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Martin Giurfa

March 17, 2024

Martin Giurfa is an Argentinean-French neurobiologist and neuroethologist (born September 1962), member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, and the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is acknowledged for his work on the neural mechanisms of cognition in invertebrates, which he mostly explores using honeybees as models for understanding basic principles of learning and memory.

Excellence-Class Professor

Martin GIURFA
BornSeptember 1962 (age 61)
Lima, Peru
NationalityArgentinean-French
Alma materFaculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Free University of Berlin
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroethology, Neurosciences, Animal Behavior Cognition, Learning & Memory, Invertebrates
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJosué Núñez
Other academic advisorsRandolf Menzel, Héctor Maldonado
Website
  • www.ibps.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/research/neuroscience/insect-cognitive-neuroethology-eng
  • twitter.com/martingiurfa

Life and career edit

Early years in South America edit

Martin Giurfa was born in Lima, Peru, from an Argentinean mother who raised him alone and registered him as an Argentinean citizen. He grew up in Lima where he attended the French School Lycée franco-péruvien and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina at the end of 1980 to study Biology at the University of Buenos Aires. Argentina was still under control of the military dictatorship (National Reorganization Process) and Martin Giurfa enrolled in the student movement resisting dictatorial oppression. Under the banner of the Partido Intransigente, a left-wing party, he played an influential role in that movement and in 1984, after the return of the democracy to Argentina, he became president of the Student Union of his faculty, the Faculty of Natural and Exact Sciences.

As many students in the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, he benefited then from the return to Argentina of numerous prestigious Argentinean scientists who were in exile during the dictatorship and who participated in the academic reconstruction of the country (see Historia de la ciencia y la tecnología en Argentina). He met Prof. Josué Núñez, who trained him in the field of insect behavioral physiology and contacted him with German academia, in particular with Prof. Randolf Menzel Free University of Berlin, a leading neurobiologist working on color vision, learning and memory in honeybees.[1]

Career in Europe edit

After obtaining his PhD Degree from the University of Buenos Aires under the supervision of Josué Núñez, he moved to Germany in 1990, to work at the institute of Neurobiology of the Free University of Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Menzel. He was first Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and then Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His first works focused on color and shape vision in honeybees leading to the discovery of color preferences.[2] and color detection mechanisms by bees.[3]

His work on symmetry categorization by honeybees in 1996 [4] followed by his demonstration of concept learning in bees[5] represented a turning point for the field of insect behavior, as they promoted a novel cognitive perspective to analyze honey bee behavior and decision making. This framework represented conceptual switch for a research domain, which had mostly attributed limited cognitive capacities to insects until then. In 1997, he obtained his Habilitation Degree of the Free University of Berlin and became group leader and assistant professor at the institute of Neurobiology of that University.

In 2001, he moved to Toulouse, France, as a Professor of Neurosciences of Paul Sabatier University. In 2003, he created the Research Center on Animal Cognition, a multidisciplinary research institute depending both on Paul Sabatier University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, which focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive processing in various animal species and which he directed until 2017. From 2008 to 2012, he was President of the National Committee of Neurosciences of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and served in numerous French and European boards of neurosciences. In 2016, he adopted the French nationality. He has produced significant contributions dissecting the neural mechanisms of learning and memory in bees and other insects.

In 2023, he moved to Paris following an offer to become the director of the Institute of Biology Paris-Seine (IBPS) [6] of Sorbonne University. He is currently and Exceptional-Class Professor of Neurosciences of Sorbonne University and will start his function of IBPS director in 2025.

Giurfa is a recipient of the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research[7] and of an Advanced Fellowship from the European Research Council (ERC).[8] He is also an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).[9][10][11] In 2013, He was distinguished with the Raices Award of the Argentinean Government.[12] He is an Honors Professor of the University of Buenos Aires and the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.

Giurfa has published ca. 200 articles in international scientific journals in the fields of insect cognition, insect neurobiology and insect behavior,[13] many of them being highly cited. He is an Associate Editor of several scientific journals such as EJN,[14] Learning & Memory,[15] Animal Cognition[16] and Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences[17] among others. He is a member of Faculty of 1000[18] and deploys an intensive science dissemination activity to render scientific knowledge accessible to broad audiences. During the COVID-19 pandemics he established a highly attended series of virtual scientific seminars “to provide scientific stimulation and keep morale high in difficult times”.[19]

Research achievements edit

Martin Giurfa has pioneered the field of insect cognition and has investigated during several decades elemental and non-elemental forms of learning. He adopted conceptual frameworks from experimental psychology and neuroethology to address questions on olfactory learning and memory in honeybees and performed the first experiments showing concept learning in insects trained to solve visual discriminations. He grounded thereby a field he termed “cognitive neuroethology” [20] in which the neural bases of the cognitive capacities of animals are studied in the framework of their natural environment. He has developed his research addressing questions both at the behavioral level, establishing various novel protocols for insect conditioning[21][22] and at the neural level, using multiple invasive techniques to record neural activity in the bee brain such as calcium imaging recordings, electrophysiology and neuropharmacological interference, among others.[23][24] His work has led to the establishment of virtual reality scenarios for honey bees in which he studies their visual learning and decision-making.[25] His discoveries have changed the way scientists regard insects and have brought, in particular, wide attraction and respect towards honeybees.

