Groc Laurent

Biography

Laurent Grocis research director (DR2 CNRS) and Principal Investigator at the CNRS and Université de Bordeaux. His reasearch focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the maturation of glutamate synapses in physiology and neuropsychiatric conditions, such as psychosis. He received his Ph.D. in Neurosciences in 2000 from Wayne State University (Michigan, USA) and Université de Lyon (France). He then joined the Department of Physiology at the University of Goteborg (Sweden) as a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the physiology of developing synapses. In 2004, he was appointed CNRS young investigator (CR2) in the Bordeaux Neurocampus, to continue his investigation on the maturing synapses using an original combination of approaches. He is now head of a team at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neurosciences. Over the past decade,he acted as associate editors for several journals, scientific officer for the AERES (Paris), and board members for National and International Funding Agencies.

Research Interest

Neurology