TIHANA JOVANIC, Group Leader

NeuroPSI, CNRS-UPSaclay

Exploring Brain-Body interactions with Expansion microscopy

Tihana Jovanic is a CNRS researcher and team leader at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience- NeuroPSI. Her team “Neural Circuits and Behavior” focuses on the flexibility of the neural circuits underlying sensorimotor decision-making and behavioral sequences, and the mechanisms by which these processes are modulated by context and the internal state of the organism. Her team uses a multidisciplinary approach in Drosophila larvae, combining the manipulation of neuronal activity or gene expression with quantitative behavioral analysis; synaptic connectivity, neurophysiology and, in collaboration, modeling, to characterize the mechanisms underlying the flexibility of neural networks from molecule to neural circuit and behavior.