviel, are part of the European consortium of melanoma and have access to a large
collection of human melanoma cell lines and tissue samples.
In addition, Dr Mauviel is among the first people to discover
an interesting connection between TGFβ and Hippo signaling
via Smad7 and YAP. In this project, Dr. Mauviel shared his
collection of reagents and knowledge on Hippo signaling with
Dr. Luo at Berkeley and helped to ensure a timely progress
in the mechanistic studies. Dr. Luo at Berkeley has a strong
expertise in mechanistic studies in signal transduction and
especially the Ski and SnoN proteins. She has made novel
discoveries on how Ski regulates YAP/TAZ signaling in cancer
cells. Dr Luo has provided antibodies and other relevant reagents to Dr Javelaud to perform the immunohistochemistry
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studies. Both sides realize the importance of continuing collaboration on this project, and Dr. Luo is planning to apply
for a sabbatical fellowship at the Institute Curie in order to
expand the collaboration. We are also considering applying
for a multi-PI NIH grant together.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
UC Berkeley:
• Dr Kunxin Luo: Travel and lodging expense to Institute
Curie: $2500
• Supplies and antibodies: $2500
Institute Curie:
• Dr. Alain Mauviel: travel and lodging expense to UC
Berkeley: $1500
• Molecular biology supplies: $3500
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We are very grateful to FBF for the support of our collaborative project.
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Jitendra Malik
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Zaid Harchaoui & Cordelia Schmid
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Large-Scale Learning for Image and Video Interpretation
Start Date: January 2013
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The project focused on weakly-supervised learning for human
action localization from videos, object localization in images,
and large-scale learning for image collection visualization.
For human action localization from videos, we designed
a visual descriptor that efficiently blends information from
both shape (pose) and motion cues. The descriptor leverages
previous works from both groups, resp. poselets descriptors
from Pr. J. Malik’s group and motion-boundary histograms
from Dr. C. Schmid’s group. We obtained promising experimental results with the proposed visual descriptor on several
benchmark datasets for action localization in videos.
For object localization from images, we proposed a twostep approach that requires minimal supervision. For each
image, supervision only tells whether the object is present or
not, but not where. First, we compute a submodular cover
that allows to single out a set of positive object windows. Second, we use smoothed latent-SVM in order to simultaneously
classify and localize the objects. The proposed approach provides a 50% relative improvement in mean average precision
over the current state-of-the-art on PASCAL VOC 2007 detection.
For large image collection visualization, we proposed a robust generalization of archetypal analysis, along with a fast
optimization algorithm that allows to scale to web-scale image collections. Robust archetypal analysis learns a factorial
representation of the data, and uncovers so-called archetypes that are sparse convex combinations of datapoints. The
proposed approach yields state-of-the-art results for codebook learning, and provides intuitive and easy-to-visualize
representations of huge collections of natural images.
UC Berkeley:
• Pr. Jitendra Malik
• Pr. Trevor Darrell
• Dr. Ross Girschick
• Dr. Stefanie Jegelka
• Georgia Gkioxari, Phd student
• Hyun Oh Song, Phd student
• Yuansi Chen, Phd student
Inria:
• Dr. Zaid Harchaoui
• Dr. Cordelia Schmid
• Dr. Julien Mairal
• P. Weinzaepfel, Phd student
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3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
“On Learning to Localize Objects with Minimal Supervision”,
Hyun Oh Song, Ross Girschick, Stefanie Jegelka, Julien Mairal, Zaid Harchaoui, Trevor Darrell, ICML, 31st International
Conference in Machine Learning, Jun. 2014, Beijing, China,
Journal of Machine Learning Research, Conference and
Workshop Proceedings.
“Fast and Robust Archetypal Analysis for Representation
Learning”, Yuansi Chen, Julien Mairal, Zaid Harchaoui. CVPR
2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Jun 2014, Columbus, United States.
“Action Localization with Sequences of Movemes”, Philippe
Weinzaepfel, Georgia Gkioxari, Zaid Harchaoui, Cordelia
Schmid, Jitendra Malik; submitted.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationFrance-Berkeley Fund
Jitendra Malik
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Zaid Harchaoui & Cordelia Schmid
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ships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
For each contribution made during to the project, the work
leveraged the most recent advances obtained respectively
by each partner in their area expertise. For instance, for human action localization from videos, while Pr. J. Malik’s group
brought its expertise in poselets learning for static images, Dr.
C. Schmid’s group brought its expertise of generic dense descriptors for videos. Both technologies are blended into the
“movemes” approach to get state-of-the-art performance on
real-world datasets built from YouTube videos.
The project fueled enduring collaboration between the
two partners. Pr. J. Malik gave a course entitled “The three
R‘s of computer vision: Recognition, Reconstruction, Reorganization” at the INRIA-ENS Visual Recognition and Machine
Learning summer school in July 2013.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional out-
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side funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
The funds allowed to foster exchanges between UC Berkeley
and INRIA althroughout the project.
• Pr. J. Malik visited INRIA for 3 weeks in July 2013 and
gave a course entitled “The three R‘s of computer vision:
Recognition, Reconstruction, Reorganization” at the
INRIA-ENS Visual Recognition and Machine Learning
summer school 2013 in Paris.
• G. Gkioxari (PhD student, UC Berkeley) visited INRIA for
1 month in July 2013.
• Z. Harchaoui visited UC Berkeley for 2 weeks in December
2013.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
The extension of the project we were granted allowed us to
use the funds beyond the regular one-year expiration date.
This was deeply appreciated.
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geoffrey Marcy
Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Hebrard
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A Transatlantic Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
Start Date: November 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
We have used the telescope at the Observatoire de HauteProvence (OHP) in France and at the Keck Observatory in
Hawaii to combine Doppler measurements of several stars.
The goal was to determine the orbits and masses of several
planets orbiting other stars.
We were successful in using the combined Doppler measurements to determine masses and orbits for two planets.
We published the result in a large paper in the Astrophysical
Journal.
Several visits and exchanges have been made between
the two teams in order to discuss and prepare observations.
Some observations have already been done.
Objective 1 was the study of low-mass planets around
nearby stars. One target star has already been followed commonly with the American and French instruments from Mauna Kea and Observatoire de Haute-Provence. The data were
combined together, and other targets identified are being
observed in common.
Objective 2 was on the follow-up of transiting planet candidates from Kepler. Several targets were observed with both
instruments, including two object which should be published
soon.
Objective 3 was on the orbital tilt of long-period giant planets. One object (KOI-94) was observed with the two instruments but the SOPHIE data suffered of systematics which did
not allow to be published yet, whereas the Keck data were
published. Long-period transiting planets possibly observable
are not easy to find; that part of the program might also target shorter-period objects.
In addition, we worked on blended binary stars observed
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derstand these blended cases, which are a significant source
of false positive detections of planets, in particular the ones
in transit.
We also identified a planetary system identified with Kepler and showing transit timing variations which could benefit from observations from our two instruments. In the American group, that program is led by a new Berkeley member
who was not initially part of our France-Berkeley proposal.
One unexpected benefit of the collaboration is that the
American group traveled to Paris and to OHP to learn about
the engineering of SOPHIE the novel spectrometer on the
OHP telescope. The tests to stabilize SOPHIE and to use different types of fiber optics to feed SOPHIE provided valuable
information for a similar spectrometer (SHREK) that the
Berkeley team is hoping to build for the Keck Observatory.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Geoffrey Marcy: Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Lauren Weiss: 4th year graduate student, UC Berkeley
Rebekah Dawson: Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Guillaume Hébrard: CNRS researcher (chargé de
recherche) at Institut d’astrophysique de Paris
Alexandre Santerne: graduate student at Laboratoire
d’Astrophysique de Marseille
Claire Moutou: CNRS researcher (directeur de recherche)
at Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Astrophysical Journal Supplement, vol.210, Issue 2, p.20. (70
pages long). Title: Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: the transition from gaseous to Rocky Planets.
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Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Hebrard
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Observatoire de Haute-Provence
A Transatlantic Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The collaboration between the two teams was very open and
positive, and promising for the future. We cannot report for
now a high-visibility new result that could not have been obtained without that collaboration. This is mainly due to the
youth of the collaboration, whereas exoplanets programs
request numerous observations on long time spans. We are
optimistic that new results will be obtained in the following
years thanks to that collaboration.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional out-
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side funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
The award was ussed to pay visits of Berkeley members to
France, and French members to Berkeley:
• Lauren Weiss in France, May 2013;
• Geoff Marcy in France, May 2013;
• Guillaume Hébrard in Berkeley, August 2013;
• Alexandre Santerne in Berkeley, Novembre 2013;
• Guillaume Hébrard in Berkeley, Novembre 2013.
We plan to continue exchanges between our two teams,
using different sources of funding.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
Benefiting from the France-Berkeley Fund was a very good
opportunity for us to start and develop collaborations between our two teams. We expect these collaborations to
continue even beyond that initial support.
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Charles Marshall
Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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Integrating Molecular Phylogenies and the Fossil Record
Start Date: October 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
As proposed in our application, we organized and ran a
workshop at UC Berkeley. This workshop took place on
September 23rd-25th. The workshop was a success, generating really good discussions between neontologists and
paleobiologists, theoreticians and empiricists. Participants
found the workshop very stimulating, as illustrated by this
post from Tracy Heath (UC Berkeley) who participated in the
workshop (http://treethinkers.org/workshop-on-integratingmolecularphylogenies-and-the-fossil-record/).
There were about 20 participants (including graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and professors) for the
whole three days—a good number of people for an exciting
discussion, but not so large as to prevent people from participating. The workshop began with a symposium of talks (listed
below) by 12 researchers from Europe and North America.
Reading the talk titles, it’s hard to ignore the importance of
activities like this. Much of the work presented had significant overlap, so this was a great opportunity to establish new
collaborations. As theoreticians, it’s easy to work on a project
without knowing that someone else (many time zones away
or even in the same institution) is working on something similar or an idea that could nicely fit into some unified framework. This really underscores the importance of efforts like
this workshop. The following day, we all got together in the
morning and started brainstorming about important directions in the field of macroevolution. This was a thoroughly
enjoyable discussion that culminated in an outline of important questions in macroevolution and how fossil information
can help to answer them. We then formed small, break-out
groups on four important topics: (1) diversity dynamics, (2)
phenotypic evolution, (3) adaptive radiations and (4) bioge70
ography. The break-out groups developed these ideas for the
rest of the workshop, discussing methodological, conceptual,
and data shortfalls. Following the workshop, several groups
of researchers have pursued research initiated or discussed
at the workshop, as detailed in the list of publications in (3)
and the ongoing collaborations in (4).
FBF Fossils & Phylogenies Symposium
• Sam Price & Lars Schmitz — Report from the NESCent
catalysis meeting: Successes and areas requiring further
effort
• Charles Marshall — Some observations of the value of
the fossil record in quantifying diversity dynamics, and
the need for improvement in the use of fossils in calibrating molecular phylogenies
• Michael Alfaro — Challenges to integrating fossils and
molecular data
• Daniele Silvestro — Estimation of macroevolutionary
rates from fossil occurrence data
• Todd Parsons — Estimating long term diversity dynamics
using molecular phylogenies and limited fossil record
• Tracy Heath — The fossilized birth-death process: A
coherent model of fossil calibration for divergence time
estimation
• Gilles Didier — Integrating the fossil record in speciation
and extinction rates estimations
• Nick Matzke — Statistical model choice for old and
new biogeographical cladogenesis models: Comparing
DEC, DIVA, BayArea, and measuring the importance of
founder-event speciation, with and without models for
imperfect detection of fossils
• Thomas Ezard — The meaning of birth and death in
macroevolutionary birth-death models, and its consequences for models of molecular evolution
• Hervé Sauquet — Proteaceae diversification through
time
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Charles Marshall
Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Hélène Morlon
Institut de Biologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure
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Joshua Schraiber — Dating the great ape phylogeny
using phylogenomics and fossil tip dating
Chelsea Specht — To be or not to be (resolved):
Incorporating fossils in phylogenies of Zingiberales
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Michael Alfaro – associate professor
Lucy Chang – doctoral student
Gilles Didier – assistant professor
Thomas Ezard – NERC advanced fellow
Gustavo Burin Ferreira – doctoral student
Tracy Heath – postdoctoral researcher
Jenna Judge – doctoral student
Jun Ying Lim – doctoral student
Susana Magallon - professor
Charles Marshall - professor
Nick Matzke – postdoctoral researcher
Hélène Morlon – CNRS researcher
Todd Parsons – CNRS researcher
Hervé Sauquet - assistant professor
Joshua Schraiber – doctoral student
Daniele Silvestro – postdoctoral researcher
Chelsea Specht – associate professor
Susan Tremblay – doctoral student
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
The publications below highly benefited from discussions we
had at the workshop supported by the FBF.
Already published:
Heath, T. A., Huelsenbeck, J. P., & Stadler, T. (2014) The fossilized birth–death process for coherent calibration of diver-
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gence-time estimates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201319091
Moen, D. S. & Morlon, H. (2014) From dinosaurs to modern
bird diversity: Extending the time scale of adaptive radiation. PloS Biology 12:e1001854
Morlon, H. (2014) Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification. Ecology Letters 17: 508-525
Silvestro, D., Schnitzler, J., Liow, L. H., Antonelli, A. & Salamin,
N. (2014) Bayesian estimation of speciation and extinction
from incomplete fossil occurrence data. Systematic Biology
63 (3), 349-367
In preparation:
Condamine, F. L., Nagalingum, N. S., Marshall, C. R. & Morlon,
H. Branching process prior influences Bayesian molecular
dating: an empirical assessment with cycads (Cycadales)
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
All the participants were really involved in the workshop.
The workshop strengthened already existing relationships
or initiated new relationships between (on the French side)
Gilles Didier (Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy), Hélène
Morlon (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Todd Parsons (Université Pierre et Marie Curie & Collège de France) and Hervé
Sauquet (Université Paris Sud) and (on the UC side) Michael
Alfaro (UCLA), Lucy Chang (UCB), Tracy Heath (UCB), Jenna
Judge (UCB), Jun Ying Lim (UCB), Charles Marshall (UCB), Nick
Matzke (UCB), Joshua Schraiber (UCB), Chelsea Specht (UCB)
and Susan Tremblay (UCB).
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
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Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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Integrating Molecular Phylogenies and the Fossil Record
side funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
There are ongoing collaborations resulting from this project,
including ongoing collaborations between: Charles Marshall
and Hélène Morlon on cycads diversification, Susana Magallon and Hélène Morlon on age-richness relationships,
Michael Alfaro and Tiago Quental on detecting diversity declines, Thomas Ezard and Tiago Quental on diversity-dependence in phylogenies and fossils, Daniele Silvestro and Tiago
Quental on canids diversification.
All the money (+external money from participants’ own
grants) was spent in running the workshop held at Berkeley.
Exciting ideas and new collaborations stemming out of the
project have generated (and will continue to generate) solicitations for additional outside funding from participants. For
example, Tiago Quental and Thomas Ezard (who met at the
workshop in Berkeley) have obtained funding to hold a UoS/
FAPESP biodiversity regulators workshop on a related project
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that will lead to a theme issue in Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society–B including contributions from participants
of the workshop (e.g. Hélène Morlon, Charles Marshall). Samantha Price and Lars Schmidt have also obtained funding
from NESCent to held a course that will teach participants to
use fossil and phylogenetic data to analyze macroevolutionary patterns using traditional paleobiological stratigraphic
methods, phylogenetic comparative methods and combined
fossil and tree approaches.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
This was overall a very good experience. However it was challenging to invite enough particiants to achieve a critical mass
with the allocated funds; many participants had to contribute
their own money to attend the workshop, which limited the
participation of young French researchers.
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Stephanie L. Mudge
Sociology, University of California, Davis
Antoine Vauchez
CNRS, Université Paris I – Sorbonne
When Theory Matters: Law, Economics,
and the Scholarly Production of “Europe,” 1990-2010
Start Date: January 2013
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
1. Data collection, still ongoing, was undertaken at the archives of the European Union in Florence in September 2013
and at the European Commission (Brussels) in the spring
of 2014. This spent down our remaining FBF funds to zero.
Matching grants from UC-Davis sources still remain, which
will be used in Fall 2014 for a follow-up research trip by A.
Vauchez to Frankfurt in Fall/Winter 2014.
2. An initial working session was held at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne in late February-early March 2013. The principal investigators collected information, drew up research
plans, and made a preliminary production schedule for a new
working paper. We also made arrangements for the spring
workshop.
3. In April 2013, we held our main event, a workshop of all
project participants, in Berkeley. The workshop program was
provided with our interim report.
4. Our group has expanded to include a graduate student
from UC-Davis (Ezekiel Baker, Sociology) and has successfully
applied to hold an SSHA conference panel in November 2014.
The panel will serve as a final discussion forum for papers
first discussed in Berkeley, for purposes of finalizing a special
issue for journal submission. In the meantime, the co-PIs of
the project are assembling a special issue proposal for the
British Journal of Sociology.
5. The co-PIs are also authoring an additional paper based
on our research for a special issue of the Sociological Review,
edited by Julian Go and Monika Krause.
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2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Stephanie L Mudge – Assistant Professor, Sociology,
UC-Davis Sociology
Antoine Vauchez – Research Professor, CNRS
Ezekiel Baker – Doctoral Student, Sociology, UC Davis
Antonin Cohen – Professor, Université Paris Ouest
Nanterre La Défense
Frédéric Lebaron – Professor, Sociology, Université de
Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Lisa Stampnitzky – Lecturer, Harvard University
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Publications are in preparation (see items 4 and 5, under
question #1, above).
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The project has brought together American and French
scholars who share an interest in the use of Bourdieusian
field theory to analyze Europe and other transnational social
phenomena, who otherwise may not have had a chance to
collaborate. This core group is now a basis for the construction of a broader, bi-continental research network, including
graduate students, and thus a potentially important professional resource and basis of ongoing collaborative research.
As evidence of new collaborative possibilities, most of the
FBF project participants also submitted an important joint
research project application to the French Agence Nationale
de la Recherche with a proposed budget of about 150,000
euros. Our initial application was unsuccessful, but we will
resubmit our proposal and will use it to seek other funding
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sources. We have also used our collaboration as a means of
drawing in new graduate students (in particular, Zeke Baker,
UC-Davis) and for planning new research (for example, the
new paper to be co-authored by the PIs, Vauchez and Mudge,
for the Sociological Review, mentioned above).
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We greatly appreciated FBF support, and in particular the
Fund’s flexibility in working with us as our work developed.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Total project budget: $11,500 ($4,000 from FBF)
Spent to-date: $8,923 total (100% of FBF funds were spent),
as follows:
1) Research meeting in Paris: $700
2) Workshop in Berkeley : $7050
3) Data collection and research assistance/transcription:
$1173 [1 of 2 research trips completed, due to logistical reasons.*] (which do not have a deadline, and which were not
spent for logistical reasons having to do with A. Vauchez’s
location in the US during 2013-2014) by December 2014.
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Véronique Munoz-Dardé
Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Luc Foisneau
Etudes Politiques, EHESS
A Theory of Justice Forty Years On
Start Date: December 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The project is a one-year project financed by the France-Berkeley Fund. The research focuses on the origins in contractualist
theory, and on the nature and transformations of Rawls’s A
THEORY OF JUSTICE during the 40 years that have elapsed
since its publication in 1971.
In the first half of 2013, Luc Foisneau (LF)’s seminar at
the EHESS focused on A Theory of Justice and the question
of obedience to the rule. Véronique Munoz-Dardé (VMD)’s
seminar at Berkeley focused on a close reading of A Theory of
Justice 40 years on.
In February of 2013, VMD gave a talk in LF’s seminar at the
EHESS on Raz, Rawls and the question of obedience.
In June of 2013, we organized a conference in Paris with
the participation of two Berkeley doctoral students, Alex Kerr
and Erin Beeghly, a colleague from Berkeley, Michael Martin, and 4 French colleagues (Emmanuel Picavet – Paris 1;
Christopher Hamel – Université Libre de Bruxelles; Bernard
Manin – EHESS; Charles Girard – Paris 4). Luc Foisneau and
Véronique Munoz-Dardé have also given contributions, one
on ‘Discrimination of gender and race in Rawls’, the other on
Rawls and Hume (in coll. with Michael Martin).
The theme of the conference was: ‘A Theory of Justice Forty
Years On: From theory to practice?’ The general idea was to
confront some of the main theoretical themes of A Theory of
Justice with practical concerns such as handicap, education,
stereotyping, incentives, race and gender. The date of the
conference fitted well into the original projected timeline.
In 2013-14, LF’s seminar at the EHESS focused on theories of justice and environment, and VMD’s seminar was on
themes in contractualism: authority, aggregation and pluralism.
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In December of 2013, we organized two workshops in
Berkeley with the participation of the two directors, colleagues in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Science, a post-doctoral Fellow from EHESS,
Dr Luciano Venezia, and several doctoral students at Berkeley
working on issues related to contractualism and anti-contractualism, old and new.
At the first workshop, Luciano Venezia and Luc Foisneau
presented their work on authority in Raz and Rawls. At the
second workshop, organized by Professor Kinch Hoekstra
(Political Science and Law), Venezia presented a historical
communication on Hobbes and contractualism and Foisneau
presented a historical communication on Hobbes and majority rule.
The two project-directors have also written a book together for Les Editions de l’EHESS, in the series Audiographie. The
title of the book published in 2014: John Rawls, Justice et
critique.
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Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
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A Theory of Justice Forty Years On
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
Professors:
• Luc Foisneau (Programme Director)
• Véronique Munoz-Dardé (Programme Director)
• Michael Martin (Berkeley and UCL)
• Bernard Manin (EHESS and Chicago)
• Emmanuel Picavet (Paris 1)
• Céline Spector (Bordeaux 3)
Associate Professors :
• Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley)
• Charles Girard (Paris 4)
• Feriel Kandil (Aix-Marseille)
Post-Doctoral Fellows:
• Christopher Hamel (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
• Luciano Venezia (EHESS/CONICET)
Doctoral students :
• Erin Beeghly (Berkeley, now Assistant Professor at the
University of Utah)
• Alex Kerr (Berkeley)
• Nick Gooding (Berkeley)
• Julian Jonker (Berkeley)
• Michael Diaz (Berkeley)
• Francesca Rebasti (EHESS)
• Ophélie Desmons (Lille, now post-doctoral fellow at Lille)
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Book
Translation and commentary by Luc Foisneau and Véronique
Munoz-Dardé Rawls, John: Justice et Critique, Editions de
l’EHESS, collection Audiographie, February 2014, ISBN
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978-2-7132-2411-9 (Review: http://www.nonfiction.fr/
article-6958-la_philosophie_comme_discipline_conversationnelle.htm)
Articles
Luc Foisneau, « Rawls et la justification de la règle de majorité ». Raisons politiques. Revue de théorie politique. N°
53, Feb. 2014, pp. 63-79.
Luc Foisneau, « La démocratie à rebours. Hobbes et la règle
de majorité ». Le Philosophoire. Laboratoire de philosophie. N° 39, 2013, pp. 147-162.
Véronique Munoz-Dardé, « In the Face of Austerity: The Puzzle of Museums and Universities ». Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 21, Number 2, 2013, pp. 221–242.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The project has resulted in many fruitful exchanges and publications (see above).
Some of the doctoral students at Berkeley, among them
Nick Gooding who participated in both of the Fall workshops
at Berkeley, will seek funding to work for a term at the EHESS
with Luc Foisneau on historical aspects of the contractualist
tradition.
Luciano Venezia will seek funding to work for a few weeks
at Berkeley.
Building on the success of the project, the two directors
plan to submit in the next couple of years a more ambitious
cooperative project.
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Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Luc Foisneau
Etudes Politiques, EHESS
A Theory of Justice Forty Years On
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
France Berkeley Fund Budget
Fund #40659
Grant Amount:
$10,000.00
France Conference
$4,600.00
Alex Kerr Stipend for Airfare, Hotel and Catering
Projected and actual:
$2,400.00
Erin Beeghly Stipend for Airfare Hotel and Catering
Projected and actual:
$2,200.00
Catering: Conference in Paris
Projected: $800.00, actual:
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As stated above, we may ask for funding for a more ambitious cooperative project, but are still in the process of drafting it.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
Although the amount of money given for each project is
modest, we felt that it gave us the opportunity for involving
doctoral students and colleagues at each of our institutions in
meaningful research.
It helped very much that we were able to communicate
with very efficient administrators who advised us in the process of drafting our research project and who were extremely
supportive at every stage.
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Berkeley Conference
$5,420.16
Luc Foisneau RT Airfare Paris/Berkeley
Projected $1,200.00, actual
$1,067.70
Luciano RT Airfare Paris/Berkeley
Projected $1,200.00, actual
$1,033.00
Limo RT for two people SFO/Berkeley
Projected and actual:
$300.00
Hotel Women Faculty Club 5 nights for 2 people Berkeley
Projected $1,500.00, actual
$ 1,357.50
Meals 5 days for two people Berkeley
Projected $500.00, actual
$572.48
Catering Workshop in Berkeley
Projected $600.00, actual
$725.59
Hotel for Luciano Venezia Nov 30, Dec 1
Actual:
$363.90
tOtAl (ACtUAl):
$10,020.16
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Vern Paxson
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Renata Cruz Teixeira
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Understanding User Perspectives of Internet Performance
Start Date: October 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
Over the course of the FBF funding period, we made substantial progress on our collaborative effort to build a home
network troubleshooting service, which combines the two
research goals we outlined in the original proposal. The project aimed to leverage the presence of multiple devices in the
home in order to identify problems stemming from individual
devices, their location in the home, and potential deficiencies
in the uplink connecting the home to the Internet. We were
able to broaden our collaboration to also include members
of the BISmark project at Georgia Tech (not funded via this
grant), which allowed us to include the gateway device in the
analysis process—a key benefit due to the gateway’s strategic
location between home network and Internet backbone. The
system has reached the stage of a working prototype that we
refine continuously.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Mohan Dhawan (Doctoral student)
Anna-Kaisa Pietilainen (Post-doc)
Sarthak Grover (Doctoral student)
Stephane Archer (Undergrad intern)
Christian Kreibich (Researcher)
Vern Paxson (Professor)
Renata Teixeira (Researcher)
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
“Fathom: A Browser-based Network Measurement Platform”,
M. Dhawan, J. Samuel, R. Teixeira, C. Kreibich, M. Allman,
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N. Weaver, and V. Paxson, ACM Internet Measurement
Conference, 2012, Boston, USA.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The project grew out of a fledgling collaboration between our
research teams at UC Berkeley and UPMC in Paris. The FBF
award allowed us to cement this partnership, including introducing new project personnel both in France (Anna Pietilainen, one of Dr. Teixeira’s post-docs) and at a new partnering
site (Sarthak Grover, a Ph.D. student in Prof. Nick Feamster’s
group at Georgia Tech, currently visiting Dr. Teixeira in Paris).
We are quite confident these relationships will extend considerably into the future, given we have found an effective
way to work together and produce strong results.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
The funds supported four trips facilitating the collaboration. Two of these were for one of the doctoral student,
enabling him to engage in an extensive visit at Paris, as well
as to attend the ACM Internet Measurement Conference to
present results derived from the collaboration. The other
two trips enabled Berkeley researchers to to spend time at
LIP6 and associated labs, which significantly accelerated the
progress of the collaboration.
Regarding additional outside funding, we have already obtained a gift from Google to pursue our research on home
network troubleshooting from the browser. We also plan to
apply for funding from Comcast.
France-Berkeley Fund
Vern Paxson
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Renata Cruz Teixeira
LIP6, Université Marie et Pierre Curie
Understanding User Perspectives of Internet Performance
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We have found the FBF funds highly helpful in developing
momentum for our collaboration, and much appreciate the
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opportunities this provided. We appreciated the streamlined
nature of the proposal and grant process, and would readily
recommend the program to colleagues.
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Kenneth Ribet
Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Ariane Mézard
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Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Summer Graduate School:
New Geometric Techniques in Number Theory
Start Date: July 2013
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
Le financement France-Berkeley Ribet-Mézard a été utilisé,
comme prévu, pour permettre l’organisation de l’école d’été
“New Geometric Techniques in Number Theory” au MSRI,
Berkeley du 1 juillet au 12 juillet 2013.
Impact à court terme
Ce financement additionnel au budget initialement dédié
par le MSRI pour cet école a permis une ouverture internationale exceptionnelle pour les intervenants. Le MSRI a pris
en charge quatre autres intervenants européens (T. Gee, P.
