2017 Director of research, DR2 Cnrs
Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, France
2008 Research Associate (CR Cnrs)
Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, France
2004-2008 Postdoctoral fellow, InnerEarLab (Pr. Tobias Moser)
University of Göttingen, Germany
2004 PhD, Inserm U254 (Supervisor: Pr. Jean-Luc Puel)
University Montpellier, France
Inner hair cells are the sensory cells of the cochlea, the organ of hearing. Inner hair cells transduce sound-stimulation into the neurotransmitter release onto the afferent auditory nerve fibers. Our current research consists to decipher the mechanism underlying the synaptic maturation, the molecular determinants of hair cells exocytosis and the auditory neuropathies. To do so, we are using multi-disciplinary approaches from molecular biology to system level examination.