Alan Carleton
Group name: Laboratory of sensory perception and plasticity
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences
Domains: Perception, Attention and Cognition, Development and Plasticity
Keywords: brain networks, brain plasticity, multisensory integration, olfactory system
Research activities
In the laboratory, we study the mechanisms controlling sensory perception and how different senses may interact together. How neural networks encode sensory information into the brain and how to relate behavior to neuronal activities will be of great importance for future implementation of brain-machine interfaces. We would like to precise how sensory stimuli are coded by brain networks and how these representations may be influenced by experience and across different sensory modalities. In order to address these general questions, we study chemical senses as model sensory systems. Olfactory and gustatory are probably the senses most naturally interacting together in behaving animals especially during feeding behavior. We use a multidisciplinary approach combining in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology and functional imaging, 2-photon microscopy, lentivirus gene transfer and behaviour. Among different projects, we are currently studying the network mechanisms underlying olfactory coding, the synaptic mechanisms shaping olfactory networks function and the impact of adult neurogenesis on olfaction.
Latest publications
Kainate receptors modulate the microstructure of synchrony during dentate gyrus epileptiform activity.
Publisher Correction: Transcriptional adaptation of olfactory sensory neurons to GPCR identity and activity.
Clustering of vomeronasal receptor genes is required for transcriptional stability but not for choice.
mutations cause hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with sensory and cognitive deficits that can be reversed in infantile mice.
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Prof. Alan Carleton
+41 22 37 95 426
alan.carleton@unige.ch
Anindya Bhattacharjee
+41 22 37 95 194
anindya.bhattacharjee@unige.ch
Léon Fodoulian
+41 22 37 95 462
leon.fodoulian@unige.ch
Chieko Huber
+41 22 37 95 641
chieko.huber@unige.ch
Elodie Husi
+41 22 37 95 445
elodie.husi@unige.ch
Maxime Juventin
+41 22 37 95 194
maxime.juventin@unige.ch
Vladimir Kouskoff
+41 22 37 95 194
vladimir.kouskoff@unige.ch
Marie Moulinier
+41 22 37 95 194
marie.moulinier@unige.ch
Sophie Mutel
+41 22 37 95 194
sophie.mutel@unige.ch
Jean-Rodolphe Renfer
+41 22 37 95 462
jean-rodolphe.renfer@unige.ch
Rodrigo Salazar Toro
+41 22 37 95 469
rodrigo.salazartoro@unige.ch
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Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Alan.Carleton@unige.ch