Scholze, T. Richarz, G. Boxer). L’attractivité de l’école d’été
n’en a été que décuplée. Réunir ces spécialistes reconnus
(mais rarement simultanément présents sur le sol américain)
dans le cadre d’une formation doctorale accélérée dans un
sujet en pleine expansion a permis d’attirer une population
extrêmement brillante de doctorants américains. L’ambiance
était très studieuse avec un souci permanent de profiter au
mieux des exposés proposés. Il a notamment été impossible
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de mettre en parallèle plusieurs sessions simultanées, les
étudiants souhaitant absolument pouvoir assister à tous les
exposés.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
Six personnes (trois français de l’Université Pierre et Marie
Curie, et de l’Ecole Normale de Lyon, trois américains de l’université de Californie, Berkeley) ont bénéficié de ces fonds:
Deux professeurs
• Ariane Mézard
• David Nadler
Trois assistants
• Gabriel Dospinescu
• Penghui Li
• Daniel Appel
Et un doctorant
• Pierre Jalinière
C’est donc la moitié des effectifs des enseignants de cette
école d’été qui a été pris en charge par le fond France-Berkeley.
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Kenneth Ribet
Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Ariane Mézard
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Summer Graduate School:
New Geometric Techniques in Number Theory
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
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4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
Les futurs post-doctorants américains, participants de cette
école d’été, ont pris conscience qu’une année de post-doctorat en Europe et plus particulièrement en France serait une
ouverture extrêmement favorable dans le cadre de leur évolution scientifique.
Enfin, à l’échelle individuelle des porteurs du projet, A.
Mézard a eu l’opportunité de rencontrer K. Ribet et A. Ogus
(head of mathematics department UC Berkeley) pour discuter des conditions scientifiques et matérielles de son séjour
longue durée au département de Mathématiques de l’UC
Berkeley (jan-juin 2015). Le financement France-Berkeley a
dont été initiateur d’un projet de collaboration à beaucoup
plus long terme entre les deux partenaires.
New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic
forms
Organizers: Pierre Colmez (L’Institut de Mathématiques de
Jussieu), Wee Gan (National University of Singapore), LEAD
Michael Harris (L’Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu),
Elena Mantovan (California Institute of Technology), Ariane
Mezard (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University)
Geometric Representations Theory
Ngo Bao Chau (University of Illinois), LEAD David Ben-Zvi
(University of Texas), Thomas Haines (University of Maryland), Florian Herzig (University of Toronto), Kevin McGerty
(University of Oxford), David Nadler (University of California,
Berkeley), Catharina Stroppel (Hausdorff Research Institute
for Mathematics, University of Bonn), Eva Viehmann (Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, University of Bonn)
Par ailleurs, Ariane Mézard a obtenu un financement pour
un séjour longue durée (janvier- juin 2015) à l’UCB pour
développer ses travaux de recherche en collaboration avec
Kenneth Ribet, Sug Woo Shin et leurs doctorants dans le cadre du programme Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Le financement France-Berkeley a été utilisé pour permettre
l’organisation de l’école d’été du 1 juillet au 12 juillet 2013.
L’un des premiers objectifs atteints de ces écoles d’été était
d’inciter la participation des futurs post-doctorants aux semestres MSRI aout-dec 2014 et d’en préparer l’organisation
concrète en permettant à deux organisateurs (A. Mézard et
D. Nadler) de rencontrer les responsables du MSRI. Ces conférences (aout-décembre 2014) seront financées par le MSRI.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
L’impact de ce financement a été très fort : ce séjour à Berkeley a accru considérablement la visibilité internationale de A
Mézard et a marqué le début d’une internationalisation de
sa carrière. Elle est à présent activement sollicitée pour des
invitations de longue ou moyennne durée hors Europe (Japon, Etats-Unis, Inde...). Ce sont, à chaque fois, des opportunités pour diffusersmes résultats, démultiplier les échanges
et mettre en place des collaborations fructueuses. Ma seule
recommandation : faire perdurer ce programme utile souple
et efficace.
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Michael A. Rogawski
Neurology, University of California, Davis
Jean-Pierre Mothet
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Role of D-Serine in Migraine
Start Date: 2012
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1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The main objective of our project was to determine the contribution of the neuromodulator D-serine to cortical spreading depression (CSD), which represents a critical physiological
event in migraine. We hypothesized that an understanding
of the role of D-serine in CSD would enable the development
of improved treatments for migraine. The project combines
in vivo electrophysiological recording together with amperometric detection of D-serine. A critical element in the project
is the establishment of a colony at UC Davis Mouse Biology
Program animal facility of a strain of genetically engineered
mice (serine racemase knock-out mice). This colony was established and regularly produces mice for experiments. In
addition, the two teams learned how to conduct surgeries in
mice to introduce canulae and headmounts for joint biosensing and EEG recording. The surgical procedures were new
and required considerable joint experimentation. In addition,
the teams worked together to prepare and calibrate a D-serine biosensor system that is now operational. Experiments
with wild type and the serine racemase knock-out mice are
planned.
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2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Michael A. Rogawski, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department
of Neurology, School of Medicine and Center for
Neuroscience, UC Davis
Jean-Pierre Mothet, Ph.D. Group Leader, Aix-Marseille
Université and Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et
Neurophysiologie de Marseille, CNRS
Matilde Le Bail, doctoral student, Aix-Marseille Université
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Dorota Zolkowska, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Project
Scientist, UC Davis
Christoph Lossin, Ph.D., Professional Researcher, UC
Davis
Lisa Olsen, Research Assistant, UC Davis
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
None to date.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The grant from the France-Berkeley Fund allowed the French
and American teams to work together to jointly tackle a difficult problem. The Mothet team brought expertise in the
neurobiology of D-serine and on the manufacture of D-serine biosensors. The Rogawski team contributed expertise
in migraine research and murine models, including skills in
the surgical implantation of chronic recording electrodes
in mice. Although Rogawski and Mothet have long sought
to work together on a collaborative project, this was not
possible because of the geographic barrier separating their
two laboratories. No other source of funding was available
to bring the research teams together. The long held desire
was transformed into reality by the funding received from
the France-Berkeley Fund. Having Mothet and his student
Mathilde Le Bail visit UC Davis allowed the transfer of specific
knowledge and skills on D-serine and the use of the biosensor. In addition, the visit strengthened the ties between the
laboratories. Given the close affiliation generated by the visit
supported by the France-Berkeley Fund, it is anticipated that
the collaboration will continue.
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Michael A. Rogawski
Neurology, University of California, Davis
Jean-Pierre Mothet
CRN2M UMR7286 CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université
Role of D-Serine in Migraine
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Funds were spent on flight tickets for Matilde Le Bail and
Jean-Pierre Mothet to travel from France to Sacramento
and for 3 months housing. Additional funds were used to
purchase equipment items and animals. The funds from the
France-Berkeley Fund were substantially supplemented by
general research funding available to Rogawski, which were
applied to the collaborative project. The teams intend to apply for joint research funding in the future.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
We are extremely grateful to the Fund for providing support
that enabled us to initiate our collaboration. Working to-
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gether, the French and American principal investigators were
able to jointly chart the course of the project and to share
knowledge and technical skills. A student from the French
team and several scientists from the American team were
able to work together at the lab bench to develop novel experimental methodologies. However, to fully realize the research opportunity, a more sustained effort is required. One
way to maintain project momentum would be for the French
student to remain in the American lab for a more extended
period of time, for example with the support of an international student exchange fellowship. Assistance in obtaining
such a fellowship would be greatly appreciated. We believe
that such a student fellowship would allow full realization of
the seed investment provided by France-Berkeley Fund.
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Jeffrey Ross-ibarra
Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
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Does Domestication Affect Recombination: A Pilot Study in Maize
Start Date: XXX 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
In total, we have genotype data from 700 teosinte progenies of 20 mothers. We then spent ~6 months developing
statistical genetic methods to 1) identify maternal and paternal plants for each genotype 2) phase the parents using
genotype data from the progeny and 3) phase and impute
genotypes of the progeny using phased data from parental
plants. Our simulations show these methods work with very
high accuracy (>95%), and we are currently finishing applying
them to the genotype data. These data will then be shared
with Falque and Tenaillon groups, and they will estimate recombination rates. Data from the associated mapping project
will provide genotypes for a similar number of maize plants.
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra (Associate Professor, UC Davis)
Maud Tenaillon (CNRS Researcher)
Mathieu Falque (INRA Researcher, UMR de Génétique
Végétale)
Vincent Buffalo (former staff scientist, current graduate
student, UC Davis)
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
None to date, at least two planned. The first will be on
estimating recombination rate from progeny arrays and variation in maize landraces. The second will be on comparison
between maize and teosinte.
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4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The Ross-Ibarra lab has developed statistical tools to take
advantage of future large multiparent mapping populations
to identify parents and phase and impute genotypes of both
parents and offsprings. The Tenaillon and Falque groups at
UMR will utilize these data to estimate recombination rates
in maize and teosinte and compare across populations and
families. We are hopeful that this collaboration will continue to prove fruitful as we investigate other aspects of our
mapping populations, as it will allow us to answer questions
about correlations of inbreeding depression and linked selection with patterns of recombination.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
Funds were spent to covering genotyping by sequencing.
Initially we had plans to genotype crosses performed at UC
Davis and UMR, but neither set of crosses produced sufficient
seeds. Instead, we used the funds to genotype additional individuals from a mapping population of maize and teosinte
that was underway from a related project.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
This was a great opportunity to generate pilot data and
work out methods of dealing with reduced representation
sequencing to identify recombination rates. The difficulties
were on our end with getting successfull crosses!
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John W. Taylor
Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
tatiana giraud
Department Genetique et Ecologie Evolutive, Université de Paris-Sud
Fungal Ecological Genomics
Start Date: September 2012
1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
The research that we proposed could not be supported by
the FBF grant alone, but FBF support was essential to realizing the goals of the ambitious research project by funding
travel and enabling the first two international meetings in the
new field of fungal population genomics. To accomplish all of
the research goals, we were fortunate to have funds from a
Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship (MCOF) to provide support
for Dr. Pierre Gladieux and laboratory funds to supplement
the MCOF grant from Prof. J. Taylor. Central to the proposed
research was the combined expertise of Dr. Tatiana Giraud
and her group in Paris and Prof. J. Taylor and his group in
Berkeley. Although the MCOF program is based on collaboration between the Giraud and Taylor labs, the MCOF provided
no funds for travel to facilitate scientific exchange. Therefore,
we aimed to leverage the FBF funds to greatly enhance the
investment by the MCOF and Taylor’s lab by funding two
meetings, one for Gladieux and Taylor and a young postdoc
to travel to Giraud’s lab and one for Giraud and a young postdoc to travel to Taylor’s lab. The purpose of the meetings
was to educate all the members of both labs, and to enhance
both the critical evaluation of research in progress and the
planning of future research — tasks best accomplished by
physical meetings between researchers in the labs of the FBF
principal investigators, and in neighboring labs.
As for the lab-work part of the project, we greatly exceeded expectations by obtaining genome sequences of 130 individuals of one Neurospora species, Neurospora discrete 4b,
eclipsing our work on N. crassa by ca. 80 genomes. We are
currently writing a publication based on the analyses of a first
batch of genomic sequences of 50 Neurospora discreta 4b
individuals. We are also finishing up lab experiments (in vitro
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crosses between fungal individuals) and analyzing a second
batch of another 80 individual genomes. Both data sets will
form the basis of publications.
The France-Berkeley-Fund support has been, in our experience, unexpectedly successful in fostering relationships between Berkeley and France:
• T. Giraud and postdoc Jeanne Ropars visited the Taylor
lab in Berkeley in March 2013
• Ms Fanny Perraudeau, from the Ecole Polytechnique in
Palaiseau, joined the Taylor lab for four months in 2013
and participated in data analysis under Gladieux and
Taylor’s supervision. This experience instilled a taste
for research in Ms Perraudau, who is now embarking on
a PhD in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley. Her work is being
incorporated into the research paper we are currently
writing.
• J. Taylor, T. Giraud and P. Gladieux organized the first
ever Fungal Population Genomics workshop. It was
held in March 2013 in Berkeley to take advantage of
researchers coming to California for the Fungal Genetics
Conference. We attracted 30 leading researchers from
nine institutions (UC Berkeley, U Paris-Sud, Duke U, UC
Riverside, Shanghai Inst, ETH Zurich, Wageningen U,
Uppsala U, Nottingham U, MPI Marburg) including five
from the FBF group, PI Taylor, postdoc Pierre Gladieux
and graduate student Emily Whiston from Berkeley and
PI Giraud and postdoc J Ropars from U Paris-Sud, Orsay,
three of whom presented research (Gladieux, Whiston
and Giraud). At this time, we also had the FBF meeting
between Berkeley and U Paris-Sud researchers.
• In April 2013, PI Taylor visited PI Giraud’s lab at the U
Paris-Sud to make a presentation on the most recent
Neurospora crassa research, a visit that was not charged
to the FBF grant.
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Fungal Ecological Genomics
J. Taylor and postdocs visited the Giraud lab for a week in
Orsay in April 2014 to hold the FBF meeting. The Giraud
lab was also hosting PI Hanna Johannesson and her students and postdocs at this time, making for an excellent
opportunity for discussions and collaborations on fungal
mating type chromosomes and Neurospora population
genomics.
In April 2014, J. Taylor, T. Giraud and P. Gladieux organized the second Fungal Population Genomics workshop,
this time held in Orsay. We attracted 15 young and
experience researchers from (UC Berkeley, U ParisSud, Uppsala U, ETH Zurich, MPI Marburg, INRA Nancy,
Harvard U) including : PI Taylor, postdocs Gladieux
and Sara Branco from Berkeley, and graduate students
Alice Feurtey and Hélène Badouin, postdocs J Ropars,
Ricardo Rodriguez de la Vega, junior Assistant Professor
Antoine Branca, and PI Giraud from U Paris Sud. All presented research except the two PIs and A. Feurtey who
has very recently joined the Giraud lab. This meeting
brought a large attendance of fungal evolutionary biologists and ecologists from various institutes of the Paris
Metropolitan Area and even further (INRA Versailles/
Grignon, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, U Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse).
2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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PI John Taylor, Professor UC Berkeley
PI Tatiana Giraud, CNRS Researcher
Pierre Gladieux, Postdoc UC Berkeley
Sara Branco, Postdoc UC Berkeley
Emily Whiston, PhD Student UC Berkeley
Iman Sylvain, PhD Student UC Berkeley
Monika Fischer, PhD Student UC Berkeley
Christopher Hann-Soden, PhD Student UC Berkeley
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Alice Feurtey, PhD Student U Paris Sud
Hélène Badouin, PhD Student U Paris Sud
Jeanne Ropars, Postdoc U Paris Sud
Ricardo Rodriguez de la Vega, Postdoc U Paris Sud
Antoine Branca, Maitre de Conférence U Paris Sud
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Gladieux P, Ropars R, Badouin H, Branca A, Aguileta G, de
Vienne DM, Rodriguez de la Vega R, Branco S, Giraud T.
(2014) Fungal evolutionary genomics provide insights into
the mechanisms of adaptive divergence in eukaryotes. Molecular Ecology 23(4):753:773
Gladieux et al. Population genomics of Neurospora discreta:
Structure and differentiation. Ms in preparation.
Gladieux et al. Population genomics of Neurospora discrete:
Gene flow and migration. Ms in preparation.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
The collaboration was totally new. Although Pis Giraud and
Taylor had met several times at meetings, and each had
collaborated on different research projects with the same
French colleague (J. Dupont, Museum National d’Histoire
Naturelle, Paris), they had never been involved in collaborative work prior to FBF support. FBF meetings allowed them
to bring together complementary approaches to studying
fungal evolution. For instance, expertise in Giraud’s group on
the evolution of fungal mating systems was helpful to Berkeley grad student Chris Hann-Soden and postdoc Sara Branco.
Reciprocally, expertise in Taylor’s group on fungal speciation
genomics and reverse ecology was helpful to Orsay grad student Hélène Badouin and postdoc Jeanne Ropars.
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Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
tatiana giraud
Department Genetique et Ecologie Evolutive, Université de Paris-Sud
Fungal Ecological Genomics
As another token of the collaborative nature of the project,
UC Berkeley postdoc Gladieux and PI Giraud led the writing
of a review paper on fungal evolutionary genomics, involving
postdocs, students and faculty from both Orsay and Berkeley.
Beyond the principal French institution, l’Université de
Paris-Sud, this project has created relationships with the
Ecole Polytechnique. Lasting relationships between the Ecole
Polytechnique and the Taylor laboratory (and more generally UCB) can be expected, given that the internship of Ms.
Perraudeau was a success, that she will become a graduate
student at Berkeley, and that PI Giraud teaches ecology and
evolution at this school.
Perhaps the most lasting accomplishment of both the FBF
and MCOF is that postdoc P. Gladieux has recently won a
competition to be hired as ‘experienced research scientist’ at
INRA Montpellier. Gladieux will take office in January 2015.
His proposed research project on Neurospora adaptive genomics complements both Taylor’s and Giraud’s research
interests, and this common interest will likely foster relationships between the Taylor and Giraud labs and another French
Institute renouned for evolutionary biology (BGPI lab, CIRAD,
Montpellier).
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5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
$2777.50 was spent to support the visits of PI Giraud and
postdoc Ropars to Berkeley in March 2013. $7222.50 (and a
bit more charged to other funds) was spent to support the
visits of PI Taylor and postdocs Gladieux and Branco to Orsay
in April 2014.
Gladieux recently applied to an ERC Starting grant. The proposed research involves collaboration with both Giraud and
Taylor.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
One of the PIs, Taylor, was able to attend the 20th Anniversary
celebration (the program, alas not the reception). He enjoyed
meeting other FBF participants and encourages the FBF to
hold more such meetings, as is done by the Miller Institute at
Berkeley. For example, he had no idea that George Roderick
and Rosie Gillespie, colleagues with similar interests, also had
projects in France that might mesh with his.
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Jeremy W. Thorner
Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Robert A. Arkowitz
Institut Biologie Valrose, Université de Nice Sophie Antipolis
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1) Describe the work accomplished, in relation to the original project description.
On the basis of the mutual research interests of our two
groups, two reciprocal visits were arranged. First, in Sept.
2012, Dr. Elodie Sartorel, a postdoctoral research fellow (and
French citizen) in the laboratory of Prof. Jeremy Thorner at
UC Berkeley, journeyed to the Univ. of Nice and spent a twoweek period in the laboratory of Dr. Robert A. Arkowitz. Prior to her departure, Elodie invested a significant amount of
time constructing a plasmid that would be able to express a
fluorescent probe to detect phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) on
the cytosolic leaflet of cellular membranes in the pathogenic
yeast Candida albicans, a primary organism of study in the
Arkowitz group. The reason why this task is not trivial is that
C. albicans and related species (referred to as the ‘CTG clade’)
use a non-standard genetic code to translate nuclear genes;
specifically, in this group of organisms, a CUG codon encodes
Ser, whereas in the standard genetic code, CUG encodes Leu
[Gomes AC et al. (2007) Genome Biol. 8: R206]. Elodie recoded the DNA sequence specifying the PtdSer- binding KA1
domain from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein kinase
Kcc4 [Moravcevic K et al. (2010) Cell 143: 966- 977], so that
the re-engineered coding sequence inserted Leu (instead
of Ser) at the position of a codon that was formerly CUG as
well as adhered to other aspects of the optimal codon usage
bias exhibited by C. albicans. Elodie then used recombinant
DNA methods to fuse the resulting CaKA1Kcc4 domain to a fluorescent protein (CaGFP) whose coding sequence was also
optimized for expression in C. albicans and provided to us
by Dr. Arkowitz. Elodie sent this plasmid, in advance, to the
Arkowitz lab; however, no signal was visible when this plasmid was introduced by DNA-mediated transformation into
C. albicans cells. Consequently, Elodie generated, using the
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same reagents, a tandemerized construct: p[CaGFP-CaKA1Kcc4-CaKA1Kcc4-CaGFP]. Elodie also designed a C. albicans
codon-optimized version of another PtdSer-binding protein,
the C2 domain of the mammalian protein lactadherin, which
contains 8 CUG that needed to be converted to Leu-encoding codons and was prepared for us by a commercial firm
(GenScript, Inc.). In addition to sending along, in advance,
to the Arkowitz lab the plasmid p[CaGFP-CaKA1Kcc4-CaKA1Kcc4-CaGFP] (in bacteria) and the CaC2Lact domain optimized for
C. albicans, we also provided strains of S. cerevisiae expressing a PtdIns4,5P2-binding probe (GST-GFP-PHPLCδ1), a PtdIns4P-binding probe (GFP-PHOsh2) and a PtdSer-binding probe
(GFP-KA1), as well as a fluorescently tagged version of the
S. cerevisiae PtdIns4P 5-kinase, Mss4-GFP. When Elodie arrived in Nice, she wastrained on the use of the sophisticated
spinning disk confocal microscope available in the Arkowitz
lab and in image analysis. During this training, she examined
S. cerevisiae MATa cells expressing each of the reporters
(GST-GFP-PHPLCδ1, GFP-PHOsh2, GFP-KA1, and Mss4-GFP). She
obtained images of the distribution and dynamics of these
probes in naïve cells as well as in the same cells treated with
the mating pheromone α-factor, which induces markedly
polarized growth. She quantified the distribution of these
probes using Matlab programs developed in the Arkowitz
lab. Elodie observed that all three of the lipid-binding probes
were highly enriched at the tip of the projection that forms
on pheromone treated cells, whereas the enzyme Mss4 was
distributed rather uniformly around the entire perimeter of
the plasma membrane of the cell. After Elodie departed, Dr.
Vikram Ghugtyal, a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Robert A. Arkowitz at the Univ. of Nice, incorporated the CaC2Lact domain that Elodie had prepared into a
plasmid and introduced it into C. albicans and examined C.
albicans cells during the marked elongation that they undergo when growing under conditions that support hyphal-form
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(as opposed to yeast-form) growth. Vikram observes highly
polarized localization of this reporter at the tips of C. albicans
hyphal filaments. Unfortunately, no signal was observed in C.
albicans using the p[CaGFP-CaKA1Kcc4-CaKA1Kcc4-CaGFP].
Second, in Dec. 2013, Dr. Vikram Ghugtyal made a twoweek visit to UC Berkeley. During Vikram’s visit, he set out
to determine if the S. cerevisiae PtdIns 4-kinase encoded by
the PIK1 gene was important for haploid invasive growth. To
address this question, he introduced a temperature-sensitive
allele (pik1-101) allele into the background of S. cerevisiae
strain Σ1278b, which normally displays robust haploid invasive growh. The resulting derivative was inviable at 37°C, as
expected. At an elevated temperature at which this strain
still grew (35°C), no defect in haploid invasive growth was
observed when that response was induced by shifting the
culture to a low-glucose medium. Vikram also tried to examine the distribution of PtdSer and PtdIns4P in filamentous S.
cerevisiae Σ1278b cells using S. cerevisiae-optimized reporters that Elodie routinely uses in other laboratory stocks of
S. cerevisiae derived from a different lineage (S288C). However, there were difficulties in induction (with galactose) of
the PtdSer reporter (under GAL promoter control) in cells
that were initially propagated in glucose-poor medium to
induce their filamentation. With the PtdIns4P reporter, even
though its expression was driven by the constitutive PHO5
promoter, fluorescence signals were very low and difficult
to detect. Interestingly, however, in liquid low/no glucose
conditions, S. cerevisiae Σ1278b cells expressing the PtdIns4P
reporter appeared to be completely defective for filamentous
growth, whereas S. cerevisiae Σ1278b cells not carrying this
plasmid behaved normally. These results suggest that plasma membrane PtdIns4P may be critical for S. cerevisiae filamentous growth, a possibility being pursued in the Arkowitz
lab.
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2) give the names and ranks (ex. doctoral student, associate
professor, etc.) of the participants in the project.
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Elodie Sartorel, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UC
Berkeley
Prof. Jeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley
Vikram Ghugtyal, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ.
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of Nice
Prof. Robert A. Arkowitz, Univ. of Nice
3) list all publications resulting from this project. include
journal titles and issues/dates.
Sartorel S, Barrey E, Lau RK, Thorner J (2014) Plasma membrane aminoglycerolipid flippase function is required for
signaling competence in the yeast mating pheromone response pathway. Molecular Biology of the Cell, submitted
for publication [7 July 2014]
Ghugtyal V, Schaub S, Garcia R, Bassilana M, Arkowitz RA
(2014) golgi phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate- dependent membrane traffic is critical for fungal filamentous
growth. Journal of Cell Biology, manuscript in preparation.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of this project,
highlighting aspects that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses. Will
future collaboration occur as a result of this project?
This interaction was very useful to both laboratories because
there was much common ground in terms of research interests and methodological approaches. However, because
the Thorner Lab focuses on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is
neither equipped to handle nor authorized to handle any experiments that involve Candida albicans, it was not possible
to conduct any experiments of direct or immediate benefit
to the progress of Prof. Arkowitz’s research here at Berkeley.
Nonetheless, the mutual support gained by the provision and
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pertise, was of great benefit to the research progress in both
laboratories. Even though the resulting publications (see
above) describe studies conducted independently in both
laboratories, aspects of each project were aided, abetted and
expedited by the interaction fostered by the FBF grant.
It is not clear whether any formal collaboration will arise
from the initial “mutual aid” pact that arose from the support
provided by the FBF grant; however, we anticipate continued
beneficial interactions, given our common research interests.
5) give a final accounting of how the France-Berkeley Fund
award was spent. Do you envision soliciting additional outside funding for this or related projects in the future, and if
yes, from where?
At this point, all of the funds awarded ($10,000) have been
completely expended or are completely committed, so that
little significant balance remains. As of 15 May 2014 (see
attached financial report prepared by Ms. Diona Cox in the
Research Administration and EFA Accounting unit of MCB
Business Services), Prof. Thorner’s laboratory had exhausted
$4,803.50 of its allotment ($5,000) and Prof. Arkowitz had
exhausted $3,721.24 of its allotment ($5,000). In the interim, the $1,278.76 remaining balance on Prof. Arkowitz’s side
of the ledger was expended on the purchase of additional
synthetic oligonucleotide primers (by GenScript, Inc.), which
were shipped to France to aid his current work. The $196.50
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remaining in Prof. Thorner’s side of the ledger has been spent
on routine charges for supplies and expendables incurred by
Dr. Elodie Sartorel in the Barker Hall stockroom.
Prof. Thorner’s current NIH R01 Research Grant, which provides support for highly related projects, is due for its next
4-year renewal and an application for completing continuation of that grant has been submitted. Likewise, Prof. Arkowitz will continue to conduct studies highly related to the
FBF-aided project with his support from the French National
Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Institut national
de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) of the Ministries of Health and Research.
6) Please give any recommendations or feedback you may
have regarding the France-Berkeley Fund.
I realize that funding is limited. However, at least in the hard
sciences, to truly promote an authentic and lasting collaboration under such “long-range” circumstances requires far
more opportunities for in-person exchange and considerably
more research resources than can be supported by a grant of
$10,000. So, if it were possible for the France-Berkeley Fund
to obtain more total funding, and/or to give fewer but larger
grants, it would likely have an even more salutary effect on
fostering scholarly exchange between France and UC Berkeley.
