M. Samuel Leman

Parc de Grandmont 37200 TOURS

Phone

0247366997

Office 2

Grandmont bâtiment L étage -1 bureau S290

Email

samuel.leman@univ-tours.fr

Teaching activities in the department of Neurosciences (Faculty of Sciences and Technics): He is mainly involved in functional neuroanatomy and behavioral neurosciences courses for under- and post-graduate students of Biology and Psychology curriculum.

He is mainly interested in the study of hypothalamic and brainstem neurons involved in the pathophysiology of depressive-like states and comorbid conditions in an animal model of depression, the UCMS.

Samuel Leman obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the University of Lille 1 (France). His thesis was related to the role of adrenal preganglionic neurons during autonomic dysreflexia in paraplegic rats. His work was supervised by Prof. Henrique Sequeira.

He spent two post-doctoral years (2001-2003) in Dr Pascal Carrive's lab at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Dept of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences), working on central control of cardiovascular functions during contextual conditioned fear in rats.  

In 2003, he joined as an assistant professor (Maître de Conférences) the depression groupe of the Team 1 Neurofunctional Psychiatry of the UMR INSERM Unit U1253 Imaging and the Brain (iBain unit) at the University of Tours, France.

Maitre de conferences