The competition of the SVS doctoral school of the University of Bordeaux has given its verdict: the Neurocentre gleaned 4 of the 16 doctoral contracts. Congratulations to Mohamed-Lyès KACI (Eq. Abrous, Thesis Director Muriel Koehl) who ranks 5th, Emma MESGUICH (Eq. Marsicano, Thesis Director France Chaouloff) who ranks 7th, Pierre-Louis RAUX (Eq. Revest, Thesis Director Monique Vallée) who ranks 11th and Yifan WU (Eq. Beyeler) who ranks 17th. They will join the centre's teams from next school year.

Meeting room: Neurocentre Magendie Seminar Room

Olfaction has long been considered as a « secondary » sensory modality but recent discoveries highlighted its central role in brain functions. During the first session of this symposium, the neurobiological bases of olfactory learning from the early stages of life (Coureaud, Sullivan) to adulthood (Busquets-Garcia, Nicole) will be illustrated. The second session will primarily focus on the physiology of the first relays of olfactory information processing, namely the olfactory bulb and the piriform cortex (or homologous structures in Drosophila), as well as their strong interactions (Nissant, Plaçais, Martin and Wilson)

Busquets-Garcia A, Oliveira da Cruz J, Terral G, Pagano Zottola AC, Soria-Gómez E, Contini A, Martin H, Redon B, Varilh M, Ioannidou C, Drago F, Massa F, Fioramonti X, Trifilieff P, Ferreira G*, Marsicano G* (2018).Hippocampal CB1 receptors control incidental associations. Neuron https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.08.014

5 projets de recherches retenus par l'ANR dans le cadre de l'appel à projets générique 2018 (et 4 en liste complémentaire). Bravo aux équipes du centre et en particulier à Nathalie Sans, Daniela Cota, Giovanni Marsicano, Cyril Herry, Cyril Dejean et Xavier Leinekugel. On croise les doigts pour Daniel Voisin, Émilie Pacary, Gwendal Le Masson et Luigi Bellocchio.

Meeting room: Université, Agora du Haut Carré, Talenc

Point fort de l’année ! le « Neurocampus Day » avec ses 6 instituts de recherche, ses rencontres, ses échanges prometteurs , une journée riche en sciences du cerveau... Domaine du Haut Carré , Talence le Jeudi 17 Mai 2018

Du Neurocentre Magendie:
14h40-15h05 Anna Beyeler / Anatomical and functional organization of neural populations in the amygdala and insula

17h15-17h40 Luigi Bellochio (Equipe Marsicano) / Striatonigral mitochondrial CB1 receptors mediate cannabinoid-induced catalepsy