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Patricia Baquedano-López & Pedro Jose Garcia Sanchez.............................................................................................93
Social and political tools of urban cosmopolitanism: the challenge of otherness in distributed cognition and interactivity
Déborah Blocker & Anne Piéjus..................................................................................................................................94
New tools and stakes for the study of language and culture in Early Modern French periodicals: the case of the Mercure Galant
Jason Corburn & Gérard Salem...................................................................................................................................99
Global urban health: collaborative research for a new science of the city
Wayne M. Getz & Pierre Magal ................................................................................................................................ 101
Individual-based, structually and demographically-detailed epidemic models
suzenne guerlac & Jean-Pierre Montier ................................................................................................................... 102
Towards a coherently structured development of photoliterary research
John Harvey & Agnès Jullien..................................................................................................................................... 103
Comparison of use phase methodology and recycling approach for pavement life cycle assessment
Carl Heiles & Gilles Theureau ................................................................................................................................... 105
French / American collaboration for radio investigations of time-variable astrophysical phenomena
Daniela Kaufer & François Tronche ........................................................................................................................... 106
Dissecting GR Gene Function in Stem Cells of the Nervious System
Robert T. Knight and Fanny Meunier ........................................................................................................................ 107
Brain dynamics of compensatory mechanisms for lexical selection in overt speech production after left prefrontal damage
lance J. Kriegsfeld & Matthieu Kelelr........................................................................................................................ 109
Neuroendocrine gating of olfactory perceptual processing
Winfried Kudszus & Richard Trim ............................................................................................................................. 111
Metaphor in the political debate of austerity programs
Susan G. Miller & Jocelyne Dakhlia........................................................................................................................... 113
Networking for independence: the Moroccan nationalists’ global campaign against French colonialism
Elizabeth Moxon & Garance Aubry ........................................................................................................................... 114
Sudent science at synchotrons: preparing the next generation of scientists
Susan J. Muller & Thibaut Divoux ............................................................................................................................. 117
Testing a generalized stability criterion for viscoelastic flows
Nicholas Paige & Guillaume Peureux ........................................................................................................................ 119
The “I” before “the Self’: Non-modern uses of the first person in Renaissance and Classical France
Nicolai Reshetikhin & Christian Blanchet .................................................................................................................. 120
Categorification of quantum invariants of 3-dimensional manifolds
Barbara Romanowicz & Yann Capdeville .................................................................................................................. 121
Probabilistic interpretation of tomographic models
Pablo J. Ross & Hélène Jammes................................................................................................................................ 123
A systems biology approach to understand parental-specific contributions to embryo and placnta development
Lauren Williams & Sylvie Corteel.............................................................................................................................. 124
Tableaux combinastorics
sofia Villas-Boas & Claire Chambolle ....................................................................................................................... 125
The impact of retail mergers on food prices: evidence from France
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Department of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Pedro Jose Garcia Sanchez
Sociologie, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre – La Défense
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The Challenge of Otherness in Distributed Cognition and Interactivity
Start Date: June 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
We requested and received a no-cost extension until December 31, 2014.
We have completed the first part of our proposed program,
which was to hold one workshop in Nanterre, France. We
organized a two-day “workshop” from April 10-11, 2014 at
Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre – La Défense entitled Pragmatiques du cosmopolitisme urbain: Epreuves, ressources et
interactivité. There were 27 speakers from 14 universities
and institutions across 4 countries, and representing over
12 international research laboratories. The participants represented senior researchers at CNRS, junior tenured/untenured faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
We also had local politicians attend the workshop, including
the Mayor of Nanterre and other officials from Nanterre to
engage with researchers the theme of “the city.” We are currently planning a second workshop/meeting in Berkeley for
the Fall 2014 where we will devote time to have a more focused exchange on work- in-progress from the Co-PIs on the
themes of our shared work.
The workshop in Nanterre was broadcasted live globally. It
was also videotaped and there are plans underway to upload
the videos of all the presentations to a website.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
We received an award of $9,000. To date we have spent
$3,961.80, which we used to cover the costs of travel and
other expenses for the workshop in Nanterre. We anticipate
using the remaining funds to cover the costs of the second
workshop in Berkeley.
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3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We are planning the second workshop for the Fall 2014 in
Berkeley, California. We hope that at that meeting, our respective research teams will identify additional venues for
publication of joint work by the Co-PIs. We expect to complete the project by December 31, 2014.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
The two Co-PIs have been working closely together on all aspects of the project. They have brought student members of
their respective teams together for the first workshop. They
have extended their research networks across universities
and research centers, and dialogue has started about future
presentations and collaborations within this extended network.
We also presented a poster session on the project at the
France Berkeley Fund’s 20th Anniversary on May 5, 2014.
At this event we discussed with attendees the nature of the
project and its goals, thus introducing the project to UC colleagues and French dignitaries in attendance
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Following the success of the first workshop in Nanterre, we
are considering publishing the conference proceedings. A
French publishing house is interested in the publishing the
proceedings. We are also hoping to publish a collaborative
piece in a refereed journal after the second workshop in
Berkeley.
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Déborah Blocker
Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Piéjus
IReMus, CNRS
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R e p o r t Early Modern French Periodicals: the Case of the Mercure Galant
Start Date: October 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
The project we submitted is now half-way completed.
In 2013-2014, we held two meetings, one at UC Berkeley
and one in Paris.
In October 2013, Anne Piéjus visited several northern Californian campuses. During this visit, she spent four days at UC
Berkeley, giving a talk in the Dept. of French and talk in the
Dept. of Music. We took this opportunity to present our project on the Mercure galant to graduates in early modern studies at Berkeley, in order to encourage them to participate.
To this end, we organized a seminar in the French Dept (see
http://french.berkeley.edu/2013/10/08/dr-anne-piejus/).
In attendance were Déborah Blocker (early modern French
Literature and history, French, UCB), Mairi MacLaughlin (historical linguistics, French, UCB), Anne Piéjus (musicology,
IReMus, CNRS) and Claude Potts (Romance Librarian, Doe
Library, UCB). During this gathering, we presented the Mercure galant to UCB graduate students and described how and
where this important periodical — few complete collections
of which are available in the UC — could be read and studied on-line. In particular, Claude Potts presented a detailed
description of the holdings available on-line, and explained
to the graduate students how these various collections could
be read (in image mode) and subjected to key-word searches
(in text mode, which makes vast corpora of texts searchable
on-line). Anne Piéjus explained the nature and goals of the
research program devoted to the Mercure galant, which she
directs since 2002, detailing the on-line editions of this program (which offer a transcription of the text, a set of images
and a vast indexation database, soon to be organized in ontologies). Mairi Mac Laughlin explained how periodicals like
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the Mercure galant could be used in historical linguistics, and
in what ways digitalization had opened up new possibilities
in this respect. Finally, Déborah Blocker and Anne Piéjus, explained how the program funded by the FBF would unfold
and invited all graduate studenta present to participate either in the study day to be organized in Paris in early June
2014 or in the gathering organized in Berkeley in February
2015.
On June 3, we then held a study day in Paris on the theme:
« Auctorialité, voix et publics du Mercure galant. Lire et interpréter l’écriture de presse à l’époque moderne » . This
gathering took place in the salle des Commissions of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, and followed the
appended schedule (which was circulated widely in French).
This study day was extremely well attended (we had 21
scholars at the lunch table and over 30 in the room) and discussions both in session and during pauses were very lively.
The next morning, Anne Piéjus hosted those who had taken
part in June 3 meeting around a seminar table at the IReMus,
for a follow-up discussion. At the opening of this 3-hour
meeting, Déborah Blocker presented hypotheses and conclusions concerning the questions debated the day before, and
an animated discussion ensued. Then Anne Piéjus and the
members of her research group (in particular Nathalie Berton-Blivet and Alexandre de Craim) presented the extraordinarily thorough and rich indexation databases covering most
of the 17th century issues of the Mercure galant, and which
they have been making available on the website of the LabEx
OBVIL, hosted by the University of Paris-IV. This follow-up
seminar was caped by a luncheon where lively conversations
continued.
Many scholars working on the Mercure galant from different angles in variety of different countries expressed to us
after these two June 2014 meetings how productive and inspiring these exchanges had been for them, and stressed that
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these discussions were likely to change some of their working
hypotheses and research protocols.
These debates also confirmed that it was important to have
a more structured methodological exchange on how to read
and study such serial sources in the digital age. Many participants in the Paris study days insisted on the fact that it was
central, now that so many early modern sources are going
digital, to carefully weigh how these new formats affect how
we read such documents, and how digital tools can change
the kinds of research we conduct on them. These problems
will be at the center of the second international gathering we
are planning, to be held in Berkeley in February 2015.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
We have spent about half of our allotted budget ($4250) and
anticipate spending the other half to organize the gathering
entitled “The Mercure Galant and Early Modern Periodicals
in the Digital Age: New Tools, New Research Possibilities?”,
which is to take place in Berkeley in February 2015.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We still have one international meeting to organize, this time
in Berkeley. It will be entitled “The Mercure Galant and Early
Modern Periodicals in the Digital Age: New Tools, New Re-
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search Possibilities?” and is planned to take place in Berkeley
in February 2015.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
This project has brought together scholars from many disciplines (history, linguistics, library sciences, musicology and
literature) and has allowed for the constitution of an international network of scholars working on the Mercure galant
and early modern journals more generally. It will certainly
foster long-term networks and exchanges between Anne Piéjus and Déborah Blocker, and the graduate students working
with them both.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
We are planning to publish the papers given at the June 2014
in Paris in the journal XVIIe siècle, which is the top journal in
French seventeenth-century studies in France, both for literary studies and for historical approaches (see: http://www.
puf.com/XVIIe_siècle). Déborah Blocker has obtained a Research Assistantship in the Humanities Grant at UC Berkeley
for one of her graduate students ($4000) and these funds will
in part be used, during the fall of 2014, to swiftly prepare the
texts to be published for their appearance in the journal.
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Déborah Blocker
Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Piéjus
IReMus, CNRS
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R e p o r t Early Modern French Periodicals: the Case of the Mercure Galant
AUCTORIALITE, VOIX ET PUBLICS DU MERCURE GALANT. LIRE ET
INTERPRETER L’ECRITURE DE PRESSE A L’EPOQUE MODERNE.
Journées d’études organisée par l’IReMus
(Institut de Recherche en Musicologie)
mardi 3 juin 2014, 9h-17h30
mercredi 4 juin 2014 2014, 10h-13h
Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu-Louvois
5, rue Vivienne,75002 Paris
Salle des commissions, cour Vivienne
Organisées par Déborah BLOCKER (Université de Californie, Berkeley et Grihl)
et Anne PIEJUS (IReMus)
AVEC LE GÉNÉREUX SOUTIEN DU FONDS FRANCE-BERKELEY
Le projet « Nouveaux outils, nouveaux enjeux pour l’histoire de la culture et de la langue dans la
presse française d’Ancien Régime : le cas du Mercure galant » porté par Déborah Blocker (Université
de Californie, Berkeley) et Anne Piéjus (CNRS, IReMus) a reçu un financement du Fonds FranceBerkeley pour l’organisation de deux rencontres internationales.
La première journée est consacrée à une réflexion conjointe sur les auteurs et les publics du
Mercure galant, pour mieux comprendre comment cette publication était produite et à quelles types
de lectures elle invitait. Les articles du Mercure galant sont le plus souvent non signés, tandis que la
participation de contributeurs occasionnels ou réguliers est presque entièrement passée sous silence.
Or l’écriture journalistique de Donneau de Visé, bientôt secondé de Thomas Corneille, n’est pas
neutre : ils se positionnent au contraire tant vis-à-vis du pouvoir monarchique, que vis-à-vis de la
société de leur temps, et leurs partis pris doivent impérativement être pris en compte aussi bien dans
l’indexation du vocabulaire du discours artistique, que dans toute étude menée sur le rôle du journal
dans la société du XVIIe siècle.
La seconde journée d’études aura lieu à l’Université de Berkeley au printemps 2015 et sera
consacrée à une réflexion méthodologique sur la digitalisation du périodique et les nouveaux types de
recherche que celle-ci permet (« Le Mercure galant et les Digital Humanities. Quels outils, pour quelle
recherche ? »).
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La présente rencontre est organisée avec le soutien du Fonds France Berkeley, de la BnF et de
l’IReMus.
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Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
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Mardi 3 juin 2014 (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Salle des commissions, cour
Vivienne) :
9h00 : Accueil et introduction par Anne Piéjus (IReMus, CNRS)
Première séance (9h15-10h45) : Genres, voix et styles dans Le Mercure galant, I.
Président de séance : Alain Viala (Université d’Oxford et GRIHL)
9h15-10h : Dinah Ribard (GRIHL, EHESS) et Marion Brétéché (Université Paris IV et GRIHL) :
« Qu’est-ce qu’un Mercure au temps du Mercure galant ? »
10h-10h45: Claude Bourqui (Université de Fribourg) et Christophe Schuwey (Université de Fribourg):
« Des Nouvelles Nouvelles au Mercure galant : les nouvellistes comme stratégie d’énonciation »
10h45-11h : Pause
Deuxième séance (11h-12h30) : Genres, voix et styles dans Le Mercure galant, II.
Présidente de séance : Déborah Blocker (Université de Californie, Berkeley et GRIHL)
11h-11h45 : Jonathan Haddad (Université de Californie, Berkeley) : « Les termes et le style de l’Histoire : déontologie
et esthétique des Nouvelles étrangères dans le Mercure de France »
11h45-12h30 : Alexandre de Craim (LabEx OBVIL, Université libre de Bruxelles) : « La guerre et ses
dentelles. Voix et création littéraire au temps de la campagne de Hollande dans le Mercure galant
(1672-1678) »
12h30-14h15 : déjeuner
Troisième séance (14h15-15h45): Lectorat, anonymat et herméneutique dans le Mercure galant , I
Présidente de séance : Mathilde Bombart (Université Lyon 3, GADGES et GRIHL)
14h15-15h00 : Geoffrey Turnovsky (Université de Washington à Seattle) : « Les lecteurs du Mercure galant: quelques
portraits »
15h00-15h45 : Sara Harvey (Université Paris IV) : « Lecteurs, auteurs et herméneutes dans les Extraordinaires du
Mercure galant (1678-1684) : la voix des abonnés »
15h45-16h00 : Pause
Quatrième séance (16h00-17h30): Lectorat, anonymat et herméneutique dans le Mercure galant, II.
Présidente de séance : Delphine Denis (Université Paris IV)
16h00-16h45 Elsa Véret (Université Paris IV) : « Poètes, joueurs et beaux esprits : statut et profils des auteurs
d’énigme du Mercure galant »
16h45-17h30 Anne Piéjus (IReMus, CNRS) : « Poètes et musiciens. Stratégies d’anonymat et de dévoilement dans les
poésies en musique du Mercure galant »
Mercredi 4 juin : 10h-13 h (IReMus, salle de réunion, 2 rue Louvois, 1er étage)
Réflexions conclusives sur la journée d’études (par Déborah Blocker) et discussion générale.
Démonstration des éditions numériques et bases de données, par Nathalie Berton-Blivet (CNRS, IReMus), Anne Piéjus
(IReMus, CNRS) et Alexandre de Craim (OBVIL, Université Libre de Bruxelles).
Perspectives, par Déborah Blocker et Anne Piéjus.
13h00 : déjeuner
Contacts: [email protected] et [email protected].
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Déborah Blocker
Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Piéjus
IReMus, CNRS
I n t e r i m New Tools and Stakes for the Study of Language and Culture in
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France-Berkeley Fund
Jason Corburn
School of Public Health & City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Gérard Salem
UFR SSA, Université Paris Ouest / Nanterre
Global Urban Health:
Collaborative Research for a New Science of the City
Start Date: September 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
We accomplished our original project goals, which were to
hold two workshops/seminars in each respective institution
(Paris and Berkeley) with affiliated faculty and students, and
develop new collaborative projects from these seminars.
PI Corburn visited the University of Paris in September and
October 2013. Lectures and seminars were prepared and
exchange between French and Berkeley colleagues were rewarding and fruitful. Ideas emerging from these workshops
included a joint urban health research project, sharing urban health teaching strategies, and foster greater student
exchanges, including inviting University of Paris doctoral students to UC Berkeley. The second large workshop was held
in late February 2014. Three University of Paris scholars/faculty visited Berkeley. A 4 day workshop, including seminars
with students and faculty, were held in Berkeley. New faculty from Berkeley joined the project during this time. New
collaborations were developed outside of Public Health and
City Planning, including those with Environmental Sciences
and CITRIS. We also conducted a field visit to Richmond, CA,
with the French scholars, and a new potential collaboration
emerged between UC Berkeley/Richmond and University of
Paris-Nanterre/and small cities around Paris. A future exchange between urban health professionals from each country, with faculty from the two universities facilitating, was another possible collaboration that emerged from this project
and will sustain relationships between the French University
and UC Berkeley.
Finally, we have explored urban health collaborations, including data gathering and mapping, that would support the
memorandum of understanding signed between the Mayor
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of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë and the Mayor of San Francisco, Edwin M. Lee, focusing on smart cities. This agreement
strengthens ties between the two cities and supports Inria
(The French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science and Control) and the CITRIS (Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society, UC Berkeley).
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
All expenses were for Foreign Travel.
In an effort to continue the collaboration, each side (Paris
and Berkeley) are pursuing financing. The Berkeley side is exploring an NSF grant and a seed grant from CITRIS to build on
the data and environmental sensing aspect of the work.
The Paris team is seeking support from the laboratory Mosaiques for a Knowledge Translation to Action (KTA) project
that will include an exchange between urban health professionals from both US and France that would be coordinated
by academics from both Paris and Berkeley.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
The proposed project has been completed. Future collaborative goals include the following:
A joint-seminar on “Knowledge translation to Action” (KtA)
How information moves from data to action: comparison San
Francisco and Paris.
• Through which types of collaboration does information
move to action?
• How the information needs to be produced and analysed?
• How the research issues are shaped by social demand?
• Is the knowledge really co-produced?
• How is the knowledge applied and appropriated?
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School of Public Health & City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
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This seminar would take place in Paris and be divided in three
moments:
• Workshop on “Knowledge translation to action” in the
framework of Déclic program
• Experience sharing session between stakeholders from
Richmond and stakeholders from various French cities
involved in health inequities reduction.
• Doctoral lecture on interventional research in the cities
(audience would be PhD students, researchers in urban
planning)
Exchanges about the pedagogy in our respective studio
classes. How do we teach at the intersection of different
disciplines? Which impact for the student professional integration? Which valorization within the university for master
program reputation? Which support and recognition from
the university?
Joint classes, teaching exchange and reflection on innovative pedagogy between UC Berkeley et Nanterre University :
Students of master programs could make parallel studies like:
• Critical inventory of data existing in Paris & San Francisco
on different health issues and their determinants. Ex:
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which data to characterize a healthy city? Which data to
deal with the specific determinants of different chronic
diseases?
• Describe the institutional organization and the roles of
different governance levels for public health and urban
planning sectors.
• Comparative posters realization
Meeting sF/Paris through videoconferences from september to December.
US Students and Paris students could work in small groups.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
See comment #1 above.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
None so far.
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Wayne M. Getz
Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy & Management, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Magal
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux Segalen
Individual-Based, Structurally
and Demographically-Detailed Epidemic Models
Start Date: November 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
The two individuals listed above met for a week this April in
Bordeaux (April 14-18, 2014) to work on the project. We narrowed down the focus of our project by, as articulated in our
proposal, “scoping out epidemiological modeling problems
of interest with respect to type of heterogeneities considered
and potential applications.” Specifically, we settled on tackling a particular class of problems that involves making use of
both “disease incidence” and “seroconversion” data to better
understand epidemics. The incorporation of sero-conversion
data into modeling of epidemic processes is new, because
with the advent of modern genetic techniques, tests for sero-conversion have only recently become possible in monitoring the course of epidemic processes, such as influenza.
These data also allow us to take a much more refined view
of disease transmission with regard to heterogeneity in the
size of infectious doses and in the immunological responses
of individuals.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
To date we have spent just over $3000 of the $9000 award.
We anticipate spending more of these funds when Pierre Ma-
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analyzing data later this year.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We are currently in the stage of formulating our new model
and carrying out some theoretical investigations. Later this
year, we will apply the model to real data. We anticipate that
our project will end in December of 2014, or carry on with a
no-cost extension into the spring of 2015.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
Up to this point, this project has been an equal collaboration
between the two groups in Berkeley and Bordeaux, and has
been confined to interactions between the two principal investigators. Later this year, the collaboration is likely to be
extended to include students within the Berkeley and Bordeaux labs.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Our intention is to publish the modeling work and its application to analyzing real epidemiological data in a suitable
peer-review journal.
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Suzanne Guerlac
Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Pierre Montier
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Development of Photoliterary Research
Start Date: August 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
We have received an extension for our project until spring
2015, as Prof. Guerlac was on sabbatical from UCB during
2013-14.
Spring 2015 Prof. Guerlac will be teaching an undergraduate course on photography and literature, which will enhance
and broaden student participation in our events, reaching to
the undergraduate level. She will also be teaching a graduate
course on Proust that spring, to which Prof. Montier can contribute, as he has published (as has Prof. Guerlac) on Proust
and photography.
So far we have had a planning meeting for our events (one
meeting in person, as we were both in NYC at another conference, and another by Skype) . We have finalized dates for
events in early March, 2015 and decided on the names of
two other participants to invite, and we have discussed possible themes for workshops that will maximize participation
from colleagues at UCB in various departments.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
No money has been spent so far. We anticipate spending
close to the full amount of the award.
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3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We will finalize the format for our events and precise themes
for workshops. We will finalize invitations to UCB colleagues
to participate as speakers.
We will also try to organize a visit to the Getty Museum
photography archive as part of our collaboration.
The project will be completed in March 2015.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
So far, our collaboration has consisted of our planning meetings, intellectual exchanges at the conference we both attended in NYC last spring, and developing a deeper understanding of each other’s work.
We have discussed additional participants (two former
students of Prof. Montier and our colleague, Prof. Andrea
Loselle from UCLA) who will be invited to contribute to our
workshops, thus enlarging the scope of our collaboration.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
This is under discussion.
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John Harvey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
Agnès Jullien
Laboratoire EASE, département AME, Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports,
de l’aménagement et des réseaux (IFSTTAR)
Comparison of Use Phase Methodology and
Recycling Approach for Pavement Life Cycle Assessment
Start Date: May 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
The project organization is as such: UC Pavement Research
Center (UCPRC) are task leaders for the use phase and Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de
l’aménagement et des réseaux (Ifsttar) is the task leader for
the construction/maintenance phase. The objectives of the
project have been reached or are in progress as follows.
Objective 1) Compare results of UCPRC and IFSTTAR models
for use phase GHG and energy use, and identify improvements to models;
The UCPRC has suggested the use of HDM4 model for the
evaluation of the infrastructure use phase. Then, the Ifsttar
conducted road experiments with a medium-size passenger
car equipped with an air flow meter and an oil flow meter,
in addition to dynamic measurements such as vehicle speed.
One parameter of the infrastructure environment has been
investigated in particular: the wind field influence (which is a
HDM4 key parameter). Noticeable results have been found,
since, for example, at a moderate speed of 75 km/h, a 30%
forward wind compared to a similar no-wind case is therefore raising the fuel consumption of 18%. As a result, the Ifsttar Ease laboratory is evaluating the opportunity to acquire
HDM4.
This work, based on full-scale experimental data and numerical simulations, pointed out that wind influence on total
aerodynamic power is noticeable for the road transportation
systems and justify the necessity to take into account wind
fields for modeling use phase energy of these transportation
systems.
The Ifsttar has presented this work at the CETRA2014 conference, and has proposed a Ifsttar-UCPRC collaboration for
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this conference, but the collaboration has been slightly delayed and realized in the frame of the 2nd objective.
Objective 2) Compare results of UCPRC and IFSTTAR models
for materials production and construction phases for recycling strategies for GHG and energy use, and identify improvements to models,
Three papers were submitted for the Pavement LCA 2014
conference to be held in Davis:
1) one for LCA ECORCE tool adaptation into an international version which will be finished by June 2014, then California
LCIs will be implemented in the tool between June and October 2014,
2) the other to highlight how to include alternative materials release when they are in stockpiles or in road layers, and
this in terms of ecotoxicity and toxicity impacts, a discussion
will be held on this topic between Ifsttar and UCPRC over the
next 6 months.
3) Finally, comparisons between various road structures
were done around the world as regards energy and GHG and
the results helped to work on US data for ECORCE tool.
Objective 3) Establish a relationship for long-term collaboration on pavement LCA.
John Harvey and Agnès Jullien decided to co-organize and
co-chair the Pavement LCA 2014 conference which will be
held in California on the 14th-16th of October, 2014. This
conference will give the opportunity to check the actual best
practice around the world for roads LCA. Several keynote
speakers and industrial partners are expected.
Objective 4) Demonstrate benefits of California/France collaboration to funding agencies.
The collaboration leads to shared objectives and methods for
pavement LCA and enrich the scientific community on actual
limitations of LCA and future topics of interest. The ECORCE
tool (French LCA tool) is now available in several languages
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and the collaboration will help to provide a database adapted
to California materials and processes including energy supply.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
No money spent to date. Expect to spend the full amount by
the end of the project.
One-week trips :
IFSTTAR, Agnès JULLIEN: scheduled to attend the LCA conference in Davis October 2014, and work for one week with
UCPRC on LCIs
The budget of Ifsttar will be fully used for that purpose.
UCPRC: Arash Saboori was not able to come to France because of restrictions on his US student visa, which was the
planned UCPRC spending. John Harvey is investigating the
possibility of visiting Nantes in Spring 2015.s
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
UCPRC and Ifsttar have decided to continue working together
with the UCPRC PhD student on data and dedicated tools as
well as on alternative materials implementation considering
additional indicators (not only energy and GHG).
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
• Common paper at the LCA 2014 conference
• Co-chairing the LCA 2014 conference to highlight LCA
practice, which will have published proceedings
• Journal paper by early 2015 on full pavement LCA comparison (transport part D)
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
During this year, skypes were organized every month to discuss the various topics. These exchanges will continue in the
second semester of 2014.
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Carl Heiles
Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Theureau
Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris
French / American Collaboration for Radio Investigations
of Time-Variable Astrophysical Phenomena
Start Date: October 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
Dr G. Desvignes visited UC Berkeley for a month in October-November 2013. During his stay, he familiarized himself
with the recent digital developments of the Serendip VI
project. He participated in meetings and learned about the
programming of the CASPER ROACH2 boards and the design
of ROACH2 firmwares, among which is the Serendip VI project. With the help of Dr Siemion and other members of the
CASPER group at UC Berkeley, he started to test the board on
a bench lab.
Dr A. Siemion came to the Nancay Radio Observatory in
April 2014, where he taught a team of digital engineers and
scientist about the CASPER collaboration and tools. With his
expertise he helped carrying out the installation and first
‘light’ observations of the new instrumentation based on the
Serendip VI project. These first observations include the observations of pulsars in a ‘search’ or incoherent mode with a
large bandwidth (see plot). The project is on time regarding
the proposed time line.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
As of June 2014, $9000 have been spent in the travels and
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further expenses.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
To complete the remaining observing modes of the new
instrumentation, some required hardware (an Analog to
Digital Converter and some computing nodes) still need to
be bought by the Nancay Radio Observatory. Once this hardware is installed, limited software development will then be
needed in order to test the ‘coherent’ pulsar mode and use
of the commensal SETI observation mode. We hence expect
a completion towards the end of 2014, early 2015.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
Thanks to his strong expertise with the CASPER collaboration,
Dr Siemion gave valuable advice to the Nancay team of engineers and scientists on the ongoing digital instrumentation
developments. Therefore Dr Siemion will serve as an adviser
when CASPER related instruments will be developed at the
Nancay Radio Observatory.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Once the remaining hardware has been purchased, regular
observations for pulsars (surveys and timing of millisecond
pulsars in the framework of the European Pulsar Timing Array) as well as commensal search for narrow band SETI signals will take place. Hence this project will most likely result
in a series of papers in 2015 and beyond thanks to this new
large band observing system.
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Daniela Kaufer
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
François Tronche
« Gene Regulation and Adaptive Behaviors » team, CNRS,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
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Start Date: 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
We have successfully achieved the aims of the original processes. The doctoral candidate Alana Wong spent several
months in the Paris lab, where she generated a transgenic
mouse line harboring an inducible knock-out of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) in nestin positive adult stem cells. We
have to date successfully analyzed the behavioral and cellular
effects of the knock out. Although it is well known that corticosteroids, corticosterone in rodents or cortisol in humans
(hereafter referred to as cort), can potently regulate neural
stem/progenitor cells (NPCs), how they mediate these changes and whether it has any functional impact remains unknown.
When elevated, as occurring during stress, cort can bind to
two receptors, only one of which is found in NPCs1. This is
the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), which can directly bind to
and affect cellular DNA. We sought to determine whether
chronic treatment of cort suppresses adult neurogenesis by
directly acting upon GRs in NPCs or indirectly through other
mediators. To investigate this, we generated a novel mouse
model lacking GR gene function only in NPCs (GRNPCKO).
These mice then received chronic treatment of cort through
their drinking water and were examined for changes in NPC
development. Additionally, we examined our GRNPCKO mice
on tests that measure anxiety- and depression-like behavior,
as well as cognitive skills, such as contextual fear conditioning
and pattern discrimination, to determine whether changes in
adult neurogenesis under chronic stress-like conditions affected hippocampal functioning. Our results not only reveal
functional contributions of cell-specific GR signaling, but also
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highlight the relevance of adult-born neurons in responding
to environmental changes.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
The full $9000 that was disbursed to the Kaufer lab has been
spent.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We are currently preparing the data for publication. In June
2014 Dr. Kaufer and Dr. Wong spent several days in the Paris
lab, working on the manuscript with Dr. Tronche. We hope to
submit the manuscript to publication shortly.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
This project was highly collaborative and successful. Dr.
