Sophie Bagur

CNRS researcher ESPCI ParisTech

– Laboratoire Plasticité du Cerveau, CNRS UMR8249
ESPCI ParisTech
10 rue Vauquelin
75231 Paris cedex 5 France
– ORCID : 0000-0002-4375-1838 -
– email :

Research projects

– Role of interoception and brain-body interactions in emotions.
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– Impact of neural encoding on auditory perception and learning.
Online talk

– Sleep physiology.

Methodologies

– In vivo physiology (neural populations and local field potentiels)
– Visceral state tracking in vivo
– 2 photon calcium imaging
– Beahvioural tasks
– In vivo optogenetics
– Neural data analysis (time-frequency analysis, neural decoding and dimensionality reduction)
– Data analysis with machine learning (deep nets)

Publications

• A Verdier, B Bathellier*, S Bagur*, Protocol : Medial forebrain bundle stimulation as a reward for perceptual tasks in mice, STAR protocols, 2023

• A Verdier, A Aldanondo, N Dominique, D Groussard, B Bathellier*, S Bagur*, Enhanced perceptual task performance without deprivation in mice using medial forebrain bundle stimulation, Cell reports methods, 2022

• C Cococcetta, T Coutant, S Bagur, M B Wenick, M. Huynh, Use of digital stethoscope to measure heart rate in birds: comparison of different counting methods using phonocardiograms, Journal of avian medicine and surgery, 2023

• C Cococcetta, T Coutant, A Phouratsamay, G Zoller, S Bagur, M. Huynh, Effect of hooding on physiological parameters during manual restraint in Rhode Island Red hybrid hens (Gallus gallus dom.), Journal of avian medicine and surgery, 2023

• S Bagur*, JM. Lefort*, MM. Lacroix, Gde Lavilléon, C Herry, C Billand, H Geoffroy, K Benchenane, Breathing-driven prefrontal oscillations regulate maintenance of conditioned-fear evoked freezing independently of initiation, Nature Communications, 2021

• S Bagur, K Benchenane, The theta rhythm mixes and matches gamma oscillations cycle by cycle (preview), Neuron, 2018

• S Bagur, MM Lacroix, G de Lavilleon, JM Lefort, H Geoffroy, K Benchenane, Harnessing olfactory bulb oscillations to perform fully brain-based sleep-scoring and real-time monitoring of anaesthesia depth, plos Biology, 2018

• S Bagur, M Averseng, D Elgueda, S David, J Fritz, P Yin, S Shamma, Y Boubenec*, S Ostojic*, Go/No-Go task engagement enhances population representation of target stimuli in primary auditory cortex, Nature Communications, 2018

• T Coutant, S Bagur, C Gilbert, Development of an observational quantitative temperament test in three common parrot species, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2018

• S Bagur, Karim Benchenane Taming the oscillatory zoo in the hippocampus and neo-cortex : a review of the commentary of Lockmann and Tort on Roy et al. Brain Structure and Function, 2017

• N Karalis, C Dejean, F Chaudun, S Khoder, R R Rozeske, Hélène Wurtz, S Bagur, K Benchenane, A Sirota, J Courtin & C Herry. 4-Hz oscillations synchronize prefrontal-amygdala circuits during fear behavior. Nature Neuroscience, 2016

Preprints

• E Gosselin, S Bagur, B Bathellier, Massive perturbation of sound representations by anesthesia in the auditory brainstem, bioRXiv, 2024

• S Bagur*, J Bourg*, A Kempf, T Tarpin K Bergaoui, Y Guo, S Ceballo, J Schwenkgrub, A Verdier, JL Puel, J Bourien, B Bathellier, A spatial code for temporal information is necessary for sensory learning, , bioRXiv, 2023

• K El-Kanbi, G de Lavilléon, S Bagur, M Lacroix, K Benchenane, Distinction between slow waves and delta waves sheds light to sleep homeostasis and their association to hippocampal sharp waves ripples, bioRXiv, 2022

• M Chouvaeff, S Bagur, L Macé, T Gallopin, K Benchenane, Social defeat induces REM sleep fragmentation through the PFC-VLPO pathway, bioRXiv, 2022

• MM Lacroix, G de Lavilléon, JM. Lefort, K El Kanbi, S Bagur, S Laventure, Y Dauvilliers, C Peyron, K Benchenane, Improved sleep scoring in mice reveals human-like stages, bioRXiv, 2018

Teaching

– Lecturer on neuroscience (sleep, plasticity, neural coding…) for the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris Saclay and ESPCI
– Practical introductory course to deep learning, Pasteur course on hearing
– Supervision of practical course in physiology at the engineering school, ESPCI

Grants and prizes

– ANR Audiodream, associated researcher, 2022
– Grant for 2 years post-doc, Fondation pour la Recherche médicale, 2020
– Grant for 4th year of phD, Fondation pour la Recherche médicale, 2018

– APAN 2021 Poster Presentation Award Winner
– phD prize for biological sciences, Académie nationale de Pharmacie, 2020
– phD prize of french Neuroscience Society, 2020
– L’Oréal-Unesco prize for women in science, 2019
– Jean Langlois foundation prize, 2018