Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Post-doc series March 7, 2024: Darren Clarke & Maeva Gacoin

Speaker: Darren Clarke, Université de Montréal

Exclusive regulation of specific hippocampal inhibitory synapses by distinct subtypes of astrocytes

Darren Clarke is a postdoctoral researcher in the Robitaille Lab in the Département de Neurosciences at the Université de Montréal. His work explores the functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mouse CA1 hippocampus through a variety of techniques, including patch-clamp electrophysiology and calcium imaging. Darren’s research currently focuses on astrocyte regulation of inhibitory synapses in the CA1.

Speaker: Maëva Gacoin, McGill University

Cross-species myelin mapping between the developing marmoset and the adult macaque

Maëva Gacoin is a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in the Sensory & Social Brain Mechanisms lab, led by Dr. Justine Cléry in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery. She completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at Claude Bernard University – Lyon 1, Institut des Sciences Cognitives – Marc Jeannerod, by studying the enhancement of long-term plasticity in the adult macaque visual cortex through behavioral and pharmacological manipulations using MRI techniques. She is now interested in social interactions in non-human primates, brain development, and its plasticity. Her current post-doctoral project focuses on the neurodevelopment of marmosets in a social context, using MRI to document social interaction patterns across the marmoset lifespan and relate them to humans. This involves studying brain functional connectivity, behavior, and myelin mapping.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaevaGacoin (@MaevaGacoin)