Matilde Cordero-Erausquin

04/2007- Junior investigator (CR2) at Strasbourg University, France
Permanent position funded by the CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique).
Research experience
2006-2007 Post-doc. Sup.: A. Ribeiro-da-Silva, McGill University, Montreal
Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IRSC/CIHR).
2003-2006 Post-doc. Sup.: Y. De Koninck, Université Laval, Québec
Fellowship from the Quebec Health Research Fund (FRSQ).
1998-2003 PhD. Sup.: J.-P. Changeux, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER), Collège de France , Paris
PhD Fellowship (AMN), French Ministry of Graduate Education and Research.
07-08/ 1996 Undergrad. rotation. Sup.:L. Role, Columbia University, New-York
01/ 1996 Undergrad. rotation. Sup.: M. Dreyfus, Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm, Paris
07/ 1994 Summer student. Sup.: Ch. Auffray, CNRS UPR420 , Villejuif
Education
2003 PhD, University of Paris 6 (with distinction)
Title: Molecular and cellular study of acetylcholine nicotinic receptors in aminergic systems and pain pathways.
1997-1998 D.E.A. (Masters' equivalent), Univ. Paris 6, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (with distinction, ranked 2nd)
1995-1998 Magistère de Biologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Ulm (with distinction)
1995-1999 Student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Additional training
07/ 2002 : Training on Fast Cyclic Voltammetry by J. Stamford, Royal London Hospital
09/ 2001: Workshop on Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth
Distinctions and Awards
2006-2008 Post doctoral fellowship; Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(ranked 2nd / 322, nationally)
2005 Award from the French Ministry of Post-graduate Studies and Research (“Initiative Post doc” Program in support for the return of French post-docs)
2004 Merit Award IALA / IMHA « for excellence in unravelling the mecanisms underlying pain and nociception » (Membrane Proteins In Nocieption And Pain, Montreal)
2003-2006 Post doctoral fellowship; Quebec Health Research Fund
1998-2002 PhD fellowship (AMN); French Ministry of Post-graduate Studies and Research
1995-1998 Bachelor and Master scholarship; French Ministry of Post-graduate Studies and Research (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
1999-2005 Travel Awards (6): International Association for the Study of Pain (World Congress on Pain, Sydney, Australia); Women In Neuroscience (WIN) Travel Award & Travel award from the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA, 2002); Marine Biological Association (UK) Travel Award (Workshop on Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology, Plymouth, Great Britain, 2001); Instituto Juan March (Madrid) Travel Award (Workshop The molecules of pain: molecular approaches to pain research, Madrid, Spain, 2000); International Society of Neurochemistry Travel Award (Neuronal nicotinic receptors : from structure to therapeutics, Venice, Italy, 1999)
Research grants
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Publications
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Invited lectures
2007 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA
2006 École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2005 Canadian Physiological Society, Mont St-Anne, Canada
ABCDouleur, Montréal, Canada
2003 European Colloquium on Pain, Grugliasco-Torino, Italy
2002 University of Chicago, USA
Vollum Institute, OHSU, Portland, USA
Université Laval, Québec
2007 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA
Congress organisation
2000-2001 Member of the Organizing Committee for the Third European Conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, held in Paris (Collège de France) on September 20-22 2001
Languages
Fluent French, Spanish and English, spoken German and Greek