Antoine Adamantidis, Ph.D.

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Photo of Antoine Adamantidis, Ph.D. - NINDS K99/R00 Awardee – January 2009
Institution
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Awarded Project
Probing of Hypothalamic circuits in arousal using optogenetics

Council Dates: October 2008 - May 2009
Independent Position: Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal

Antoine Adamantidis was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. In the laboratory of Luis de Lecea, his research aimed to understand the role of hypothalamic circuits regulating the sleep-wake cycle. More specifically, he proposed using in vitro and in vivo optogenetics to establish a causal link between activation of melanin-concentrating hormone-expressing neurons in the hypothalamus and sleep-wake cycle architecture. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Neuroscience from the University of Liège in Belgium.