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.: Hornung, Jean-Pierre

Chair NENS Committee

Jean-Pierre Hornung, Prof.
Department of Cell Biology and Morphology
University of Lausanne
Rue du Bugnon 9
1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: 4121 6925121
Mobil Phone: 4179 4894407
Fax: 4121 6925105
E-mail: Jean-pierre.hornung@unil.ch
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Curriculum Vitae

Professional and academic career

1976
Biology Degree, University of Lausanne
1981
PhD Degree, University of Lausanne
1981-83
Postdoctoral training, Harvard University, Boston
1983-87
Research associate, University of Lausanne
1988-94
Junior group leader, University of Lausanne
1991-97
Privat-docent
1997-05
Associate professor
since 2005
Full Professor

Research interests

Neuroanatomy
Monoamines
Development
Cerebral cortex

Honors and awards

1981-82
Forgarty International Postdoctoral grant, NIH
1982-83
SNF postdoctoral grant
1986
Demuth price for young investigator (IBRO)
1989-1994
Cloetta foundation, grant for academic career Development

Administrative and organisational experience (e.g. organization of national and international meetings, public awarness events, responsibilities as officer of societies, committees etc.)

1993-98
Secretary and Treasurer , Swiss Society for Anatomiy Histology and Embryology (SSAHE)
2005-07
President of the SSAHE.

Activities related to organization of national or international training of students (e.g. schools or other educational activities)

2001-04
President of commission for the reform in 1st year of Curriculum of Medicine, University of Lausanne
since 2003
Director of the School of Medicine, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne
since 2002
Member of the Committee of the Lemanic Doctoral School for Neuroscience, delegate and coordinator for the University of Lausanne

Selected Publications

  • GRAILHE, R., WAEBER, C., DULAWA, S.C., HORNUNG, J.P.,ZHUANG, X., BRUNNER, D., GEYER, M.A., HEN, R: (1999) "Increased exploratory activity and altered response to LSD in mice lacking the 5-HT5a receptor." Neuron.22:581-591.
  • PORTER, L.L., RIZZO, E., HORNUNG, J.P. (1999) "Dopamie affects parvalbumin expression during cortical development in vitro." J.Neurosci., 19:8990-9003.
  • HORNUNG, J.P., RIEDERER, B. (1999) "A medium sized neurofilament protein related to maturation of a subset of cortical neurons." J.Comp.Neurol., 414:348-360.
  • ASSAL, F., VALENZA, N., HORNUNG, J.P., LANDIS, T.(2000) "Clinico-anatomical correlates of a Fou rire prodromique in a pontine infraction." J.Neurol.Neurosurg.&Psych. 69:697-698.
  • DURIG, J. and HORNUNG, J.P. (2000) "Neonatal serotonin depletion affects developing and mature mouse cortical neurons." Neuroreport, 11:833-837.
  • HORNUNG, J.P. (2003) "The human raphe nuclei and the serotonergic system." J.Chem.Neuroanat., 26:331-343.
  • VOELKER, C.C.J., GARIN, N., TAYLOR, J., GAHWILER, B., HORNUNG, J.P., MOLNAR, Z. (2004) "Selective neurofilament (SMI-32, FNP-7, N200) expression in subpopulations of layer V pyramidal neurons in vivo and in vitro." Cerebral cortex, 11:1276-1286.
  • CABUNGCAL, J., NICOLAS, D., KRAFTSIK, R., CUENOD, M., DO, K.Q., HORNUNG, J.P. (2006) "Glutathione deficit during development induces anomalies in the rat anterior cingulate GABAergic neurons: relevance to schizophrenia." Neurobiology of Disease 22:224-237.
  • WEISSTAUB, N.V., ZHOU, M., LIRA, A., LAMBE, E., GONZALEZ-MAESO, J., HORNUNG, J.P., SIBILLE, E., UNDERWOOD, M., ITOHARA, S., DAUER, W.T, ANSORGE, M.S., MORELLI, E., MANN, J.J., TOTH, M., AGHAJANIAN, G., SEALFON, S.C., HEN, R., GINGRICH, J.A. (2006) "Cortical 5-HT2A receptor signaling modulates anxiety-like behaviors in mice." Science 313:536-540.
  • LEBRAND, C., GASPAR, P., NICOLAS, D., HORNUNG, J.P. (2006) "Transitory serotonin uptake in sensory pathways of the embryonic marmoset monkey." J.Comp Neurol, 499:677-689.
  • GARIN, N., HORNUNG, J.P., ESCHER, G. (2002) "Distribution of postsynaptic GABAa receptor aggregates in normal and mutant mice." J. Comp. Neurol., 447:210-217.
  • KIM, M.O., LI, S., PARK, M.S., HORNUNG, J.P. (2003) "Early fetal expression of GABAB1 and GABAB2 receptor mRNAs on the development of the rat central nervous system." Dev. Brain Res., 143:47-55
  • BORSELLO, T., CROQUELOIS, K., HORNUNG, J.P., CLARKE, P.G.H. (2003) "NMDA-trigegered neuronal death in organotypic hippocampal cultures is endocytic, autophagic and mediated by the JNK pathway." Eur.J.Neurosci., 18 :473-485.