Gaël Nicolas

The Chornobyl Dogs: Why Scientific Evaluation Must Accompany Population Management

Nearly four decades after the 1986 reactor explosion, several hundred semi-feral dogs persist within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Genomic work has characterised their population structure and shown that radiation-induced mutation does not, on current evidence, drive the differen...

PLCG2 downregulation impairs synaptic function and increases Alzheimer’s disease hallmarks in neuronal cultures

We developed a high-content screening to investigate how Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genetic risk factors may affect synaptic mechanisms in rat primary neuronal cultures. Of the target genes identified, we found that Plcg2 downregulation in mouse dentate gyrus neurons consistently d...