Lydia Danglot

Dr. Danglot obtained her BSc in Biochemistry and her PhD in Neuroscience from Pierre and Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University, Paris). She completed her doctoral training in the laboratory of Antoine Triller at the École Normale Supérieure, where she investigated the formation and maturation of inhibitory synapses in hippocampal neurons. She subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at the Institut Jacques Monod, focusing on vesicular SNARE redundancy in glutamate release.

In 2017, Dr. Danglot joined the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, where she leads a research program on vesicular trafficking between endosomes and the Golgi apparatus during synaptic remodeling associated with learning. She was appointed Scientific Director of the NeurImag imaging facility, where she defines the scientific strategy, technical development, and user access policy. She established a super-resolution imaging platform from the ground up and developed advanced microscopy approaches (SIM, STED, and 3D-STORM) to investigate membrane dynamics and the nanoscale organization of synaptic complexes (Nature Communications, 2018, 2022, 2024). Under her leadership, the facility has gained international visibility and obtained EUBI labelling. Since 2025, she has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Psychiatry.

Dr. Danglot has demonstrated sustained leadership at both national and European levels. She served as Treasurer and subsequently as an Executive Board Member of the French Club ExoEndocytose from 2013. She received the Brain Research Foundation Award in 2018 and 2021, as well as the INSERM National Research and Education Excellence Award (2020–2023). She is a Board Member of the National Research Group ImaBio on Advanced Microscopy for Biology (>2,500 members) and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of ICON-Europe Nanoscopy, a European initiative dedicated to fluorescence-based super-resolution microscopy.