Martin Giurfa
@MartinGiurfa
Neuroscientist & Professor @ Sorbonne University, Paris, France | @ERC_Research laureate - | El Corazon Mirando al Sur
Happy to share our new article on "Neural signalling underlying appetitive motivation in honey bees" in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! This was possible thanks to @Mischocarvalhus , @LBestea and Gabriela de Brito Sanchez. Link for free download here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1j-oe3Q9h2IS…

May 20th: world bee day! Protect the environnement, save the bees and all the living creatures!

Extremely honored for the opportunity to give the opening Angelique Arvanitaki Lecture at the meeting of the French Society of Neuroscience in Montpellier. Glad that this lecture was named after this brilliant woman who did fundamental work on the nervous system of invertebrates.


Some of the participants of the Neuroethology meeting, satellite of the annual meeting of the French Neuroscience Society. We had a terrific day in Montpellier with fascinating talks and exciting discussions! Thanks to Manu Perisse and his team for the wonderful hosting!

The Lauragais, with the Pyrenees as magnificent background: I spent 24 years here. Now it is time to leave, with sadness and gratitude.



Aversive learning reduces aversive-reinforcer sensitivity in honey bees @MartinGiurfa nature.com/articles/s4159…
Interested in Neuroethology? Then, join us at the 1-day Meeting of the French Club of Neuroethology, in the beautiful city of Montpellier, on May 13th. NO FEES REQUIRED. Just register and submit your abstract in: zebrain.bio.ens.psl.eu/neuroethology/… . And enjoy our guest speakers!

Is there an innate sense of number in the brain? academic.oup.com/cercor/article…
See our last work on the effect of learning on how bees respond to the unconditioned stimulus (US) after learning! We show that learning changes not only conditioned-stimulus processing but also US processing. A wonderful work by Yuan Lai et al. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

It has been one year since libertarian President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and the nation’s science is facing collapse go.nature.com/4fa8sWT
En el instituto de Francia, para recibir el premio-medalla 2024 de biología Integrativa de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Francia. Muy agradecido x el honor y sin olvidar que uno es un producto de la educación publica argentina que el gobierno actual quiere destruir



EN DIRECT : REMISE DES PRIX ✨Félicitations à Martin Giurfa, professeur franco-argentin de neurosciences de classe exceptionnelle à Sorbonne Université, remporte la médaille de la section de Biologie intégrative !
At the Institut de France, to receive the 2024 Medal-Prize in integrative biology of the French Academy of Sciences. Very thankful for this distinction and particularly thankful to my team as nothing would be possible without them.



The Bee Team at Sorbonne University! Thanks @CatherineMacri !
At the Université Catholique de Lille for a meeting on « Crossing and resonances of the living », a pluridisciplinary exchange on the relationships between humans, animals and environment. Thanks to the organizers for these fascinating exchanges!