Wong spent about 10 months in the Paris lab, and we helpd
bi-weekly skype meetings of Wong, Tronche and Kaufer. In
June 2014 Drs Kaufer and Wong visited the Paris lab again,
and worked with Dr. Tronche on the preparation fo the manuscript. We have also used this meeting to design the next two
projects that we will continue with.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Yes – we are currently preparing a manuscript for publication,
and will shortly submit it to Nature Neuroscience in the form
of a short communication.
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Robert T. Knight
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Fanny Meunier
Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition, Institut des Sciences Cognitives
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Selection in Overt Speech Production After Left Prefrontal Damage
Start Date: October 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
Our project aims at characterizing the brain dynamics of
compensatory mechanisms for lexical selection in overt
speech production after left prefrontal (PFC) damage. Lexical
selection is the process that accesses and fits an appropriate word to ongoing speech and is key to coherent language
production. Patients with left PFC damage experience major
lexical selection difficulties but recover to various degrees
depending on the extent of the lesion. To date, behavioral
and electrophysiological data was recorded from a total of
11 left prefrontal (PFC) patients, 6 right PFC patients and 14
aged-matched controls in the tasks outlined in the proposal.
The behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) were fully
analyzed for all groups and the analysis of the time-frequency
data is ongoing.
The analysis of the behavioral data have shown that left
PFC patients are more impaired in the Naming task than the
right PFC patients or the aged-matched controls. Specifically,
they show a larger semantic interference effect on error rates
than the other groups. This confirms our prediction that left
PFC patients are more impaired than right PFC patients and
controls in lexical selection, the process by which we choose
words as we speak. The analysis of the ERPs has shown a
small semantic interference effect on posterior components
around 300 ms post-stimulus onset. This effect was present
in aged-matched controls and in right PFC patients but not
in left PFC patients. This suggests the left PFC helps to solve
competition at the level of lexical selection as early as 300
ms and that this top-down control may be altered in patients
with left PFC lesions. These effects are however relatively
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small and we are now investigating whether or not there is
additional information in the time-frequency domain.
The analysis of the time-frequency data is ongoing. Frequency bands of interest (theta and alpha) have been determined on an individual subject basis to account for variable
alpha peaks. Left-over artifacts in the different frequency
bands have been identified. These were not detectable in the
visual examination of the raw EEG data. Efforts have been put
into writing an objective algorithm detecting unusually high
power values in the frequency bands of interest.
Relative to original projected timeline, data acquisition
is completed and analyzes are still in progress. Stephanie
Ries, post-doctorate researcher in Berkeley, has presented
the existing data and results during a first meeting in Lyon in
October 2013. Following this meeting, new analyzes were designed and completed. Fanny Meunier and Leo Varnet, graduate student in the Speech in Noise team, visited the Knight
Laboratory in April 2014. They presented data on speech perception in noise and plasticity from their laboratory and the
Berkeley dataset was discussed as well.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
To date $4,658.80 has been spent from the initial $9,000
awarded fund. This covered Fanny Meunier and Leo Varnet’s
visit to Berkeley in April 2014 (Stephanie Ries’ visit to Lyon
in October 2013 was funded by other means). We anticipate
spending the remaining $4341.2 to cover another visit for
Stephanie Ries to Lyon at the end of the project period and to
cover publication fees at the issue of the project.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We aim to complete the time-frequency analyzes of the
scalp EEG data recorded in the 11 left PFC patients, 6 right
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Fanny Meunier
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PFC patients and 14 aged-matched controls recorded to date.
We will focus particularly on Theta and Alpha amplitude recorded at frontal and posterior recording sites. Theta and Alpha power coherence analysis between frontal and posterior
scalp sites will be performed to assess potential interaction
between frontal and posterior sites. The percent-volume
involved in the subregions of the PFC (inferior frontal gyrus
and dorso-lateral PFC) will be included as a factor in these
analyzes to dissociate the respective roles of these regions.
The results of this final set of analyzes will be presented
by Stephanie Ries in Lyon at the end of the project period.
During this visit, possible publication outcomes will be discussed between the 2 groups.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
Bringing members of the two research groups together
around this project has triggered substantial interest and
new ideas on both sides.
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Stephanie Ries presented the existing data and results to
the members of the Neuroscience Research Center in Lyon.
These data were discussed which brought new insight on the
following analyzes.
Fanny Meunier and Leo Varnet’s visit to Berkeley was also
very rich in exchanges. They presented their data to members
of the Knight Laboratory but also to members of the Center
for aphasia and related disorders directed by Nina Dronkers
at the VA Martinez. Leo Varnet had the possibility to discuss
his ideas and data with members of both laboratories.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
These results will lead to a publication in the form of a research report focused on the brain dynamics of compensatory mechanisms for lexical selection in overt speech production after left prefrontal damage. We note that the analysis of
the behavioral results have already generated a manuscript
which is currently in revision.
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Lance J. Kriegsfeld
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Matthieu Keller
Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Reproduction, Université de Tours
Neuroendocrine Gating of Olfactory Perceptual Processing
Start Date: January 2014
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
Despite the pronounced importance of olfaction in mammalian reproductive function, the precise neural pathways
coupling pheromonal processing to the neural network
controlling mammalian fertility and mate selection in the
hypothalamus are not well understood and further research
is needed to explore this question broadly impacting human
and non-human animals.Conspecific sex pheromones from a
suitable mate trigger a short-term increase in sexual motivation in reproductively active animals. However, when non-reproductively active animals are provided with the same pheromonal stimulus, sexual motivation and behavioral output
are suppressed, pointing to an obstruction of pheromonal
information flow in this neural circuit.
We are presently exploring the notion that reproductive
behavioral and motivational state is, in part, a consequence
of olfactory processing of reproductive-relevant, pheromonal
communication by two reproductive neuropeptidergic systems, one stimulatory system expressing kisspeptin (Kp) and
the other inhibitory and expressing gonadotropin-inhibitory
hormone (GnIH). Our plans have not deviated from the original proposal. As originally planned, Syrian hamsters have
been exposed to either long (16 hours of light/day) or short
(8 hours of light/day) day lengths for 10 wk to generate animals that are reproductively competent or inhibited, respectively. Half of the animals in each photoperiod were exposed
to clean bedding whereas the remaining animals in each condition were exposed to bedding from reproductively active
females. We are presently examining the olfactory reproductive axis in the brains of these animals to determine whether
information flow is blocked at the level of olfactory receptors
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in reproductively quiescent animals or downstream portions
of the circuit, including Kp and GnIH.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
~$4,500 has been spent to date on reagents for the projects
and on travel for Dr. Kriegsfeld and his graduate student to Dr.
Keller’s laboratory in Tours. We anticipate spending the remainder of the funding (~$4,500) to permit Dr. Keller and his
graduate student to visit the Kriegsfeld laboratory at Berkeley
as well as purchase the remaining reagents required to complete the projects.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We anticipate that the projects will require approximately
6 more months to complete. Neural tissues have been collected and are presently being processed using double- and
triple-label immunofluorescence. Microscopy and computer-aided analysis of images from the primary and accessory
olfactory bulbs, amygdala, and several nuclei of the hypothalamus are presently being examined. We are also examining
the state of two specific neuropeptidergic systems, Kp and
GnIH, as described above. Once data collection is complete,
data analysis will be conducted within the ~6 mo time frame.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
The experiments being conducted combine the expertise of
Dr. Keller (olfaction and neuroendocrinology) with that of Dr.
Kriegsfeld (female sexual behavior and neural circuit investigation). Without the intellectual and technical expertise of
both parties, these studies will not be possible. A subset of
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the work is being performed at each location with the Kriegsfeld group helping the Keller group during our recent visit to
the Tours group – and the Tours group imparting assistance
required by the Kriegsfeld group. Additionally, we both have
colleagues interested in questions in behavioral endocrinology, with the recent visit to Tours allowing the Kriegsfeld
group to discuss novel projects of mutual interest with other
members of the Tours group in addition to Dr. Keller and his
lab. When Dr. Keller and his student visit Berkeley, they will
be introduced to researchers with common interest on the
Berkeley campus to facilitate similar collaborative work with
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UC Berkeley. We both expect that such a relationship will
forge continued, exciting collaborative efforts with several
faculty at Berkeley and the French laboratory in Tours.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
No matter what the outcome of the experiments, the results
will be informative and enhance our understanding of olfactory processing. The results will be published in an experimental report in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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Winfried Kudszus
Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Trim
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Toulon
Metaphor in the Political Debate of Austerity Programs
Start Date: October 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
The project has advanced significantly in several key respects:
1) A comparative analysis between France and the USA in
terms of austerity-related family metaphors with regard to
presidential speeches, both diachronically and synchronically: with special consideration of George Lakoff ’s (senior team
member) metaphor analysis, Richard Trim (PI France/Toulon)
has been investigating the cognitive linguistics of political
uses of family imagery for advancing moves toward austerity.
Time and culturally inflected space figure prominently in this
investigation.
2) In a well-attended workshop at UC Berkeley this April
2014, Winfried Kudszus (PI Berkeley) discussed metaphors
of lack in literature, culture and philosophy, with special
reference to the language philosopy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
and the writings of Franz Kafka. Among the participants in
the workshop were the junior team members, Ashwin Manthripragada and Emina Musanovic. Configurations of space
and constructions of emptiness were highlighted in these
discussions.
3) Employing terminologies of cultural semiotics, Daina
Teters (senior team member) has investigated philosophical notions of emergent time & space in a deep diachronic
spectrum related to configuratons of emptiness from Greek
antiquity to 20th century thought.
4) Ashwin Manthripragada (junior team member) has analyzed conceptual uses of “austerity and lack” in artistic production and religious discourse in their evaluatively charged
interfaces with economic spheres: austerity and lack are frequently treated as virtues in religious discourse and even as
inspiration with regard to artistic production.
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5) Emina Musanovic (junior team member) has engaged
in culturally inflected ecopoetics of the metaphorical uses
of “austerity” and “lack”, pointing out creative impulses and
turns in apparently “empty” economic configurations.
Regarding the overall direction of the investigation, time
and space have emerged as central coordinates that allow
for the theoretical and applied charting of different usages
and evaluations of austerity and lack in economical, linguistic, literary and philosophical discourse. Progressing within
the project proposal’s overall timeframe, the project is on its
way toward an international conference, presently planned
for early fall 2014, which will highlight and disseminate team
findings.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
Approximately $600 will be drawn by the junior members of
the Berkeley team, Ashwin Manthripragada and Emina Musanovic, for work already performed. We anticipate an additional $1,200 for further work by these two members, for a
total of $1,800. The remaining $6,200 of the $8,000 budget
are set aside for the conference costs.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
Further work as accentuated in items 1 - 5 of question #1
remains to be done. We are aiming for a preliminary project
completion by October 1 this year, per the current proposal
deadline. However, with a view toward the publication of our
considerations, we expect our joint work to continue beyond
this date.
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ing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
In its wide synchronic and diachronic reach, this project relies on the collaboration of its various participants. Cognitive
linguistics in a diachronic, culturally differentiated spectrum
significantly informs the methodology of the French PI, while
the UC PI moves in the interdisciplinary realm strongly developed on the UC campuses. In the collaboration of the team
members, French in-depth meticulous analysis and California
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boundary dissolutions produce new insights into the persistent presence—and semiotically articulate absence—of
austerity and lack in political and metapolitical contexts.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
We expect the publication of scholarly articles and of a book
containing contributions from the project participants.
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Susan G. Miller
Department of History, University of California, Davis
Jocelyne Dakhlia
Centre de Recherches Historiques, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Networking for Independence: The Moroccan Nationalists’
Global Campaign Against French Colonialism
Start Date: June 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
David Stenner, a PhD candidate in Middle East and North
African History, successfully conducted several months of
archival research in France. He worked at numerous repositories, including the Centre des Archives diplomatiques in
Nantes (44), the Centre François Mauriac in St-Maixant (33),
the Archives diplomatiques in La Courneuve (93), the Service historique de la défense in Vincennes (94), the Archives
nationals in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (93), as well as the Bibliotheque nationale, the Institut d’histoire du temps présents,
and the Centre d’histoire de Sciences-Po all located in Paris.
Moreover, he conducted research at both the US National
Archives in College Park (MD) and the Library of Congress in
Washington DC upon his return to the USA.
He accessed numerous collections pertaining to the French
Protectorate in Morocco, especially regarding the international activities of the native nationalist movement. After taking photos of all relevant documents, he translated them and
began to write up his findings, which he is currently turning
into the seven chapters of his dissertation.
Once the tenure of the FBF grant expired at the end of September 2013, David Stenner remained in Paris until 2 February, 2014, paid for with a minor research grant awarded by
the Department of History in the spring of 2012 as well as
personal savings.
In addition to working on his dissertation, David Stenner
also wrote an article on the Moroccan nationalist movement,
which is scheduled to appear in October 2014. This publication is based on research conducted both before and during
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cle. Furthermore, he will present his work at both the annual meetings of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
in November 2014 and the American Historical Association
(AHA) in January 2015.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
All of the money has been spent.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
The project has been completed.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
In addition to his research, David Stenner participated actively in the academic life of Paris. He regularly attended
seminars, public lectures, and workshops both at the EHESS
and Sciences-Po, thus obtaining an understanding of French
academia, broadening his knowledge on North Africa, and
making professional contacts among French academics. Due
to his extended stay in France, he is now capable of communicating fluently in French. He will continue to benefit from
this experience throughout his professional career, because
the contacts he made will be useful in organizing conference
panels and organizing collaborative research projects.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
David Stenner, “Did Amrika promise Morocco’s Independence? The Sultan, the Nationalist Movement, and the
Making of the Roosevelt Myth,” Journal of North African
Studies (forthcoming – expected October 2014).
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Elizabeth Moxon
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Student Science at Synchrotrons:
Preparing the Next Generation of Scientists
Start Date: October 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
The project was divided into three stages, and we have successfully completed the major framework activities of the
proposal:
Stage 1: The first symposium was held SOLEIL Synchrotron in
October 2013, where participants analyzed the inventory of
existing activities, with presentations about current activities
from several light sources as well as input from education and
public outreach specialists active in high school student projects at synchrotrons, along with the educational researchers
(and teachers) to guide and categorize the presented activities.
During this meeting, a detailed questionnaire was developed with the input of the more than 20 attendees. It has
been sent to synchrotrons around the world that are active
members of lightsources.org—the international collabora-
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tion of light source communicators—to collect information
on existing activities and educational materials.
Participants at the first meeting included teachers, scientists and representatives from the Advanced Light Source
(US), ESRF and SOLEIL (France), Diamond Light Source (UK),
Photon Factory (Japan), Canadian Light Source, Australian
Light Source, and Elettra (Italy).
Stage 2: The “Synchrotron Education Collaboration Survey”
has been sent to 18 light source education/outreach specialists. Organizers of this project are currently interviewing each
contact personally, and collecting examples of educational
materials (print, multimedia, etc.) for inclusion in the final
report. The findings will be analyzed once all interviews are
completed. Preliminary analysis has been completed on results; interviews are ongoing.
Stage 3: A second mini-symposium in May 2014 heard presentations from teachers and students who have conducted
experiments at the ALS, as well as from LBNL outreach specialists. In addition, participants reviewed preliminary results
form the survey of educational activities. Once all results are
in, the information will be collected in the form of a catalogue
from which a proposed list of best practices and recommendations is derived. To further promote this work outside of
this proposal, organizers would also include a presentation
of the report to the board of lightsources.org in the form of
a symposium at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting to be held
12-16 February in San José, CA.
The project is behind in the projected timeline owing to
the fact that two of the principals—Claus Habfast (ESRF) and
Marie-Pauline Gacoin (SOLEIL)— have left their positions, but
the enthusiasm of the participants from `other light source
facilities is moving the project forward. There is tremendous
interest and cooperation from several European, Australian,
Asian, and North American light sources.
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Elizabeth Moxon
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Garance Aubry
Synchotron SOLEIL, St. Aubain, France
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2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
We have spent approximately $4300, mostly for travel. It is
hoped that a final meeting will be held to conclude the production of the catalogue, and to write a paper on the results.
This will require at least one Berkeley-France trip, with an estimated cost of $2000-$2500 (depending on airfare costs and
where the meeting is held.
ing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
The enthusiasm for this collaboration from the outset has
been instrumental in pushing it forward, despite the departure of two principal members shortly after the first symposium. Marie-Pauline Gacoin and her team at SOLEIL synchrotron have contributed both time and effort in not only
hosting the first meeting, but in contributing input and analysis of the survey results. My colleague at ESRF, Claus Habfast,
until elected to the Grenoble City Council, has been an outstanding font of ideas and support, and he continues to offer
advice when his schedule permits. This collaboration has not
only strengthened the France-Berkeley relationships, but has
expanded its impact around the world by engaging more
than 20 facilities’ representatives. By involving educational
and outreach specialists from so many different scientific research facilities to participate, we have expanded the reach
of this program and fostered new and exciting relationships.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
Several interviews remain to be completed, once done the
results will be added to preliminary results and analyzed for
the production of a “best practices” catalogue of educational
materials. Anticipated completion is Fall 2014.
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Elizabeth Moxon
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
It is intended that the results of the project, including a completion of the analysis of effective educational programs at
20 synchrotron facilities, will be published in a variety of print
and online publications:
• Synchrotron Radiation News (print—has an education-only issue)
• lightsources.org (web site dedicated to synchrotron facilities world wide; more than 65 participating facilities
representing more than 100,000 scientists, students,
and engineers)
• Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST
2014) A paper was accepted for a session at the 2014
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meeting in Brazil; while none of the participants were
able to attend, a panel member presented an overview
of this project. (http://www.pcst-2014.org/images/
abstract_13thpcst.pdf; session 20667 “Outreach and
Science Programs in Informal Settings: The Role of
Children’s Universities and Similar Initiatives to Engage
Young Audiences.” A description of the project and
acknowledgement of FBF is found on page 42 in the
abstract book.)
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Susan J. Muller
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Thibaut Divoux
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal
Testing a Generalized Stability Criterion for Viscoelastic Flows
Start Date: August 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
This project focused on testing a generalized stability criterion
for viscoelastic fluids using flow between concentric, rotating
cylinders (the Taylor-Couette problem) as the platform. The
generalized criterion proposed by McKinley and co-workers
seeks to explain the non-monotonic effects of fluid elasticity
on the stability of any flow with curved streamlines by describing both the inertial (centrifugal) and the elastic contributions to flow destabilization. The Taylor-Couette geometry,
in which either the inner or outer cylinders can be rotated,
provides a useful tool for systematically varying the influence
of inertial effects; elastic effects are varied through the choice
of the test fluid.
Divoux visited UCB for 4.5 months starting in August 2013,
and we initiated a series of experiments in Muller’s laboratory, using a custom-built cell that was uniquely suited to
examining the parameter range of interest. This parameter
range included highly elasticity flows, and we progressively
increased the influence of elasticity through increasing concentration of a polymeric solute. Divoux conducted detailed
experiments in regimes of outer cylinder Reynolds number
and elasticity that have not been previously explored, and
collected tremendous amounts of raw data on the flow fields
and their evolution. Although we did not achieve sufficient
elasticity to observe the predicted transition from stable to
unstable flows at vanishing inner cylinder Reynolds number
and increasing elasticity and outer cylinder Reynolds number,
we identified a number of elastic modifications to the critical
conditions for flow transitions as well as new flow dynamics in these highly elastic flows. Muller is currently visiting
Divoux’s laboratory (for one month, June 2014) in Bordeaux
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where we are analyzing the data obtained last winter and
planning future studies. This latter visit was funded through
a visiting scientist position funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherce through a LabEx (laboratory center of
excellence) associated with the University of Bordeaux. We
plan to continue experiments by involving a current Berkeley
postdoctoral scientist and using fluids of still higher elasticity,
and we are working to identify funding to continue the collaboration.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
To date we have expended the $9000 budget. Funds were
spent, as indicated in our modified budget of July 14, 2014,
primarily on supporting Dr. Divoux’s local expenses (rent)
during his 4.5 month stay in Berkeley, and on providing support for Divoux and an additional collaborator, Professor
Sandra Lerouge of Universite Paris – Diderot / CNRS, to attend the Society of Rheology conference in October, 2013, in
Montreal, Canada. At that meeting, the three of us (Divoux,
Lerouge, and Muller) were able to discuss the ongoing experiments and future plans. As noted above, we have already
received some additional funding to support a month-long
visit by Muller to Divoux’s laboratory in Bordeaux, and we are
using the visit also to identify more permanent funding for a
longer-term collaboration.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We anticipate some further (spectral) analysis of the existing
data to quantitatively identify stability boundaries and the
spatio-temporal symmetry of disturbance flows in the elastically dominated flows we have studied to date. In addition,
we hope to extend the experiments to higher elasticity in order to observe the predicted change in stability at vanishing
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inner cylinder Reynolds number. These latter experiments
would provide a more critical test of the generalized stability
criterion than we have been able to perform so far. We anticipate the project will continue throughout the next 12-18
months; we anticipate that the collaboration will continue
beyond the current project.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
The project has promoted a collaboration between Divoux
and Muller, who were introduced to one another via email by
mutual collaborators but had not met or worked together prior to preparing the France-Berkeley Fund proposal. Divoux’s
very productive visit to Berkeley included not only the proposed Taylor-Couette experiments described above, but also
included participation in research group meetings and seminars in the greater fluid dynamics community at Berkeley,
and many discussions with Muller about problems related
to complex fluid dynamics. Of particular interest were preliminary experiments Divoux conducted at Berkeley on visco-
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elastic drops falling in miscible fluids. Here, a series of shape
changes occur as the drop falls, followed by fragmentation
instabilities. (The latter have been studied for Newtonian
fluids by Arecchi and co-workers, see for example Eur. Phys.
J. Special Topics 146, 357-374 (2007).) The collaboration has
been strengthened by Muller’s visit to Divoux’s laboratory at
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal in Bordeaux, during which
we also pursued falling drop experiments with the help of an
undergraduate student. During Muller’ s month-long stay in
Bordeaux, Divoux facilitated numerous meetings with other
potential collaborators who share research interests in soft
matter and microfluidics. We have also identified some funding opportunities through the University of Bordeaux that we
will pursue in order to continue the viscoelastic drop experiments.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
We are currently planning to publish work from the preliminary experiments in an archival, peer-reviewed journal, possibly Soft Matter, Physical Review E, or Europhysics Letters.
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Nicholas Paige
Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Peureux
Littérature française, Université Paris 10 -Nanterre
The “I” before “the Self”: Non-Modern Uses
of the First Person in Renaissance and Classical France
Start Date: October 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
Project has been completed. Two workshops were held, one
in Berkeley (Feb 28-29, 2014), one at Paris 10-Nanterre (May
6-7, 2014). Three researchers traveled from France and three
Berkeley researchers traveled to France. There was some
alteration to the original timetable, which called for holding
the first workshop in Fall 2013; this turned out to be unfeasible, given the date the award was announced.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
All funds have been spent on the travel and lodging of participants. Some additional funds have been contributed by the
project initiators and participants to cover meals and lodging.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
The project is completed.
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4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
The workshop format was designed to foster a true working
relationship among participants, who were encouraged to
present work in progress. Researchers from variety of ranks
were able to meet on equal footing in such an environment:
each workshop was composed of doctoral students and early,
mid, and late career professors. We were also able to bring
two Swiss researchers (one doctoral student, one early career professor) to the table as well.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
After reflection, we have decided not to pursue the publication of a volume of proceedings. However, we expect that
the majority of participants will seek to publish versions of
their papers as peer-reviewed articles and we will report back
on their status. One participant has web-posted his contribution as an open access working paper.
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Nicolai Reshetikhin
Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Blanchet
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Categorification of Quantum Invariants
of 3-Dimensional Manifolds
Start Date: January 2014
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
The first step of the project is completed. The R-matrix for
quantum sl_2 at the second root of unity is computed and
its properties are studied. As a result invariants of knots and
tangles with coefficients in an SL_2 C local system are constructed. These invariants are expected to be generalized Alexander polynomials, or so called twisted torsions.
We expect to finish a paper with these results in the Fall
2014.
We also started the second step of the project which is to
construct invariants of 3-manifolds with flat SL_2C connections. We expect that these will be twisted torsions. The categorification of these invariants is the third step of the project.
Because the invariants in question have both combinatorial
and geometrical description we expect that both methods
should work in the categorification.
The project went according to the original time line. Hoel
Queffelec and Christian Blanchet visited Berkeley.
Hoel stayed for about two month. Nicolai Reshetikhin visited them in Paris. The collaboration on the project will continue. Both Christian Blanchet and Nicolai Reshetikhin are
enthusiastic to continue the collaboration on related projects
as well.
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2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
Most of the money has been spent by now. Further collaboration will be funded by other grants.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
Step one (construction of invariants of tangles) is completed
and the paper is expected in the Fall.
Step two is well under way and we expect a paper on this
in the Spring 2015. The third step, the categorification, in the
most difficult part. But we have made partial progress on this.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
All three of us worked together, very productively, and we all
expect that collaboration will go far beyond the duration of
the grant.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Yes, there will be at least two papers in research journals
coming out of this collaboration.
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Barbara Romanowicz
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Yann Capdeville
CNRS, LPG Nantes, Université de Nantes
Probabilistic Interpretation of Tomographic Models
Start Date: July 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
For more than 30 years, seismologists have constructed images of the Earth from seismic waves generated by earthquakes. The resolution of these images is limited by the
computational power available. Although we know the Earth
contains sharp discontinuities, the recovered images are
smooth and can only be seen as spatial averages.
This project consists of two parts: 1) develop an algorithm to assess the probability of seismic structure given the
smooth images that are observed; 2) Apply this methodology
to the global tomographic models constructed in the last few
years at Berkeley.
The theoretical development has been done by Postdoc Thomas Bodin (Berkeley) and Yann Capdeville (Nantes)
during Capdeville’s visit to Berkeley in Summer 2013. The algorithm has been implemented, tested and verified by Bodin
after Capdeville’s visit. A Fortran code will be made available
to the public soon.
The methodology has been applied to a tomographic model under North America, and first results indicate that the discontinuities in the upper mantle may significantly contribute
to the observed anisotropy in tomographic models. Interpretation of results has been extensively discussed with senior
researchers having a long expertise on these problems: Barbara Romanowicz at Berkeley, and Jean-Paul Montagner at
IPGP Paris. Overall, the main goals set up in the project have
been achieved on time. A publication is accepted and another is in preparation.
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2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
To date, $7300 have been spent. The money was used to
fund Capeville’s 6 weeks visit to Berkeley on summer 2013,
and Bodin’s visit to Paris (IPGP) in March 2014. These travels
enabled fruitful discussions between members of the project. We expect to spend the remaining funds on the costs of
publication.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
This work is in essence the introduction of an entirely new
methodology in seismology, and has represented a timely
and exciting project. The preliminary 1-dimensional results
obtained under North America have produced new insights
into the seismic structure of the mantle.
Clearly, the long term goal is to extend the procedure to
the 2D and 3D cases, and perform this at the global scale.
It is a huge task which is beyond what could be achieved in
one year. The preliminary results are very encouraging, and
Capdeville, Bodin, and Romanowicz plan to keep working together in the next few years.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
Currently, only a few groups worldwide are developing such
approaches for interpretation of tomographic models. This
work has resulted from the combination of Berkeley’s competences in tomographic model construction, together with
French expertise on elastic homogeneization. In this way, this
project has initiated a long term collaboration between the
global seismology group at Berkeley led by Romanowicz and
French researchers (Capdeville, Montagner).
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Furthermore, Berkeley postdoc Bodin will start working at
CNRS in 2015 at ENS Lyon, and will keep close contact with
the Berkeley group. We expect the collaboration to continue
as a result of this work. To carry on with this project, other
forms of funding will be requested both in the US (NSF), and
in France (ERC, ANR).
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Results from this project were presented at the American
Geophysical Union Fall meeting on December 2013 in San
Francisco.
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An invited contribution to a monograph has been written
and accepted for publication:
interpreting Radial Anisotropy in global and Regional tomographic Models T Bodin, Y Capdeville, B Romanowicz,
JP Montagner. Book Chapter. The Earth’s heterogeneous
mantle. A Khan, F Deschamps & K Kawai (eds), Springer,
in press.
A manuscript describing the methodology in detail is in
preparation, and will be submitted to Geophysical Journal
International shortly.
