Laure Strochlic

Dr Laure Strochlic (INSERM, Research Director DR) joined the Myology Research Center in 2019 as a group leader in charge of the team "Neuromuscular Connectivity in Health and Diseases" co-directed with Bertrand Fontaine. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Christine Holt at Cambridge University in England, she worked as a junior scientist with Claire Legay in the laboratory of "Development and Pathologies of Neuromuscular junctions" at Paris Cité University, then at the Paris Brain Institute as a principal investigator in the laboratory of "Neurogenetic and Physiology" directed by Bertrand Fontaine. She earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Paris XI University in 2004, where she worked in the laboratory of "Membrane Cell Biology" under Jean Cartaud supervision at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris. Her main research interest is to understand the molecular and cellular underpinnings of synapse assembly and maintenance in healthy, aged and diseased conditions using the tri-partite neuromuscular synapse as a model, with the ultimate goal of finding new therapeutic pathways to counteract neuromuscular disorders.