ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Redesigning brain circuits in development
In the pre-optogenetics era, molecular genetics defined the concepts of neural circuit development providing mechanistic insights into axon guidance and synapse assembly. However, this approach often revealed limited insights into the function of the circuits studied. Since 2005, optogenetics has revolutionized our approach to functionally dissect brain circuits and has tremendously increased our understanding of how they contribute to specific behaviours. However, how these circuits assemble during development remains mostly unknown. Here, I propose to combine these two approaches: to genetically redesign specific circuits during mouse development in a predictable fashion, and to test the…
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