France-Berkeley Fund
Pablo J. Ross
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Hélène Jammes
Unité Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, INRA
A Systems Biology Approach to Understand Parental-Specific
Contributions to Embryo and Placenta Development
Start Date: September 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected timeline?
The objective of our project is to characterize the respective
contribution of the paternal and the maternal genomes to the
transcriptional and epigenetic profiles in different tissues. This
project aims to identify allele expression imbalance in cattle and
hypothesizes that epigenetic modifications could be involved in
this general process, as well as for imprinted genes.
An experimental design was established taking into account
the implication and the competences of both American and
French teams. Unfortunately, our grant application to ANR
(France; ANR- PCS-09-GENM-022) was not funded; resulting in a
high selection of projects due to a decrease of research funding
in France. However, data were produced.
Firstly, we re-focused our study on the conservation of paternal and maternal genomes contribution after nuclear transfer.
Namely, whole genome sequencing of 16 individuals produced
by nuclear transfer (individuals genetically identical but epigenetically different as well as the monozygotic twins) and of the
cow, given the somatic cells to cloning are in progress. Whole
genome sequencing of the father of the cow is also in progress.
For all cloned individuals (pathological and normal), the epigenetic profiles (DNA methylation) in muscle could be established
(in progress). One aim of the collaborative project is to combine
epigenetic analysis (performed in France) and RNA sequencing
(performed in Davis) from the same biological muscle samples.
The bioinformatics analysis of this set data will be performed in
the next six months.
An alternative approach was used to identify allelic specific
gene expression in Bos Taurus x Bison bison embryos produced
in Davis. Data was acquired by RNA-seq of blastocyst stage embryos and is currently under bioinformatics analysis. Based on
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the allelic expression of RNA (identified using SNP between the
both breeds), these data could provide a list of potentially imprinted genes, genes with mono allelic expression. Firstly, by in
silico analysis, CpG rich regions could be determined and analyzed by bisulfite/pyrosequencing in order to identify differentially methylated regions involved in the monoallelic expression.
Given the delays accessioned by diminished funding a 6
month extension to the FBF project will be requested.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
No FBF funds have been spent so far. We anticipate that Dr
Jammes and a student from INRA will visit the UC Davis lab in
November 2014 and Dr Ross and a UC Davis student will travel
to France in January 2015.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
We plan to perform bioinformatics analysis and bisulfite /pyrosequencing validations.
We plan to submit a new grant application in France (December 2014) to seek funding to complete this project.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project. Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
Complementation of expertise between UC Davis and INRA is
the pillar of this project, and as data is being gathered in France
and analyzed at UC Davis the synergistic efforts will be fully realized.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
We expect the results from this project will be published in a
peer-review scientific journal.
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Lauren Williams
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Sylvie Corteel
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Tableaux Combinatorics
Start Date: January 2014
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
Olya Mandelshtam, a student of Lauren Williams, has been
making progress on some aspects of the project. She has
discovered a beautiful determinantal formula for the number
of Catalan tableaux of a given shape. This in turn gives an
explicit formula for the probability of being in each state of
the ASEP in the steady state. She is now working on understanding the Markov chain on tableaux that was constructed
by Corteel and Williams. More specifically, she is trying to
understand what the individual tableau can say about the
trajectories in the ASEP that led to that state.
Sandrine Dasse-Hartaut, a student of Sylvie Corteel, has
been workimg during her whole PhD on the combinatorics
of staircase tableaux. Williams was one of the referees of the
thesis which was defended in June 2014. Dasse-Hartaut got a
one-year instructor position for 2014-2015 and will work on
the FBF project. Dasse-Hartaut got recently inspired by the
the PhD thesis of Lazarescu (CEA Saclay) on the cumulants
of the current in the ASEP. This work seem to show that the
combinatorics of twin Catalan tableaux plays a role. Thanks to
the work of Mandelshtam, Dasse-Hartaut showed that twin
tableaux also have a determinantal formula and are related
to Baxter permutations. She is now attacking in collaboration
with Corteel a project on twin staircase tableaux and hopes
to relate this to moments of orthogonal polynomials. When
Mandelshtam will visit Paris, they will collaborate on this
project which fits perfectly in the FBF proposal.
However, the project is still in early stages. The project
will begin more seriously in August 2014 when Sylvie Corteel
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visits Lauren Williams in Berkeley. Subsequently, Lauren Williams and her students will spend much of the academic-year
2014-2015 in Paris, working with Corteel.
2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
So far we have not spent any of the money. We are saving the
money to use during August 2014, when Corteel visits Williams in Berkeley, and also during the academic year 20142015, when Lauren Williams will be on sabbatical and will
visit Paris (along with several of her students).
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
A main direction of the project that has not yet been touched
is the connection between the ASEP and orthogonal polynomials, especially the Macdonald polynomials. We anticipate
that the project will be completed in August 2015.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
The project will involve collaborations between Corteel, Williams, and their students. Olya Mandelshtam and Steven
Karp (both of whom are students of Williams) will be in Paris
in Fall 2014, and will work together with Corteel, her student
Francois Nunzi and Sandrine Dasse-Hartaut, and Williams.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
This project will result in several publications in research journals.
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sofia Villas-Boas
ARE, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Chambolle
INRA, ALISS, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
The Impact of Retail Mergers on Food Prices:
Evidence from France
Start Date: July 2013
1) What is the current status of the project? What has been
achieved? How does this relate to the original projected
timeline?
We have finished the first version of a research paper that we
are going to submit to a top journal. We have presented our
work at many research universities and institutions and have
received very positive feedback.
We are within our original timeline. We have benefitted
from feedback from Emek Basker, Cyndi Berck, Kurt Brekke, Tim Bresnahan, Christine Boizot, Christophe Bontemps,
Stéphane Caprice, Liran Einav, Mahdiyeh Entezarkheir, Fabrice Etilé, Philippe Février, Nancy Gallini, Pedro Gardete,
Rich Gilbert, Guido Imbens, Jakub Kastl, Laurent Linnemer,
Valérie Orozco, Mar Reguant, Vincent Réquillart, Patrick Rey,
Mike Riordan, Morten Saethre, Cael Warren, Dennis Yao, and
participants at the IIOC, ESEM, EARIE, ANR-DFG workshop
in Düsseldorf, Peder Sather IO Workshop at Berkeley, seminars at Stanford University, University of Minnesota, Texas
A&M University, University of California at Berkeley, Toulouse
School of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), CREST and
Caen University for useful discussions and comments.
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2) indicate how much money has been spent to date. How
much do you anticipate spending?
We have spent $1800 so far, and we anticipate spending the
remainder of the budget for the visit of one of the principal
collaborators.
3) What remains to be done for this project? When will the
project be completed?
What remains to be done is to finish the paper and submit
and revise and resubmit it to be published. During next year
we will work towards that goal. A separate paper will investigate effects on prices of different goods to investigate what
are the mechanisms behind the estimated price effects in the
first analysis.
4) Comment on the collaborative nature of the project.
Highlight aspects of the project that have fostered continuing relationships between French institutions and UC campuses.
This has been an incredible opportunity for the US researcher
to have access to a very detailed data set from the French
collaborators, to investigate for the first time the price effects
resulting from a retail merger.
5) Will this project result in a publication? (indicate form of
publication, if possible.)
Yes, as a peer reviewed paper published in a top journal.
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Brian A. Barsky, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Sequeira, Informatique, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Université Aix-Marseille II
Geometric modeling of the cornea using videokeratography
Yale M. Braunstein, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Mayère, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Sciences de l’Information, ENSSIB, Villeurbanne
User fees for government information in France and the United States: Analysis of current policies and practices
Eugene D. Commins, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Anne Bouchiat, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS, Paris
Violation de la parité dans les atomes: étude de l’interaction électrofaible électron-noyau par des méthodes optiques
1994
David Dornfeld, Engineering Systems Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
Serge Tichkiewitch, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, Nancy
Intégration des procédés de fabrication en conception de produits
Larry M. Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marie Hombert, Linguistique, Université Lumière Lyon II
Language as a key to history
Andrew Lange, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
François R. Bouchet, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Paris
Observations and predictions of the cosmological background anisotrophies
Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gerard Martinez, Physique, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Electron correlation effects in condensed matter system as the newly discovered fullerene-based materials
Barbara Romanowicz, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Claude Froidevaux, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Global geophysics
Kenneth Ribet, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Eva Bayer Fluckiger, Laboratoire de Mathématique, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Théorie des nombres
Suzanne Scotchmer, School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Jacques-François Thisse, CERAS, Université de Paris I
Cumulative innovation and the patent law
Charles H. Townes, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Lefèvre, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice
Etude de la perte de masse des étoiles évoluées
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Walter Alvarez, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Beaudoin, CGES Sédimentologie, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Environmental consequences of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event
1995
Daniel S. Chemla, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pierre Lefebvre, Groupe d’Etude des Semiconducteurs, Université Montpellier II
Optical properties of nanostructures. Low-dimensional excitonic effects
Margaret W. Conkey, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Valérie Andrieu, Lab. de Botanique Historique et Palynologie, Faculté des Sciences Saint-Jérôme, Marseille
Between the caves: explorations into the social geography and paleoenvironments of Late Ice Age peoples
of the French Midi-Pyrénées (Ariège/ Haute Garonne), France
Gérard Debreu, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Cornet, CERMSEM, Université de Paris I
Mathematical economics
Ervin Hafter, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Anne-Marie Bonnel, CNRS - Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Marseille
Study of deficits in attention in the diagnosis of onset psychosis
Catherine P. Koshland, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
sébastien Candel, Laboratoire EM2C de L’ECP et du CNRS, Châtenay-Malabry
A strategy to reduce emissions during thermal oxidation of hazardous wastes
Laurent Mayali, Robbins Collection, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Durand, Institut d’Histoire du Droit, URA 966 CNRS, Université de Montpellier I
Délinquance, justice et doctrine pénale ecclésiastique
Hiroshi Nikaido, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Patrice Courvalin, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Role of multi-drug efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance of gram-positive bacteria
John Rhodes, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Eric Pin, LITP/IBP, Université de Paris VII
Semigroups, groups, automata and formal languages
Gene I. Rochlin, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Werner Ackermann, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations/CNRS, Paris
Cross-national studies of the sociology of organizations: fostering cooperation on methodological coordination and promoting
observational inter-comparisons
Richard Saykally, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Claude leforestier, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorétique, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Determination of the intermolecular pair potential for water—the universal biological solvent
R. Shen, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
E. Courtens, LSMV CC069, Université Montpellier II
Non-linear optics in porous materials
Pravin Varaiya, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Sifakis, VERIMAG, Montbonnot Saint-Martin
Analysis of hybrid systems: application to the PATH project
Loic J.D. Wacquant, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Bourdieu, Sociologie, Collège de France, Paris
Actualité et Modernité de la Pensée de Marcel Mauss
Tim D. White, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Raymonde Bonnefille, Laboratoire de Géologie du Quaternaire, CNRS, Marseille
Habitat of the earliest human ancestors
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Ali Belkacem, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joseph Remillieux, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon et Université Lyon I
Production and study of exotic atoms
John Canny, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Christian laugier, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Grenoble
Dynamic simulation for TeleRobotics and medical applications
Alexandre J. Chorin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Talay, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Sophia Antipolis
Les systèmes de particules aléatoires et les applications numériques en mécanique des fluides
1996
Marie-Agnès Deleplanque-Stephens, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gilles de France, Centre de Recherches Nucléaires, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Study of rotating atomic nucleus
Susanna Elm, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Rebillard, Ecole Française de Rome, Rome
Boundaries of discourse: Establishing, maintaining and challenging ‘Orthodoxy’ in the history of Christianity
Mariane C. Ferme, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Loup Amselle, Centre d’Etudes Africaines, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Imperialism and identity: Remapping the cultural politics of representation
Sylvia Guendelman, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Gérard Bréart, INSERM Unité 149, Paris
A world on the move: a comparative look at the birth outcomes of immigrant women in France, Belgium and the United States
Russell Jones, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Raoul Ranjeva, Centre de Physiologie Végétale, Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse
Isolation and characterization of calcium channels in plants
Larry Karp, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Thierry Paul, GREQAM-LEQAM, Université Aix-Marseille II, Les Milles
Government policy and labor market imperfections
C. Bradley Moore, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Devolder, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Kinetic investigations of reactive systems by combined laser photolysis/tunable diode absorption spectroscopy and LIF
Forrest S. Mozer, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Raymond Pottelette, Centre d’Etudes des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires, Saint-Maur des Fosses
Study of acceleration and radiation processes in geospace plasmas
Hans georg Ritter, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Barbara Erazmus, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associées, Nantes
Development of tracking methods for high-energy experiments
Hans Rudolf Wenk, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Pernet, Laboratoire de Cristallographie - C.N.R.S., Grenoble
Texture and anisotropy
Annual Report 2013-2014
129
Mina J. Bissell, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Edmond Puvion, Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer, Villejuif
Regulation of gene expression by nuclear architectural organization: an ultrastructural analysis combining a
unique 3-dimensional cell culture system with novel electron microscopy techniques
1997
Robert Brayton, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Dominique Borrione, Laboratoire TIMA, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Multi-standard verification environment for digital systems design
Thomas Broadhurst, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
James Bartlett, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Large-scale structure and galaxy formation
William Danchi, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Gay, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice
High angular resolution and mass loss of evolved stars
Paula Fass, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Agnes Fine, UFR d’Historia, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail
A comparative analysis of ‘new families’ in France and the United States
Ralph Freeman, School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley
Yves Fregnac, Institut Alfred Fessard, Gif-sur-Yvette
An integrative regulation of functional connectivity in the developing and adult visual cortex
Melvin Klein, Structural Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Jacques Girerd, Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
XAS (Xanes and EXAFS) studies coupled to electro-chemistry of chemical models of the catalytic site of the oxygen evolving center PSII
Paolo Mancosu, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Hourya Sinaceur, Institut d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Paris I
Bernard Bolzano: Philosophy of logic and mathematics
Frank McLarnon, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Argoul, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Pessac
Application of advanced optical techniques for probing interfacial electrochemical processes
saul Perlmutter, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reynald Pain, LPNHE, Universités Paris VI & VII, Paris
Measurement of the cosmological parameters Using Type Ia Supernova
Richard Saykally, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Claude leforestier, Laboratoire Structure Dynamique des Systèmes Moléculaires et Solides, Université Montpellier I
The dynamics of a nucleotide base hydration
Brian Staskawicz, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Ulla Bonas, Institut des Sciences Végétales, Gif-sur-Yvette
Identification and characterization of novel genes for disease resistance in capsicum annum
David Stronach, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Frantz Grenet, école Normale Supérieure, Paris
Workshop on strategies for joint archaeological excavation and research in Central Asia
Michael Watts, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Allaire, UFR d’économie et de Sociologie Rurales, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan
Systems and trajectories of innovation: Institutions, technology and conventions in agriculture regulation
130
France-Berkeley Fund
Andrew Barshay, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-François Sabouret, Etudes Japonaises, CNRS, Paris
1968: Events and legacies
Jeffrey granett, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis
François Leclant, UFR d’Ecologie animale et de Zoologie agricole, ENSA-INRA, Montpellier
Understanding genetic variability of grape phylloxera
Mack Kennedy, Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Earth Science Division, LBNL
Simon Sheppard, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Origin and role of fluids involved in active faulting
1998
Hendrik Lenstra, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Leila Schneps, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Galois theory
Xiaoye Sherry Li, National Energy Research Scientific Computing, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
iain Duff, Parallel Algorithms Project, CERFACS, Toulouse
Hybrid ordering algorithms for sparse direct and iterative solvers
Sharon Marcus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Karen Bowie, Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-Val-de-Marne, Charenton-le-Pont
Forms of urban life in Paris, 1815-1851
Daniel Neumark, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Benoît Soep, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Time-resolved studies of transition state dynamics
Hiroshi Nikaido, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Plésiat, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Characterization of a new multidrug efflux pump in pseudomonas aeruginosa
Gordon Rausser, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Rio, UFR d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, INRA, Montpellier
Multilateral negotiations over water management in France and California
David Robin, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jasques Laskar, Astronomie et Systèmes Dynamiques, Bureau des Longitudes, CNRS, Paris
Application of frequency map analysis to the Advanced Light Source
Alistair Sinclair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Kenyon, LRI, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Phase transitions and computational complexity
Mark Strovink, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Gregorio Bernardi, LPNHE, Universités de Paris VI et VII
Search for supersymmetric decays of the top quark
David Wessel, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Rodet, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique [IRCAM], Paris
Gestural control of musical sound synthesis
Annual Report 2013-2014
131
Robert BonDurant, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
Francis Fieni, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Nantes
Transmission of CAE retrovirus via breeding technologies in dairy goats
1999
Daniel S. Chemla, Materials Sciences Division and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Jérôme Tignon, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Spectroscopie optique non linéaire de nanostructures de semiconducteurs
Neil Fligstein, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Rémi Lenoir, Sociologie, Université de Paris I; CSEC-CSE/EHESS, Paris
French field theory and American New Institutionalism: Building theoretical bridges for the analysis of contemporary politics and culture
Gerson Goldhaber, Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reynald Pain, Universités de Paris VI et VII
Measurement of the cosmological parameters using Type 1a Supernovae
Patrick V. Kirch, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Conte, Université Française du Pacifique, Tahiti
Prehistoric Polynesian voyaging and island colonization: New archaeological perspectives
Mike Levine, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Christian sardet, UMR 643 CNRS, Station Zoologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Searching for muscle determinants in a simple chordate embryo
Krishna K. Niyogi, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Havaux, Département d’Ecophysiologie Végétale/ Microbiologie, CEA / Cadarache, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance
Role of the xanthophylls in the protection of plants from photo-oxidative damage
Nicholas Paige, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Biet, Institut d’Etudes théâtrales, Université de Paris X, Nanterre
The literature of law: judicial and economic culture, 1550-1789
Shankar Sastry, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Christian laugier, Projet SHARP, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot Saint-Martin
High-fidelity computer simulations of medical procedures
tito serafini, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Chédotal, INSERM Unité 106, Paris
Neuronal target recognition and synaptogenesis in the mammalian brain
Jonathan Shewchuk, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Daumas, Laboratoire de l’Informatique du Parallélisme, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Floating-point multiple precision arithmetic for adaptive computation and elementary functions
James H. Underwood, Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Coryn Frank Hague, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université de Paris VI
Magneto-optics of polarized soft X-Rays
Maciej Zworski, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Klopp, Institut Galilée, Université Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse
Spectral and scattering theory
132
France-Berkeley Fund
Ali Belkacem, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joseph Remillieux, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
Experimental studies of vacuum-assisted photoionization
Stanley Berger, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Francis Cassot, INSERM, Toulouse
Numerical and experimental simulations of cerebral blood flow for/and magnetic resonance imaging (MRA & MRI)
Edward Berry, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Luc Popot, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris
Crystallization of cytochrome bc 1/amphipol complexes
2000
Carlos Bustamante, Departments of Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology
Malcolm Buckle, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris
RNA polymerase translocation: a comparative study using rapid footprinting, surface plasmon resonance and single molecule methodologies
Deborah Hopkins, Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joëlle Riss, CDGA, Université de Bordeaux I
Micromechanics of natural rock fractures under shear stress
Carole Meredith, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis
Jean-Michel Boursiquot, ENSA, Montpellier
DNA profiling and parentage analysis of grape varieties held in the INRA collection at Domaine de Vassal
John Radke, Geographic Information Science Center, University of California, Berkeley
Didier Josselin, Laboratoire THEMA, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
A boundary generation system for landscape characterization
Richard scheffler, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Huttin, Université de Paris X-Nanterre
The growth of private insurance and managed care in France: Insights from the American experience
George Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
James Bartlett, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse
Precision cosmology from CMB data processing and analysis techniques
William Sullivan, Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Alain Debec, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Investigating the paradox of parthenogenesis
Norman Terry, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Claude Davidian, ENSA-INRA, Montpellier
Mechanisms of selenium uptake, sequestration and resistance in arabidopsis and yeast mutants
David Vogel, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Jabril Bensédrine, Economie et Gestion, Université de Marne-la-Vallée
French and American perspectives on genetically-engineered food: Institutional convergence and divergence as sources of cooperation and dispute
Wen-hsin Yeh, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Henriot, Institut d’Asie Orientale, Université Lumière Lyon II
Shanghai in images: a historical photographic database (1840-1949)
Qiang Zhou, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier Bensaude, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Functional analysis of RNA-binding activity of the human positive transcription elongation factor, P-TEFb
Alexandra Navrotsky, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis
Roger Marchand, Laboratoire «Verres et Céramiques,» Université de Rennes I
Thermochemistry of a new class of inorganic nitrogen-containing materials
Sharon Daniel, Department of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Karen O’Rourke, UFR d’Arts Plastiques et Sciences de l’Art, Université de Paris I
Mapping the database: designing and building interdisciplinary, non-hierarchical, dynamically evolving art/information systems
Annual Report 2013-2014
133
Jesús De Loera, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
András Sebö, CNRS Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble
Computer algebra methods in graph theory and optimization
2001
Imke de Pater, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Renée Prangé, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université de Paris XI
Monitoring and study of Io’s volcanic activity
David Deamer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marie-Christine Maurel, Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris VI
Oligomerization of thioglutamic acid in membrane-defined microenvironments
Deborah Delmer, Section of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
Herman Höfte, Laboratoire de Biologie, INRA, Versailles
The use of arabidopsis mutants to trace the path of carbon into cellulose in plants
Mark Franko, Department of Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz
Carlo Severi, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie sociale, EHESS, Collège de France
Symbolic actions: ritual, dance, theater, art
Bronwyn Hall, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Mairesse, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques [INSEE]-CREST, Malakoff
Economics, history and law of intellectual property: proposal for a Franco-American conference
Kevin Healy, Bioengineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Véronique Migonney, Institut Galilée, Université de Paris XIII, Villetaneuse
Peptide-modified heparin-like copolymers as biomimetic coatings for orthopaedic implants: synthesis, surface characterization, and biological response
David Hult, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Danielle Bohler, Langue et littérature françaises du Moyen Age, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
La Culture du Livre: naissance et transformations du lecteur depuis la fin du Moyen Age jusqu’au seuil de la modernité
Douglas Kellogg, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert Arkowitz, CNRS UMR 6543, Centre de Biochimie, Université de Nice
G-protein regulation of growth location
Tonya Kuhl, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of California, Davis
Carlos Marques, LDFC-Institut de Physique, Université de Strasbourg
Binding dynamics of tethered ligand-receptor interactions
Ethan Ligon, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Dubois, UFR d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, INRA, Toulouse
Microeconomic theory and empirical studies of intra-household behavior in developing countries
Jeffrey long, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Batail, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes
Synthesis and magnetic properties of Re6-nOsnSe8(n=1-3) cluster-organic radical salts
Christos Papadimitriou, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Evripidis Bampis, Laboratoire de Méthodes Informatiques, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne
MULT-APPROX: multiobjective optimization and approximation
Carl Pennypacker, Space Sciences Laboratory, UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michel Boër, CNRS FRE 2194 Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse
Developing an Internet-mediated astronomy research/teacher training program for France, U.S. and other nations
saul Perlmutter, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pierre Antilogus, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
Nearby supernova factory project (software)
Richard Saykally, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claude Roth, Département d’Immunologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Investigating the physiology of natural killer cells by nonlinear chemical imaging nanomicroscopy
134
France-Berkeley Fund
Hei Sook Sul, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley
Axel Kahn, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, INSERM Unité 129, Paris
Regulation of fatty acid synthase promoter by AMP-dependent protein kinase
Pravin Varaiya, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Diaz, Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes-CNRS, Toulouse
End to end transport protocols for the new generation internet
Annual Report 2013-2014
2001
135
Ronald Amundson, Division of Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Isabelle Basile, CEREGE-Université Aix-Marseille III
Le cycle du carbone dans les sols: rôle des interactions matière organique / aluminosilicates pseudo-cristallises
2002
Edmund Campion, Department of Music Composer in Residence, CNMAT
Francois Paris, Centre International de Recherche Musical
CIRM/CNMAT Collaboration
A. Chatterjee, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A. Chetioui, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, GPS
Biological consequences of inner-shell ionization events on DNA
Eugene Commins, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Combes, LERMA, Observatoire de Paris
Supernovae and dust: following the dust from galaxy formation to cosmological parameters
Kurt Cuffey, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Vimeux, CR2 Institut Recherche pour le Développement - Lab. Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement
Improved precipitation isotope analyses for climate change studies
Agnes Gellen, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Elise Domenach, Department of Philosophy, University de Picardie Jules Verne
Kant’s trans-Atlantic legacy of skepticism
Louise Glass, Plant and Microbial Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Corrine Clavé, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Champignons
Comparative analysis of the programmed cell death reaction triggered by nonself recognition genes in two model fungal species
John Gunion, Physics Department, University of California, Davis
Ulrich Ellwanger, Theoretical Physics Laboratory, University de Paris-Sud
Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at the Large Hadron Collider
Larry Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Gerard Phillipson, INALCO Paris, en délégation au Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
Linguistic philogenies in the Bantu domain
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Nathalie Picard-Tortorici, THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Nouveaux regards sur la fécondité en Afrique Occidentale
Edward Keller, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
laurent goffard, CNRS
Distributed neural control of visual saccades
Warren Sack, SIMS, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Detienne, INRIA-Rocquencourt, Projet EIFFEL
Social and cognitive analyses of collaborative design for open source
Kevan Shokat, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Sieweke, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille Luminy
Role of subnuclear localization and complex formation of transcription factors in differentiation
Tyler Stovall, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Giraud, CNRS/Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
Strangers at home: Caribbean immigrants in France and the United States
Daniel Tataru, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Gerard, Department of Mathematics, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Nonlinear Schrödinger equations and geometry
Slawek Tulaczyk, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Catherine Ritz, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement
Possible near-future breakup of the Ross Ice Shelf and other forms of unstable behavior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Evaluating the impact of
decreasing ice discharge from the Ross Ice Streams
136
France-Berkeley Fund
Sandrine Dutoit, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Daniel Zucker, CNRS-STIC team, University of Paris XIII
OBELINKS: Combining machine learning and biostatistics to discover significant obesity related genetic
polymorphisms
Donald C Rio, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Bertrand Seraphin, CNRS-Centre de Génétique Moléculaire
In vitro study of the exon-junction complex assembly in Drosophila
David H. Raulet, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Vivier, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy
The role of immune receptors in vivo
2003
Georges F. Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
James g. Barlett, Collège de France, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie
Precision cosmology from CMB analysis
Eva Harris, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Chris Mueller, INSERM-CNRS
Infection of dermal dendrocytes with clinical isolates of dengue virus
Daniel S. Chemla, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Jerome Tignon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, LPMC
Condensation des polaritons de microcavité de semiconducteurs
Roland Burgmann, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Edouart Kaminski, Institut de Physique du Globe, Université Paris VII
Seismic anisotropy in the San Andreas Shear Zone
William A. Lesler, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Caffarel, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, CNRS-Université Paris VI
Quantum Monte Carlo for molecules
Barry Sinervo, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Hochberg, CNRS-Institut des Sciences et de l’Evolution, Université de Montpellier II
Potential role of social interactions in the speciation process
Sam Krucker, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Karl-Ludwig Klein, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon
New coordinated investigation of accelerated particles at the Sun and in the Interplanetary Medium
Kunxin Luo, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Mauviel, INSERM
Blocking of fibrosis by Smad co-repressor
James Casey, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Gerard Maugin, Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique, Paris VII
Application of modern concepts of nonlinear continuum mechanics to some problems of biomechanics: growth, remodeling
Filip Filippou, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jacky Mazars, Laboratoires Sols, Solides, Structures, Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble
High performance modeling of shear failure of concrete columns under earthquake excitations
Patrick V. Kirch, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Louis Rallu, Institut National Etudes Démographiques Paris
Long-term demographic evolution in French Polynesia: an interdisciplinary approach
Sengupta Raja, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Stavros Tripakis, Verimag-CNRS
Service networks—intelligent middleware for distributed applications
Peter Yu, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Adnen Mlayah, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Optical scattering from quantum dots nanostructures
Annual Report 2013-2014
137
Ali Shakouri, Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Stefan Dilhaire, CPMOH-Université Bordeaux 1
Caractérisation optique de micro-réfrigérateurs par des techniques interférométriques et réflectométriques
femtosecnodes
2003
138
Claire Kramsch, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
Geneviève Zarate, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations orientales
Language, culture and identity in second/foreign language learning and teaching an interdisciplinary workshop
Diane Marie Arman, School of Law, University of California, Davis
Mireille Delmas-Marty, Collège de France, Unité Mixte de Recherche de Droit Comparé de Paris
International criminal justice and common values of humanity
France-Berkeley Fund
Gerson Goldhaber, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Reynald Pain, LPNHE, Université Paris VI & VII
Measuring the cosmic vacuum energy
Piedong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
François Lagugne-Labarthet, LPCM, UMR5803 CNRS Bordeaux
Spectroscopy of one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures
A.R. Flegal, Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz
A. Veron, CEREGE, UMR6635, CNRS Université Aix-Marseille III
Coral reconstruction of rapid changes in air mass & ocean circulation in the North Atlantic within the past 200 years
2004
Robert Knapp, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Jolivet, Ecole Française de Rome, CNRS Rome
Etruscan sarcophagi from Musarna in the Berkeley Museum
Joseph Campos, Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley
Marianne Barbu-Roth, LPBD, Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Are newborns programmed to walk on the Earth?
Judith Klinman, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Marius Réglier, CNRS 7517, Université d’Aix-Marseille
02 activation in metallobiochemistry: probes for the functional copper-oxygen species in the neuroactive enzymes, DbM and PHM
Nitash P. Balsara, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Marques UMR CNRS-ULP 7506, Institut de Physique Strasbourg
Self-assembly of monodisperse vesicles: answering the challenge by block copolymer design
Vittal Yachandra, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sun Un, CNRS URA 2096, CEA Saclay
Single Crystal Multifrequency EPR and exafs studies of multinuclear Mn complexes relevant to the oxygen-evolving complex in Photosystem II
Bob B. Buchanan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Montrichard, UMR 1191 INH INRA Université d’Angers
Exploring the mechanism of germination in leguminous seeds
Brigitta Whaley, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandra Viel, UMR 56+26 IRSAMC, Université Toulouse
Atomic and molecular probes of superfluids
Dominic Massaro, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yves Laprie, LORIA CNRS UMR 7503, 54600 Villers-les-Nancy
Improving the labial coarticulation in talking heads
Tonya Kuhl, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Philippe Richetti, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Blaise Pascal, Université Bordeaux
Static and dynamic properties of self-assembled surfactant layers and associative polymers
Richard Harland, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Anne-Hélène Monsoro-Burq, UMR146, CNRS Institut Curie, Orsay
Gene profiling in early neural crest development
Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marc Campagne, ICSN, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette
Synthesis of bioactive polyol natural product by catalytic asymmetric mukaiyama adool and olefin hydration
Anne Britt, Plant Biology Department, University of California, Davis
Marie-Edith Chaboute, IBMP/CNRS Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg
Plant response to replication stress
Annual Report 2013-2014
139
Ehud isacoff, Department Of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Serge Charpak, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, ESPCI/INSERM Paris
Manipulation and detection of olfactory functions
2005
Nilabh Shastri, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Philippe Pierre, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy UMR 6102 INSERM CNRS Marseille
Cryptic antegenic peptide processing in dendritic cells
Paulo J. M. Monteiro, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier P. Coussy, Ecole Nationale Ponts & Chaussées - 6-8 Av. Blaise Pascal, Cité Descartes, Marne-la-Vallée
Minimization of the stresses generated by ice formation in concrete
Rachel A Segalman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Cyril Brochon, Département de Polymères, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Strasbourg
Nanopatterning and electrical properties of insulated molecular wires
Pamela Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
Valérie Verdier, Institut de la Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 5096 IRD/CNRS, Perpignan
Characterization of rice T-DNA mutants for their reaction to bacterial blight disease using genome expression profiling
Dan I. Slobin, Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Maarten Lemmens, Université Lille 3, U.F.R. Angellier, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Experimental investigations into language typology
Randy Schekman, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Bruno Antonny, CNRS Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Valbonne
Architecture of the COPII coat and mechanisms of vesicle formation
Jonathan Beecher, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jean-Claude Zancarini, ENS Lettres & Sciences Humaines, Lyon
The reception of social theories in the 19th century in France and the United States
Sergey Nuzhdin, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Pierre Capy, Laboratoire Populations, Génétique et Evolution, Gif-sur-Yvette
Genomics of incipient speciation in Drosophila melanogaster
Costas Grigoropoulos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Jacques greffet, Lab. EM2C, Ecole Centrale, Chatenay-Malabry
Nanoscale heat transfer
Barbara A. Romanowicz, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Département de Sismologie Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Spectral Element Method implementation for regional tomography of the earth’s upper mantle
Peter J. Bickel, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Tsybakov, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Université Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7599
How can prediction be possible when data are high dimensional?
Charles J. Fillmore, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Romary, Lab. Recherche Informatique et Applications, Université Vandoeuvre -les-Nancy
Putting semantics into the trees: towards a French FrameNet
Robert Tjian, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier Bensaude, CNRS UMR 8541-Ecole Normale Supérieure - Régulation de L’Expression Génétique, Paris
Imaging of the eukaryotic transcription machinery in living cells
John Bowek, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael Meyer, Laboratoire d’Interaction du Rayonnement X avec la Matière; Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, Orsay
Fundamental photoionization processes in excited isolated species
Beshara Doumani, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM-MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
Who controlled the Ottoman legal system? Professions and power configurations in the imperial and provincial courts (18th-20th centuries.)
140
France-Berkeley Fund
Alessandra Lanzara, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matteo D’Astuto, Institut Minéralogie & Physique des Milieux Condensés, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris 6
Electron phonon interaction in new intercalated layered systems
Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Andreas Merdes, CNRS Toulouse
In vitro approaches to study muscle morphogenesis
Gary Karpen, Department of Genome Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
G. Almouzni, Institut Curie, Paris
High-resolution analysis of mouse centromeric heterochromatin organization
2006
Barry Eichengreen, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Flandreau, Department of Economics, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
International currencies in theory and history
James R. Graham, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Garpard Duchêne, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Grenoble
Studying the properties of protoplanetary disks across wide ranges of stellar ages and masses
Diane M. Beckles, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Nadia Bertin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon
Analysis of carbon allocation in transgenic tomatoes via molecular and ecophysiological approaches
Andrew Chisholm, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jonathan Ewbank, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille
A kinase linking autophagy and innate immunity in C. elegans
Peter C. Vollhardt, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Corinne Aubert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
Preparation of diborylcyclohexadienes and their application in the synthesis of complex molecules
Samuel S. Mao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jin Yu, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire, Physics Department, Université Lyon 1
Femtosecond laser ablation and standoff elemental analysis with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Martin Banks, Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Mamassian, Institut de Psychologie, Université de Paris 5, Boulogne-Billancourt
Time course of adjustment in picture viewing
Chin-Fu Tsang, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yves Gugliemi, Geosciences Azur, Sophia Antipolis
Superimposed effects of surface temperature variations and aquifer free-water surface oscillations on rock slope stability—a unique field
experiment analyzed by advanced coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling approaches
Nelson Max, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Livermore
Fabrice Neyret, Equipe Evasion, INRIA, Saint Ismier
Real-time realistic rendering of clouds
Marian Feldman, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Michele Casanova, Département Histoire de l’Art, Université de Rennes 2, Haute-Bretagne
Luxury goods: production, exchange, and heritage in the Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages
Jose Renau, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Albert Cohen, INRIA, Université Parc Club Orsay, Orsay
Thread-level speculation
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Sourlas, Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris
Inference in graphical models and multi-user communications: algorithms, complexity, and large system analysis
Sharmila Majumdar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Francoise Peyrin, CREATIS, INSA, Lyon
Synchrotron radiation micro computed tomography: analysis of bone quality
Annual Report 2013-2014
141
Xixi Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mireille Perrin, Laboratoire de Tectonophysique, Université de Montpellier
Intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field during the Miocene
2006
142
Junko Yano, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Elodie Anxolabehere-Mallart, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, Université de Paris-Sud
Biomimetic manganese complexes for water oxidation
France-Berkeley Fund
Michael Jordan, Computer Science Division and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Francis Bach & Jean-Philippe Vert, Centre de Bioinformatique, Ecole des Mines, Paris
Inference and learning in dynamic graphical models, with applications to speech and bio-informatics
David Feldheim, Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fanny Mann, IBDML, CNRS UMR 6216 Marseille
Monitoring the assembly and function of retinal circuits
Alexandre Bayen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Litrico, CEMAGREF - UMR G-Eau, Montpellier
Modeling and data assimilation of semi-automated water distribution canal networks
2007
Jeffrey R. long, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Rodolphe Clérac, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UPR CNRS 8641, Pessac
Photomagnetic metal-cyanide clusters
Maria Schonbek, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dragos iftimie, Institut Camille Jordan, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne
Asymptotic behavior for the quasi-geostrophic system and the Euler equations
Maciej Zworski, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Burq, Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud, Orsay
Mathematical aspects of semiclassical approximation
Brian A. Catlos, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Damien Coulon, UFR des Sciences Historiques, Université Marc-Bloch, Strasbourg
Inter-confessional relations and trade in the Medieval Mediterranean
Richard M. Allen, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Nikolai Shapiro, Département de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris
Seismic tremor: a new window to monitor seismic/aseismic coupling at depth and improve earthquake forecasting
Hitoshi Murayama, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Emilian Dudas, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Electroweak symmetry breaking in the LHC Era
El Karoui Nouredine, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Touzi Nizar & El Karoui Nicole, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Random matrix theory and mathematical finance
George Roderick, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Maria Navajas, INRA, Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations, Montferrier-sur-Lez
Invasive insects and mites of Mediterranean climates
Kristin scott, Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Frederic Marion-Poll, INRA, Physiologie de l’Insecte: Signalisation et Communication, Versailles
Diversity of bitter tastes in Drosophila
Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
iain s. Duff, CERFACS, Parallel Algorithms Project, Toulouse
Scalable sparse linear equation solvers on emerging petascale computers
Warren Pickett, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis
Mébarek Alouani, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Charge mismatch and magnetism at interfaces
Bruce E. Cain, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Frédérick Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université de Paris 8, Saint Denis
Immigration, segregation and urban tension in France and California
Ann Banfield, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Philippe, Université Stendhal, Grenoble
Linguistics and the language arts: developing new research programs
Annual Report 2013-2014
143
Ali Belkacem, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hamed Merdji, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Centre d’Etude de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette
Development of high intensity high harmonic system for studies of non-linear X-ray optics
2007
Qing-Zhu Yin, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis
Philippe Gillet, Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Davis-Lyon joint investigation of non-traditional stable isotope systematics in the early solar system materials
Richard Kern, French Department, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Develotte, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon
Rethinking language teaching in the digital age: French and American perspectives on technology and pedagogy
Alison M. Berry, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Philippe Normand, CNRS- UMR 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne
Global computational approaches to discovery of microbial gene function and evolution: phylogenomic comparison of two plantassociated Actinobacteria, the thermotolerant biomass-degrader Acidothermus, and the symbiotic nitrogen-fixer Frankia
144
France-Berkeley Fund
Louise Glass, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Mathieu Paoletti, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Champignons, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
Role of the HET domain in Fungal Nonself Recognition
William J. Jagust, Deptartments of Public Health and Neuroscience, UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michel Isingrini, Université François Rabelais, Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition, Tours
Brain basis of metamemory in aging
Steven R. Beissinger, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5175, Montpellier
Integrated approach for population viability analyses with limited data
2008
George Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
James g. Bartlett, Département de Physique, Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, Paris
Empowering the CMB: Measuring power spectra from the Planck mission
Judith P. Klinman, Departments of Chemistry & Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Mano, CRPP-UPR 8641, Pessac
A miniature membraneless biofuel cell
Philip Marcus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Patrice Le Gal, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, Université de Provence, Marseille
Numerical simulations versus experiments on inertial-gravity waves
Alexandra Navrotsky, NEAT-ORU and Thermochemistry Facility, University of California, Davis
Christophe Drouet and Sophie Guillemet, CIRIMAT, UMR CNRS 5085, INSIACET, Toulouse
A thermodynamic approach for the understanding of nanomaterials properties
Jere H. Lipps, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Thérèse Vénec-Peyré, Département Histoire de la Terre, Université de Paris 6, Paris
Effect of pollution on foraminifera
William A. Lester, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Roland Assaf, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ivry sur Seine
Development of size-independent estimators for quantum Monte Carlo forces
Niek Veldhuis, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Francis Joannès, Département d’Histoire, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
Hellenistic Babylonia: Texts, iconography & names
George Brooks, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Messonnier, Lab. of Exercise Physiology and Physiopathology, Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac
Effects of endurance training on glucose and lactate metabolism during exercise and recovery in men and women—advancing our
knowledge and methods of investigation
Juan F. Medrano, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Patrice Martin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy-en-Josas
Contribution of genomics to the understanding of milk fat composition using gene expression profiling of mammary epithelial cells isolated
from milk and microdissected biopsies
Stefano Varesse, Department of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Philippe Descola, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France, Paris
All our relatives: indigenous cosmocentric epistemologies in dialogue
Philip Filippou, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jacky Mazars, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble
High performance modeling of 3D soil-structure interaction under earthquake excitation
Kurt Cuffey, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Van Der Beek, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble, Grenoble
Relief development in the Western Alps (France, Switzerland) in response to quaternary glaciations assessed through high-resolution
4He/3He/He thermochronology
Annual Report 2013-2014
145
Edgar Knobloch, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Bergeon, IMFT, UMR CNRS 5502, Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse
Localized structures in driven dissipative flows
2008
Larry Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marie Hombert, Dynamique du Langage, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon
Towards a re-evaluation of the history of the peopling and languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley
Gérard Smadja, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Villeurbanne
The nearby supernova factory
Robert Knight, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier Bertrand, INSERM U821, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Bron
Spatio-temporal organization of cortical oscillatory activities in human audition
Bob B. Buchanan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
J.-Ph. Reichheld, LGDP UMR CNRS-IRD-UPVD 5096, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan
The next step in the identification of thioredoxin target proteins: in vivo characterization with mutants
Ravi Rajan & Deborah Letourneau, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Christophe Bonneuil, Centre Koyré d’Histoire des Sciences et des techniques-MNHN CP 25, Paris
Mobilizing science for public policy on ecological risks of genetically engineered organisms
Christine Hastorf, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Touchais, Département d’Archéologie et Histoire de l’Art, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne, Paris
Food archaeology in Argolid (Greece): Cross-correlation between isotopic analysis and macroscopic observation of the dental remains
Irfan Siddiqi, Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Institut Néel, Nanosciences Department, CNRS, Grenoble
Microwave nanomagnetometry of single molecules, towards single spin measurement and control
Karlene Roberts, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Erik Hollnagel, Ecole National Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis
Research in catastrophic risk management—finally, the twain shall meet
146
France-Berkeley Fund
Pascale Garaud, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michel Rieutord, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées Toulouse
Proposal to support an international summer program in astrophysical modeling
Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi, Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Natalio Mingo, LITEN, CEA-Grenoble
Collaborative research on “nanoparticle embedded in alloy” thermoelectric materials and devices grown by
MOCVD
Richard H. Kramer, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Specht, Départementde Chimie Bioorganique Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
New two-photon caged neurotransmitters for the photocontrol of neuronal activity and physiology
2009
Richard grotjahn & susan Ustin, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Fabio D’Andrea, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Calibration and mapping of satellite skin temperatures by surface station data with evaluation of WRF guidance for extreme heat waves
Peter S. Nico, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Delphine Derrien, Laboratoire Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers, INRA Nancy
Do mineral surfaces stabilize organic matter in soil?
André Anders, Plasma Applications Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Philippe Bauer, Département CP2S, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy Université
Spatial and temporal development of high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges
Sharmila Majumdar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Roland Chapurlat, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Lyon
Standardization and cross calibration of distal radius and distal tibia bone quality using high resolution peripheral computed tomography scanners
Barbara Romanowicz, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Jan Matas, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Seismic attenuation in the Earth’s mantle: implications for velocity-to-density conversion factors
Siobhan Brady, Section of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis
François Roudier, Biology Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Integrating transcriptional networks and chromatin-based mechanisms involved in the control of cell differentiation in the model plant
Arabidopsis thaliana
Zahid Hussain, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides – Université Paris-Sud, Paris
New spectroscopic approaches for the study of strongly correlated materials
Johan Leveau, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
Pascale Frey-Klett, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Champenoux
Impact of bacterial-fungal interactions on soil evolution, fertility, and vegetation
Vittal Yachandra, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pieter Glatzel, Installation Européenne de Rayonnement Synchrotron, Grenoble
Ligands of manganese complexes relevant to photosynthetic water oxidation: direct detection using X-ray emission spectroscopy
Artyom Kopp, Department Of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis
Nicolas Gompel, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille
Developing genetic tools for new model species of Drosophila
Robert littlejohn, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Théorique, Luminy, Marseille
Semiclassical studies of spin networks, Wigner $3nj$- symbols, and quantum gravity
Rosemary Gillespie, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Christophe Thébaud, Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Community assembly on islands: role of random versus deterministic effects
Adrian T. Lee, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Radoslaw Stompor, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris 7
Simulations and data analysis of the initial data set of a next generation CMB B-mode polarization experiment: PolarBeaR
Annual Report 2013-2014
147
Alan Weinstein, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Schapira, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris VI
Categorical tools in geometry and in mathematical physics
2009
Robert Kostecki, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christian Julien, Institut des Nanosciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6
Electrochemical energy storage research—advanced cathode materials for Li-ion battery systems
Charles Altieri, English Department, University of California, Berkeley
Isabelle Alfandary & Axel Nesme, Département d’Etudes du Monde Anglophone, Université Lumière-Lyon 2
Transatlantic transactions: French theory and twentieth century American poetry
Margaret Conkey, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Sébastein Lacombe, Université de Toulouse-le Mirail, Toulouse
Open air paleolithic occupations on the north slope of the Central Pyrénées: inventory and analysis of a rare and significant collection of
prehistoric artifacts
Ronnie Lipschutz, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Béatrice Hibou, Centre d’études et de recherche internationales, Sciences Po, Paris
The public-private hybridization of the 21st century state
sofia Berto Villas-Boas, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Céline Bonnet and Pierre Dubois, GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse
Non linear wholesale pricing and retail pass-through: evidence from counterfactual experiments
AnnaLee Saxenian, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Hervé Dumez, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Making a mark: early French trademarking practice and its long-term influence
148
France-Berkeley Fund
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Department of Microbiology, University of California, Davis
Xavier Veaute, CEA, Fontenay aux Roses
Fonctions des paralogues de Rad51 dans la recombinaison homologue
Keith Johnson, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Elsa Spinelli, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble 2
Variability and lexical representations
Paulo J. M. Monteiro & Roy W. Carlson, Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Levitz, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Characterization of the nanostructure of calcium silicate hydrates
2010
Bozidar Stojadinovic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Department of Civil Engineering, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan
Multi-scale hybrid modeling of failure mechanisms in civil structures under extreme-event loads
Mark van der Laan, Group in Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
Antoine Chambaz, Laboratoire MAP5,Université Paris Descartes
Development of causal inference methodology and its application to medical and epidemiological research in France?
Bruno Nachtergaele, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Valentin Zagrebnov, Département de Physique, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille
Application of the Lieb-Robinson bound method to study dynamics of infinite systems
Esmond G. Ng, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Luc Giraud, INRIA-Bordeaux Sud Ouest, Toulouse
Scalable hybrid solvers for large sparse linear systems of equations on petascale computing architectures
Patrick V. Kirch, Anthropology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Conte, Archéologie, Université Paris1, Université de la Polynésie Française, Tahiti
Paleo- and neo-ecology of French Polynesia
Kevin Wilson, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christa Fittschen, UFR Chimie, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq.
Experimental investigations of complex kinetic mechanism by combining state-of-the-art experimental techniques
Angelique Louie, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Marc Dhenain,URA CEA CNRS 2210-CEA – MIRCen Center, Fontenay aux Roses
New method to detect amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease
Junko Yano, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Cyrille Costentin, Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moléculaire, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7
Mechanism of water oxidation catalysis using electrochemistry and in situ X-ray spectroscopy
Frederic Theunissen, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neurosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Mathevon, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne
Auditory scene analysis in the songbird
John Verboncoeur, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Sonnendrücker, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg
Adaptive multilevel particle schemes for plasma simulation
James F. O’Brien, EECS, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Paule Cani, INRIA, Grenoble Institute of Technology
Real-time simulation methods for interactive surgical simulation and planning
John Radke, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Liébault, Cemagref Groupement de Grenoble, Saint-Martin-d’Hères
Analysis of historic river corridor response to landscape change and application to river management principles in California and France
Nancy Lee Peluso, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Gabrielle Bouleau, Cemagref, UMR G-EAU, Montpellier
Risk societies and governance in Mediterranean climate deltas flood-prone waterscapes
Annual Report 2013-2014
149
Kristofer S.J. Pister, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA POPS, Université de Lille
Implementation and extensive performance evaluation of future standards for wireless sensor networks
2010
Steven Glaser, Department of Civil and Environmental, Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Térence Bayen, Center of Mathematic, Université de Montpellier 2
Modeling absolute displacements of the human body to quantify diagnoses neuropathology
Thomas Jue, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis
David Bendahan, Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale, Faculté de Médecine de la Timone, Marseille
Determination of metabolic transients during a muscle contraction using hyperpolarized 13C, 31P and 1H
magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Sharman D. O’Neill, Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
Pascale Besse, Univ. de la Réunion, Peuplements Végétaux & Bioagresseurs en Milieu Tropical, La Réunion
The France-UC Vanilla Consortium: an international collaboration for genomic research and germplasm conservation for crop
improvement of vanilla planifolia
David Wessel, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley
Yann Orlarey, GRAME - Centre National de Création Musicale, Lyon
Parallelism in interactive real-time signal processing with FAUST and OSC
150
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Carla Shapreau, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Florence Gétreau, Institut de recherche sur le Patrimoine Musical
The loss of French musical property during World War II, post-war repatriations, restitutions, and 21st century
ramifications
Kenneth Downing, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Manfred Heinlein, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg
Structural and functional analysis of the Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein:tubulin complex
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Knoepfler, Collège de France, Paris
The epigraphy and history of Boeotia: new finds, new developments
2011
Marios Panagiotou, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Stéphane Grange, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
High performance modeling of seismic soil foundation structure interaction in tall buildings
Dietmar Kueltz, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Jean-Herve Lignot, Université Montpellier 2
Parallel evolution of osmoregulatory mechanisms in fish
Dmitry Budker, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-François Roch, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Magnetometry with color centers in diamond
Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philippe Martin, CEA Saclay
Electron acceleration and relativistic optics in the ultra-high-intensity regime
Michael A. Lieberman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Chabert, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Global model of radiofrequency atmospheric pressure plasmas used for biomedical applications
Trent Northen, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marion Leclerc, Microbiologie-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
In vitro and in vivo metabolic interaction in a simplified human gut microbiome
Michael Levine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Krzysztof Jagla, Université de Clermont
Transcriptional regulation of cell fate decisions during Drosophila cardiovascular development
Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Roberto galbiati, Département d’Economie, Sciences Po Paris
The emergence of the economic criminologist
Eva Harris, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Bruno Canard, Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille
The Role of NS3 and NS5 in Dengue Viral Fitness
Jack Citrin, Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Frédérick Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8
Urban Frontier in the age of globalization: a comparative study of France and California
Diane M Beckles, Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Maria Cecilia Arias, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Molecular evolution of starch transcriptional networks in plants
Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Philippe Vert, Centre for Computational Biology, Mines Paris Tech
Statistical methods for the joint analysis of high-throughput transcription and genotype data
Nicolas Barrière, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Bastie, LSP, Saint Martin d’Hères
High-quality heavy metal crystals study for the realization of an astronomical gamma-ray telescope
Annual Report 2013-2014
151
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Lafont, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
The Artifice of Color: Representation of Blacks in the French visual arts from the Black Code (1682) to the
recognition of the Republic of Haiti (1825)
2011
Ian Faloona, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Marie Lothon, Université de Toulouse
A study of the late afternoon transition in the atmospheric boundary layer
Alexandre J. Chorin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Yvon Maday, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Reduced basis method for the simulation of coupled QM/continuum solvation models
Theodore A. Slaman, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Bienvenu, Université Paris Diderot
Effective randomness for non-uniform measures
Robert Tjian, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Darzacq, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Spatiotemporal dynamics of single transcription factors in eukaryotic cells
David L. Shuster, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Braun, Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Université de Grenoble
Catastrophic gorge incision (Skagit River Gorge) induced by glacial lake overspill assessed through high-resolution 4He/3He
thermochronology
Lawrence Rosenthal, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Darras, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse
Anger in politics: understanding the emergence of the Tea Party movement
152
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David Chandler, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Rotenberg, Chimie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Optimizing self-assembly of complex colloidal systems using Transition Path Sampling
Ehud isacoff, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Ropert, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies, Université Paris Descartes, Paris
Optogenetic probing of the mechanisms and functions of gliotransmission
Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques, CNRS Grenoble
Joint experimental and theoretical study of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in
graphene-based compounds and topological insulators with magneto-optical spectroscopy
2012
Sanjay Kumar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Manuel Thery, Institut de Recherche en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, CEA, Grenoble
Engineering and dissecting the micro-architecture of actomyosin stress fibers
Marla Feller, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
David DiGregorio, Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Dendritic processing of synaptic input in retinal interneurons
geoffrey W. Marcy, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Hébrard, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Observatoire de Haute-Provence
Combining French and American telescopes to characterize exoplanets
Alejandro Aguilar, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Marc Bizau, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud
First absolute single-photon double photoionization cross section measurements of fundamental 2-electron negative ion: HAlexandre Bayen, Center for Information Technology and Research in the Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley
Paola goatin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis—Méditerranée
Optimal traffic flow management with GPS enabled smartphones
John Taylor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
tatiana giraud, Département Génétique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université de Paris-Sud
Genomics of ecological divergence in the fungal species Neurospora discreta
Kunxin Luo, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Delphine Javelaud, INSERM U1021, Institut Curie, Paris
Hippo signaling and Ski in human melanoma development
Daniel Fletcher, Department of Bioengineering and Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Bassereau, Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris
Mechanical induction of transcellular tunnels
Jeremy W. Thorner, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Robert A. Arkowitz, CNRS UMR7277 /INSERM UMR1091, Université de Nice—Sophia Antipolis
Requirements, molecular roles and distribution of membrane phosphoinositides in yeast external signal-dependent polarized growth
Jack L. Gallant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA France
Improving fMRI by using anatomical data to constrain functional models
Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
David Bouchez, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin
Uncovering an interactive protein network that regulates microtubule nucleation and organization for plant cell growth
Beverly Crawford, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Rolland, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université de Strasbourg
Civil society formation in political transitions: the evolution of culture and identity in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Maghreb/
Machrek 1980-2011
Véronique Munoz-Darde, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Lue Foisneau, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
A Theory of Justice 40 years on
Annual Report 2013-2014
153
Michael A. Rogawski, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Jean-Pierre Mothet, Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et Neurophysiologie, Université Aix-Marseille
Role of D-serine in migraine
2012
Jeffrey Ross-ibarra, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Maud Tenaillon, UMR 8120 de Génétique Végétale, INRA / Université Paris XI / CNRS / INA PG
Does domestication affect recombination: a pilot study in maize
Jitendra Malik, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Zaid Harchaoui & Cordelia Schmid, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, LEAR, INRIA Grenoble
Large-scale learning for image and video interpretation
Stephen R. Leone, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ian R. Sims, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1
Direct measurements of reaction pathways for interstellar and planetary low temperature chemistry
Igor V. Grigoriev, Doe Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francis M. Martin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
Uncovering evolutionary origins and mechanisms of mycorrhizal symbiosis and wood decay machinery in forest ecosystems by
comparative genomics
Steven Conolly, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Maître, Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
Aerosol deposition in the airways with phase-imaging tools for inhaled drug delivery
Charles Marshall, Department of Integrative Biology, UCB / University of California Museum of Paleontology
Hélène Morlon, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de l’Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Integrating molecular phylogenies and the fossil record
Kenneth Ribet, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Ariane Mézard, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin
Summer 2013 workshop on new geometric techniques in number theory
Stephanie Lee Mudge, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Antoine Vauchez, CNRS—Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de l’Université, Université Paris 1
When theory matters: law, economics, and the scholarly production of “Europe”, 1990-2010
Vern Paxson, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Renata CruzTeixeira, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6
Understanding user perspectives of internet performance
154
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Sophia B. Villas-Boas, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Chambolle, INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Ivry sur Seine
The impact of retail mergers on food prices: evidence from France
Barbara Romanowicz, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Yann Capdeville, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes
Probabilistic interpretation of seismic tomographic models
Déborah Blocker, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Piéjus, Institut de Recherches sur le patrimoine musical en France
New tools and stakes for the study of language and culture in early modern French periodicals: the case of
the Mercure Galant
2013
Nicholas Paige, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Peureux, Paris 10-Nanterre
The “I” before “the Self”: Non-modern uses of the first person in Renaissance and Classical France
Wayne Marcus Getz, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Magal, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux Segalen
Individual-based, structurally and demographically-detailed epidemic models
Susan J. Muller, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Thibaut Divoux, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS - UPR 8641)
Testing a generalized stability criterion for viscoelastic flows
Elizabeth Moxon, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claus Habfast, European Synchrotron Research Facility
An international comparative study of best practices in providing high school student access to synchrotrons to conduct outreach experiments
Jason Corburn, School of Public Health and Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Gérard Salem, Université Paris Ouest, UFR SSA
Global urban health: Collaborative research for a new science of the city
Lauren Williams, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Sylvie Corteel, CNRS et Universite Paris Diderot
Tableaux combinatorics
Suzanne Guerlac, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Pierre Montier, Département de Lettres, Université Rennes 2
Towards a coherently structured development of photoliterary research
Pablo Ross, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Hélène Jammes, Unité Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, INRA
A systems biology approach to understand parental specific contributions to embryo and placenta development
John P. Huelsenbeck, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Daubin, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard
User-friendly phylogenomics: Bayesian simultaneous reconstruction of gene trees and species trees
Daniela Kaufer, Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Tronche, Gene Regulation and Adaptive Behaviors team, CNRS
Dissecting GR gene function in adult brain stem cells
Winfried Kudszus, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Trim, Faculté des Arts, Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, Aix-Marseille Université
Metaphor in the political debate of austerity programs
Robert T. Knight, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Fanny Meunier, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon
Brain dynamics of compensatory mechanisms for lexical selection in overt speech production after left prefrontal damage
Nicolai Reshetikhin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Blanchet, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris Diderot
Categorification of quantum invariants of 3-dimensional manifolds
Annual Report 2013-2014
155
Susan G. Miller, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Jocelyne Dakhlia, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques
Networking for independence: The Moroccan nationalist movement’s global campaign against French colonialism
2013
geoff Bower, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Thereau, Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay Observatoire de Paris
French / American collaboration for radio investigations of time-variable astrophysical phenomena
Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Matthieu Keller, CNRS, Équipe Neuroendocrinology des Interactions et Comportements Sexuels
Neuroendocrine gating of olfactory perceptual processing
John Harvey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
Agnès Jullien, IFFSTAR
Comparison of use phase methodology and recycling approach for pavement life cycle assessment
Patricia Baquedano-López, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Pedro Jose Garcia-Sanchez, Département de Sociologie, Université Paris Ouest
Social and political tools of urban cosmopolitanism: The challenge of otherness in distributed cognition and interactivity
156
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Pro�ects
BY Field
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157
Applied
Sciences
Pablo Ross, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Hélène Jammes, Unité Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, INRA
A systems biology approach to understand parental specific contributions to embryo and placenta
development
2013
Jack L. Gallant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA France
Improving fMRI by using anatomical data to constrain functional models.
