Research teams

Rancz Lab

Cortical circuits

Cardoso Lab

Cortical development

Robbe Lab

Cortico-Basal Ganglia circuits and Behavior

Cossart Lab

Development of hippocampal cognitive maps

Khazipov Lab

Early activity in the developing brain

Fontolan Lab

Neural computation and dynamics

Equipe Mondoloni

Neuromodulation, emotion and adaptative behaviors

Bugeon Lab

Neuronal circuits and sensory coding

Crépel Lab

Neuronal coding and plasticity in epilepsy

Epsztein Lab

Neuronal mechanisms of spatial cognition

Muscatelli Lab

Perinatal Imprintings and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Chavis Lab

Sex Differences in Developmental Vulnerability to Neuropsychia...
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Monday 15 Jun 2026
11h

Marco Pompili

seminar
Tuesday 16 Jun 2026
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Monday 22 Jun 2026
11h

Azadeh Yazdan

seminar
Tuesday 23 Jun 2026
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Thursday 25 Jun 2026
Friday 26 Jun 2026
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Our publications

All publications +

Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function.

Roig-Puiggros S, Guyoton M, Suchkov D, Fortoul A, Matteucci G, Fièvre S, Panzeri A, Molochidis N, Barcellini F, Maino E, Foucher CG, Fuciec D, Javed A, Klingler E, Francis F, Zerbi V, Bellone C, Minlebaev M, El-Boustani S, Watrin F, Manent JB, Jabaudon D

Nature neuroscience -

Uncovering the molecular logic of cortical wiring between neuronal subtypes across development through ligand-receptor inference.

Mathieu R, Draia-Nicolau T, Corbières L, Govindan A, Bensa V, Pallesi-Pocachard E, Silvagnoli L, Represa A, Cardoso C, Telley L, de Chevigny A

Nature communications -

Minimally-invasive manipulation of spared and hypoactive interneurons reduces CA1 synchronization and nonspatial behavior alterations in epilepsy models.

Matringhen C, Vigier A, Bourtouli N, Michel FJ, Marissal T

Neurobiology of disease -

Oxytocin modulates respiratory heart rate variability through a hypothalamus-brainstem-heart neuronal pathway.

Buron J, Linossier A, Gestreau C, Schaller F, Tyzio R, Felix MS, Matarazzo V, Thoby-Brisson M, Muscatelli F, Menuet C

Nature neuroscience -

Altered GABAergic signaling and chloride homeostasis in eye movement circuits during late neurodevelopment: implications for Alzheimer's disease therapy.

Porcher C, Rivera C, Medina I, Koric L

Frontiers in pharmacology -

Sparse innervation and local heterogeneity in the vibrissal corticostriatal projection.

Amroune K, Fontolan L, Baude A, Robbe D, Bureau I

eLife -

Integrator dynamics in the cortico-basal ganglia loop for flexible motor timing.

Yang Z, Inagaki M, Gerfen CR, Fontolan L, Inagaki HK

Nature -

Identification of novel human microcephaly-linked protein that mediates cortical progenitor cell division and corticogenesis through .

Carabalona A, Kallo H, Gonzalez M, Andriichuk L, Elomaa E, Molinari F, Fragkou C, Lappalainen P, Wessels MW, Saarikangas J, Rivera C

eLife -

Sister external tufted cells form dynamic intraglomerular ensembles representing odor identity and concentration.

Loizeau M, Angelova A, Cremer H, Platel JC

iScience -

An independent coding scheme for idiothetic distance in the hippocampus.

Nordlund M, Levernier N, Trippa M, Bourboulou R, Marti G, Monasson R, Rouault H, Epsztein J, Koenig-Gambini J

Current biology : CB -

Somatostatin interneurons select dorsomedial striatal representations of the initial motor learning phase.

Rotariu S, Zalcman G, Badreddine N, Appaix F, Sarno S, Bureau I, Fino E

Cell reports -

Reelin Deficiency and Synaptic Impairment in the Adolescent Prefrontal Cortex Following Initial Synthetic Cannabinoid Exposure.

Silva-Hurtado TJ, Giua G, Lassalle O, Makrini-Maleville L, Strauss B, Wager-Miller J, Freyermuth JM, Mackie K, Valjent E, Manzoni OJJ, Chavis P

Biological psychiatry global open science -

Cytomegalic parvalbumin neurons in fetal cases of hemimegalencephaly.

Gelot AB, Draia-Nicolau TO, Mathieu R, Silvagnoli L, Watrin F, Cardoso C, Manent JB, de Chevigny A, Represa A

Epilepsia -

Ectopic expression of the cation-chloride cotransporter KCC2 in blood exosomes as a biomarker for functional rehabilitation.

Caccialupi Da Prato L, Rezzag Lebza A, Consumi A, Tessier M, Srinivasan A, Rivera C, Laurin J, Pellegrino C

Frontiers in molecular neuroscience -

Cognitive and sensorimotor benefits of moderate- and high-intensity exercise are associated with specific expression of neurotrophic markers in older rats.

Marcourt C, Pin-Barre C, Langeard A, Rivera C, Temprado JJ, Laurin J

Scientific reports -

Investigation of a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome with combined disruption of Necdin and Magel2.

Barelle PY, Sicardi A, Schaller F, Buron J, Becquet D, Omnes F, Watrin F, Alifrangis MS, Santos C, Menuet C, François-Bellan AM, Caron E, Klucznik J, Prevot V, Bouret SG, Muscatelli F

JCI insight -

Cytomegalovirus infection of the fetal brain: intake of aspirin during pregnancy blunts neurodevelopmental pathogenesis in the offspring.

Tarhini S, Crespo-Quiles C, Buhler E, Pineau L, Pallesi-Pocachard E, Villain S, Saha S, Silvagnoli L, Stamminger T, Luche H, Cardoso C, Pais de Barros JP, Burnashev N, Szepetowski P, Bauer S

Journal of neuroinflammation -

Functional networks of inhibitory neurons orchestrate synchrony in the hippocampus.

Bocchio M, Vorobyev A, Sadeh S, Brustlein S, Dard R, Reichinnek S, Emiliani V, Baude A, Clopath C, Cossart R

PLoS biology -

Comparison of extracellular Giant depolarizing potentials in vitro and early sharp waves in vivo in the CA1 hippocampus of neonatal rats.

Juzekaeva E, Nasretdinov A, Mukhtarov M, Shipkov D, Valeeva G, Khazipov R

Biochemical and biophysical research communications -

Sexual differences in neuronal and synaptic properties across subregions of the mouse insular cortex.

Iezzi D, Cáceres-Rodríguez A, Strauss B, Chavis P, Manzoni OJ

Biology of sex differences -

Pathogenic MTOR somatic variant causing focal cortical dysplasia drives hyperexcitability via overactivation of neuronal GluN2C N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

Pineau L, Buhler E, Tarhini S, Bauer S, Crepel V, Watrin F, Cardoso C, Represa A, Szepetowski P, Burnashev N

Epilepsia -

Cell- and pathway-specific disruptions in the accumbens of Fragile X mouse.

Giua G, Pereira-Silva J, Caceres-Rodriguez A, Lassalle O, Chavis P, Manzoni OJ

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience -

Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice.

Ambrad Giovannetti E, Rancz E

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews -