Microbes and Brain

This MOOC is aimed at people interested in understanding the complex interactions between microbes and our nervous system, especially our brain.

A bachelor of science is recommended to attend this MOOC.

Ce MOOC s'adresse à tous ceux qui souhaitent mieux comprendre les interactions entre les microbes et notre système nerveux, en particulier notre cerveau.

Une licence de sciences est recommandée pour suivre ce MOOC.

Grégoire Chevalier
Grégoire Chevalier is a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, studying the interplay between the microbiota and the host. He pursued his thesis under the supervision of Pr. Daniel Gonzalez-Dunia and Pr. Roland Liblau, at the Centre of Pathophysiology of Toulouse Purpan, at the crossroad of immunology and neurosciences, studying the mechanisms of neuronal damage caused by neuroinflammation. He obtained his PhD in neuroimmunology in 2011 from Toulouse III University, France. He then joined the Institut Pasteur in Paris as a postdoctoral fellow within the lab of Pr. Gérard Eberl. He is an active member of a consortium on "Microbes & Brain" at the Institut Pasteur, which brings together neuroscientists, immunologists and microbiologists of the institute.

Ivo Gomperts Boneca
Ivo Boneca is the head of the Biology and Genetics of Bacterial Cell Wall research unit at the Institut Pasteur. He worked for his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Tomasz, at The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and obtained his PhD in biology from the Institute of Technical Chemistry and Biology in Lisbon in 2000. He then joined the Institut Pasteur as a post-doctoral fellow in 2000 and became the head of a Junior group at the Institut Pasteur in 2008 and of a full research unit in 2013.