Prof. Pierre Magistretti
Laboratory of Neuroenergetics and Cellular Dynamics
Co-Director, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL
Director, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience,
Department of Psychiatry, CHUV and University of Lausanne,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Research:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain energy metabolism.
Technical expertise of the laboratory:
Digital Holographic Microscopy.
Recent publications:
- Pellerin, L. and Magistretti, P.J. (2004)
Let there be (NADH) light. SCIENCE 305, 50-52. - Marquet, P., Rappaz, B., Magistretti, P.J., Cuche, E., Emery, Y., Colomb, T., Depeursinge, C. (2005)
Digital holographic microscopy : a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy. OPTICS LETTERS 30 : 468-470. - Ros J, Pellerin L, Magara F, Dauguet J, Schenk F, Magistretti PJ.
Metabolic activation pattern of distinct hippocampal subregions during spatial learning and memory retrieval. J CEREB BLOOD FLOW METAB. (Advance online publication, 31 August 2005) - Agnès Aubert, Robert Costalat, Pierre J. Magistretti and Luc Pellerin (2005)
Brain lactate kinetics: modeling evidence for neuronal lactate uptake upon activation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102(45):16448-53
Prof. Dominique Muller
Department of Basic Neuroscience,
CMU, University of Geneva,
Switzerland.
Research:
Study of the mechanism underlying the plasticity of excitatory connectios in the brain using hippocampal organotypic slice cultures as a model.
Technical expertise of the laboratory:
whole cell patch-clamp, dual cell recordings, time lapse imaging of synapses using two-photon confocal microscopy, ultrastructural analyses using 3-D EM reconstruction and molecular tools.
Recent publications:
- Jourdain, P., Fukunaga, K. and Muller, D. (2003)
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to activity-dependent filopodia growth and spine formation J. NEUROSCI. 23: 10645-10649. - Nikonenko, I., Jourdain P. and Muller, D. (2003)
Presynaptic remodelling contributes to activity-induced synaptogenesis J. NEUROSCI. 23:8498-505. - Boda B., Alberi S., Nikonenko I., Node-Langlois R., Jourdain P., Moosmayer M., Parisi- Jourdain L. and Muller D. (2004)
The mental retardation protein PAK3 contributes to synapse formation and plasticity in hippocampus. J. NEUROSCI. 24:10816-825.
Assistant Prof. Carl Petersen
Laboratory of Sensory Processing,
Brain Mind Institute, EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Research:
Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception and associative learning.
Technical expertise of the laboratory:
Voltage-sensitive dye imaging, intrinsic optical imaging, two photon imaging.
Recent publications:
- Kvajo M, Albrecht H, Meins M, Hengst U, Troncoso E, Lefort S, Kiss JZ, Petersen CCH, Monard D (2004)
Regulation of brain proteolytic activity is necessary for the in vivo function of NMDA receptors. J. NEUROSCI. 24: 9734-9743. - Petersen CCH, Hahn TTG, Mehta M, Grinvald A, Sakmann B (2003)
Interaction of sensory responses with spontaneous depolarization in layer 2/3 barrel cortex. PNAS USA 100: 13638-13643. - Petersen CCH, Grinvald A, Sakmann B (2003)
Spatiotemporal dynamics of sensory responses in layer 2/3 of rat barrel cortex measured in vivo by voltage-sensitive dye imaging combined with whole-cell voltage recordings and anatomical reconstructions. J. NEUROSCI. 23: 1298-1309.
Prof. Egbert Welker
Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology (DBCM),
University of Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Research:
Study of the mechanisms by which sensory experience shapes cortical circuitry.
Technical expertise of the laboratory:
Ultrastructural analyses using 3-D EM reconstruction.
Recent publications:
- Croquelois A, Bronchti G, Welker E. (2005)
Cortical origin of functional recovery in the somatosensory cortex of the adult mouse after thalamic lesion. Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Apr;21(7):1798-806. - Di Cristo G, Wu C, Chattopadhyaya B, Ango F, Knott G, Welker E, Svoboda K, Huang ZJ. (2004)
Subcellular domain-restricted GABAergic innervation in primary visual cortex in the absence of sensory and thalamic inputs. Nat Neurosci. 2004 Nov;7(11):1184-6. Epub 2004 Oct 10. - Genoud C, Knott GW, Sakata K, Lu B, Welker E. (2004)
Altered synapse formation in the adult somatosensory cortex of brain-derived neurotrophic factor heterozygote mice. J Neurosci. 2004 Mar 10;24(10):2394-400.
