Gérard Coureaud (PhD, HDR) is an ethologist working as Senior Researcher from the CNRS at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. He's a member of the CMO - Olfaction: from Coding to Memory Group, and from January 2021 he will join the ENES - Sensory Neuro-Ethology group (Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle). Gérard's current projects concern the neonatal perception of the mammary pheromone in newborn rabbits, the neonatal perception of odour mixtures, and neonatal odour memory.
His main collaborations are with CSGA Dijon (Thierry Thomas-Danguin, Jean-Marie Heydel, Loïc Briand, Fabrice Neiers, Frédérique Datiche), NutriNeuro Bordeaux (Guillaume Ferreira), EGCE Paris Sud - Paris Saclay (Jean-Christophe Sandoz), NeuroPSI Orsay (Isabelle Charrier), LEEC Sorbonne Paris-Nord (Heiko Rödel), INRA Tours-Nouzilly (Karine Reynaud, Frédéric Lévy), NYU Langone Medical Center USA (Donald A. Wilson), Duke University USA (Hiroaki Matsunami).
Key-words: Animal Behaviour, Ethology, Mother-young relationships, Olfaction, Pheromone, Odour mixtures, Newborn, Sucking, Learning, Memory, Rabbit
