Thanks to the many people who took part in the Christmas quiz, with a special nod who provided the humorous answers, and congratulations once again to the winners of this 2023 edition:
- ITA: Jean-François FIANCETTE (Deroche team)
- PhD student: Yoni COUDERC (Beyeler team)
- Post-doctoral researcher: Yuktiben VYAS (Frick team)
- Researcher: Sarah MOUNTADEM (Oliet team)
In this January newsletter, you'll find answers to the questions that have been asked.
Should you require any further information on this subject, please do not hesitate to ask to your "assistant de prévention".
We also wish you all the best for 2024!




Pièces jointes

from Abrous's lab will defend his thesis entitled 'Role of adult-born dentate neurons in the resilience to cognitive aging'


Thursday 14 December / 09:30
Venue: Centre Broca

Defense in english

Nicolas Blin
Inserm
Team: Neurogenesis and pathophysiology (Magendie)
Thesis supervisor: Nora Abrous

Title
Role of adult-born dentate neurons in the resilience to cognitive aging

Jury
Pf. René Hen – Columbia University – New York City
Pf. Sandrine Thuret – King’s College – London
Dr. Luisa V. Lopez – Lisbon University – Lisbon
Dr. Luisa Pinto – Minho University – Minho
Dr. Nora Abrous – Université de Bordeaux – Bordeaux (Directrice de thèse)
Dr. Vanessa Charrier – Université de Bordeaux – Bordeaux (Membre invité – Co-superviseure)

Publications
1. The temporal origin of dentate granule neurons dictates their role in spatial memory – Molecular Psychiatry 2021 (26, 7130–7140, 2021) Masachs N*, Charrier V*, Farrugia F, Lemaire V, Blin N, Mazier W, Tronel S, Montaron MF, Ge S, Marsicano G, Cota D, Deroche-Gamonet V, Herry C, Abrous DN.

2. Responsiveness of dentate neurons generated throughout adult life is associated with resilience to cognitive aging – Aging Cell 2020 (Aug;19(8):e13161) Montaron MF*, Charrier V*, Blin N, Garcia P, Abrous DN.
Date de la soutenance: 14/12/2023 - 09h30
Lieu: Centre Broca

If you want to extract the most from your operant behavior data during fiber photometry recordings, check out Pyfiber in our last publication in Scientific Reports with D. Conlisk*, M. Ceau*, JF. Fiancette, N. Winke, E. Darmagnac, C. Herry, V. Deroche-Gamonet as authors. The article includes step-by-step video tutorials on how to use Pyfiber.

We were working with complex behavioral paradigms and wanted a more streamlined way to extract information stored in our operant behavior while simultaneously analyzing the accompanying fiber photometry data. For example, through pyfiber, you just import the raw operant behavior and fiber photometry files and can do multiple different types of perievent analysis on experimenter defined events (e.g conditioned stimulus/discriminative stimulus presentation) or specific behavioral responses (e.g. the first nose-poke of the FR5 series, injections, lever presses, licks on lickers…)

ReproducibiliTea is a worldwide Open Science initiative spread to 138 institutions in 26 countries. Last year, it was brought to Bordeaux, where the scientific community warmly welcomed it. Let’s meet the PhD students in charge of it.

What is BordeauxTea?

BordeauxTea consists of a cycle of monthly meetings in which students and young researchers discuss various topics related to Open Science around a warm cup of tea and (why not?) delicious cookies (when the pandemonium allowed).

Who are the persons organizing BordeauxTea?

We are 3 Ph.D. students passionate about open science and reproducibiliy!

Eduarda Centeno is an M.Sc. in Neuroscience pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, in Arthur Leblois’ team (IMN).

Fjola Hyseni is a Medical Doctor (MD) pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, in team Mnemosyne (IMN), under the supervision of Nicolas Rougier and Arthur Leblois.

Dana Conlisk is a Ph.D. student in the team of Veronique Deroche-Gamonet (Psychobiology of Drug Addiction- Neurocentre Magendie).

Dana has nicely decorated our office in the Halloween spirit!! Brrrrr....