Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Yvan Vachez
Yvan Vachez is a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St Louis, USA, working in the Creed Lab. He will use his $500 grant to attend the Society for Neuroscience 2021 Annual Meeting in Chicago in November 2021.
I am sincerely happy and grateful to Hello Bio to receive this Early Career Scientist Grant. This will help me to attend the SfN 2021 meeting in Chicago where I aim to find new opportunities to help me on the next step of my career. Yvan Vachez, Washington University, St Louis, USA, Hello Bio Early Career Scientist Grant winner
Congratulations Yvan! First, can you tell us a bit more about what you're working on at the moment?
I am investigating neural substrate driving poor decision making and impulsive decision making after alcohol consumption. I’m using behavioral tasks, ex vivo and in vivo electrophysiological recording associated with optogenetic neuromodulation.
What is it about your field of research that gets you most excited?
Investigating how changes in small and discrete electrophysiological or molecular changes can have a strong effect on behavior and psychiatric symptoms.
Which scientists working today do you most admire, and why?
Emmanuelle Charpentier has been a great inspiration recently. It has been amazing to see young French female scientists being awarded with the Nobel Prize.
What do you think are the biggest challenges currently facing life scientists and their work?
Today, particularly with COVID-19, the biggest challenge life scientists are facing is communicating effectively with the broad audience. Non-scientific audiences are more and more suspicious about discoveries because of miscommunication.
What’s your favourite science quote?
“What has been believed everywhere, by all and forever, is likely to be wrong.” - Paul Valéry
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Thank you so much Yvan! We wish you all the best with the conference and with your future research.
Connect with Yvan:
- LinkedIn: Yvan Vachez
- Twitter: @YVachez
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