Philippe FOSSATI
Title: MD, PhD, Pr (PU-PH)
Function: Team Leader, PI
Affiliated entities Sorbonne Université, AP-HP
Biography
Philippe Fossati is Co-Head of Paris Brain Institute Social and Emotional Neuroscience Team. He is a professor of psychiatry at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. He holds a Ph.D. (1993) and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (2001). He is Scientific Editor of the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. He is also a member of the French Association of Biological Psychiatry and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Brain Imaging Network.
Research
The Emotions and Social Interactions team brings together three principal investigators with complementary expertise in affective neuroscience, social neuroscience, and psychiatry to understand the neural mechanisms by which social processes activate and regulate the emotional brain.
Main publications
- Linneweber GA, Andriatsilavo M, Bias Dutta S, Bengochea M, Hellbruegge L, Liu G, EjsmontRK, Straw AD, Wernet M, Hiesinger PR, Hassan BA. A neurodevelopmental origin of behavioral individuality in the Drosophila visual system. Science. 2020. 367(6482):1112-1119.
- Quan XJ, Yuan L, Tiberi L, Claeys A, De Geest N, et al. Post-translational Control of the Temporal Dynamics of Transcription Factor Activity Regulates Neurogenesis. Cell. 2016. 164(3):460-75.
- Langen M, Koch M, Yan J, De Geest N, Erfurth ML, et al. Mutual inhibition among postmitotic neurons regulates robustness of brain wiring in Drosophila. Elife. 2013. 2:e00337.
- Choi CM, Vilain S, Langen M, Van Kelst S, De Geest N, et al. Conditional mutagenesis in Drosophila. Science. 2009. 324(5923):54.
- Morales J, Hiesinger PR, Schroeder AJ, Kume K, Verstreken P, et al. Drosophila fragile X protein, DFXR, regulates neuronal morphology and function in the brain. Neuron. 2002. 34(6):961-72.