Newsletter

• Administration Travel (mission orders, reservations for transport and accommodation tickets, reimbursements) will be fully processed through the Notilus portal from June 10. Two cumulative conditions: (1) having agreed to transmit their personal data to the platform, (2) having an AMU agent number. More information from your team manager.

• Ecological transition On May 16, you will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop “My Earth in 180 minutes” during a massive session organized at the ICR on the St-Jérôme site. Parallel workshops will be organized in the morning and afternoon, book your half-day now for a friendly moment with colleagues via this survey!

• Training National CNRS formation: writing projects for candidates to ERC Starting 2025 grants, July 2 and 3 afternoon. Film and edit a video for the staff having a smartphone, June 10-12. Inscription deadline: April 16.

• Did you know The ICR council is now made up of 15 members (the list is available on the intranet, “note de service n°1”). Do not hesitate to contact them for any questions relating to the organization and life of the research unit.

As announced during the December 2023 general assembly, the ICR has acquired licenses for the FindMolecule database management software. This acquisition is meant not only to improve our working conditions but also to limit our expenses relating to the purchase of chemical products. This chemical management software allows for efficient referencing of the chemicals present in each team as well as the ability to search for a compound in databases across the ICR, if necessary. Adding a new product to the database is quick and easy

thanks to entering the CAS number, from which FindMolecule is able to associate the correct structure, as well as prevention and safety data or even certain physico-chemical properties. The software can generate a barcode and label for each bottle, location, or user. So, using a scanner or a smartphone, it is very easy to update the inventory. The search for compounds by their structure is also very valuable. The inventories of the CROPS, SREP, CMO, and PCR teams can already be consulted, and those of the other teams are being imported. An “ICR_read-only” profile is available to everyone so that they can consult the different databases. Usernames and passwords are available from the FindMolecule administrators of each team, do not hesitate to contact your team leader for more information! To help you get started with this software, video tutorials as well as links to online documentation are available on the intranet (“Prevention & Sécurité → 10 Find Molecule” folder). If you have any questions, contact me.

Marion Rollet, project engineer, CROPS team, ICR prevention assistant.

• Giulia Mollica (SACS) is a Science taille XX elles ambassador! Overview of the scientific culture initiatives in AMU: the ICR was present in Souk des sciences, Nuit des chercheurs, and during the “digital clean-up day.” Amidex roadmap 4.0: training-research connection; training, attractiveness, and student life; research & development, innovation, and societal impact; transformation, structuring, support. Webinar: introduction to the CNRS laboratory e-notebook, May 27, 14:00: mandatory registration.

• Newsletter of the CNRS Chimie Europe division, April 2024. Webinar MCSA Doctoral Networks 2024: methodology for setting up an MCSA DN project, June 11. Aix-Marseille ERC Club – le CERCle: information session on the 26th of April, from 9:30 to 12:00 (mandatory registration); training in project writing on the 3rd of June, in the “Mission Europe pour la Recherche” building from 9:00 to 17:00 (contacts: AMU or CNRS). New scientific monitoring tool for ANR Generic Call Projects (AAPG): OASIS.