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October 15th, 2021 – German Sumbre (ENS, Paris) – Principles of functional circuit connectivity: Insights from the zebrafish optic tectum
Spontaneous neuronal activity in sensory brain regions is spatiotemporally structured, suggesting that this ongoing activity may have a functional role. Nevertheless, the neuronal interactions underlying these spontaneous activity patterns, and their biological relevance, remain elusive. We addressed these questions using… Continue reading
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October 8th, 2021 – Laurent Venance (Collège de France, Paris) – Striatal synaptic plasticity and procedural learning
Our main interest is how neural networks of the brain support its cognitive capacities. We are focusing on the procedural learning, i.e. the acquisition of skills through repeated performance and practice of a behavior in response to external cues. Cortex/thamus-basal… Continue reading
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October 1st, 2021 – Alberto Bacci (ICM, Paris) – Connectivity and plasticity of neocortical basket cells
In the neocortex, perisomatic inhibition onto principal pyramidal neurons (PNs) determines the dynamic range of pyramidal neuron responses during sensory processing and drive several forms of network oscillations, believed to be the network correlate of several cognitive functions. The inhibitory… Continue reading
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September 24, 2021 – Séverine Boillée (ICM, Paris) – Modifying macrophages at the periphery has the capacity to modify microglial reactivity and to extend ALS mouse survival
Microglia, the macrophage of the CNS and peripheral macrophages, combined, have been implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease, but without discriminating their respective roles. Since we have shown that microglial cells participated to… Continue reading
events, INC Meetings
Brain Awareness Week – March 15-21, 2021
Nicolas Marie organizes three events with the INC researchers for the Brain Awareness Week:
Visit of the Sensorimotricity facility (Danping Wang and Pierre-Paul Vidal). Campus Saint-Germain des Prés, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris. Wednesday March 17 at 10:30 a.m.… Continue reading
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November 6, 2020 – Stéphane Dieudonné (ENS, Paris) – A sequential strategy for multi photon actuation and recording of membrane voltage in awake animals
Technologies for recording and manipulating neuronal membrane potential in vivo in defined neuronal populations with high fidelity will be essential to understand how information is represented, processed, and propagated in the brain. Genetically encoded voltage indicators and optogenetic actuators are… Continue reading
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November 5, 2020 – INC DAY 2020 – The Embodied Brain
This year the INC DAY will focus on various aspects of the inter-relationship between brain and body: from nutrition and hormones to embodied cognition. Catherine Tallon-Baudry (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) will give the keynote lecture on the topic Viscerally conscious,… Continue reading
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October 16, 2020 – Philippe Faure (IBPS, Paris) – Exploratory behavior, individual trait and nicotine addiction: the role of dopamine
Consistent individual differences in behaviours represent an ubiquitous feature in animal populations. These behavioural differences among individuals define personality and have been linked to the susceptibility to addiction. Indeed, the susceptibility to develop drug addiction differs substantially between individuals and some traits that characterize an individual,… Continue reading
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October 9, 2020 – Gregory Gauvain (Institut de la Vision, Paris) – Optogenetics for vision restoration: toward clinical trials
Using vector and genetic constructs most suitable for vision restoration in patients with retinopathies, we have demonstrated temporal resolution compatible with highly dynamic visual scenes and a visual acuity above legal blindness.
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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