Flavie received her PhD in ecotoxicology from the University of Caen Normandy (France) but quickly fell for neuroscience. Her main research interests lie in the study of the cephalopod's nervous system, with a special interest for the characterization and understanding of the cellular players and the neuronal circuits underlying the Cephalopod’s unique cognitive and behavioral abilities. With her 9 years of research with cephalopods (S. officinalis, O. vulgaris, O. bimaculoides), she became a specialist in cephalopod care and tissue preparation and developed a diverse set of skills along the way, ranging from the culturing of primary neuronal cells, immunohistochemistry techniques, SEM analysis, extracellular recording (work in progress), to biochemical and behavioral analyses. Outside the lab, you will probably find Flavie on a climbing wall, on a soccer field, canoeing around the 10,000 lakes or drinking wine while eating cheese and bread on her patio.
Current project:
Flavie is currently working on a project investigating sensorimotor integration and control of octopus arms and suckers (ONR grant). More specifically, she is currently doing exciting research aimed to decipher some principles behind the hunt with 8 arms using high speed cameras. The main challenge she is tackling now is to do in vivo recording in a freely moving Octopus during predation.
Research interests: Neurobiology, Ethology, Cell Biology
Selected publications:
Current project:
Flavie is currently working on a project investigating sensorimotor integration and control of octopus arms and suckers (ONR grant). More specifically, she is currently doing exciting research aimed to decipher some principles behind the hunt with 8 arms using high speed cameras. The main challenge she is tackling now is to do in vivo recording in a freely moving Octopus during predation.
Research interests: Neurobiology, Ethology, Cell Biology
Selected publications:
- Bidel F, Bellanger C, Di Poi C, Imarazene B, Koueta N, Budzinski H, Bellanger C and Jozet-Alves C. (2016). Pre-hatching fluoxetine-induced neurochemical, neurodevelopmental, and immunological changes in newly hatched cuttlefish. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 23: 5030–5045. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4591-7
- Bidel F, Corvaisier S, Naud N, Jozet-Alves C, Pottier I, Dauphin F, Naud N & Bellanger C. (2016). An HPLC-ECD method for monoamines and metabolites quantification in cuttlefish (cephalopod) brain tissue. Biomedical Chromatography 8: 1175–1183 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.3663
- Bidel F, Di Poi C, Budzinski H, Pardon P, Callewaert W, Arini A, Basu N, Dickel L, Bellanger C & Jozet-Alves C. (2016). Venlafaxine (antidepressant) may act as a neurodevelopmental toxicant in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). NeuroToxicology 55, 142–153. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2016.05.023
- Turchetti-Maia AL, Stern-Mentch N, Bidel F, Nesher N, Shomrat T & Hochner B. (2018). A novel NO-dependent ‘molecular-memory-switch’ mediates presynaptic expression and postsynaptic maintenance of LTP in the octopus brain. BioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/491340
