I am interested in sensory information processing in the mammalian brain. My goal is to decipher how odor-reward association could be encoded at early stages in the olfactory system during learning processing. By […]
I use a multi-scale analysis, combining pharmacology, optogenetics and animal behavior, to study how the emotional and olfactory systems interact and converge in psychiatric disorders, notably depression and bipolar disorder. The ultimate goal is […]
I am studying the olfactory bulb to determine how the brain processes and decodes odor information. My thesis work concentrates on deciphering the nature and function of top-down inputs from the olfactory cortex to […]
After my PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Lyon-I in 1995, I joined the Institut Pasteur where resorting to identified deafness genes as an entry point has enabled us to enlighten both fundamental […]
Francois Schweisguth studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (1983-88) and obtained a PhD in Developmental Biology in 1990 under the supervision of Jean-Antoine Lepesant (IJM, Paris) and Alain Vincent (CBD, Toulouse). He […]
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES Professor at College de France, Chair of Genetics and cellular physiology Professor “Classe exceptionnelle” at Institut Pasteur, laboratory of Genetics and Physiology of Hearing Head of Inserm UMRS1120, […]
Much of our adult behaviors reflect the state of neural circuits sculpted by sensory experience in infancy and early childhood. At no other time in life does the surrounding environment so potently shape most […]
After a Master in plant biology, I obtained my Ph.D in human genetics to study mitochondrial diseases. I studied the fate of mtDNA deletions and identified the first mutations of the Krebs cycle (FH) […]
