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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience

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Leading CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay research center dedicated to the study of the brain. Website: neuropsi.cnrs.fr LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/institut-des-neurosciences-paris-saclay/ Youtube: youtube.com/@NeuroPSI-saclay

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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Alain Destexhe has participated in a consortium that just published in Nature Neuroscience new work investigating brain dynamics in anaesthesia across species. Read more ! 🔽🔽🔽
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Comprehensive profiling of brain dynamics during anesthesia across phylogeny - Nature Neuroscience
In this study, Luppi et al. systematically characterized and modeled more than 6,000 features of neural activity during anesthesia. They reveal a shared but reversible dynamical endpoint of anesthesia...
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Patrick Pla @patrickpla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Succès de la Foire aux Stages de Master organisée cet après-midi à @neuropsi.bsky.social De belles discussions qui augurent de fructueuses collaborations et de belles découvertes !
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
➡️ Alain Destexhe, Mikal Daou and Tihana Jovanic have published a new article exploring a method to generate simple neuronal models, in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods. Read the article 🔽🔽🔽
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Daniel Shulz will offer a career retrospective lecture in October the 6th at 1pm in room Albe-Fessard at NeuroPSI! “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on a Career in Neuroscience”
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In October, we will host the PhD Defense of Jingxian Lun On Thursday the 08th at 2pm Shaping the neuroinflammatory environment to promote retinal regeneration Supervised by Muriel Perron and Caroline Borday
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In September, NeuroPSI will host multiple scientific events: First, a seminar by Letizia Allegra-Mascaro, Laboratory for Advances Biological Sensing at Florence, Italy, on Thursday 17 Sep 2026 at 1pm. She will discuss In vivo imaging of cortical dynamics in autism
A picture of Letizia Allegra-Mascaro
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To kick start the new academic year, here are three papers from the institute: 1️⃣ Laëtitia Chambrun and collaborators show in Behavioural Brain Research that Long Evans rats are a more suitable strain for freediving than Sprague Dawley rats:
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The appetite for freediving differs between Sprague-Dawley and Long Evans rats
Freediving in rats has emerged as a relevant model to study physiology and neural adaptation underlying submersion mechanisms. However, despite well-e…
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Essential Xenopus methods sharing by @neuropsi.bsky.social team leader @murielperron.bsky.social !
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited that our senior researcher Carole Escartin coorganizes this upcoming EMBO workshop in Porto, including speaker Lucile Ben Haim who will present @neuropsi.bsky.social research in her talk!
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In a publication led by Martine Cohen-Salmon @cirbcdf.bsky.social, Carole Escartin @neuropsi.bsky.social & colleagues show that "Local translation controls early reactive changes in perisynaptic astrocyte processes at pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease". Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
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Local translation controls early reactive changes in perisynaptic astrocyte processes at pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease
Early synaptic dysfunction is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet the astrocytic mechanisms underlying these alterations remain poorly defined…
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Luc Estebanez @lucestebanez.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check out in particular our posters on brain-machine interfacing and mouse upper-limb prostheses on Tuesday morning; my work with James Poulet on sensorimotor integration in forelimb M1 with membrane potential recordings on Wednesday afternoon, and more amazing somatosensory-motor work on Thursday!
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Julien Bouvier @jul-bouvier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Attending #FENS2026? Come visit our posters and talks, talk science or hang out.
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Sensori-motor Integration and Plasticity Lab @touchmovelab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
FENS 2026: We will present our BMI, mouse neuroprosthesis and somatosensory processing work through this week, including chairing a session on circuit neuroscience in freely moving mice! Check out the schedule below 🔽🔽🔽
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🍩🍪 In a new @frontiersin.bsky.social publication, Sylvie Granon and collaborators @agroparistech.fr and @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social dissect the link between risk taking and consumption of sugar and sweteners 🍬 🍡🍭
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Frontiers | Chronic non-nutritive sweetener and free sugars consumption alters decision-making and risk-taking in young healthy adults
BackgroundNon-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) are increasingly used as sugar substitutes to enhance food palatability without adding calories. Although their meta...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🦈 Idoia Quintana Urzainqui is launching her new Neuroshark group in at NeuroPSI with the support of @erc.europa.eu. She is now hiring a lab manager and a Bioinformatics post-doc. ➡️ Learn more and apply: Post-Doc: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/428992 Lab Manager: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/429039
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 20/04/2026
How does somatosensory input to the #MotorCortex contribute to limb movement? This study shows that loss of #somatosensory inputs disrupts voluntary forelimb movements & motor cortex neuronal dynamics, highlighting the role of somatosensory input in motor control @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3QcbXph
Summary of main findings. Left: Main contributions of the somatosensory inputs to the generation of motor activity in M1. Cortical state generation is independent from somatosensory inputs. Right: Schematic Vm modulations of an M1 neuron in an intact mouse (IT Vm) and in a nerve cut mouse (NC Vm) during a Quiet to Movement transition. The removal of forelimb inputs did not impact the occurrence of quiet/active periods in the membrane potential, but (1, vertical line) reduced pre-movement input; (2, gray box) reduced Vm correlations with ongoing forelimb movement; and (3, horizontal line) disrupted the reach reversal potential.
