Dr. Mélanie Druart is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Tanya Sippy at the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone. Her work investigates how dopaminergic modulation of neural activity may influence behavior. Currently, she focuses on how natural and artificial dopamine fluctuations can act on intrinsic and synaptic properties of striatal neurons in awake and behaving animals. To address this question, she uses various techniques, including in vivo whole cell recordings in awake and behaving animals, fiber photometry, and optogenetics. Prior to her postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Druart received her M.S. in Neuroscience from Sorbonne University in France and pursued a Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Corentin Le Magueresse at Fer a Moulin Institut (Paris – France). There, she investigated how genetic and environmental factors impact cortical brain development and lead to psychiatric disease.
