People

Pierre-Yves Musso PhD

Principal Investigator
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Pierre-Yves is a member of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Center for taste, smell and feeding behaviour (CSGA) of Dijon. He completed his Master at the Paul Sabatier university of Toulouse (France), where he worked on appetitive memory in the honeybee Apis mellifera. His PhD and a short postdoc at the Sorbonne university, in the team "Energy and Memory" in Paris where he worked on the caloric involvement for appetitive memory in Drosophila melanogaster; a short postdoc at the Center for animal cognition (CRCA) of Toulouse where he worked on how stress impacts memory in flies. He then moved to Vancouver at the university of British Columbia (UBC) in the Gordon lab  to work as a postdoc for 5 years where he developed the STROBE: a new technology allowing automatic neural optogenetic activation upon flies' interaction with food. He also investigated how glucose and fructose ingestion modulate appetitive behaviour in flies. Finally, he worked for 2 years as a research associate at UBC in the Tanentzapf lab on the relationship between taste and immune response in flies.
Researchgate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Musso-Pierre-Yves

Stéphane Fraichard PhD

Research engineer/Lab manager
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As a lab manager, Stéphane plays a key role in the team. Stéphane is also a specialist in molecular biology (PCR, Q-PCR, Western Blot, Northern Blot, Southern Blot, cloning, building genetic lines with Crispr-Cas9). He is also an expert in Drosophila genetic, behaviour (taste, olfaction), and electrophysiology.

Researchgate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fraichard-Stephane

Isabelle Chauvel

Project engineer
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Isabelle has been working at the CNRS for 22 years and is now a Studied engineer. She developed a strong expertise in immunohistochemistry, in-situ hybridation, and imaging (confocal and 2-photon). She is currently the reference for these technics. In addition, Isabelle does molecular biology, biochemistry and behaviour. Isabelle is also in charge of lab safety.

Stéphane Dupas

Project engineer
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Stéphane has been a Studied Engineer for more than 25 years. He started at the  "Ecole Normale Supérieure" in Paris where he investigated the role of the Engrailed protein on neural growth in mice for 8 years. Then he moved to Dijon in order to investigate how genes regulate olfactory perception. Stéphane has a strong expertise in molecular biology (PCR, Q-PCR, Western Blot, Northern Blot, Southern Blot, cloning, building genetic lines with Crispr-Cas9), but also in behaviour (locomotion,Proboscis Extension Response (PER)). In addition, he is part of the ecological comity in order to improve science sustainability.

Jérôme Cortot

Assistant engineer
Jerome.Cortot@u-bourgogne​

Jérôme is responsible for the management of Drosophila lines. He is also skilled in adult fly behaviour (courtships, Proboscis Extension Response (PER)), as well as larvae behaviour (locomotion). Jérôme is also our expert in analytical equipment, such as gas chromatographs with flame ionisation detection (GC-FID) and gas chromatograph coupled to a mass spectrometer (GC-MS). In addition to his "fly" work, he is also our referent of quality assurance research.