Détails de la réservation
- Le : 2 March 2018
- De : 11 h 30
- à : 12 h 30
- Salle : Amphi Centre Broca Nouvelle - Aquitaine
Détails de l'évènement
Gero Miesenböck
The Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour / University of Oxford / Group leader
"Optogenetics : Lighting up the brain"
Résumé
In a decade and a half, optogenetic control of neuronal activity has developed from a far-fetched idea to a widely used technique for probing the neural substrates of cognition and behavior. My talk will recount how this happened, drawing on the earliest and latest results from my lab. To illustrate what is now possible, I will present recent work on the homeostatic regulation of sleep. Optogenetics has allowed us to pinpoint neurons whose sleep-inducing activity switches on as sleep deficits accrue, understand how this activity switch works, and map some of the efferent connections that impose sleep on the rest of the brain.
Invitant : Bordeaux Neurocampus / NBA
Responsable
- Nom : Julia GONCALVES