Lisa Roux

Université de Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5297, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience

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Lisa Roux is a research directorat CNRS leading the team “Neurophysiology of Natural Behaviors” at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS, CNRS UMR5297, Bordeaux University, France) since 2018. She did her PhD under the supervision of C. Giaume at the Collège de France where she worked on neuro-glial interactions in the olfactory system using primarily slice electrophysiology. Her work unraveled a bi-directional loop of interactions between neuron and astrocyte networks which could impact olfactory information processing.In 2012, Lisa Rouxjoinedthe lab of Gyorgy Buzsáki (NYU, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow. There,she used advanced in vivo electrophysiology and optogenetic approaches in freely moving miceto understand the mechanisms of hippocampal oscillations and their function in spatial memory processes. Her work also uncovered the key role played by sharp wave ripple oscillations in the maintenance of the hippocampal “cognitive map” during spatial learning. As an independent group leader at the IINS, she now aims at understanding how the dialog between olfactory and memory networks underlie the formation, consolidation and recall of long-term memory traces. Her teammainly focuses on two paleocorticesimportant for memory function: the hippocampus and the olfactory piriform cortex.