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w 4 | In the News cnrsI InternatIonal magazIne CNRS,Leading Publisher Worldwide... W his year, CNrS moved back from second to first place in thet Scimago ranking.this system, created by Spanish and Portuguese researchers, records the number of publications by research institutions between 2006 and 2010.the Chinese andrussian academies of Sciences ranked second and third, respectively. FurthErINFOrmatION. > www.scimagoir.com … in theTop 100 for Innovation... l EPOH © ESO/G.Hüd W s in 2011, CNrS is among the world’s 100 most innovativea ESOturns 50 Paranal (chile). applications, their success rate, and the international scope ofeuters last December.rhomsonthe list is based on several criteria including the number of patentInnovators list published byt) atltargelerial view of theop 100 Globaltcompanies and organizations according to the 2012’s Veryaelescope (Vqesot W he European Southern Observatory (ESO) patent portfolios. France ranked third worldwide, with a totalt celebrated its 50th anniversary last October. of 13 companies and public institutions. Supported by 15 member states, the organization FurthErINFOrmatION. gives the scientific community access to top-level > http://top100innovators.com astronomical resources such as the Very Large telescope (VLt), thealma observatory, or the future is one of the ESO’s founding countries and the … and 1st Recipient). Francetelescope (EELt European Extremely Large second-largest contributor after Germany. ofERC Grants Earth Sciences Summit W again this year, CNrS is the main European research organization to host ErC grant laureates, ahead of Britain’suniversity of W Cambridge and Germany’smax Planck Society, which rank second On November 29, 2012, government representatives from 13 European countriesmet and third respectively. Since the ErC program was created in 2007, at CNRS headquarters to endorse the concept of the 172 researchers, whether young or senior, have carried out their future European Plate Observing System (EPOS), an projects at CNrS, making the institution the first beneficiary of this infrastructure dedicated to the Earth sciences. The research program. objective is to give researchers easy access to data from numerous observation systems (seismological networks, volcano observatories, etc.), digital simulations, and cnrs makes the headlines i experimental analytical systems across Europe. To do so, EPOS seeks to integrate data from facilities that are both Root Growth geographically and thematically distant into a single European-wide resource. The French contribution, W he emergence of lateral roots in the plantArabidopsist overseen by CNRS’s INSU,1 involves numerous thaliana is regulated by aquaporins, the membrane infrastructures, notably Resif, the French seismological channel proteins that facilitate water movements within and geodesic network. The EPOS preparation phase 1 this result, obtained by an ROUPcell membranes. should be completed by 2014. G international team associating French researchers from ISHING 01. Institut national des sciences de l’univers. CNrS and Inra,2 to labs from Germany, Spain, and the PlUB uK, may help optimize root growth. TURE FurthErINFOrmatION. > www.mudam.lu 01. B. Péret et al.,Nat. Cell Biol., 2012. 14 : 991–8. © Na > www.michelpaysant.fr 02. Institut national de la recherche agronomique.


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