Charlotte Boccara
Academic interests
The role of sleep in cognitive development: Sleep is essential for healthy cognitive development. The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in chronic sleep deprivation among children that amounts to what is now a public health epidemic. Despite the substantial societal impact of sleep deprivation on cognitive neurodevelopmental disorders, we still know very little about the neural mechanisms that promote cognitive development during sleep. To address this crucial gap in our knowledge, I have designed an innovative research project at the junction of developmental neurobiology, system neuroscience and sleep research.
Impact: This research has the ambition to answer a timely health concern. And thus has a clear societal impact with giving incentive to change policies that encourage healthier sleep habits, as well as translational research applications to study associations with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Twitter @ChaBoccara
Research experience
Since 2019: Project Leader 'Sleep, Cognition and Development'
Institute of Basic Medical sciences
Since 2018: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at UiO
Institute of Basic Medical sciences
Storm lab
2017–2018: Research Associate at King's College London
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
2012–2016: Postdoctoral Researcher at the IST Austria
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
2006–2012: PhD Student at NTNU
Kavli Institute for Systems Neurosciences
Moser lab
Education
2014 PhD, Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine
(NTNU, Trondheim)
2005 MSc, Neurosciences, Université Marie et Pierre Curie
(UMPC, Paris 6)
2003 BSc, Cellular Biology and Physiology, UMPC
(Paris 6)
Awards
2019 Young Research Talent, Norwegian Research Council
2018 Marie Curie MSCA-IF Postdoctoral Fellowship
2017 MRC CNDD Seed Funds
2006 PhD Fellowship Faculty of Medicine
Teaching
2019–2020 PBL/LBS Physiology
MED1100 & MED 2200 (UIO)
2018–2019 Komparativ anatomi/evolusjon
MED2200 (UIO)
2017 Memory mechanisms in health and diseases
6BBYN309 (King's College)
2014–2016 Systems Neuroscience
C_NEU-205 Graduate school (IST Austria)
Collaborations
Johan Storm (IMB, UiO, Norway)
Rosamund Langston (Dundee, UK)
Dori Derdikman (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Menno Witter (Kavli Institute, NTNU, Norway)
Hua Hu (IMB, UiO, Norway)
Koen Vervaeke (IMB, UiO, Norway)
Cathrin Canto (NiN, Amsterdam, Nederlands)
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Recent talks
Nov. 28, 2018 (IMB, UiO) How do goals alter spatial cognitive maps?
Outreach
DevNeuro Academy (King's College London)
Press
The scientist Quanta magazine Medicalxpress Science.apa.at vbio