Claude Meunier
events, seminars, videos
October 2, 2020 – Bassem Hassan (ICM, Paris) – The neuroscience of why flies are people
The genome versus experience dichotomy has dominated understanding of behavioral individuality. By contrast, the role of nonheritable noise during brain development in behavioral variation is understudied. Using Drosophila melanogaster, we demonstrate a link between stochastic variation in brain wiring and… Continue reading
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Seminar program 2020
Friday at 11:30 a.m. in Conference room R229
17/01 Martin Giurfa (Research Center, University of Toulouse, France)24/01 Naguib Mechawar (Human brain bank, McGill University, Montréal, Canada)07/02 Ruben Portugues (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany)25/09 Caroline Rouaux… Continue reading
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September 25, 2020 – Caroline Rouaux (Inserm U1118, University of Strasbourg, France) – Evaluation of the corticofugal hypothesis in ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the third most frequent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and the most frequent disease of the adult motoneuron. Clinically and histopathologically, ALS is defined as the simultaneous degeneration of corticospinal neurons (CSN) in… Continue reading
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March 6, 2020 – Peter Hagoort (MPI for Psycholinguisics Radboud University Nijmegen) – The listening and speaking brain
The infrastructure of the human brain allows us to acquire a language without formal instruction in the first years of life. I will discuss the features that make our brain language-ready. Next to the neuro-architectural features I will discuss the… Continue reading
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February 7, 2020 – Ruben Portugues – Decision making and motor control in larval zebrafish
In order to succeed in a changing environment, animals need to take into account noisy and ambiguous stimuli and select appropriate behavior. Furthermore, animals need to modify their behavior when the outcome is unsuccessful. In this talk, I will present… Continue reading
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January 24, 2020 – Naguib Mechawar – Early-life adversity and its long-term influence on cerebral oligodendrocytes and myelination
Early-life adversity can have devastating and lasting consequences on individuals, considerably increasing the lifetime risk of negative mental health outcomes such as depression and suicide. Yet, the neurobiological processes underlying this increase in vulnerability remain poorly understood. I will present… Continue reading
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January 17, 2020 – Martin Giurfa – Dissecting cognitive complexity in a miniature brain
Honeybees possess miniature brains but exhibit a sophisticated behavioral repertoire. In the last decades, bees have emerged as useful models for the study of the neural bases of simple forms of associative learning based on their capacity to learn elemental,… Continue reading
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Next Seminars in 2020!
The Neuroscience Seminar Series 2020, save your dates!
Friday at 11h30 Conference Room (R229)
17/01 Martin Giurfa (Cetre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) 24/01 Naguib Mechawar (McGill University – Canada) 07/02 Ruben Portugues (Max Plack… Continue reading
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May 17 – Dimitri Krainc – Mechanistic insights into GBA1-associated Parkinson’s disease: therapeutic implications
There is an urgent need to identify effective neuroprotective therapies for synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia (DLB). Recent emergence of genetic forms of PD has facilitated identification of potential targets for therapeutic development. One… Continue reading
grants, opportunities
Two Open Mind Masters student grants awarded in 2019
We are pleased to announce 2 grants have been awarded for 2018 to:
Rémi Baroux, whose project Recurrent dynamics and competition in basal ganglia is supervised by David Hansel (Team Cerebral Dynamics, Plasticity and Learning, UMR 8002 CNRS)Jules… Continue reading