Dr. Pierre Drapeau

Research on the Nervous System

Office N-535
Tel.: 514 343-7087

p.drapeau@umontreal.ca

 

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Titles and affiliations

• Professor and Chair
• Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience
• Affiliate Professor, McGill University, Neurology & Neurosurgery and Graduate Program in Neuroscience
• Affiliate Professor, McGill University, Department of Biology
• Affiliate Professor, McGill University, Department of Physiology
• Associate Membre, McGill University, Centre for Research in Neuroscience

N.B. Graduate students can register at McGill University, with which Dr. Drapeau is also affiliated.

 

Development of neural circuits and disease models

As a model for the formation and function of CNS circuits, we are studying the development of the locomotor network in manipulable zebrafish embryos by combining cellular neurophysiology and molecular genetics. We record and image the activity patterns of identified neurons during development in wild-type and genetically modified embryos, including by transgenic over-expression, upon antisense knockdown and in mutations that affect locomotion.

 

 

Our goal is to elucidate the molecular choreography of locomotor network formation and function. We are also using the zebrafish as a model for the validation of mutations of human genes linked to neurological and psychiatric developmental disorders.