Serge Faumont

Postdoctoral research associate.

 

Institute of Neuroscience

1254, University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97403-1210.

Phone: (541)-346-4592

Fax: (541)-346-4548

e-mail: serge@chinook.uoregon.edu

 

Research interests

Neural basis of behavior; neural networks; cellular neurophysiology

 

Education

1999 Ph.D. thesis. University of Bordeaux I, France.

Speciality: Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology.

Title: Mecanismes cellulaires impliques dans la selection de programmes moteurs multiples par un meme systeme de controle descendant: Approches elestrophysiologique, pharmacologiques et immunohistochimiques (Cellular mechanisms involved in selection of multiple motor patterns by a single descending control system: Elec- trophysiological, pharmacological and immunohistochemical approaches.

Supervisors: P. Meyrand, J. Simmers

 

1996 DEA de Neuroscience et Neuropharmacologie.

Specialities: Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology.

 

1995 Maitrise de Physiologie. University of Bordeaux I, France and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Specialities: physiology and Neuroscience.

 

1993 Licence de Biologie Cellulaire et Physiologie. University of Bor- deaux I, France.

Specialities: Cell biology and physiology.

 

1992 DEUG B. University of Bordeaux I, France.

Speciality: Biology.

 

Postgraduate positions

2000-present : Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, USA

1998-2000: Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Reseaux, University Bordeaux I, France

1996-1998: Laboratoire de neurobiology et physiologie compares, University Bordeaux I, France

 

Honors and awards.

MENRT doctoral grant (1996-2000)

 

Areas of expertise

Electrophysiology (extracellular, intracellular, patch clamp)

Quantitative analysis of behavior

Calcium imaging

Modelling

Immunohistochemistry