Doctoral Research Day: June 18th

The Department council selected the 8 PhD students who will present give a talk their work on the Doctoral Research Day, on June 18th. 3 of them will receive the PhD Award Day. Some other PhD students will present a poster.

The program is being finalized. On that same day, our special guest, Marina Picciotto will give a seminar at 2pm.

With the support of the Neurocampus Graduate Program and the Casden

Programme

9:00 – Welcome coffee

9:25 – Welcoming speech by Jérôme Baufreton

9:30 – Elena Baz Badillo
Molecular encoding of climbing fiber to purkinje cell synapses through gamma protocadherins
thesis supervisor: Mathieu Letellier (IINS)

10:00 – Léa Bonamy
Role of Arkypallidal Neurons in the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
Thesis supervisor: Jérôme Baufreton (IMN)

10:30 – Cloé Lheraux
Roles of distinct parvalbumin interneurons in regulating aversive states
Thesis supervisor: Thomas Bienvenu (Magendie)

11:00 – Coffee break and poster session

11:30 – Claudia Fornari
Sex differences in posterior insular cortex function during alcohol drinking despite aversion in mice
Thesis supervisor: Céline Nicolas (INCIA)

12:00 – Anna Matsulevits
Relevance of disconnectome approaches for prognostication following ischemic cerebral infarct
Thesis supervisors: Michel Thiebaut de Schotten (IMN), Thomas Tourdias (Magendie)

12:30 – Lunch break for attendants, jury and thesis supervisors –
PhD students can share the lunch with our guest Marina Picciotto. max. 20. On registration

14:00 – Special guest (PhD seminar): Marina Picciotto
Beyond dopamine: a VTA GABA pathway that encodes unconditioned reward value

15:00 – Alena Spitsyn
Beyond social memories: hippocampal CA2 activity when navigating for rewards
Thesis supervisor: Lisa Roux (IINS)

15:30 – Coffee break and poster session

16:00 – Elba Molpeceres Sierra
Characterization of the subthalamo-cortical pathway and its involvement in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s Disease
Thesis supervisor: Abdelhamid Benazzouz (IMN)

16:30 – Cécile Pagèze
Social emotional profiles of two strains of mice expressing nicotinic receptor mutations involved in alcohol abuse
Thesis supervisor: Vincent David (INCIA)

17:00 – Wine and cheese and poster session(until 18:30)

17:15 – Announcement of the laureates of the PhD Award

Posters

Chloé Cuénot
A novel mechanism for AMPA receptors synaptic clustering by Neuronal Pentraxins
Thesis supervisor: Daniel Choquet (IINS)

Eloise Daniel
Modulation of the Planar Cell Polarity pathway regulates hippocampus-dependent memory and prevents from cognitive decline
Thesis supervisor: Nathalie Sans (Magendie)

Louise Eygret
Olfaction and feeding behaviour: Neuronal substrates underlying odour modulation of food intake regulating neuronal circuits
Thesis supervisor: David Jarriault (NutriNeuro)

Pauline Monguillon
Microglia renewal in perinatal inflammatory models of neurodevelopmental disorders
Thesis supervisor: Jean-Christophe Delpech (NutriNeuro)

Léa Sarzynski
Role of β2 and β3 spectrins in spines in baseline and during synaptic plasticity
Thesis supervisor: Anna Brachet (IINS)

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