Benjamin Boutrel, PhD, Privat Docent et Maitre d’Enseignement et de Recherche/Senior Lecturer
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Neurobiologiste, expert dans le domaine de la neurobiologie des troubles addictifs et de la pharmacologie des drogues et médicaments psychotropes.
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Tenured senior lecturer, School of Biology and medicine, Lausanne, since 2007
Group leader, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital, since 2004
Head of the Laboratory on the Neurobiology of Addictive and Eating Disorders, Department of Psychiatry.
Post-doctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, 2001-2004
We aimed at investigating the modulation of cocaine self-administration in rats and mice in the Prof. George Koob Lab. Our collaboration with Prof. Luis de Lecea led us to the identification of the hypocretin/orexin system in stress-induced reinstatement of a previously extinguished cocaine seeking behavior.
PhD Thesis in neuroscience, Faculté de médecine Pitié-Salpétrière, 1997-2001
Our scientific project was performed at the laboratory of Neuropsychopharmacology (Inserm U288/677, head: Prof. Michel Hamon). We developed the polygraphic recording of vigilance states in mice and investigated the modulation of sleep-wake to investigate the serotonergic control of anxiety, mood and sleep.
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I have a PhD in neurosciences, and I have been working as Lab manager in the Boutrel’s laboratory since 2009. My field of expertise includes behavioral pharmacology and neurobiology. Currently, I am in charge of implementing several animal models for conducting research projects on Eating Disorders in animal models. I am particularly interested in the additive features of these disorders and their association with other mental and metabolic diseases.
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I work to understand how exposure to stress during adolescence changes the brain circuitry thereby arresting the neurobehavioural development of the individual and also increasing the long-term risk for addiction. I work with Wistar rats and use several techniques such as behavioral models, slice electrophysiology, optogenetics, chemogenetics and immuno-histochemistry to understand the causal relationships between the brain circuit changes and behavioral effects of stress exposure.
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I completed my Ph.D in Bordeaux, France under the supervision of Dr. Serge Ahmed and was interested in studying the psychological and behavioral determinants of choice between drugs of abuse and sweet water. I was recruited postdoc in the Lab of Dr Patricia Janak at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) to investigating the neural circuits underlying goal-directed and habitual decision making. I joined the Boutrel Lab in April 2020 and I am now investigating bidirectional interactions between gut microbiota and the development of addictive behaviors.
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I first joined the lab as a master student. My project was to investigate the role of the gut microbiota as a biological marker for the vulnerability to develop an alcohol use disorder, notably using the emergent method of microbiota fecal transplant, in rats. After one year in the lab, I was given the opportunity to stay for three more years to realize my PhD in the continuity of my previous work on the subject.
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I am a master's student in medical Biology. I work on the role of the inflammatory processes in the onset and the maintenance of the eating-related maladaptive behaviour. I have been at the CNP since June 2020 to carry out this project.
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I am in the lab as a master student and my project during the next month will be to study the role of the prefrontal cortex in emergence and maintenance of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder.
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During my master studies I conducted research focused on the memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease and the epigenetic alterations involved thereof. As a biomedical scientist with exceptional interest in the molecular underpinnings of memory formation I find a great pleasure in studying the decision-making process. A great passion of mine is to understand the maladaptive memory formation driven by addictive substances and the interactions between the brain, the immune system and the gut microbiota.
From left to right : Léa Aeschlimann, Clara Rossetti, Youna Vandaele, Ivana Kalanoska, Ben Boutrel, Kshitij Jadhav, Chloé Clavien (August 2020)
From left to right : Kshitij Jadhav, Léa Aeschlimann, Nathalie Habegger, Kyllian Ginggen, Clara Rossetti, Ben Boutrel (September 2018)
From left to right : Kshitij Jadhav, Ben Boury-Jamot, Gaëlle Awad, Laetitia Guerra, Clara Rossetti, Ben Boutrel, Phi-Long N’Guyen (December 2016)