Imane Hurel

After more than 4 years, I finally defended my PhD yesterday in front of a fantastic jury and my amazing friends and colleagues. My greatest thanks go to the @MarsicanoLab and my mentor and friend Francis Chaouloff. 🫶

Why female-specific research is critical to understand addiction? For decades, females were basically ignored in addiction neuroscience. Then, thanks to the NIH SABV mandates almost exactly 10 years ago, researchers started including females, and things got intriguing, some evidence suggested the estrous cycle may influence the motivation to take cocaine. Our lab just published a paper in @PsychopharmEBPS, led by Dr. Elizabeth Sneddon @esneddon21, that forces us to rethink this relationship. We tested whether estrous phase influences cocaine self-administration in our Heterogeneous Stock (HS) rat model, using over 400 female rats, one of the largest female cocaine datasets ever generated. The answer: no. Estrous phase had no association with cocaine intake during short access, long access, or progressive ratio sessions. High vs. low estrogen groupings? No difference. This is a null finding and null findings matter. But the story gets far more interesting.

Excited to see my PhD research out in Molecular Psychiatry! Grateful for all who supported this work!

Someone is retiring today! Francis has been working in the lab since 2008, and today is his official first day of retirement, but he will stay two more years as Emeritus👏🏻

Today we say goodbye to @talpaca13, after her stay in the lab for the last 6 months! We are going to miss you, come back soon!

Doctor Sandra Beriain, congrats for a successful defense of her thesis on the role of CB1 receptors in the retina! She will continue to working the lab for a few months to finish up things, and then she will be on the job market!

Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world. How it started & how it's going A thread🧵

New publication alert! Paula's PhD project is published and free to access now! Also, she is in the job market 👀

Nous recherchons un assistant ingénieur en neurobiologie du comportement pour une durée d'au moins 24 mois à compter du 1er octobre 2024 👇 Merci de RT 🙏 @univbordeaux @Neuro_Bordeaux

@CelineNicolas2 @CNRS @Neuro_Bordeaux Encore bravo 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I waited this day for so long. I am thrilled to announce that I have been appointed associate professor @cnrs, @Neuro_Bordeaux #INCIA . 🎉Thanks a lot to everyone who helped along the road. Work always pays off! 💪

My first seminar as an ambassador/fellow of @CNRS was very enjoyable. I love how @iins_bordeaux focuses on neuroscience from single molecules to behavior. I especially enjoyed chatting with the enthusiastic students at lunch.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 We are looking for a research engineer to join the Addiction, Interoception and Sex differences emerging team @Neuro_Bordeaux, INCIA to work on the behavioral and circuits mechanisms of sex differences in drug relapse. More details here emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR…

@SergeAhmed Hâte de le lire en détail ! Bravo !!

Our latest research article on brain patterns associated with extinction of cocaine-primed reinstatement Kudos to the first authors, Magalie Lenoir and Michel Engeln, and also to Paul Girardeau and Sylvia Navailles nature.com/articles/s4138… Here it is: rdcu.be/dFMBG

I'm particularly happy to have received this prize from @BaufretonJerome with whom I did my first internship in neurosciences 9 years ago 🤗

Many thanks to the @NCMagendie for this post doc poster award ! Thanks again to my amazing mentors Francis & Gio @MarsicanoLab ❤️ and of course to the scientific organisation team for this wonderful symposium (and party 🥳)

@agnes_nadjar @NCMagendie @MarsicanoLab Such a big surprise 😉🤣

Presenting poster for the first day of the neurocenter symposium @NCMagendie @MarsicanoLab ❤️

Happy Friday with this joke from Giovanni! (illustrated by @Neurocuriously)

Symposium tomorrow❗ 25th/Broca Auditorium/ 14:00 - 16:15 @Neuro_Bordeaux With amazing speakers: - Amit Agarwal on astrocytes and pain @Agarwalneurolab - Guillaume Ferreira on high fat diet and cognition @PtiLou_Ferreira - Jaideep Bains on CRH neurons and valence @stressynomics

Happening today !!

New publication alert! 🚨We found that CB1 receptors in the striatopallidal MSNs control amphetamine-induce behavioral sensitization on locomotor activity (not acute response!) and related synaptic changes. cell.com/current-biolog…