Dionysia T. Theodosis#
| Membership Number: | 2620 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/people/past/theodosis.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Presently: Directeur de Recherches INSERM (1st class), working in the Laboratory of Morphofunctional Neurobiology INSERM U 378 associated with the University Victor Segalen-Bordeaux II, Bordeaux, France
- 1980 - 1991 Chargée et Directeur de Recherches INSERM, U l76, Bordeaux
- 1979 - 1980 Assistante, Dept. Physiologie, Univ Bordeaux II, Bordeaux
- 1978 - 1979 Chercheur Poste Orange INSERM, INSERM U.l76 (dir. Prof. J.D. Vincent), Bordeaux
- 1974 - 1978 Research Assistant, Dépt de Morphologie, Ecole de Médecine, Geneva
- 1974 Research Assistant, Dépt. de Pathologie, Ecole de Médecine, Geneva
- 1972 - 1974 Research Fellow, NRC, Dept. Biology, McGill Univ, Montreal
- 1970 - 1971 Technician, Pathology Inst, McGill University , Montréal
- 1969 - 1970 Technician, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto
- 1967 - 1969 Research Fellow, NRC, Canada, Dept of Zoology, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuronal-glial interactions
- Synaptic plasticity
- Neurosecretion
- Neuroanatomy
- Cell adhesion
- Hypothalamus
- Neuropeptides
- Glutamate
- GABA
- Stereology techniques: light, electron and confocal microscopy, stereology, immunocytochemistry, immunoblot analysis, neuronal tracing, in situ hybridization
- Acute slices of adult brain tissues
- Cell cultures (monolayer, organotypic)
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Société de Neuroendocrinologie Expérimentale and of the Society for Neuroscience
