Arthur Lefevre
About me:
After a PhD in Lyon (France) where I studied the interaction between oxytocin and serotonin in macaque monkeys, I joined Valery’s lab in September 2017. I am particularly fascinated by the diversity of oxytocin effects on behavior. To investigate how one neuropeptide exert so many functions, I use viral tools to study its effects on social behavior, fear and pain in the prefrontal cortex, paraventricular thalamus and periaqueductal gray matter.
In 2022 I joined the lab of Cory Miller (UCSD).
Arthur holds a PhD in Neuroscience, an M.Sc. in Neurobiology and a B.Sc. in „Informatics and cognitive sciences“. He currently works as a postdoc in our team.
Expertise:
| Optogenetics | Viral tracing |
| Neuroimaging | Calcium imaging |
Selected publications
- Tang Y, Benusiglio D, Lefevre A, Hilfiger L, Althammer F, Bludau A, Hagiwara D, Baudon A, Darbon P, Schimmer J, Kirchner MK, Roy RK, Wang S, Eliava M, Wagner S, Oberhuber M, Conzelmann KK, Schwarz M, Stern JE, Leng G, Neumann ID, Charlet A, Grinevich V. Social touch promotes interfemale communication via activation of parvocellular oxytocin neurons. Nat Neurosci. 2020 Sep;23(9):1125-1137. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-0674-y. Epub 2020 Jul 27. PMID: 32719563.
- Arthur Lefevre, Nathalie Richard, Mina Jazayeri, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Sylvain Fieux, Luc Zimmer, Jean-Rene Duhamel, and Angela Sirigu. Oxytocin and Serotonin Brain Mechanisms in the Nonhuman Primate. The Journal of Neuroscience, July 12, 2017 • 37(28):6741– 6750 • 6741
- Arthur Lefevre, Raphaëlle Mottolese, Jérôme Redouté, Nicolas Costes, Didier Le Bars, Marie-Maude Geoffray, Marion Leboyer and Angela Sirigu. Oxytocin Fails to Recruit Serotonergic Neurotransmission in the Autistic Brain. Cerebral Cortex, Volume 28, Issue 12, December 2018, Pages 4169–4178
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