
Team
Biographie / Publications
Group Leader : « «Gene Regulation and Adaptive Behaviors», CNRS UMR7224, INSERM U952 and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Jobs held
2012 Director of Research 1 at the CNRS
2002 Director of Research 2 at the CNRS
1992 Chargé de Recherche? at the CNRS
1991 National Civil Service (at the EMBL, Heidelberg).
Research positions
Since 2009 Group Leader (GRAB team), CNRS UMR7224, INSERM Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
2001-2008 Founder and director CNRS Unit UMR7148, CNRS-College de France, Paris. 1995-2000 Researcher, DKFZ (laboratory of
Prof G. Schutz) Heidelberg, Germany, 1992-1996 Researcher, Pasteur Institute (laboratory of Prof M Yaniv), Paris. 1990-1991
National civil service, EMBL (laboratory of Prof R Cortese), Heidelberg, Germany.
1988-1990 « Assistant Normalien Doctorant », Pasteur Institute (laboratory of Prof M Yaniv), Paris.
Studies and formation
2009 Auditeur ?Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie? (IHEST, Ministry of Research)
1992 PhD in Biochemistry, University of Paris 7 and Pasteur Institute
1987 Master, University of Paris 7, Certificate of Virology, Pasteur Institute
1984-88 Student at the ?Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan?, Biochemistry.
Research administration
Since 2011 President of the Scientific Board of the Institute for Biological Sciences (INSB of the CNRS).
Since 2011 Elected member of the Administrative board of the French Society for Neurosciences.
2001-2008 Director of a CNRS research Unit
Since 2010 Organization ?Semaine du Cerveau? in Corre?ze.
2005-2008 Paris A committee for ethics in animal experimentation.
Expertises
Since 2011 Editorial Board of « Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology », Springer Press. Since 2012 Editorial Board of « Frontiers in
Neuropharmacology ».
Reviewer for international (NIH, UC Berkeley, ERC, FWF, ..) and national (ECOS, ANR ACIs, INSERM, CNRS, Universities, Conseils
Re?gionaux, AFM, ARSEP, ...) agencies and foundations.
Awards and Fellowships,
2000 ATIP CNRS
1999 DKFZ prize for ?outstanding achievements? 1997 Marie Curie Fellow, two years.
1994 EMBO Fellow, two years.
18 grants since 2001 including three EU and four ANR. Running grants:
2010 ANR-Blanc TIMMS project (256k?), will end mid 2014
Mentor of 9 PhD students
Their actual positions : 2 group leaders, 3 post-docs, 2 researchers in private companies, 2 ongoing
10 congresses or symposia organization,
Last 5 years:
2012 Symposium « Genetic and functional dissection of dopaminergic pathway functions.? 25th ECNP Congress Vienna, Austria
2012 Symposium ?Dissecting dopaminergic pathway functions, molecular genetics and optogenetic approaches » 8th FENS Forum
of Neuroscience, Barcelona, Spain
2011 10th congress of the Integrative Biology Institute ?epigenetics, from Bases to Pathology?, October, UPMC, Paris
2011 Symposium ?Stress and drug of abuse: partners in addiction? XIVth Congress of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience,
October, Salamanca, Spain
64 invited talks in meetings:
Last 5 years:
2013 Dopamine 2013 meeting, Alghero, Italy
2013 Stress Satellite meeting of the « Socie?te? des Neurosciences » Congress, Lyon 2012 ECNP meeting, Wien, Austria
2012 8th FENS meeting, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Congress "Gender Normativity", Luxembourg University, Luxembourg
2012 Meeting MILDT, Paris
2011 25th Hellenic Society for neuroscience Meeting, Patras, Greece
2011 XIVth Congress of the Spanish society for Neurosciences, Salamanca, Spain
2011 Symposium Colle?ge de France ?Gender bias and diseases?, Paris
2011 Workshop « sex diffe?rences in the brain », Uppsalla, Sweden
2011 8th World Congress of IBRO, Firenze, Italy
2011 10th Congress of the « Société des Neurosciences », Marseille, France
2009 5th International meeting « steroids and nervous system », Torino, Italy
2009 PENS School « stress addiction and feeding disorders », Dubrovnik, Croatia.
2009 48th Congress of the American College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology, Hollywood, Florida, USA
2009 Congress of the ANR, Paris
86 invited lectures, 29 in foreign Institutes
Teaching
Module coordinator of MSc course in neuroendocrinology (UPMC). Teaching in MSc courses (Transcription, Molecular Genetics,
Metabolism, Neurobiology, ...). 30-40 hours per year. Member of PhD (38) and HDR (4) committees
Publications
90 peer-reviewed publications (PubMed and in press), 21 in the last 5 years. h-index: 41, number of citations >6000.