The 2025 edition of the Mediterranean Neuroscience Society conference will be held in Chania, Crete (Greece) from June 7 to 11. Sarah Marchand, Alba Langlade, and Alexandra Séverac Cauquil will attend and present the latest work of the InVest team on self-motion perception and multisensory integration, continuing our collaboration with neuroscience researchers around the Mediterranean.
Alba Langlade will present her research at NeuroFrance 2025, which will take place from May 14 to 16 at the Corum in Montpellier. Her work focuses on eye movements evoked by galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS). She will present a poster on Thursday, May 15, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. — don’t hesitate to stop by and discuss!
A review article co-first authored by Sarah Marchand, Alba Langlade, and Quentin Legois, and supervised by Alexandra Séverac Cauquil, has been published!
https://rdcu.be/ejBDg
The paper provides a comprehensive overview of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), a technique for investigating vestibular function. It summarizes the history, neurophysiological mechanisms, and recent advances in GVS, highlighting its effects on postural control, ocular responses, cortical activity, and self-motion perception. The review also explores the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of GVS in balance disorders, stroke rehabilitation, and neurodegenerative diseases. This publication serves as both a theoretical foundation for future research and a key contribution to the field, emphasizing the InVest team’s conceptual impact on the understanding of GVS in basic and clinical neuroscience.
The Early Career Speaker Series is organized by the University of Nevada to highlight promising young scientists in neuroscience. Sarah Marchand was invited to give a talk about her ongoing research on multisensory processing of self-motion cues. This invitation reflects the growing recognition of her work within the international neuroscience community and her active role in promoting the InVest team’s research abroad.
SfN is the largest neuroscience conference in the world, bringing together tens of thousands of researchers each year. The 2024 edition took place in Chicago, USA, from October 5 to 9. Sarah Marchand presented her latest research on the cortical networks involved in the perception of self-motion through natural and artificial optic flow, further showcasing the international impact of the InVest team.
The 8th BioSimia Conference took place on September 30 and October 1, 2024, at the Maison de la Recherche, University of Toulouse (UT2J). This biennial event, organized by the CNRS network BioSimia, brings together researchers from various disciplines to discuss the use of nonhuman primates in biomedical research. The 2024 edition focused on topics such as enrichment protocols, interindividual variability, animal screening, and physiological and telemetry recordings. Sarah Marchand and Jean-Baptiste Durand, members of the InVest team, co-organized this conference. They contributed to the scientific program and facilitated discussions on the integration of multisensory stimulation techniques in nonhuman primate models. Their involvement underscored the InVest team’s commitment to advancing ethical and innovative research methodologies.
As part of the 2024 Balance and Dizziness Awareness Week, the Toulouse-based InVest team organized two public outreach events on the University of Toulouse campus. A ciné-debate centered around the film Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón was held in collaboration with ENT specialists (Dr. Alexandra Wreckel, Dr. Pauline Nieto), a vestibular physiotherapist (Quentin Legois), an orthoptist (Véronique Serin), and Yannis Benaniba, a vestibular patient and founder of ADeV (Association des Désordres Vestibulaires). The discussion focused on vestibular symptoms depicted in the film and their clinical relevance. On the following day, the InVest research team, led by Alexandra Séverac Cauquil and including Alba Langlade and Sarah Marchand, hosted an Open Lab Day at CerCo to introduce the general public to current research on the vestibular system and its clinical applications through demonstrations and hands-on activities.
The JSPS Summer Program offers selected PhD students the opportunity to conduct collaborative research in Japan. From June to August 2024, Sarah Marchand joined the laboratory of Prof. Tsurugizawa Tomokazu at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba. This stay allowed her to strengthen international collaborations and develop a novel project on optic flow perception using fMRI in non-human primates.
The ECVP is a prominent international conference dedicated to all aspects of visual perception. In 2024, it was held in Aberdeen, Scotland, from August 25 to 29. Alexandra Séverac Cauquil and Alba Langlade presented their latest findings on oculometry and galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS), highlighting the InVest team’s research on visual motion and self-motion perception.
Organized by the GDR Vertige, this interdisciplinary summer school focuses on vestibular functions, balance, and vertigo. It took place in Marseille from July 1 to 5, 2024, and brought together young researchers and experts in the field. Alba Langlade attended the event to deepen her understanding of vestibular physiology and its links with multisensory integration—key aspects of the InVest team’s research.