The article, "Charcot's disease: the hope of a new treatment", explains how the Ice Bucket Challenge has helped raise funds for research.

Gwendal Le Masson (Oliet Teams) comments on the hope of a new treatment, with promising results, but not a cure.


Pièces jointes

Several projects led by Bordeaux Neurocampus researchers have been awarded PCRI (Collaborative Research Project - International) funding by the ANR. Congratulations to the Magendie researchers:

PROGNICHE: Analyzing the role of developmental programming of the adult hippocampal neurogenic niche in prenatal stress-induced vulnerability to psychiatric disease
– Muriel Koehl (Magendie), French Coordinator
– Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Biochemie), German Coordinator

SUBLIM: Metabolic Imaging of Subiculum in Alzheimer’s Disease
– Gilles Bonvento (LMN_Saclay) French Coordinator
– Stéphane Oliet (MAGENDIE), Partner
– Bruno Weber (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology_Zurich), Swiss coordinator
– Tommaso Patriarchi (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology_Zurich)

The plasticity of synaptic transmission efficacy plays a central role during neuronal development for the refinement of neuronal circuits and at all ages for the short and long term storage of memories and their erasure. Defects in synapse function and their altered plasticity is thought to be the primary cause of several brain disorders. Despite its recognized importance and decades of investigations by hundreds of laboratories, the molecular and cellular basis of the various forms of synaptic plasticity still remain largely mysterious.

This conference proposes to bring together among the most famous international and French experts on the molecular and cellular basis of synaptic plasticity, with a focus on its relation to memory. We will gather experts from neurotransmitter receptor structure, synapse nanoscale organization, synapse physiology to signaling and molecular mechanisms as well as the latest advances in our understanding of the tri-partite synapse mechanisms involved in synaptic plasticity and thus memory. Our speaker list is a harmonious balance between young and more established investigators, respecting diversity and gender balance.

Scientific comitee :

- Daniel Choquet (IINS)
- Laurent Groc (IINS)
- Aude Panatier (NCM - Oliet Team)

The Bordeaux Neurocampus laboratories welcome many students every year. One of them, Juan García Ruiz, is a master student in neuroscience in the NeuroBIM course at Bordeaux University. He is currently doing his internship under the supervision of Aude Panatier in the Neurone-Glie Relations team of the Neurocentre Magendie. He is the co-founder and author of Neuronhub, a website on neuroscience for the general public.

Cyril Herry was elected Deputy Director of the Neurocentre Magendie this morning. He joins Daniela Cota who had been appointed earlier this year by Stéphane Oliet. A very big thank you to Giovanni Marsicano who has been performing these duties since 2018.