Léo Michel

About me :

I graduated my Master in Marine Biology at Sorbonne University, Paris, France. I then joined the laboratory of Sylvie Mazan as a PhD student and investigated the evolution of habenular organization in jawed vertebrates. During this period, I performed a systematic comparative analysis in habenula of cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes and tetrapod as well as an habenular genome-wide and spatially resolved analysis on the catshark by RNA tomography approach. I decided to join the laboratory of Manuel Mameli in Lausanne as a post-doctoral fellow to gain more knowledge and know-how about circuits, behavior, states and disease. My project focused especially on the encoding of aversion by non neuronal-cells when mice are exposed to threats and the balance between active coping and passive coping state. I am now happy to have joined the lab of Johannes Larsch where I plan to gain knowledge about social aspects of the brain in the zebrafish model. My project focuses on identifying socially tunable cells in the juvenile, coupling single-nuclei transcriptomics and functional approaches.