Bérénice will present a talk titled “Circuit mechanisms underlying motor and cognitive dysfunction in mouse models of Parkinson's disease.” The presentation will examine how progressive alpha-synuclein pathology disrupts dopaminergic signaling and alters network dynamics to produce motor and cognitive deficits in vivo.

 

A brief bio: Bérénice completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Alexandra Nelson, where she investigated how progressive alpha-synuclein pathology alters dopaminergic signaling and leads to motor and cognitive impairments in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease. Before, she earned her PhD at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris under the supervision of Dr. Daniela Popa, where she focused on in vivo electrophysiology, motor circuits and symptoms in Parkinson's disease.