Dr. Stéphane H.R. Oliet Neurocentre Magendie, France

Stéphane H.R. Oliet is Deputy Director of the Neurocentre Magendie, an Inserm Research Institute devoted to Neurosciences. He is heading a team working on glia-neuron relationships in physiological and pathophysiological processes. He obtained his PhD from McGill University in 1994. He then trained in the laboratory of Pr Roger Nicoll... read moreat UCSF before obtaining a permanent position at CNRS in France. He is a neurophysiologist whose work is mainly oriented toward the understanding of synaptic transmission and plasticity in the central nervous system with an emphasis on astrocytes and their roles in synaptic functions.