Wim Crusio
| Wim E. Crusio | |
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Wim Crusio, August 2006
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| Born |
20 December 1954 Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands |
| Residence | Pompignac, France |
| Citizenship | Dutch |
| Fields | behavioral and neural genetics, behavioral neuroscience |
| Institutions | Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Heidelberg, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS; Paris, Orleans, and Talence (Bordeaux)), University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| Alma mater | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Thesis | Olfaction and behavioral responses to novelty in mice: a quantitative-genetic analysis (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans van Abeelen |
| Other academic advisors | Bram van Overbeeke, Hendrik de Wit, Victor Westhoff |
| Doctoral students | Laure Jamot, Abdelkader Laghmouch, Yann Mineur, Maude Bernardet |
| Other notable students | Frans Sluyter |
| Known for | Behavioral neurogenetics of the hippocampus, mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorders |
| Notable awards | IBANGS Distinguished Service Award |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Crusio |
Wim E. Crusio is a Dutch behavioral neurogeneticist and a directeur de recherche (research director) with the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Talence, France.
Crusio received his bachelor's degree in biology from Radboud University Nijmegen in 1975, where he went on to obtain a master's degree and then a Ph.D. in 1979 and 1984, respectively. His Anubias revision, which was originally published in 1979, was translated in German and continues to engender interest. For his PhD thesis, Crusio studied the inheritance of the effects of anosmia on exploratory behavior of mice, and more in general the genetic architecture of exploratory behavior, using quantitative-genetic methods such as the diallel cross. From 1984 to 1987, Crusio worked as a postdoc at the University of Heidelberg, supported by a NATO Science Fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. During 1988, Crusio spent a year in Paris, France, supported by a fellowship from the Fyssen Foundation. He then returned to Heidelberg as a senior research scientist before being recruited as chargé de recherche by the CNRS, initially working in an institute of the Université René Descartes (Paris V) and later moving to the CNRS campus in Orléans, having been promoted to directeur de recherche. In 2000 he became full professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, returning to the CNRS in 2005 as a group leader in the Centre de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cognitives in Talence, a suburb of Bordeaux. He is currently adjunct director of the Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine.
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