2003 Laureate
Current position
Group leader, Research Director (DR1), Coordinator of the Development Department
Host institution
Vision Institute, Paris, France Inserm, France
alain.chedotal@inserm.fr
Alain Chédotal is interested in deciphering how, on one hand migrating neurons and on the other hand neuron extensions are guided in the developing brain in order to establish connections between one another (axons). He is also working with his team on new technologies allowing the visualization of developing neurons. Their research should determine whether molecules involved in axonal guidance are also players of diseases of the visual system or demyelinating pathologies like multiple sclerosis or certain cancers.
• 1988 : Admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
• 1995 : Ph. D. in Neurosciences, University Paris 6 UPMC, France, Constantino Sotelo’s lab
• 1995-1997 : Post-doctoral fellow (EMBO long term fellow), UC Berkeley, USA, Corey S Goodman’s lab
• Remedios Caro Almela Prize in Developmental Neurobiology, 2017
• Team Foundation for the Medical Research (FRM), 2012
• European Society of Neurochemistry, Young Investigator, 2001
• Team Foundation for the Medical Research (FRM), 2006
Creation of the first database of 3D embryo Imaging.
2017
Many articles in the general press following publication in Cell :
Science post
Sciences et avenir
La Recherche
Pour la science
2017
Des neurones de toutes les couleurs
Mars 2011
Genetic dissection of the function of hindbrain axonal commissures
March 2010, PLoS Biology
Plexin-A2 and its ligand, Sema6A, control nucleus-centrosome coupling in migrating granule cells
Apr 2008, Nat Neuroscience
The transmembrane semaphorin Sema6A controls cerebellar granule cell migration
Nov 2005, Nat Neuroscience