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SUMMARY:Exposition : Cervorama
DESCRIPTION:Agitez vos neurones ! \nA travers cette exposition\, Cap Sciences propose aux visiteurs de découvrir le cerveau sous toutes ses formes lors d’une visite ponctuée de manipulations\, de jeux et d’expériences… Ils pourront notamment explorer les mondes des cerveaux de l’escargot\, l’abeille\, le singe et l’homme\, tester leur mémoire dans le “cognitilab”\, découvrir leur cerveau en 3D grâce au cervomaton ou encore analyser les capacités des animaux ! \nUne exposition conçue et réalisée par Cap Sciences en partenariat avec Bordeaux Neurocampus\n \nEn savoir plus\nSite web : https://www.cap-sciences.net/au-programme/exposition/grand-public/cervorama/ \n
URL:https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/event/exposition-cervorama/
CATEGORIES:Events for all,not-calendar,pour tous homepage,Semaine du cerveau 2024
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SUMMARY:Seminar - Pascale Bomont
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Centre Broca \n\nPascale BOMONT\nERC group leader\, INSERM Research Director\nNeuroMyoGène institute (INMG-PGNM)\nUCBL Lyon1 – CNRS UMR5261 – INSERM U1315\nLyon – France \nInvited by David Perrais (IINS) \nTitle\nDynamics of Neurofilaments in health and disease \nAbstract\nNeurofilaments (NFs) are the Intermediate Filaments (IFs) of the nervous system and the major cytoskeletal component of mature neurons. Previous studies have revealed that this structural network exhibits dynamics in transport and turn-over\, and sustains essential cellular and physiological functions in the nervous system. Accordingly\, alterations of NFs have been shown to drive neurodegeneration in human diseases. Not only are NFs a genetic cause of neuronal death in human\, but their abnormal aggregation is also an early pathological hallmark of most neurodegenerative diseases\, and their removal from axons has shown spectacular benefits in mouse models. With a long-lasting interest in the rare disease giant axonal neuropathy\, whose mutated gene encodes for the universal regulator of IF steady-state (Gigaxonin-E3 ligase)\, our laboratory is exploring the neurobiology of NFs in health and disease. Our research program aims at scrutinizing the dynamics of NFs in a physiological context\, the downstream signaling sustaining their essential functions and how alterations of this system can cause neurodegeneration. Here\, we will first present our research on Gigaxonin to focus on our latest development in generating new tools and methodologies in the zebrafish species\, whose numerous advantages constitute great assets to monitor the live imaging of NFs in vivo and to dissect their molecular signaling pathways. Finally\, we  will present how this knowledge will be used to offer a significant platform for therapeutic intervention in the future\, for the benefit of most neurodegenerative diseases. \nBiosketch\nPascale Bomont received her PhD in Human Genetics in 2002 (IGBMC\, Strasbourg\, France) and identified the mutated genes for several neuropathies.  Focusing on rare diseases\, in particular giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) caused by loss-of-function of the Gigaxonin-E3 ligase\, she conducted a postdoctoral training in Cell Biology (LICR\, San Diego\, USA) to investigate the cytoskeleton alteration in disease.  Moving back to France\, she was recruited at Inserm in 2007 (Assistant Professor) and was awarded by the ATIP-Avenir prize in 2011 to run a multidisciplinary research program on GAN at Montpellier University (Associate Professor in 2012). Her group developed tools and biological systems in patients\, mouse and zebrafish to unravel the key roles of Gigaxonin in controlling cytoskeleton architecture\, autophagy machinery and neuromuscular integrity\, and to generate diagnosis tests and therapeutic approaches for patients. Presently\, she is full Professor at Lyon1 University and runs an ERC program on neurofilament biology. \nSelected publications\nA multilevel screening pipeline in zebrafish identifies therapeutic drugs for GAN.\nLescouzères L\, Hassen-Khodja C\, Baudot A\, Bordignon B\, Bomont P. EMBO Mol Med. (2023) May 5:e16267. \nDevelopment of a high-throughput tailored imaging method in zebrafish to understand and treat neuromuscular diseases.\nLescouzères L\, Bordignon B\, Bomont P. Front Mol Neurosci. (2022) Sep 20;15:956582. \nThe dazzling rise of neurofilaments: Physiological functions and roles as biomarkers.\nBomont P. Curr Opin Cell Biol. (2021) Jan13:S0955-0674(20)30146-0. \nE3 Ubiquitin Ligases in Neurological Diseases: Focus on Gigaxonin and Autophagy.\nLescouzères L\, Bomont P. Front Physiol. (2020) Oct 22;11:1022. \nNeurofilaments: neurobiological foundations for biomarker applications.\nGafson AR\, Barthélemy NR*\, Bomont P*\, Carare RO*\, Durham HD*\, Julien JP*\, Kuhle J*\, Leppert D*\, Nixon RA*\, Weller RO*\, Zetterberg H*\, Matthews PM. Brain (2020) 143(7):1975-1998. \nSonic Hedgehog repression underlies gigaxonin mutation-induced motor deficits in giant axonal neuropathy. Arribat Y*\, Mysiak KS*\, Lescouzères L\, Boizot A\, Ruiz M\, Rossel M\, Bomont P.   J Clin Invest. (2019) 129(12):5312-5326. \nGigaxonin E3 ligase governs ATG16L1 turn over to control autophagosome production.\nScrivo A\, Codogno P\, Bomont P. Nat Commun. (2019) 10(1):780. \n
URL:https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/event/seminar-pascale-bomont/
CATEGORIES:For scientists,home-event,Impromptu seminar
