Dr. Sepand Rastegar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

I studied Biology at the University of Strasbourg, France, where I obtained my diploma degree in 1996. I did my PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Walter Knöchel at the University of Ulm, Germany. In 2000, I moved back to Strasbourg to do a 2 years Post-doctoral research with Prof. Uwe Strähle at the IGBMC. In 2002 I obtained a permanent position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). In 2005 I decided to move to Germany to work at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Currently, I am investigating the molecular mechanisms that regulate zebrafish neurogenesis and regeneration. My models are the embryonic spinal cord and the adult telencephalon.
My full list of publications available at: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4411-5646.

Dr. Ciaran Murphy-Royal, Université de Montréal, Canada

Ciaran Murphy-Royal carried out his undergraduate education in Human Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland where he carried out his final year research project in the lab of Dr. Marina Lynch. Following this Ciaran received a Marie-Curie scholarship to carry out his PhD studies at the Université de Bordeaux, France. There Ciaran studied the astrocytic glutamate transporter GLT-1 under co-supervision with Stéphane Oliet and Laurent Groc. Following his PhD, Ciaran moved to the University of Calgary to carry out his postdoctoral research with Jaideep Bains and Grant Gordon, where he began investigating the effects of stress on astrocytes. In June 2020, Ciaran began his faculty position at the Université de Montréal as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Neuroscience with lab space at the CRCHUM.

Dr. Laure Bally-Cuif, Institut Pasteur, France

Laure Bally-Cuif studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Interested in the development of the nervous system, she conducted her PhD at Hospital Salpêtrière (C. Sotelo’s laboratory) and Ecole Normale Supérieure (A. Prochiantz’s laboratory) under the supervision of Dr. Marion Wassef. Her PhD work addressed the mechanisms involved in the formation of organizing centers within the neural tube of avian and mammalian embryos. She was an EMBO post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Robert Ho at Princeton University, USA, where she was trained to the model system zebrafish to combine genetics and embryology. She has been using this system ever since. She was recruited at the CNRS in 1996. Following a second post-doctorate at the Helmholtz Research Center in Munich, she built her own research group in this institution in 2000, focusing on the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in specifying and maintaining neural progenitors (« neural stem cells ») in the zebrafish embryonic and adult brain. She was awarded the Heinz-Maier Leibnitz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for this work in 2006. In 2009, she joined the Paris-Saclay Institute for Neuroscience in Gif-sur-Yvette (France) on a CNRS Research Director position, where she established her research group with special funds from the ANR and Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris (Chairs of Excellence) and the Grand Prize of the Schlumberger Foundation for Education and Research. She was awarded an Advanced Grant of the ERC in 2013. She was appointed to her current Unit head position at Institut Pasteur in January 2016.

Speaker/Presentation

Time in CET

Dr. Sepand Rastegar

Chair Introduction

5:00 – 5:05 pm

Dr. Ciaran Murphy-Royal

Astrocyte Network Dysfunction Regulates the Synaptic Response to Stress

5:05 – 5:50 pm

Dr. Laure Bally-Cuif

Single-Cell and Population Mechanisms Driving the Maintenance of Adult Neural Stem Cell Ensembles

5:50 – 6:35 pm

Q&A Session

6:35 – 6:55 pm

Closing of Webinar
Dr. Sepand Rastegar

6:55 – 7:00 pm