2012
Michael A. Rogawski, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Jean-Pierre Mothet, Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et Neurophysiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Aix-Marseille
Role of D-serine in migraine
2012
Jeffrey Ross-ibarra, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Maud Tenaillon, UMR 8120 de Génétique Végétale, INRA / Université Paris XI / CNRS / INA PG
Does domestication affect recombination: a pilot study in maize
2012
Igor V. Grigoriev, Doe Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francis M. Martin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
Uncovering evolutionary origins and mechanisms of mycorrhizal symbiosis and wood decay machinery in forest ecosystems by
comparative genomics
2012
Dmitry Budker, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-François Roch, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Magnetometry with color centers in diamond
2011
Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philippe Martin, CEA Saclay
Electron acceleration and relativistic optics in the ultra-high-intensity regime
2011
Michael A. Lieberman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Chabert, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Global model of radiofrequency atmospheric pressure plasmas used for biomedical applications
2011
Diane M Beckles, Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Maria Cecilia Arias, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Molecular evolution of starch transcriptional networks in plants
2011
Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Philippe Vert, Centre for Computational Biology, Mines Paris Tech
Statistical methods for the joint analysis of high-throughput transcription and genotype data
2011
Ian Faloona, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Marie Lothon, Université de Toulouse
A study of the late afternoon transition in the atmospheric boundary layer
2011
158
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Alexandre J. Chorin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Yvon Maday, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Reduced basis method for the simulation of coupled QM/continuum solvation models
2011
Mark van der Laan, Group in Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
Antoine Chambaz, Laboratoire MAP5,Université Paris Descartes
Development of causal inference methodology and its application to medical and epidemiological research
in France?
2010
Applied
Sciences
Kevin Wilson, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christa Fittschen,UFR Chimie, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Experimental Investigations of complex kinetic mechanism by combining state-of-the-art experimental techniques
2010
Angelique Louie, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Marc Dhenain,URA CEA CNRS 2210-CEA – MIRCen Center, Fontenay aux Roses
New method to detect amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease
2010
John Verboncoeur, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Sonnendrücker, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg
Adaptive multilevel particle schemes for plasma simulation
2010
John Radke, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Liébault, Cemagref Groupement de Grenoble, Saint-Martin-d’Hères
Analysis of historic river corridor response to landscape change and application to river management principles in California and France
2010
David Wessel, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley
Yann Orlarey, GRAME - Centre National de Création Musicale, Lyon
Parallelism in interactive real-time signal processing with FAUST and OSC
2010
Pascale Garaud, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michel Rieutord, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire Midi Pyrenées, Toulouse
Proposal to support an international summer program in astrophysical modeling
2009
Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi, Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Natalio Mingo, LITEN, CEA-Grenoble
Collaborative research on “nanoparticle embedded in alloy” thermoelectric materials and devices grown by MOCVD
2009
Richard H. Kramer, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Specht, Départementde Chimie Bioorganique Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
New two-photon caged neurotransmitters for the photocontrol of neuronal activity and physiology
2009
Richard grotjahn and susan Ustin, Department of L.A.W.R, University of California, Davis
Fabio D’Andrea, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Calibration and mapping of satellite skin temperatures by surface station data with evaluation of WRF guidance for extreme heat waves
2009
Peter S. Nico, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Delphine Derrien, Laboratoire Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers, INRA Nancy
Do mineral surfaces stabilize organic matter in soil?
2009
Annual Report 2013-2014
159
Applied
Sciences
André Anders, Plasma Applications Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Philippe Bauer, Department CP2S, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy Université
Spatial and temporal development of high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges
2009
Alexandra Navrotsky, NEAT-ORU and Thermochemistry Facility, University of California, Davis.
Christophe Drouet and Sophie Guillemet, CIRIMAT, UMR CNRS 5085, INSIACET, Toulouse
A thermodynamic approach for the understanding of nanomaterials properties
2008
George Brooks, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Messonnier, Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Physiopathology, Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac,
Effects of endurance training on glucose and lactate metabolism during exercise and recovery in men and women—advancing our
knowledge and methods of investigation
2008
Juan F. Medrano, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Patrice Martin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy-en-Josas
Contribution of genomics to the understanding of milk fat composition using gene expression profiling of mammary epithelial cells islated
from milk and microdissected biopsies
2008
Steven R. Beissinger, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5175, Montpellier
Integrated approach for population viability analyses with limited data
2008
George Roderick, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Maria Navajas, INRA, Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations, Montferrier-sur-Lez
Invasive insects and mites of Mediterranean climates
2007
Alessandra Lanzara, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matteo D’Astuto, Institut de Minéralogie & Physique des Milieux Condenses, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
Electron phonon interaction in new intercalated layered systems
2006
Gary Karpen, Department of Genome Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
G. Almouzni, Institut Curie, Paris
High-resolution analysis of mouse centromeric heterochromatin organization
2006
Diane M. Beckles, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Nadia Bertin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon
Analysis of carbon allocation in transgenic tomatoes via molecular and ecophysiological approaches
2006
Roberto Horowitz, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, Laboratoire d’Automatique Grenoble, Saint-Martin-d’Hères
Toward coordinated and traffic responsive ramp metering strategies
2005
Peter J. Bickel, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Tsybakov, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Université Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7599, Paris
How can prediction be possible when data are high dimensional?
2005
160
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Costas Grigoropoulos, Department Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Jacques greffet, Laboratoire EM2C, Ecole Centrale, Chatenay-Malabry
Nanoscale heat transfer
2005
Rachel A Segalman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Cyril Brochon, Département de Polymères, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Strasbourg
Nanopatterning and electrical properties of insulated molecular wires
2005
Applied
Sciences
Piedong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
François Lagugne-Labarthet, LPCM, UMR5803 CNRS Bordeaux
Spectroscopy of one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures
2004
Joseph Campos, Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley
Marianne Barbu-Roth, LPBD, Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Are newborns programmed to walk on the Earth?
2004
Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marc Campagne, ICSN, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette
Synthesis of bioactive polyol natural product by catalytic asymmetric mukaiyama adool and olefin hydration
2004
Sandrine Dutoit, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Daniel Zucker, CNRS- STIC team, Université Paris XIII
OBELINK: Combining machine learning and biostatics to discover significant obesity related genetics polymorphisms
2003
Donald C. Rio, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Bertrand Séraphin, CNRS-Centre de Génétique Moléculaire
In vitro study of the exon-junction complex assembly in Drosophila
2003
Ronald Amundson, Division of Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Isabelle Basille, CEREGE-Université Aix-Marseille III
Carbon cycle in soils: role of organic matter
2002
Slawek Tulaczyk, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Catherine Ritz, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement
Possible near-future break-up of the Ross Ice Shelf and other forms of unstable behavior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Evaluating the impact
of decreasing ice discharge from the Ice Streams
2002
Christos Papadimitriou, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Evripidis Bampis, Laboratoire de Méthodes Informatiques, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne
MULT-APPROX: Multiobjective optimization and approximation
2001
saul Perlmutter, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pierre Antilogus, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
Nearby supernova factory project (software)
2001
Ali Belkacem, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joseph Remillieux, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
Experimental studies of vacuum-assisted photoionization
2000
Annual Report 2013-2014
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Applied
Sciences
Carole Meredith, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis
Jean-Michel Boursiquot, ENSA, Montpellier
DNA Profiling and parentage analysis of grape varieties held in the INRA collection at domaine de vassal
2000
Norman Terry, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Claude Davidian, ENSA-INRA, Montpellier
Mechanisms of selenium uptake, sequestration and resistance in arabidopsis and yeast mutants
2000
Richard scheffler, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Huttin, Université de Paris X-Nanterre
The growth of private insurance and managed care in France: Insights from the American experience
2000
Robert BonDurant, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
Francis Fieni, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Nantes
Transmission of CAE retrovirus via breeding technologies in dairy goats
1999
Daniel S. Chemla, Materials Sciences Division and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jérôme Tignon, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Spectroscopie optique non linéaire de nanostructures de semiconducteurs
1999
James H. Underwood, Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Coryn Frank Hague, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université de Paris VI
Magneto-optics of polarized soft X-rays
1999
Hiroshi Nikaido, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Plésiat, Laboratoire Bactériologie, Faculté Médecine, Université Franche-Comté, Besançon
Characterization of a New Multidrug Efflux Pump in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
1998
Jeffrey granett, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis
François Leclant, UFR d’Ecologie animale et de Zoologie agricole, ENSA-INRA, Montpellier
Understanding Genetic Variability of Grape Phylloxera
1998
Mack Kennedy, Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simon Sheppard, Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Origin and role of fluids involved in active faulting
1998
Frank McLarnon, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Argou, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Pessac
Application of advanced optical techniques for probing interfacial electrochemical processes
1997
Brian Staskawicz, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Ulla Bonas, Institut des Sciences Végétales, Gif-sur-Yvette
Identification and characterization of novel genes for disease resistance in capsicum annum
1997
Ali Belkacem, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joseph Remillieux, Institut de Physique Nucléaire et Université Lyon I
Production and study of exotic atoms
1996
162
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Alexandre J. Chorin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Talay, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Sophia Antipolis
Les systèmes de particules aléatoires et les applications numériques en mécanique des fluides
1996
Russell Jones, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Raoul Ranjeva, Centre de Physiologie Végétale, Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse
Isolation and characterization of calcium channels in plants
1996
Applied
Sciences
C. Bradley Moore, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Devolder, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Kinetic investigations of reactive systems by combined laser photolysis/tunable diode absorption spectroscopy and LIF
1996
Hans Rudolf Wenk, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley.
Michel Pernet, Laboratoire de Cristallographie–CNRS, Grenoble
Texture and anisotropy
1996
Catherine P. Koshland, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
sebastien Candel, Laboratoire EM2C de L’ECP et du CNRS, Châtenay-Malabry
A strategy to reduce emissions during thermal oxidation of hazardous wastes
1995
Pravin Varaiya, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Sifakis, VERIMAG, Montbonnot Saint-Martin
Analysis of hybrid systems: application to the PATH project
1995
Y. R. Shen, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
E. Courtens, LSMV CC069, Université Montpellier II
Non-linear optics in porous materials
1995
Daniel S. Chemla, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pierre Lefebvre, Groupe d’Etude des Semiconducteurs, Université Montpellier II
Optical properties of nanostructures. Low-dimensional excitonic effects
1995
Brian A. Barsky, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Sequeira, Informatique, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Université Aix-Marseille II
Geometric modeling of the cornea using videokeratography
1994
David Dornfeld, Engineering Systems Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
Serge Tichkiewitch, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, Nancy
Intégration des procédés de fabrication en conception de produits
1994
Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gerard Martinez, Physics, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Electron correlation effects in condensed matter system as the newly discovered fullerene-based materials
1994
Barbara Romanowicz, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Claude Froidvaux, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Global geophysics
1994
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Exact
Sciences
Barbara Romanowicz, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Yann Capdeville, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes
Probabilistic interpretation of seismic tomographic models
2013
Wayne Marcus Getz, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of
California, Berkeley
Pierre Magal, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux Segalen
Individual-based, structurally and demographically-detailed epidemic models
2013
Lauren Williams, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Sylvie Corteel, CNRS et Universite Paris Diderot
Tableaux combinatorics
2013
John P. Huelsenbeck, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Daubin, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard
User-friendly phylogenomics: Bayesian simultaneous reconstruction of gene trees and species trees
2013
Daniela Kaufer, Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Tronche, Gene Regulation and Adaptive Behaviors team, CNRS
Dissecting GR gene function in adult brain stem cells
2013
Robert T. Knight, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Fanny Meunier, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon
Brain dynamics of compensatory mechanisms for lexical selection in overt speech production after left prefrontal damage
2013
Nicolai Reshetikhin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Blanchet, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris Diderot
Categorification of quantum invariants of 3-dimensional manifolds
2013
geoff Bower, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Thereau, Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay Observatoire de Paris
French / American collaboration for radio investigations of time-variable astrophysical phenomena
2013
Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Matthieu Keller, CNRS, Équipe Neuroendocrinology des Interactions et Comportements Sexuels
Neuroendocrine gating of olfactory perceptual processing
2013
David Chandler, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Rotenberg, Chimie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Optimizing self-assembly of complex colloidal systems using Transition Path Sampling
2012
Ehud isacoff, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Ropert, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies, Université Paris Descartes, Paris
Optogenetic probing of the mechanisms and functions of gliotransmission
2012
Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gérard Martinez, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble
Joint experimental and theoretical study of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in graphene-based compounds and
topological insulators with magneto-optical spectroscopy
2012
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Marla Feller, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
David DiGregorio, Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Dendritic processing of synaptic input in retinal interneurons
2012
geoffrey W. Marcy, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Hébrard, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Observatoire de Haute-Provence
Combining French and American telescopes to characterize exoplanets
2012
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Alejandro Aguilar, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Marc Bizau, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud
First absolute single-photon double photoionization cross section measurements of fundamental 2-electron negative ion: H2012
John Taylor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
tatiana giraud, Département Génétique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université de Paris-Sud
Genomics of ecological divergence in the fungal species Neurospora discreta
2012
Kunxin Luo, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Delphine Javelaud, INSERM U1021, Institut Curie, Paris
Hippo signaling and Ski in human melanoma development
2012
Daniel Fletcher, Department of Bioengineering and Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Bassereau, Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris
Mechanical induction of transcellular tunnels
2012
Jeremy W. Thorner, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Robert A. Arkowitz, CNRS UMR7277 /INSERM UMR1091, Université de Nice—Sophia Antipolis
Requirements, molecular roles and distribution of membrane phosphoinositides in yeast external signal-dependent polarized growth
2012
Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
David Bouchez, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin
Uncovering an interactive protein network that regulates microtubule nucleation and organization for plant cell growth
2012
Stephen R. Leone, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ian R. Sims, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1
Direct measurements of reaction pathways for interstellar and planetary low temperature chemistry
2012
Charles Marshall, Department of Integrative Biology, UCB / University of California Museum of Paleontology
Hélène Morlon, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de l’Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Integrating molecular phylogenies and the fossil record.
2012
Kenneth Ribet, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Ariane Mézard, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin
Summer 2013 workshop on new geometric techniques in number theory
2012
Kenneth Downing, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Manfred Heinlein, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg
Structural and functional analysis of the Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein:tubulin complex
2011
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Dietmar Kueltz, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Jean-Herve Lignot, Université Montpellier 2
Parallel evolution of osmoregulatory mechanisms in fish
2011
Trent Northen, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marion Leclerc, Microbiologie-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
In vitro and in vivo metabolic interaction in a simplified human gut microbiome
2011
Michael Levine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Krzysztof Jagla, Université de Clermont
Transcriptional regulation of cell fate decisions during Drosophila cardiovascular development
2011
Eva Harris, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Bruno Canard, Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille
The role of NS3 and NS5 in dengue viral fitness
2011
Theodore A. Slaman, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Bienvenu, Université Paris Diderot
Effective randomness for non-uniform measures
2011
Robert Tjian, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Darzacq, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Spatiotemporal dynamics of single transcription factors in eukaryotic cells
2011
David L. Shuster, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Braun, Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Université de Grenoble
Catastrophic gorge incision (Skagit River Gorge) induced by glacial lake overspill assessed through high-resolution 4He/3He
thermochronology
2011
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Department of Microbiology, University of California, Davis
Xavier Veaute, CEA, Fontenay aux Roses
Fonctions des paralogues de Rad51 dans la recombinaison homologue.
2010
Bruno Nachtergaele, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Valentin Zagrebnov, Département de Physique, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille
Application of the Lieb-Robinson bound method to study dynamics of infinite systems
2010
Patrick V. Kirch, Departments of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Conte, Archéologie, Université Paris1, Université de la Polynésie Française, Tahiti
Paleo- and neo-ecology of French Polynesia
2010
Junko Yano, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
Cyrille Costentin, Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moléculaire, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7
Mechanism of water oxidation catalysis using electrochemistry and in situ X-ray spectroscopy
2010
Frederic Theunissen, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neurosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Mathevon, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne
Auditory scene analysis in the songbird
2010
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Kristofer S. J. Pister, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA POPS, Université de Lille
Implementation and extensive performance evaluation of future standards for wireless sensor networks
2010
Thomas Jue, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis
David Bendahan, Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique Médicale, Faculté Médecine Timone,
Marseille
Determination of metabolic transients during a muscle contraction using hyperpolarized 13C, 31P and 1H
magnetic resonance spectroscopy
2010
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Sharman D. O’Neill, Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
Pascale Besse, Université de la Réunion, Peuplements Végétaux et Bioagresseurs en Milieu Tropical, La Réunion
The France-UC Vanilla Consortium: an international collaboration for genomic research and germplasm conservation for crop
improvement of vanilla planifolia
2010
Barbara Romanowicz, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Jan Matas, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Seismic attenuation in the Earth’s mantle: implications for velocity-to-density conversion factors
2009
Siobhan Brady, Section of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis
François Roudier, Biology Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Integrating transcriptional networks and chromatin-based mechanisms involved in the control of cell differentiation in the model plant
Arabidopsis thaliana
2009
Zahid Hussain, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides – Université Paris-Sud, Paris
New spectroscopic approaches for the study of strongly correlated materials
2009
Johan Leveau, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
Pascale Frey-Klett, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Champenoux
Impact of bacterial-fungal interactions on soil evolution, fertility, and vegetation
2009
Vittal Yachandra, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pieter Glatzel, Installation Européenne de Rayonnement Synchrotron, Grenoble
Ligands of manganese complexes relevant to photosynthetic water oxidation: direct detection using X-ray emission spectroscopy
2009
Artyom Kopp, Department Of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis
Nicolas Gompel, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille
Developing genetic tools for new model species of Drosophila
2009
Robert littlejohn, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Théorique, Luminy, Marseille
Semiclassical studies of spin networks, Wigner $3nj$- symbols, and quantum gravity
2009
Rosemary Gillespie, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Christophe Thébaud, Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Community assembly on islands: role of random versus deterministic effects
2009
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Adrian T. Lee, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Radoslaw Stompor, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris 7
Simulations and data analysis of the initial data set of a next generation CMB B-mode polarization
experiment: PolarBeaR
2009
Alan Weinstein, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Schapira, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris VI
Categorical tools in geometry and in mathematical physics
2009
Robert Kostecki, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christian Julien, Institut des Nanosciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6
Electrochemical energy storage research advanced cathode materials for Li-ion battery systems
2009
Louise Glass, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Mathieu Paoletti, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Champignons, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
Role of the HET domain in fungal nonself recognition
2008
George Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
James g. Bartlett, Département de Physique, Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, Paris
Empowering the CMB: measuring power spectra from the Planck mission
2008
Judith P. Klinman, Departments of Chemistry & Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Mano, CRPP-UPR 8641, Pessac
A miniature membraneless biofuel cell
2008
Jere H. Lipps, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Thérèse Vénec-Peyré, Département Histoire de la Terre, Université de Paris 6, Paris
Effect of pollution on foraminifera
2008
William A. Lester, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Roland Assaf, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ivry sur Seine
Development of size-independent estimators for quantum Monte Carlo forces
2008
Kurt Cuffey, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Van Der Beek, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble, Grenoble
Relief development in the Western Alps (France, Switzerland) in response to Quaternary glaciations assessed through High-resolution
4He/3He/He thermochronology
2008
saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley
Gérard Smadja, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Villerbanne
The nearby supernova factory
2008
Robert Knight, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier Bertrand, INSERM U821, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Bron
Spatio-temporal organization of cortical oscillatory activities in human audition
2008
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Bob B. Buchanan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
J.-Ph. Reichheld, LGDP UMR CNRS-IRD-UPVD 5096, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan
The next step in the identification of thioredoxin target proteins: in vivo characterization with mutants
2008
Irfan Siddiqi, Quantum Nanoelectronics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Institut Néel, Nanosciences Department, CNRS, Grenoble
Microwave nanomagnetometry of single molecules, towards single spin measurement and control
2008
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David Feldheim, Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fanny Mann, IBDML, CNRS UMR 6216 Marseille
Monitoring the assembly and function of retinal circuits.
2007
Jeffrey R. long, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Rodolphe Clérac, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UPR CNRS 8641, Pessac
Photomagnetic metal-cyanide clusters
2007
Maria Schonbek, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dragos iftimie, Institut Camille Jordan, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne
Asymptotic behavior for the quasi-geostrophic system and the Euler equations.
2007
Maciej Zworski, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Burq, Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud, Orsay
Mathematical aspects of semiclassical approximation.
2007
Richard M. Allen, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Nikolai Shapiro, Département de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris
Seismic tremor: a new window to monitor seismic/aseismic coupling at depth and improve earthquake forecasting.
2007
Hitoshi Murayama, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Emilian Dudas, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Electroweak symmetry breaking in the LHC era
2007
El Karoui Nouredine, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Touzi Nizar & El Karoui Nicole, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Random matrix theory and mathematical finance
2007
Kristin scott, Molecular and Cell Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Frederic Marion-Poll, INRA, Physiologie de l’Insecte: Signalisation et Communication, Versailles
Diversity of bitter tastes in Drosophila.
2007
Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
iain s. Duff, CERFACS, Parallel Algorithms Project, Toulouse
scalable sparse linear equation solvers on emerging petascale computers.
2007
Warren Pickett, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis
Mébarek Alouani, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
charge mismatch and magnetism at interfaces.
