The French Neuroscience Society thanks the following Labex (laboratories of excellence) for their support:

	Bio-Psy brings together psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and geneticists who aim to contribute to the elucidation of brain alterations underlying psychiatric disorders, for the benefit of patients and their relatives. Bio-Psy has four main objectives: To understand the causes and mechanisms of mental illnesses; to identify biomarkers for prevention, early diagnosis, and follow-up; to propose new therapeutic approaches for a personalized psychiatry; to evaluate the economic costs/benefits and the societal implications of progress in research. Research is organized around 5 scientific axes: brain development, neurotransmission and signaling, brain circuits plasticity, gene-environment interactions, and mental health and society. Bio-Psy also aims to facilitate the emergence of a new generation of psychiatrists trained in neuroscience.
	To understand the way that language functions and to model it by bringing together experts in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, medicine and computer science, such is the project of BLRI. The objective is to create a generic model of the processing of language and its cerebral bases. In this way BLRI intends to contribute to this ambitious question: to understand how human processes language, even as far as its cerebral functions. Fundamentally interdisciplinary and principally rooted in SHS, BLRI includes 6 laboratories in the region (LPL, LPC, LNC, LIF, IBD and LIA). It relies on the creation of a team of 5 engineers and technicians who guide the treatment of the data acquired within the partner platforms. It also welcomes numerous foreign colleagues for research visits. Finally, BLRI supports education by offering doctoral fellowships and by putting in place new forms of training.
	Neuroscience research in Bordeaux has become over the last 10 years one of the most productive and attractive neuroscience community across France and Europe, with 46 research groups organized in institutes and research units affiliated to the CNRS, the INSERM and the INRA. Laboratories are particularly successful in fields such as synapses, plasticity, addiction, cognition and memory, Alzheimer’s disease, movement physiology and disorders, cellular and medical-imaging, neuro-inflammation, neurophotonics, nutrition and the brain... Scientists, from basic to clinical research, benefit from dozen of facilities, ambitious training programs and conference series for the local and world- wide neuroscience research community. Unprecedented investments by the University of Bordeaux, the Regional Government and the State reflect the fast growing recognition of our Neuroscience community. The Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine has invested in a large site program, Neurocampus, to build (and expand) 3 leading Research Institutes committed to recruit, host and coordinate selected teams of excellence. In 2011, the French "Excellence Initiative" granted Bordeaux with a large Center of Excellence grant, BRAIN, and two nation-wide facilities, Optopath and Phenovirt which add to the highly recognized Bordeaux Imaging Centre (BIC).
	CORTEX is a rare and combined multidisciplinary effort to understand the Cortex and human cognition, based on systems level studies of networks and interactions at multiple scales, from neurons to individuals. Understanding cognition and its biological roots, but also its pathologies requires a comprehension of cortical genesis, its structure, and its physiology. CORTEX pushes this integrative approach, which allows tapping into the resources of our Cortex for rehabilitation; the design of new and successful therapeutic procedures. One further perspective will be to pave the way, via reverse engineering of the Cortex, to the emerging field of bio-inspired technologies.
	LabEx ICST is a national network dedicated to the study of ion transports, to validate new therapeutic targets for the development of drugs against pain, epilepsy, cancer or kidney diseases. This unique structure relies on experts with extensive experience in ion channel study and discovery. LabEx ICST constitutes one of the most visible consortiums at the European level, and has for ambition to become a world-class group leading innovative researches at the interface between medicine and biology.
	The "Laboratory of Excellence" (Labex) project called "Innovative Radiopharmaceuticals in Oncology and Neurology" (IRON) aims to develop innovative radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging in neurology and oncology and radionuclide molecular therapy in oncology. These radiopharmaceuticals will participate in the development of personalized medicine, to guide patients to appropriate targeted therapies or to treat tumor refractory to conventional treatments. The scientific project is organized in 3 Work Packages (WP1: Functional imaging of neurological diseases; WP2: Functional and phenotype imaging in neurology and oncology; WP3: Nano-medicine and radionuclide therapy). IRON also includes ambitious higher educational and training program, and technology transfer strategy. Winner of the second wave of the large program financed by the French government called “Investissements d’Avenir”, IRON is a national consortium supported by Nantes associated with 7 other cities: Angers, Caen, Orléans, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Tours. It brings together teams with complementary skills from innovative radionuclide production to clinical research.
	MemoLife concern all the teams of the Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie-College de France (CIRB) and the 2 teams of the Neurobiology Unit of the Ecole Supérieure de Physique Chimie Industrielle (ESPCI).  MemoLife develop the idea that the concept of memory can be declined at all levels and deal with all aspects related to the integrated concept of memory in living systems, from the molecule to the most evolved structure such as the brain. The objective is to develop the interactions between scientists from all biological domains and to foster, in house, multiple interactions with mathematicians, chemists and physicists with a strong interest for biological processes. The scientific axes are: Genome structures, organization and evolution Receptors and synapses Neuronal and glial network dynamics Genes and behaviors in model systems Cell biology Development, plasticity and regeneration Genetics, pharmacology and physiology Training objectives are to: Train master and PhD students in interdisciplinary approaches Reinforce the academic curricula for engineers, to provide young scientists with a culture of the corporate world, and to develop the scientific background of selected MD/PhD. Facilitate double curricula at the master (and bachelor) levels Organize summer schools and other advanced courses in Systems biology, Cellular and sub cellular imaging, Genomics and Regulatory Networks, Optogenetics, Epigenetic, Computational biology, Set up a common international doctoral program, in collaboration with accredited ED. Attract researchers by setting up new chair and give four years financial support to PhD students. In conclusion, this project involves teams with diverse interests and scientific cultures. Indeed, MemoLife takes its originality and strength in this diversity.