Novel transgenic and imaging approaches to study the extraordinarily complex assemblies of neurons and glial cells.

Team research topics:

We study how the cells that constitute brain and retinal circuits are generated, differentiate and interconnect during development. Our research is based on new genetic engineering and imaging methodologies enabling to trace neural cell lineage and connectivity.

we use transgenic approaches such as Brainbow, a technique that distributes combinations of fluorescent proteins of distinct colors among cells of a tissue.

Research areas

• Lineage and regulation of embryonic neural stem cells
• Connectomic mapping of sensory circuitry and study of its development
• Genetic engineering and synthetic biology: new genetic switches and reporter systems to study neural cells and their development

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Address :
17 Rue Moreau, 75012, Paris

Team leader :
Jean Livet
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Administrative Contact Name :
Dominique Santiard-Baron

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Key words : #Neurodéveloppement #cellules #souches #neurales #lignage #cellulaire #Brainbow #Neurodevelopment #neural #stem #cells #cell #lineage