Noëmie Mermet-Joret, PhD

The brain is a vast world by itself: it is incredibly powerful when it functions properly, and can behave in a mysterious way when it fails to do so. Being interested in a broad range of questions, I started my career as a neuroscientist (precisely as an in-vitro electrophysiologist) by studying pathologies like epilepsy, memory deficits after traumatic brain injury, anxiety and pain. I dug into the postnatal development of the brain during my PhD (in Prof. Dallel’s lab, Clermont-Ferrand, France) and since I joined Sadegh Nabavi’s lab, I am combining different approaches to understand how fears are processed within the amygdala. My aim is to understand the brain as an all and to decorticate the circuits underlying specific behaviors.

Email: nmj@dandrite.au.dk