2007
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Ali Belkacem, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hamed Merdji, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Centre d’Etude de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette
Development of high intensity high harmonic system for studies of non-linear X-Ray optics
2007
Qing-Zhu Yin, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis
Philippe Gillet, Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Davis-Lyon joint investigation of non-traditional stable isotope systematics in the early solar system
materials
2007
Alison M. Berry, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Philippe Normand, CNRS-UMR 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne
Global computational approaches to discovery of microbial gene function and evolution: phylogenomic comparison of two plantassociated Actinobacteria, the thermotolerant biomass-degrader Acidothermus, and the symbiotic nitrogen-fixer Frankia
2007
Rebecca Heald, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Andreas Merdes, CNRS Toulouse
In vitro approaches to study muscle morphogenesis
2006
James R. Graham, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Garpard Duchêne, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Grenoble
Studying the properties of protoplanetary disks across wide ranges of stellar ages and masses
2006
Andrew Chisholm, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jonathan Ewbank, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille
A kinase linking autophagy and innate immunity in C. elegans
2006
Neil Hunter, Center for Genetics and Development, Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis
Bernard De Massy, Institut de Génétique Humaine, UPR1142/CNRS, Montpellier
The crossing-over pathway during meiosis in mouse
2005
John Bowek, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael Meyer, Laboratoire d’Interaction du Rayonnement X avec la Matière; Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, Orsay
Fundamental photoionization processes in excited isolated species
2005
Barbara A. Romanowicz, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Département de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Spectral element method implementation for regional tomography of the Earth’s upper mantle
2005
Sergey Nuzhdin, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Pierre Capy, Laboratoire Populations, Génétique et Evolution, Gif-sur-Yvette,
Genomics of incipient speciation in Drosophila melanogaster
2005
Randy Schekman, Department of Mol. and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Bruno Antonny, CNRS Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Valbonne
Architecture of the COPII coat and mechanisms of vesicle formation
2005
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Nilabh Shastri, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley
Philippe Pierre, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy UMR 6102 INSERM CNRS Marseille
Cryptic antegenic peptide processing in dendritic cells
2005
Ehud isacoff, Department Of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Serge Charpak, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, ESPCI/INSERM Paris
Manipulation and detection of olfactory functions
2005
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Robert Tjian, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier Bensaude, CNRS UMR 8541-Ecole Normale Supérieure – Régulation de L’Expression Génétique, Paris
Imaging of the eukaryotic transcription machinery in living cells
2005
Gerson Goldhaber, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Reynald Pain, LPNHE, Université Paris VI & VII
Measuring the cosmic vacuum energy
2004
A. R. Flegal, Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz
A. Veron, CEREGE, UMR6635, CNRS Université Aix-Marseille III
Coral reconstruction of rapid changes in air mass & ocean circulation in the North Atlantic within the past 200 years
2004
Bob B. Buchanan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Montrichard, UMR 1191 INH INRA Université d’Angers
Exploring the mechanism of germination in leguminous seeds
2004
Judith Klinman, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Marius Réglier, CNRS 7517, Université d’Aix-Marseille
02 Activation in metallobiochemistry: probes for the functional copper-oxygen species in the neuroactive enzymes, DbM and PHM
2004
Vittal Yachandra, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sun Un, CNRS URA 2096, CEA Saclay
Single crystal multifrequency EPR and EXAFS studies of multinuclear Mn complexes relevant to the oxygen-evolving complex in
Photosystem II
2004
Brigitta Whaley, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandra Viel, UMR 56+26 IRSAMC, Université Toulouse
Atomic and molecular probes of superfluids
2004
Richard Harland, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Anne-Hélène Monsoro-Burq, UMR146, CNRS Institut Curie, Orsay
Gene profiling in early neural crest development
2004
Anne Britt, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
Marie-Edith Chaboute, IBMP/CNRS Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg
Plant response to replication stress
2004
David H. Raulet, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Vivier, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy
The role of immune receptors in vivo
2003
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Georges F. Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
James g. Barlett, Collège de France, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie
Precision cosmology from CMB analysis
2003
Eva Harris, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Chris Mueller, INSERM-CNRS
Infection of dermal dendrocytes with clinical isolates of dengue virus
2003
Daniel S. Chemla, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Jerome Tignon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, LPMC
Condensation des polaritons de microcavité de semiconducteurs
2003
William A. Lesler, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Caffarel, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, CNRS-Université Paris VI
Quantum Monte Carlo for molecules
2003
Roland Burgmann, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Edouart Kaminski, Institut de Physique du Globe, Université Paris VII
Seismic anisotropy in the San Andreas Shear Zone
2003
Barry Sinervo, Department of ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Hochberg, CNRS-Institut des Sciences et de l’Evolution, Université de Montpellier II
Potential role of social interactions in the speciation process
2003
Kunxin Luo, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Mauviel, INSERM
Blocking of fibrosis by Smad co-repressors
2003
Peter Yu, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Adnen Mlayah, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Optical scattering from quantum dots nanostructures
2003
A. Chatterjee, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A. Chetioui, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, GPS
Biological consequences of inner-shell ionization events on DNA
2002
Eugene Commins, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Combes, LERMA, Observatoire de Paris
Supernovae and dust: following the dust from galaxy formation to cosmological parameters
2002
Kurt Cuffey, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Vimeux, CR2 Institut Recherche pour Développement, Laboratoire Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement
Improved precipitation iIotope analyses for climate change studies
2002
John Gunion, Physics Department, University of California, Davis
Ulrich Ellwanger, Theoretical Physics Laboratory, Université de Paris-Sud
Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at the Large Hadron Collider
2002
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Daniel Tataru, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Gerard, Department of Mathematics, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Nonlinear Schrödinger equations and geometry
2002
Kevan Shokat, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Sieweke, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille Luminy
Role of subnuclear localization and complex formation of transcription factors in differentiation
2002
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Richard Saykally, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claude Roth, Département d›Immunologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Investigating the physiology of natural killer cells by nonlinear chemical imaging nanomicroscopy
2001
Hei Sook Sul, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley
Axel Kahn, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, INSERM Unité 129, Paris
Regulation of fatty acid synthase promoter by AMP-dependent protein kinase
2001
Carl Pennypacker, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley and LBNL
Michel Boër, CNRS FRE 2194 Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse
Developing an internet-mediated astronomy research/teacher training program for France, U.S. and other nations
2001
Douglas Kellogg, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert Arkowitz, CNRS UMR 6543, Centre de Biochimie, Université de Nice
G-protein regulation of growth location
2001
Deborah Delmer, Section of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
Herman Höfte, Laboratoire de Biologie, INRA, Versailles
The use of Arabidopsis mutants to trace the path of carbon into cellulose in plants
2001
David Deamer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marie-Christine Maurel, Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris VI
Oligomerization of thioglumatic acid in membrane defined microenvironments
2001
Imke de Pater, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Renée Prangé, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université de Paris XI
Monitoring and study of Io’s volcanic activity
2001
Jeffrey long, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Batail, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes
Synthesis and magnetic properties of Re6-nOsnSe8(n=1-3) cluster-organic radical salts
2001
Jesús De Loera, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
András Sebö, CNRS Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble
Computer algebra methods in graph theory and optimization
2001
George Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
James Bartlett, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse
Precision Cosmology from CMB data processing and analysis techniques
2000
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Qiang Zhou, Department. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Olivier Bensaude, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Functional analysis of RNA-binding activity of the human positive transcription elongation factor, P-TEFb
2000
Edward Berry, Physical Biosciences Division, LBNL
Jean-Luc Popot, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris
Crystallization of cytochrome bc 1/amphipol complexes
2000
Carlos Bustamante, Departments of Physics & Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Malcolm Buckle, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris
RNA polymerase translocation: a comparative study using rapid footprinting, surface plasmon resonance and single molecule methodologies
2000
Gerson Goldhaber, Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reynald Pain, Universités de Paris VI et VII
Measurement of the cosmological parameters using Type 1a Supernovae
1999
Mike Levine, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Christian sardet, UMR 643 CNRS, Station Zoologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Searching for muscle determinants in a simple chordate embryo
1999
Krishna K. Niyogi, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Havaux, Département d’Ecophysiologie Végétale & Microbiologie, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique/Cadarache
Role of the xanthophylls in the protection of plants from photo-oxidative damage
1999
Hendrik Lenstra, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Leila Schneps, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Galois theory
1998
tito serafini, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Chédotal, INSERM Unité 106, Paris
Neuronal target recognition and synaptogenesis in the mammalian brain
1999
Maciej Zworski, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Klopp, Institut Galilée, Université Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse
Spectral and scattering theory
1999
Mark Strovink, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Gregorio Bernardi, LPNHE, Universités de Paris VI et VII
Search for supersymmetric decays of the top quark
1998
David Robin, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jasques Laskar, Astronomie et Systèmes Dynamiques, Bureau des Longitudes, CNRS, Paris
Application of frequency map analysis to the Advanced Light Source
1998
Daniel Neumark, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Benoit Soep, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Time-resolved studies of transition state dynamics
1998
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Xiaoye Sherry Li, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
iain Duff, Parallel Algorithms Project, CERFACS, Toulouse
Hybrid ordering algorithms for sparse direct and iterative solvers
1998
Mina J. Bissell, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Edmond Puvion, Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer, Villejuif
Regulation of gene expression by nuclear architectural organization: an ultrastructural analysis combining
a unique 3-dimensional cell culture system with novel electron microscope techniques
1997
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Thomas Broadhurst, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
James Bartlett, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université Louis Pasteur
Large-scale structure and galaxy formation
1997
William Danchi, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Gay, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice
High angular resolution and mass loss of evolved stars
1997
Ralph Freeman, School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley
Yves Fregnac, Institut Alfred Fessard, Gif-sur-Yvette
An integrative regulation of functional connectivity in the developing & adult visual cortex
1997
Melvin Klein, Structural Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Jacques Girerd, Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
XAS (Xanes and EXAFS) studies coupled to electro-chemistry of chemical models of the catalyticsite of the oxygen evolving center PSII
1997
saul Perlmutter, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reynald Pain, LPNHE, Universités Paris VI & VII
Measurement of the cosmological parameters Using Type Ia Supernova
1997
Richard Saykally, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Claude leforestier, Laboratoire Structure et Dynamique des Systèmes Moléculaires et Solides, Université Montpellier II
The dynamics of a nucleotide base hydration
1997
John Canny, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Christian laugier, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Grenoble
Dynamic simulation for TeleRobotics and medical applications
1996
Forrest S. Mozer, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Raymond Pottelette, Centre d’Etudes des Environnements Terrestres et Planétaires, Saint-Maur-des-Fosses
Study of acceleration and radiation processes in geospace plasmas
1996
Hans georg Ritter, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Barbara Erazmus, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associées, Nantes
Development of tracking methods for high-energy experiments
1996
Marie-Agnès Deleplanque-Stephens, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gilles de France, Centre de Recherches Nucléaires, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Study of rotating atomic nucleus
1996
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Exact
Sciences
Walter Alvarez, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Beaudoin, CGES Sédimentologie, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Environmental consequences of the cretaceous-tertiary boundary event.
1995
Gérard Debreu, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Cornet, CERSEM, Université de Paris I
Mathematical economics
1995
Hiroshi Nikaido, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Patrice Courvalin, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Role of multi-drug efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance of gram-positive bacteria
1995
John Rhodes, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Eric Pin, LITP/IBP, Université de Paris VII
Semigroups, groups, automata and formal languages
1995
Richard Saykally, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Claude leforestier, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorétique, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Determination of the intermolecular pair potential for water—the universal biological solvent
1995
Eugene D. Commins, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Anne Bouchiat, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS, Paris
Violation de la parité dans les atomes: étude de l’interaction électrofaible électron-noyau par des méthodes optiques
1994
Andrew Lange, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
François R. Bouchet, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Paris
Observations and predictions of the cosmological background anisotrophies
1994
Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
gerard Martinez, Physique, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Electron correlation effects in condensed matter system as the newly discovered fullerene-based materials
1994
Kenneth Ribet, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Eva Bayer Fluckiger, Laboratoire de Mathématique, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Théorie des nombres
1994
Charles H. Townes, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean Lefèvre, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice
Etude de la perte de masse des étoiles évoluées
1994
176
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Susan J. Muller, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Thibaut Divoux, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS - UPR 8641)
Testing a generalized stability criterion for viscoelastic flows
2013
Engineering
John Harvey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
Agnès Jullien, IFFSTAR
Comparison of use phase methodology and recycling approach for pavement life cycle assessment
2013
Sanjay Kumar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Manuel Thery, Institut de Recherche en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, CEA, Grenoble
Engineering and dissecting the micro-architecture of actomyosin stress fibers
2012
Alexandre Bayen, Center for Information Technology and Research in the Interest of Society, UC Berkeley
Paola goatin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis—Méditerranée
Optimal traffic flow management with GPS enabled smartphones
2012
Jitendra Malik, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Zaid Harchaoui & Cordelia Schmid, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, LEAR, INRIA Grenoble
Large-scale learning for image and video interpretation
2012
Steven Conolly, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Maître, Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
Aerosol deposition in the airways with phase-imaging tools for inhaled drug delivery
2012
Vern Paxson, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Renata CruzTeixeira, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6
Understanding user perspectives of internet performance
2012
Marios Panagiotou, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Stéphane Grange, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
High performance modeling of seismic soil foundation structure interaction in tall buildings
2011
Nicolas Barrière, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Bastie, LSP, Saint-Martin-d’Hères
High-quality heavy metal crystals study for the realization of an astronomical gamma-ray telescope
2011
Paulo J. M. Monteiro & Roy W. Carlson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Levitz, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Characterization of the nanostructure of calcium silicate hydrates
2010
Bozidar Stojadinovic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Department of Civil Engineering, Cachan
Multi-scale hybrid modeling of failure mechanisms in civil structures under extreme-event loads.
2010
Esmond G. Ng, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Luc Giraud, INRIA-Bordeaux Sud Ouest, Toulouse
Scalable hybrid solvers for large sparse linear systems of equations on petascale computing architectures
2010
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Engineering
James F. O’Brien, EECS, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Paule Cani, INRIA, Grenoble Institute of Technology
Real-time simulation methods for interactive surgical simulation and planning
2010
Steven Glaser, Department of Civil and Environmental, Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Térence Bayen, Center of Mathematics, Université de Montpellier 2
Modeling absolute displacements of the human body to quantify diagnoses neuropathology
2010
Sharmila Majumdar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Roland Chapurlat, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Lyon
Standardization and cross calibration of distal radius and distal tibia bone quality using high resolution peripheral computed tomography
scanners.
2009
Philip Marcus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Patrice Le Gal, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, Université de Provence, Marseille
numerical simulations versus experiments on inertial-gravity waves.
2008
Philip Filippou, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jacky Mazars, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble
High performance modeling of 3D soil-structure interaction under earthquake excitation
2008
Edgar Knobloch, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Bergeon, IMFT, UMR CNRS 5502, Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse
Localized structures in driven dissipative flows
2008
Karlene Roberts, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Erik Hollnagel, Ecole National Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis
Research in catastrophic risk management—finally, the twain shall meet
2008
Michael Jordan, Computer Science Division and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Francis Bach & Jean-Philippe Vert, Centre Morphologie Mathématique, Bioinformatique, Ecole des Mines, Paris
Inference and learning in dynamic graphical models, with applications to speech and bio-informatics.
2007
Alexandre Bayen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Litrico, CEMAGREF - UMR G-Eau, Montpellier
Modeling and data assimilation of semi-automated water distribution canal networks.
2007
Martin Banks, Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Mamassian, Institut de Psychologie, Université de Paris 5, Boulogne-Billancourt
Time course of adjustment in picture viewing
2006
Roberto Horowitz, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, Laboratoire D’Automatique de Grenoble, St Martin d’Hères
Towards coordinated and traffic responsive ramp metering strategies.
2005
Costas Grigoropoulos, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Jacques greffet, Laboratoire EM2C, Ecole Centrale, Chatenay-Malabry
Nanoscale heat transfer
2005
178
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Rachel A Segalman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Cyril Brochon, Département de Polymères, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Strasbourg
Nanopatterning and electrical properties of insulated molecular wires
2005
Engineering
Paulo J. M. Monteiro, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. University of California,
Berkeley
Olivier P. Coussy, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées ENPC, Cité Descartes, Marne-la-Vallée
Minimization of the stresses generated by ice formation in concrete
2005
Nitash P. Balsara, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Marques UMR CNRS-ULP 7506, Institut de Physique Strasbourg
Self-assembly of monodisperse vesicles: answering the challenge by block copolymer design
2004
Tonya Kuhl, Department Of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Philippe Richetti, CNRS, centre de recherche Blaise Pascal, Université Bordeaux
Static and dynamic properties of self-assembled surfactant layers and associative polymers
2004
James Casey, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Gerard Maugin, Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique, Paris VII
Application of modern concepts of nonlinear continuum mechanics to some problems of biomechanics
2003
Sam Krucker, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Karl-Ludwig Klein, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon
New coordinated investigation of accelerated particles at the sun and in the Interplanetary Medium
2003
Filip Filippou, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jacky Mazars, Laboratoires Sols, Solides, Structures, Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble
High performance modeling of shear failure of concrete columns under earthquake excitations
2003
Sengupta Raja, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Stavros Tripakis, Verimag-CNRS
Service networks—intelligent middleware for distributed applications
2003
Ali Shakouri, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Stefan Dilhaire, CPMOH-Université Bordeaux 1
Caractérisation optique micro-réfrigérateurs par des techniques interférométriques & réflectométriques femtosecnodes
2003
Louise Glass, Plant and Microbial Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Corrine Clavé, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Champignons
Comparative analysis of the programmed cell death reaction triggered by nonself recognition genes in two model fungal species
2002
Edward Keller, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
laurent goffard, CNRS
Distributed neural control of visual saccades
2002
Pravin Varaiya, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Diaz, Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes-CNRS, Toulouse
End to end transport protocols for the new generation internet
2001
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Engineering
Tonya Kuhl, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of California, Davis
Carlos Marques, LDFC-Institut de Physique, Université de Strasbourg
Binding dynamics of tethered ligand-receptor interactions
2001
Kevin Healy, Bioengineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Véronique Migonney, Institut Galilée, Université de Paris XIII, Villetaneuse
Peptide-modified heparin-like copolymers as biomimetic coatings for orthopaedic implants: synthesis,
surface characterization, and biological response
2001
Alexandra Navrotsky, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis
Roger Marchand, Laboratoire «Verres et Céramiques,» Université de Rennes I
Thermochemistry of a new class of inorganic nitrogen-containing materials
2001
Stanley Berger, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Francis Cassot, INSERM, Toulouse
Numerical and experimental simulations of cerebral blood flow for/and magnetic resonance imaging (MRA and fMRI)
2000
Deborah Hopkins, Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joëlle Riss, CDGA, Université de Bordeaux I
Micromechanics of natural rock fractures under shear stress
2000
Shankar Sastry, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Christian laugier, Projet SHARP, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot Saint-Martin
High-fidelity computer simulations of medical procedures
1999
Jonathan Shewchuk, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Daumas, Laboratoire de l’Informatique du Parallélisme, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Floating-point multiple precision arithmetic for adaptive computation and elementary functions
1999
Alistair Sinclair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Kenyon, LRI, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Phase transitions and computational complexity
1998
Robert Brayton, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Dominique Borrione, Laboratoire TIMA, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Multi-standard verification environment for digital systems design
1997
180
France-Berkeley Fund
Sophia B. Villas-Boas, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Chambolle, INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Ivry sur Seine
The impact of retail mergers on food prices: evidence from France
2013
Déborah Blocker, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Piéjus, Institut de Recherches sur le patrimoine musical en France
New tools and stakes for the study of language and culture in early modern French periodicals: the case of
the Mercure Galant
2013
Humanities
& Social
Sciences
Nicholas Paige, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Peureux, Paris 10-Nanterre
The “I” before “the Self”: Non-modern uses of the first person in Renaissance and Classical France
2013
Elizabeth Moxon, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claus Habfast, European Synchrotron Research Facility
An international comparative study of best practices in providing high school student access to synchrotrons to conduct outreach experiments
2013
Jason Corburn, School of Public Health and Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Gérard Salem, Université Paris Ouest, UFR SSA
Global urban health: Collaborative research for a new science of the city
2013
Suzanne Guerlac, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Pierre Montier, Département de Lettres, Université Rennes 2
Towards a coherently structured development of photoliterary research
2013
Winfried Kudszus, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Trim, Faculté des Arts, Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, Aix-Marseille Université
Metaphor in the political debate of austerity programs
2013
Susan G. Miller, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Jocelyne Dakhlia, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques
Networking for independence: The Moroccan nationalist movement’s global campaign against French colonialism
2013
Patricia Baquedano-López, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Pedro Jose Garcia-Sanchez, Département de Sociologie, Université Paris Ouest
Social and political tools of urban cosmopolitanism: The challenge of otherness in distributed cognition and interactivity
2013
Beverly Crawford, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Rolland, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université de Strasbourg
Civil society formation in political transitions: the evolution of culture and identity in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Maghreb/
Machrek 1980-2011
2012
Véronique Munoz-Darde, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Lue Foisneau, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
A Theory of Justice 40 years on
2012
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Humanities
& Social
Sciences
Stephanie Lee Mudge, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Antoine Vauchez, CNRS: Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de l’Université, Université Paris 1
When theory matters: law, economics, and the scholarly production of “Europe”, 1990-2010.
2012
Carla Shapreau, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Florence Gétreau, Institut de recherche sur le Patrimoine Musical
The loss of French musical property during World War II, post-war repatriations, restitutions, and 21st
century ramifications
2011
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Denis Knoepfler, Collège de France, Paris
The epigraphy and history of Boeotia: new finds, new developments
2011
Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Roberto galbiati, Département d’Economie, Sciences Po Paris
The emergence of the economic criminologist
2011
Jack Citrin, Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Frédérick Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8
Urban Frontier in the age of globalization: a comparative study of France and California
2011
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Lafont, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
The Artifice of color: representation of Blacks in the French visual arts from the Black Code (1682) to the recognition of the Republic of
Haiti(1825)
2011
Lawrence Rosenthal, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Darras, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse
Anger in politics: understanding the emergence of the Tea Party Movement
2011
Keith Johnson, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Elsa Spinelli, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble 2
Variability and lexical representations
2010
Nancy Lee Peluso, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Gabrielle Bouleau, Cemagref, UMR G-EAU, Montpellier
Risk societies and governance in Mediterranean Climate deltas flood-prone waterscapes
2010
Charles Altieri, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Isabelle Alfandary and Axel Nesme, Département d’Etudes du Monde Anglophone, Université Lumière-Lyon 2
Transatlantic transactions: French theory and twentieth century American poetry
2009
Margaret Conkey, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Sébastein Lacombe, Université de Toulouse-le Mirail, Toulouse
Open air paleolithic occupations on the north slope of the Central Pyrénées: inventory and analysis of a rare and significant collection of
prehistoric artifacts
2009
182
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Ronnie Lipschutz, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Béatrice Hibou, Centre d’études et de recherche internationales, Sciences Po, Paris
The public-private hybridization of the 21st century state
2009
sofia Berto Villas-Boas, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Céline Bonnet and Pierre Dubois, GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse
Non linear wholesale pricing and retail pass-through: evidence from counterfactual experiments
2009
Humanities
& Social
Sciences
AnnaLee Saxenian, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Hervé Dumez, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Making a mark: French trademarking practice and its long-term influence
2009
William J. Jagust, Public Health and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michel Isingrini, Université François Rabelais, Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition, Tours
Brain basis of metamemory in aging
2008
Niek Veldhuis, Department of Near Eastern studies, University of California, Berkeley
Francis Joannès, Département d’Histoire, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
Hellenistic Babylonia: texts, iconography & names
2008
Stefano Varesse, Department of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Philippe Descola, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France, Paris
All our relatives: indigenous cosmocentric epistemologies in dialogue
2008
Larry Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marie Hombert, Dynamique du Langage, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon
Towards a re-evaluation of the history of the peopling and languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
2008
Ravi Rajan, Deborah Letourneau, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Christophe Bonneuil, Centre Koyré d’Histoire des Sciences et des techniques-MNHN CP 25, Paris
Mobilizing science for public policy on ecological risks of genetically engineered organisims
2008
Christine Hastorf, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Touchais, Département d’Archéologie et Histoire de l’Art, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
Food archaeology in Argolid (Greece): cross-correlation between isotopic analysis and macroscopic observation of the dental remains
2008
Brian A. Catlos, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Damien Coulon, UFR des Sciences Historiques, Université Marc-Bloch, Strasbourg
Inter-confessional relations and trade in the medieval Mediterranean
2007
Bruce E. Cain, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Frédérick Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université de Paris 8, Saint Denis
Immigration, segregation and urban tension in France and California.
2007
Ann Banfield, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Philippe, Université Stendhal, Grenoble
Linguistics and the language arts: developing new research programs
2007
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Humanities
& Social
Sciences
Richard Kern, French Department, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Develotte, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon
Rethinking language teaching in the digital age: French and American perspectives on technology and
pedagogy
2007
Barry Eichengreen, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Flandreau, Department of Economics, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
International currencies in theory and history
2006
Wen-hsin Yeh, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Henriot, Institut d’Asie Orientale (UMR5062), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Visual documents in the study of modern China
2005
Charles J. Fillmore, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Romary, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et Applications, Université Nancy 2,Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Putting semantics into the trees: Towards a French FrameNet
2005
Dan I. Slobin, Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Maarten Lemmens, Université Lille 3, U.F.R. Angellier, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Experimental investigations into language typology
2005
Jonathan Beecher, History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jean-Claude Zancarini, ENS Lettres & Sciences Humaines, Lyon
The reception of social theories in the 19th century in France and the United States
2005
Beshara Doumani, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM-MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
Who controlled the Ottoman legal system? Professions and power configurations in the Imperial and Provincial Courts (18th-20th
centuries.)
2005
Robert Knapp, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Jolivet, Ecole Française de Rome, CNRS Rome
Etruscan Sarcophagi from Musarna in the Berkeley Museum
2004
Dominic Massaro, Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz
Yves Laprie, LORIA CNRS UMR 7503, 54600 Villers-les-Nancy
Improving the labial coarticulation in talking heads
2004
Claire Kramsch, German Department, University of California, Berkeley
Genevieve Zarate, Institut National des langues et Civilisations Orientales
Language, culture, identtity in secondary/foreign language learning and teaching: an interdisciplinary workshop
2003
Patrick V. Kirch, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Louis Rallu, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques Paris
Long term demographic evolution in French Polynesia: an interdisciplinary approach
2003
184
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Agnes Gellen, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Elise Domenach, Department of Philosophy, Université de Picardie, Jules Verne
Kant’s trans-Atlantic legacy of skepticism
2002
Larry Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Gerard Phillipson, INALCO Paris, en délégation au Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
Linguistic philogenies in the Bantu domain
2002
Humanities
& Social
Sciences
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Nathalie Picard-Tortorici, THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
New approaches to fertility in West Africa
2002
Tyler Stovall, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Michel Giraud, CNRS/Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
Strangers at home: Caribbean immigrants in France and in the United States
2002
Martin Wachs, Institute of Transportation Studies, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, CNRS-Paris, National Scientific Research Center
Public services and organizational innovations: A French and American perspective in the transit system
2002
Edmund Campion, Department of Music Composer in Residence, CNMAT
Francois Paris, Centre International de Recherche Musicale
CIRM/CNMAT Collaboration
2002
Ethan Ligon, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Dubois, UFR d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, INRA, Toulouse
Microeconomic theory and empirical studies of intra-household behavior in developing countries
2001
Bronwyn Hall Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Mairesse, INSEE-CREST, Malakoff
Economics, history and law of intellectual property: proposal for a Franco-American conference
2001
David Hult, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Danielle Bohler, Langue et littérature françaises du Moyen Age, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
La Culture du Livre: naissance et transformations du lecteur depuis la fin du Moyen Age jusqu’au seuil de la modernité
2001
Mark Franko, Department of Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz
Carlo Severi, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie sociale, EHESS, Collège de France
Symbolic actions: ritual, dance, theater, art.
2001
Sharon Daniel, Department of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Karen O’Rourke, UFR d’Arts Plastiques et Sciences de l’Art, Université de Paris I
Mapping the database: designing and building interdisciplinary, non-hierarchical, dynamically evolving art/information systems
2001
Wen-hsin Yeh, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Henriot, Institut d’Asie Orientale, Université Lumière Lyon II
Shanghai in images: a historical photographic database (1840-1949)
2000
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Humanities
& Social
Sciences
John Radke, Geographic Information Science Center, University of California, Berkeley
Didier Josselin, Laboratoire THEMA, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
A boundary generation system for landscape characterization
2000
David Vogel, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Jabril Bensédrine, Economie et Gestion, Université de Marne-la-Vallée
French and American Perspectives on genetically-engineered food: institutional convergence and
divergence as sources of cooperation and dispute
2000
Nicholas Paige, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Biet, Institut d’Etudes théâtrales, Université de Paris X, Nanterre
The literature of law: judicial and economic culture, 1550-1789
1999
Neil Fligstein, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Rémi Lenoir, Sociologie, Université de Paris I; CSEC-CSE/EHESS, Paris
French field theory and American New Institutionalism: building theoretical bridges
1999
Patrick V. Kirch, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Conte, Université Française du Pacifique, Tahiti
Prehistoric Polynesian voyaging and island colonization: new archaeological perspectives
1999
David Wessel, The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, University of California, Berkeley
Xavier Rodet, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris
Gestural control of musical sound synthesis
1998
Gordon Rausser, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Rio, UFR d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, INRA, Montpellier
Multilateral negotiations over water management in France and California
1998
Sharon Marcus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Karen Bowie, Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Val-de-Marne, Charenton-le-Pont
Forms of urban life in Paris, 1815-1851
1998
Andrew Barshay, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-François Sabouret, Etudes Japonaises, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
1968: Events and legacies
1998
Paula Fass, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Agnes Fine, UFR d’Historia, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail
A comparative analysis of ‘new families’ in France and the United States
1997
David Stronach, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Frantz Grenet, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Workshop on strategies for joint archaeological excavation and research in Central Asia
1997
Michael Watts, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Gilles Allaire, UFR d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan
Systems & trajectories of innovation: institutions, technology & conventions in agriculture regulation
1997
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Paolo Mancosu, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Hourya Sinaceur, Institut d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris I
Bernard Bolzano: philosophy of logic and mathematics
1997
Susanna Elm, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Rebillard, Ecole Française de Rome, Rome
Boundaries of discourse: establishing, maintaining and challenging ‘Orthodoxy’ in the history of
Christianity
1996
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Mariane C. Ferme, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Loup Amselle, Centre d’Etudes Africaines, EHESS, Paris
Imperialism and identity: remapping the cultural politics of representation
1996
Sylvia Guendelman, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Gérard Bréart, INSERM Unité 149, Paris
A world on the move: a comparative look at the birth outcomes of immigrant women in France, Belgium and the US
1996
Larry Karp, Department of Agricultural and Resource Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Thierry Paul, GREQAM-LEQAM, Université d’Aix-Marseille II, Les Milles
Government policy and labor market imperfections
1996
Margaret W. Conkey, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Valerie Andrieux, Laboratoire de Botanique Historique et Palynologie, Faculté des Sciences, Saint Jérôme Marseille
Explorations into the social geography and paleoenvironments of Late Ice Age Peoples of the French Midi-Pyrenees (Ariège / Haute
Garonne)
1995
Ervin Hafter, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Anne-Marie Bonnel, CNRS-Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives Marseille
Study of deficit in attention in the diagnostic of onset psychosis
1995
Laurent Mayali, Robbins Collection, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Durand, Institut d’Histoire du Droit, URA 966 CNRS, Université de Montpellier I
Délinquance, justice et doctrine pénale ecclésiastique
1995
Gene I. Rochlin, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Werner Ackermann, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations/CNRS, Paris
Cross-national studies of the sociology of organizations: fostering cooperation on methodological coordination and promoting
observational inter-comparisons
1995
Loic J. D. Wacquant, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Bourdieu, Sociologie, Collège de France, Paris
Actualité et Modernité de la Pensée de Marcel Mauss`
1995
Larry M. Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marie Hombert, Linguistique, Université Lumière Lyon II
Language as a key to history
1994
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Tim D. White, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Raymonde Bonnefille, Laboratoire de Géologie du Quaternaire, CNRS, Marseille
Habitat of the earliest human ancestors
1995
Yale M. Braunstein, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Mayère, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Sciences de l’Information, ENSSIB, Villeurbanne
User fees for government information in France and the United States: analysis of current policies and
practices
1994
Suzanne Scotchmer, School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Jacques-Francois Thisse, CERAS, Université de Paris I
Cumulative innovation and the patent law
1994
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