Alexandre Daniel Surget

Positions

2010-...            Postdoctoral Researcher, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience & Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
2009                Visiting Professor/Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratorio de Patología Animal, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
2004-2009       Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer ("Moniteur/ATER"), U930 Imaging and Brain, Inserm & Université François Rabelais, Tours, France.

Education

2008       PhD in Neuroscience, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France.
2004       MSc in Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Psychology, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France.
2001       BSc in Biology, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France.

Honours/Awards

2010       Bettencourt Schueller Foundation's Young Researcher Award.
2009       PhD Thesis Prize, French Society for Neuroscience.

Research Grants

2011       Marie Curie Fellowship, Framework Program 7, European Commission.
2010       IBRO Research Fellowship.
2009       FRM Postdoctoral Grant.
2004       Region Centre PhD Student Grant.

Selected Publications

• Surget A., Tanti A., Leonardo E.D., Laugeray A., Rainer Q., Touma C., Palme R., Griebel G., Ibarguen-Vargas Y., Hen R., Belzung C. "Antidepressants recruit new neurons to improve stress response regulation". Mol Psychiatry, 16:1177-1188, 2011. (IF=15.470) - pdf - Selected by Faculty of 1000

• Surget A., Wang Y., Leman S., Ibarguen-Vargas Y., Edgar N., Griebel G., Belzung C., Sibille E. "Corticolimbic transcriptome changes are state-dependent and region-specific in a rodent model of depression and of antidepressant reversal". Neuropsychopharmacology, 34:1363-1380, 2009. (IF=6.685) - pdf

• Surget A., Saxe M., Leman S., Ibarguen-Vargas Y., Chalon S., Griebel G., Hen R., Belzung C. "Drug-dependent requirement of hippocampal neurogenesis in a model of depression and of antidepressant reversal". Biol Psychiatry, 64:293-301, 2008. (IF=8.674) - link - Selected by Faculty of 1000

• Santarelli L., Saxe M., Gross C., Surget A., Battaglia F., Dulawa S., Weisstaub N., Lee J., Duman R., Arancio O., Belzung C., Hen R. "Requirement of  hippocampal neurogenesis for the behavioral effects of antidepressants". Science 301:805-809, 2003. (IF=31.377) - pdf - Selected by Faculty of 1000

Other Publications

• Research Articles:

- Tanti A., Rainer Q., Minier F., Surget A., Belzung C. "Differential environmental regulation of neurogenesis along the septo-temporal axis of the hippocampus". Neuropharmacology,  in press, 2012 - link

- Isingrini E., Surget A., Belzung C., Freslon J.L., Frisbee J., O'Donnell J., Camus V., d'Audiffret A. "Altered aortic vascular reactivity in the unpredictable chronic mild stress model of depression in mice". Physiol Behav,  103:540-546, 2011 - link

- Laugeray A., Launay J.M., Callebert J., Surget A., Belzung C., Barone P.R. "Evidence for a key role of the peripheral kynurenine pathway in the modulation of anxiety- and depression-like behaviours in mice: focus on individual differences". Pharmacol Biochem Behav 98:161-168, 2011 - link

- Laugeray A., Launay J.M., Callebert J., Surget A., Belzung C., Barone P.R. "Peripheral and cerebral metabolic abnormalities of the tryptophan-kynurenine pathway in a murine model of major depression". Behav Brain Res 210:84-91, 2010 - link

- Sibille E., Wang Y., Joeyen-Waldorf J., Gaiteri C., Surget A., Oh S., Belzung C., Tseng G.C., Lewis D.A. "A molecular signature of depression in the Amygdala". Am J Psychiatry, 166:1011-1024, 2009 - pdf

- Ibarguen-Vargas Y., Surget A., Vourc'h P., Leman S., Andres C.R., Garnier A.M., Belzung C. "Deficit in BDNF does not increase vulnerability to stress but dampens antidepressant-like effects in the unpredictable chronic mild stress". Behav Brain Res, 202:245-251, 2009 - link

- Yalcin I., Belzung C., Surget A. "Mouse strain differences in the unpredictable chronic mild stress: a four-antidepressant survey". Behav Brain Res, 193:140-143, 2008 - link

- Ibarguen-Vargas Y.*, Surget A.*, Touma C., Palme R., Belzung C. "Multifaceted strain-specific effects in a mouse model of depression and of antidepressant reversal". Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33:1357-1368, 2008 - link

- Sibille E., Arango V., Joeyen-Waldorf J., Wang Y., Leman S., Surget A., Belzung C., Mann J., Lewis D. "Large-scale estimates of cellular origins of mRNAs: enhancing the yield of transcriptome analyses". J Neurosci Methods 167:198-206, 2008 - link

• Reviews:

- Surget A., Belzung C. "Involvement of vasopressin in affective disorders". Eur J Pharmacology 583:340-349, 2008 - link

- Belzung C., Yalcin I., Griebel G., Surget A., Leman S. "Neuropeptides in psychiatric diseases: an overview with a particular focus on depression and anxiety disorders". CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets 5:135-145, 2006 - link

• Book Chapter:

- Surget A., Belzung C. "Unpredictable chronic mild stress in mice". In: Kalueff AV, LaPorte JL, editors. Experimental animal models in neurobehavioral research. New York: Nova Science, pp79-112, 2008 - link

Citations

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