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Luc Estebanez, in collaboration with @mdc-berlin.bsky.social James Poulet have published a new study on somatosensory contributions to M1 activity in @plosbiology.org.
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🥉Toutes nos félicitations à Tihana Jovanic, DIrectrice de recherche à NeuroPSI, pour la prestigieuse médaille de bronze du CNRS !
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Tihana Jovanic
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Miranda Orr is a keynote speaker of our "New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases" conference! ⚠️ Deadline for short talk and poster abstracts: next Monday, the 20th of April! ➡️ Take advantage and submit now: www.cheninstitute.org/events-new/n...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
👏 We are late at congratulating Marion Rivalan, who has collaborated with Berlin-based researchers at Charité and Humboldt University, to explore in mice the impact of smell on overeating! ➡️ The study is published in Neuron, check it out 🔽🔽🔽 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🧳 ✈️ Mobilité interne au CNRS ! ➡️ Vous êtes ingénieur.e d'étude au CNRS, spécialisé.e dans l'imagerie photonique, et souhaitez participer à l'aventure des neurosciences à Paris-Saclay ? 🥳 Bénéficiez d'une mobilité interne au CNRS (NOEMI) pour nous rejoindre ! Tous les détails sont ici 🔽🔽🔽
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
👨‍🔬 Erik Musiek is a keynote speaker of our "New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases" conference! ⚠️ The deadline for short talk and poster abstracts has been postponed to the 20th of April. ➡️ Take advantage and submit now: www.cheninstitute.org/events-new/n...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🧩 Alain Destexhe & PhD student Pablo Castro have taken part in a collaborative study across multiple species, combining fMRI & modeling, suggesting that consciousness requires the breakdown of information in the brain! 🔽🔽🔽 Read it in Nature Human Behavior: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🧠 Charlotte E. Teunissen will be our second keynote speaker of the "New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases" conference! ➡️ The deadline for short talk and poster abstracts has been postponed to the 20th of April. Take advantage and submit now: www.cheninstitute.org/events-new/n...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🧠 Today we announce the first keynote speaker of the "New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases": Viviana Gradinaru, professor in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Clatech. ▶️ Register, submit an abstract: www.cheninstitute.org/events-new/n...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Our 2-day conference on Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases will take place on May the 28th. This is a joint event with the Chen Institute. Abstract submission until the 6th of May, next Monday. Register and apply today: www.cheninstitute.org/events-new/n...
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New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases - Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute – Change perception, change your world | Chen Institute
The Chen Institute focuses on the brain and mind to reduce suffering. By understanding how the brain perceives, learns, and interacts with the world, we use technology and AI to accelerate science, im...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#SdC2026 Retrouvez Carole Escartin, cheffe d'équipe à NeuroPSI, dans une table ronde et plusieurs reportages de ‪@glialclub.bsky.social sur le rôle des cellules gliales dans la maladie d’Alzheimer, dans a cadre de la semaine du cerveau ! 🔽🔽🔽
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
▶️ We are pleased to announce that this year, our Brain, Behavior & Beyond conference with the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI) will focus on: Ageing and Neurodegeneration, through the prism of new approaches, including imaging, fluid biomarkers, and omics technologies empowered by AI.
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
▶️ Nathanaël Jarrassé from ISIR at Sorbonne Université will be the last keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026! ▶️ NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🧠 La Semaine du Cerveau c'est très bientôt, et comme chaque année, c'est aussi à NeuroPSI et NeuroSPIN ! ➡️ Retrouvez-nous toute la semaine du 16 mars pour une série de conférences pour tous les publics. Tous les détails: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/semaine-du-c...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A short thread to list our next seminars: 🗓️ Friday 20 March, 10:30 👨‍🔬 Pascal Helson KTH Stockholm & University of Bordeaux ➡️ Non-equilibrium dynamics of the neocortex in Parkinson’s disease
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
▶️ Heike Stein from Sorbonne Université will be the 4th keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026! ▶️ NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
▶️ Henri Lorach from Université de Lausanne will be the 3rd keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026! ▶️ NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
⚠️ Call for new group leaders! ➡️ This year again, we are looking to host new research groups. All neuroscience research topics are welcome in our highly interdisciplinary institute! ➡️ Deadline: May the 15th 2026. ➡️ Learn more and apply: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/ao-2026/
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
▶️ Daniel Häufle from Tübingen Universität will join us as a keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026! ▶️ NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
▶️ Daniel Huber from Université de Genève is one of 5 keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026! ▶️ Join us at NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
Daniel Huber, Université de Genève, will present a talk on "Cortical circuits involved in voluntary action". 

