Christelle Glangetas, laureate of the 2025 Marian Diamond Prize

Christelle Glangetas, a post-doctoral researcher at IMN, is the winner of the Marian Diamond Prize 2025, in recognition of her research work and her involvement in the scientific community.

She was presented with the award on Friday 7 February, during a special event organised as part of the annual Women and Girls in Science Day on 11 February. she received the award from Enrica Montalban, last year’s laureate.

Initiated by the Bordeaux Neurocampus Parity and Inclusion Committee (NeuroPIC), the Marian Diamond Prize aims to highlight women neuroscientists at a crucial stage in their careers, the post-doctoral period, when they face many obstacles in gaining access to academic positions. The missions of the Committee, which added the word “Inclusion” in its name last year, were presented by Anna Beyeler.

Christelle Glangetas will receive a prize of €1,000 and will present her research work at the Bordeaux Neurocampus Day on 4 June.

Bita Moggadham, professor at Oregon Health and Science University, was the guest speaker at the seminar. After her scientific presentation, during which she was also invited to talk about her career as a woman scientist, the researcher shared lunch with a dozen young male and female researchers.

Christelle Glangetas

After completing a master’s degree in Neurosciences in 2011 at the University of Bordeaux, Christelle Glangetas pursued a PhD in Neurosciences entitled « The BNST between Stress and Reward », under the supervision of François Georges at IINS, in the University of Bordeaux obtained in 2014. She moved to Switzerland to the new team of Camilla Bellone in 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher for three years. In 2018, she joined the team of Jérôme Baufreton and François Georges at the Institut of Neurodegenerative Diseases as a postdoctoral researcher with an « Aide au retour en France» from the Fondation de la recherche Médicale. She obtained a « Qualification Maître de Conférences en Neurosciences ».

During the last fourteen years, she has been interested in anxiety, motivational and motor circuits in physiological, psychiatric (anxiety and autism spectrum disorders), and neurodegenerative states (Huntington’s disease). This fruitful multidisciplinary work led to 16 publications with 7 first and 1 last authorships, 3 nominative grants, and 1 young researcher prize. She is also a reviewer for Neurobiology of Disease, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Cell report and Acta physiologica.

Among her many activities, she is regularly involved in outreach activities for the general public, such as workshops for the “circuit scienfique bordelais” and the “Nuti de la recehrche”. She is also involved in raising awareness of research careers, at the Déclics days and the Olympiades des métiers in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

Christelle Glangetas is a member of the organizing committee for the forthcoming Bordeaux Neurocampus international conference, scheduled for October 1-3. The committee also includes Enrica Montalban, the 2024 winner, Agnes Nadjar, Mario Carta and François Georges.

Marian Diamond (1926-2017)

is an American pioneer in anatomical neuroscience who provided the first scientific evidence of anatomical neuroplasticity in the early 1960s. Later, her work on Einstein’s brain in the 1980s gave new impetus to the study of interactions between neurons and glia.