Cours et stage
Beginning of the academic year
An introductory meeting for the M1 year will be held in room 306 (information for 2025-2026 will follow).
The academic year will begin at the begining of September 2025.
Students who join the M1 year should enroll in a refresher course on mathematics (Mathematics training), at the beginning of the academic year (September, 2025).
Provisional planning 2024-2025
Courses 2024-2025
– Mathematics training (E01, no ECTS)
– Developmental Biology at the Bench (053-S16)
– Developmental biology II (034-S01)
– Cell biology II : traffic, motility, biophysics - cours Pasteur/Curie/ENS (035-S02)
– Genomes & phenotypes (036-S04)
– Evolutionary genetics (037-S05)
– Evolutionary ecology (038-S06)
– Marine Ecology and Biodiversity - PSL week (046-S17)
– Community ecology (039-S07)
– Development of the nervous system (040-S08)
– Physiology of the neuron (041/S09)
– Synaptic foundations of network function (042-S10)
– Systems neurophysiology (043-S11)
– Molecular cancer genetics - cours Pasteur/Curie/ENS 044-S14)
– Fundamental immunology - cours Pasteur/ENS (045-S15)
– Microbial populations (047-T102)
– Evolution (048-T103)
– Mathematics II : what a biologist might like to know (050-T105)
– Epigenetics (051-T108)
– Data analysis (052-T109, 3 ECTS)
Tranversal skills :
– Soft skills : what young scientists need to know
– NEW Open desk for coding skills
Majors and study program
Semester 1 (S1, 30 ECTS, September to January) :
For completion of the first semester, lecture courses totalling 30 ECTS are to be chosen in the list above. Courses are organized by major fields, but students can also combine them in a more personal fashion in line with their scientific interests. Specific combinations of coursework can be suggested by faculty, for instance to best prepare for Master 2 curricula, or to better fit the student’s individual objectives. In any case, the selection of courses will need to be agreed by the tutor or a teaching staff member at the beginning of the year.
Additionally, M1 students must take one 6-ECTS English course from ECLA. This course is usually taken during the first semester.
Additional courses may be taken on top of the required 30 ECTS. The curriculum can also include courses in physics, mathematics and other fields, to build transdisciplinary training profiles.
Internship
Semester 2 (S2, 30 ECTS, February to end of June) :
Students enroll in a 4 to 5-month research internship in France or abroad.
Alternatively, they can enroll in a 3-month internship (in France only), to be completed by taking courses amounting to six ECTS.
To validate their internship, students submit a written report and defend their results in front of a jury end of June or end of August/begining of September.