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"We will present how he uses closed-loop optical brain–machine interfaces combined with single-cell optogenetic manipulations to interrogate the cortical circuits underlying goal-directed action. Using two-photon population recordings, we find that cortical activity preferentially encodes behavioral goals rather than detailed kinematic parameters, and that this representation is strongly driven by thalamic input. Together, these findings suggest that cortical activity primarily serves to guide action direction and intent, rather than to issue direct motor commands."
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
➡️ In a new Ecology and Evolution paper, Sylvie Rétaux's team @neuropsi.bsky.social and collaborators report on more than 15 years of field studies on the water physicochemical parameters and hydrodynamic regimes in the Mexican tetra blind cave fish habitat 🐟💦. ➡️ Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
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Water Parameters and Hydrodynamics in Rivers and Caves Hosting Astyanax mexicanus Populations Reveal Macro‐, Meso‐ and Microhabitat Characteristics
From 2009 to 2025, we have recorded the physicochemical parameters of the water and the hydrological regimes at localities hosting Astyanax mexicanus cavefish and surface fish populations in Mexico. ...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🧠 👩‍🎓 University Paris-Saclay launches its all-new Master in Neuroscience! One M1 in neuroscience, followed by three M2: 1️⃣ Cognition, Behavior and Mental disorders. 2️⃣ Systems Neuroscience: from cells to brain functions. 3️⃣ Computational Neurosciences and Neuroengineering. 🔽🔽 Learn more & apply:
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
👏 Upcoming seminars at NeuroPSI in February ➡️ The 9th at 11:30, Emmanuel Scorsone, CEA & U. Paris-Saclay, "Synthetic diamonds: from neural interfacing to biological sensors" ➡️ The 27th at 10am, Marc Dhenain, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, "Pseudo-prions to treat neurodegenerative diseases."
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🦾/💪 Interested in the physiology of motor control? In robotics? In neuroprosthetics? ▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! ▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
👏 Upcoming seminars at NeuroPSI in January (11:30am): ➡️ The 23rd, Marc Dhenain, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, "Pseudo-prions to treat neurodegenerative diseases." Followed by two speakers on motor control: ➡️ The 27th, Maarten Zwart, from St Andrews. ➡️ The 30th, Graziana Gatto, from Cologne.
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
👩‍🎓 PhD Defence at NeuroPSI ! Léa Jaulin, from Mohamed Taouis' team, will defend her thesis on Monday the 19th of January, on the role of PPARα receptors in the régulation of hypothalamic FGF21.
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
🎖️Toutes nos félicitations à Sylvie Rétaux, cheffe de l'équipe DECA à NeuroPSI, qui a été nommée au grade de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur !
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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Do you want to do a PhD on exploring brain-body interactions with expansion microscopy at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, through the Marie-Curie COFUND program? Apply! Deadline : 23 February 2026 Supervisor : Tihana JOVANIC lightinparis.eu @neuropsi.bsky.social
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📅 NeuroPSI Seminar Series. On the 8th of January at 10:30am, we will be hosting Colline Poirier, Biosciences Institute of Newcastle University. ▶️ She will talk about: "Using spontaneous behaviour to assess primate welfare"
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Join the development of the mouse forelimb prosthesis as a post-doc, apply!
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
🙋‍♀️ We are welcoming Idoia Quintana Urzainqui to NeuroPSi as a junior Professor! In her new team, she will research the Mechanisms that shaped early vertebrate brains, thanks to funding from a 2025 ERC Consolidator grant. ➡️ Learn more here: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/idoia-qui...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
🙋‍♀️ Welcome to Marion Rivalan, who joins NeuroPSI as a CNRS Junior Professor! ➡️ Her project will leverage AI-based methods for the classification and prediction of individual profiles of model animals housed in a naturalistic environment. ➡️ Learn more: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/marion-ri...
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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
💎 Valérie Lavallée, responsable de la plateforme de zootechnie de l’Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, a obtenu la Médaille de cristal du CNRS 2025: une récompense pour son parcours et sa contribution essentielle à la recherche dans notre institut !
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Valérie Lavallée
Grâce à son parcours autodidacte remarquable, Valérie Lavallée a connu une progression de carrière constante jusqu’à être nommée responsable de la plateforme de zootechnie de l’Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI - CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay), situé sur le campus du CEA Saclay. En 2021, elle a notamment relevé le défi de l’installation d’une plateforme de zootechnie multi-espèces lors du déménagement du laboratoire. En 2025, le CNRS décernera la médaille de cristal à Valérie Lavallée pour la qualité de son travail et pour son rôle majeur dans ce déménagement, qui a permis le regroupement des sites zootechniques de Gif-sur-Yvette et Orsay vers le nouveau bâtiment de NeuroPSI. Cette plateforme est désormais une vitrine de l’excellence en zootechnie scientifique.
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