Louis-Éric Trudeau

Full professor

Affiliations

  • Department of pharmacology and physiology
  • Department of neurosciences
  • Member and director of the CNS Research Group (GRSNC) 

Research expertise

  • Cellular and molecular neurobiology and neuroscience
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Synaptic transmission
  • Dopamine
  • Neurotransmitter release

Main research projects

  • Mechanisms of neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease
  • Contribution of immune mechanisms to Parkinson’s disease
  • Molecular mechanisms of neuronal connectivity and dopamine release
  • Development of new methods to detect neurotransmitters

Approaches used

  • Primary neuronal cultures 
  • Brain slice preparations
  • Fluorescence and confocal microscopy
  •  Use of genetically-modified mice
  • Cellular and molecular neurobiology methods, including the use of viral vectors

Keywords  

Parkinson’s disease, Dopamine, Synaptic transmission, Synaptic plasticity, Microscopy and electrophysiology

louis-eric.trudeau@umontreal.ca

Département de pharmacologie et physiologie 

Département de neurosciences

Membre et directeur du Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC)

This content has been updated on 26 January 2024 at 12 h 36 min.