The Guyana regional final of the Ma Thèse en 180 secondes competition will take place on Thursday 29 March 2018 at 9am, building F on the Troubiran campus.
For this year's event, the University of Guyana is continuing its partnership with the CNRS and the GIS IRISTA, and is supported by the Canopée des Sciences.
The MT180S challenge
Summing up years of work in a 3-minute presentation is the challenge set by My Thesis in 180 Seconds. The doctoral students taking part will have to meet the challenge of presenting their research in 180 seconds, and not one second more.
8 candidates for 2 places
There are 9 of them for this new edition. Here is a brief profile:
Mr ALADJI Moustapha (1st year of thesis)
Subject: Economics and Management Sciences
Thesis topic: Migration, structural efficiency and balanced development in French Guiana
Mr CERDAN Axel (2nd year of thesis)
Discipline: Ecology
Thesis topic: Diversity of aquatic insects in French Guiana.
Ms CHAVY Agathe (2nd year of thesis)
Discipline: Epidemiology - Ecology
Thesis topic: New methodological tools for understanding the transmission cycle of leishmaniasis in French Guiana. Implications for understanding emergence phenomena.
Mr FRANCOIS Lechby (1st year of thesis)
Subject: Regional cultures
Thesis topic: An anthropological and social approach to forms of corporeality at the crossroads of culture and education in French Guiana: the study of the body among the aluku, one of the Bushinenge peoples of French Guiana.
Ms JAGADESH Soushieta (1st year of thesis)
Discipline: Modelling - Health
Thesis topic: Biogeography of infectious diseases in French Guiana: socio-economic and environmental factors.
Ms LAGHOE-NGUEMBE Gina-Laure (2nd year of thesis)
Discipline: Biology - Health
Thesis topic: Study of toxoplasmosis reservoirs in French Guiana.
Mr RAPINSKI Michel (2nd year of thesis)
Discipline: Ethnobotany
Thesis topic: Ethnobotany of the First Peoples of the Americas (Ilnu, Cree, Palikur): traditional medicine, diabetes and health perception.
Ms TARCY Laure (2nd year of thesis)
Discipline: Neuropsychology
Thesis topic: Spatial orientation: impact of the natural, cultural and linguistic environment on different communities in French Guiana
Ms ZAREMSKI Clara (2nd year of thesis)
Discipline: Microbial ecology
Thesis topic: Characterisation of the microbial communities used to induce the defence mechanisms of Aquilaria crassna Pierre ex Lecomte for the production of oleoresin and high quality essential oils from contaminated wood (or agarwood). Histological, metagenomic and transcriptomic approaches.
Come and cheer them on on 29 March 2018 at 09:00 at the University of Guyana!
The event is sponsored by Orange, Air Caraïbes and MGEN.