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SUMMARY:Mini-symposium - Frontiers in Bio-Inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Salle de Conférence du CGFB \n\nOrganized in the frame of Hugo Chateau-Laurent’s thesis defense (February 8th\, 16h30- Broca Center) \nWith (see details below) \n\nRufin VanRullen\nMehdi Khamassi\n\nMehdi Khamassi\nTitle : Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robot\n\nAbstract : The reinforcement learning (RL) theory constitutes a framework for an artificial agent to learn actions that maximize rewards in the environment. It has been successfully applied to Neuroscience to account for animal neural and behavioral processes in simple laboratory tasks\, such as Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning\, and single-step economic decision-making tasks. It moreover became very popular due to its account for dopamine reward prediction error signals. However\, more complex multi-step tasks\, such as navigation and social interaction tasks\, illustrate their computational limitations.\nIn parallel\, researches in engineering\, in robotics in particular\, have emphasized the complementarity between different learning strategies when facing complex tasks\, and explored solutions to combine these different strategies. One central distinction is between model-based and model-free reinforcement learning strategies: In the former case\, an agent learns a statistical model of the effects of its actions in the environment\, and then use this model to plan sequences of actions towards desired goals. In contrast\, model-free strategies are relevant when the environment statistics are too noisy to learn a good internal model. In this case\, RL agents can rather learn local action values and adapt reactively in each state of the environment.\nIn this presentation\, I will show a series of work where we used a coordination of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning to account for a diversity of behavioral and neural observations in humans\, non-human primates and rodents in different paradigms: Navigation\, instrumental and Pavlovian conditioning. I will moreover present recent robotics results where the same algorithm with the same parameters produces optimal performance in simple navigation and social interaction tasks\, with a drastically reduced computational cost compared to classical methods. Finally\, I will show how the patterns of mental simulation within such internal models can mimic experimentally observed reactivations of the rodent hippocampus in spatial cognition tasks\, and raise new predictions for future experiments.\nRufin VanRullen\nTitle : Brain-inspired multimodal deep learning\n\nAbstract : I will describe recent efforts to design novel deep neural network architectures drawing inspiration from cognitive neuroscience. One example is the design of multimodal (e.g. text+image) architectures following the “Global Workspace” theory of cognitive science. The independent modalities converge onto a common representation space (the global workspace)\, and the shared information is then broadcast back towards the entire system. Such an architecture provides a form of referential meaning or “grounding” to each unimodal system. In addition\, the broadcast mechanism can be trained with unsupervised cycle-consistency objectives\, which makes such systems particularly attractive compared with state-of-the-art models trained on billions of paired data samples (e.g. text+image).\n
URL:https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/event/mini-symposium-modelisation-cognitive-et-computationnelle/
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SUMMARY:Thesis defense - Hugo Chateau-Laurent
DESCRIPTION:Venue : Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine \nOn Zoom :\nhttps://u-bordeaux-fr.zoom.us/j/83709626549\nID de réunion: 837 0962 6549 \nThesis defended in english \n\nTeam: Computational neurosciences \nThesis directed by Frédéric Alexandre \nTitle\nCONSEQUENCE: A Computational Model of the Interactions between Episodic Memory and Cognitive Control \nRésumé\nEpisodic memory is often illustrated with the madeleine de Proust excerpt as the ability to re-experience a situation from the past following the perception of a stimulus. This simplistic scenario should not lead into thinking that memory works in isolation from other cognitive functions. On the contrary\, memory operations treat highly processed information and are themselves modulated by executive functions in order to inform decision-making. This complex interplay can give rise to higher-level functions such as the ability to imagine potential future sequences of events by combining contextually relevant memories. How the brain implements this construction system is still largely a mystery. The objective of this thesis is to employ cognitive computational modeling methods to better understand the interactions between episodic memory\, which is supported by the hippocampus\, and cognitive control\, which mainly involves the prefrontal cortex. It provides elements as to how episodic memory can help an agent to act. It is shown that neural episodic control\, a fast and powerful method for reinforcement learning\, is in fact mathematically close to the traditional Hopfield network\, a model of associative memory that has greatly influenced the understanding of the hippocampus. Neural episodic control indeed fits within the universal Hopfield network framework\, and it is demonstrated that it can be used to store and recall information\, and that other kinds of Hopfield networks can be used for reinforcement learning. The question of how executive functions can control episodic memory operations is also tackled. A hippocampus-inspired network is constructed with as little assumption as possible and modulated with contextual information. The evaluation of performance according to the level at which contextual information is sent provides design principles for controlled episodic memory. Finally\, a new biologically inspired model of one-shot sequence learning in the hippocampus is proposed. The model performs very well on multiple datasets while reproducing biological observations. It ascribes a new role to the recurrent collaterals of area CA3 and the asymmetric expansion of place fields\, that is to disambiguate overlapping sequences by making retrospective splitter cells emerge. Implications for theories of the hippocampus are discussed and novel experimental predictions are derived. \nKey words\nEpisodic memory\, cognitive control\, hippocampus\, prefrontal cortex\, decision-making\, planning\, imagination\, computational neuroscience \nPublications\n\nhttps://hal.science/hal-03885715\nhttps://inria.hal.science/hal-03359384\nhttps://inria.hal.science/hal-03359407\n\nJury\n\nRapporteurs : Randall O’Reilly & Mehdi Khamassi\nExaminatrices et examinateurs : Anna Schapiro\, Rufin VanRullen et Emmanuelle Abisset-Chavanne\nDirecteur de thèse : Frédéric Alexandre\n\n
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