Amandine Virlogeux

Amandine Virlogeux

I received my BSc in Physiology and Biology, and my MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Paris Saclay. During my PhD, I worked in the lab of Pr. Frédéric Saudou (France, Institute Curie-Paris and GIN-Grenoble) to develop a microfluidic tool to reconstitute in vitro the corticostriatal network that is primarily damaged in Huntington’s disease. This system allowed me to highlight the cortex as a therapeutic target and to validate a previously screened drug, and then evaluate its therapeutic effects on Huntington’s disease mouse models. I joined Martyn Goulding‘s lab in July 2019 as a postdoc and now I am focusing on how subcortical regions integrate and encode sensorimotor information. I will elucidate the genetic and molecular characteristics of neural circuits underlying the propagation of sensorimotor information.