Bibliography edit

Journal articles: most highly cited edit

  • Giurfa M, Eichmann B, Menzel R (1996) Symmetry perception in an insect. Nature 382:458- 461. doi: 10.1038/382458a0.
  • Giurfa M, Zhang S, Jenett A, Menzel R, Srinivasan MV (2001) The concepts of 'sameness' and 'difference' in an insect. Nature 410(6831):930-933. doi: 10.1038/35073582.
  • Menzel R, Giurfa M (2001) Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee. Trends in cognitive sciences 5 (2), 62–71. doi: 10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01601-6.
  • Stach S, Benard J, Giurfa M (2004) Local-feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees. Nature 429(6993):758-761. doi: 10.1038/nature02594.
  • Guerrieri F, Schubert M, Sandoz JC, Giurfa M (2005) Perceptual and neural olfactory similarity in honeybees. PLoS Biology 3(4): e60. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030060.
  • Giurfa M (2007) Behavioral and neural analysis of associative learning in the honeybee: a taste from the magic well. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 193 (8), 801–824. doi: 10.1007/s00359-007-0235-9
  • Giurfa M, Sandoz JC (2012) Invertebrate learning and memory: fifty years of olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honeybee. Learning & memory 19 (2), 54–66. doi: 10.1101/lm.024711.111.
  • Devaud JM, Papouin T, Carcaud J, Sandoz JC, Grünewald B, Giurfa M (2015) Neural substrate for higher-order learning in an insect: Mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112(43):E5854-62. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1508422112.
  • Giurfa M (2013) Cognition with few neurons: higher-order learning in insects. Trends in Neurosciences 36(5):285-94. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2012.12.011.
  • Avarguès-Weber A, Combe M, Dyer A, Giurfa M (2012) Simultaneous mastering of two abstract concepts by a miniature brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109:7481- 7486. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1202576109.

Books edit

Galizia G, Eisenhardt D & Giurfa M. (eds.) 2012. Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior. Springer, 509pp.

References edit

  1. ^ "Martin Giurfa's Scientific Genealogy".
  2. ^ Giurfa, M; Nunez J; Chittka L; Menzel R (1995). "Colour preferences of flower-naive honeybees". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 177 (3): 247–259. doi:10.1007/BF00192415. S2CID 36437846.
  3. ^ Giurfa, M; Vorobyev M; Kevan P; Menzel R (1996). "Detection of coloured stimuli by honeybees: minimum visual angles and receptor specific contrasts". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 178 (5): 699–709. doi:10.1007/BF00227381. S2CID 12322747.
  4. ^ Giurfa, M; Eichmann B; Menzel R (1996). "Symmetry perception in an insect". Nature. 382 (6590): 458–461. Bibcode:1996Natur.382..458G. doi:10.1038/382458a0. PMID 1861051. S2CID 4360492.
  5. ^ Giurfa, M; Zhang S; Jenett A; Menzel R; Srinivasan MV (2001). "The concepts of 'sameness' and 'difference' in an insect". Nature. 410 (6831): 930–933. Bibcode:2001Natur.410..930G. doi:10.1038/35073582. PMID 11309617. S2CID 1753638.
  6. ^ "Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine".
  7. ^ "Martin Giurfa Awarded with the Silver Medal of CNRS".
  8. ^ "Martin Giurfa Awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant".
  9. ^ "Martin Giurfa's Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences".
  10. ^ "Martin Giurfa's Membership in the Royal Academy of Sciences & Arts of Belgium".
  11. ^ "Members of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)".
  12. ^ "2013 Awardees of the Raices Prize, Argentina". 24 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Martin Giurfa - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  14. ^ "EJN Editorial Board". doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1460-9568.
  15. ^ "Learning & Memory Editorial Board".
  16. ^ "Animal Cognition Editorial Board".
  17. ^ "Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Editorial Board".
  18. ^ "F1000 members".
  19. ^ "Neuroscience in Times of Quarantine: An online lecture series to stimulate your brain while you remain confined (and safe)".
  20. ^ Giurfa, M (2003). "Cognitive neuroethology: dissecting non-elemental learning in a honeybee brain". Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 13 (6): 726–735. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2003.10.015. PMID 14662375. S2CID 31785233.
  21. ^ Vergoz, V; Roussel E; Sandoz JC; Giurfa M (2007). "Aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex". PLOS ONE. 2 (3): e288. Bibcode:2007PLoSO...2..288V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000288. PMC 1810431. PMID 17372627.
  22. ^ Marchal, P; Villar ME; Geng H; Arrufat P; Combe M; Viola H; Massou I; Giurfa M (2019). "Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive-avoidance task". Learning & Memory. 26 (10): 412–423. doi:10.1101/lm.050120.119. PMC 6749929. PMID 31527185.
  23. ^ Guerrieri, FM; Schubert M; Giurfa M (2005). "Perceptual and neural olfactory similarity in honeybees". PLOS Biology. 3 (4): e60. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030060. PMC 1043859. PMID 15736975.
  24. ^ Devaud, JM; Papouin T; Carcaud J; Sandoz JC; Grunewald B; Giurfa M (2015). "Neural substrate for higher-order learning in an insect: mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 112 (43): E5854-62. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112E5854D. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508422112. PMC 4629335. PMID 26460021.
  25. ^ Buatois, A; Laroche L; Lafon G; Avarguès-Weber A; Giurfa M (2020). "Higher-order discrimination learning by honeybees in a virtual environment". European Journal of Neuroscience. 51 (2): 681–694. doi:10.1111/ejn.14633. PMID 31785107. S2CID 208497764.

External links edit

March 17, 2024
martin, giurfa, argentinean, french, neurobiologist, neuroethologist, born, september, 1962, member, german, national, academy, sciences, leopoldina, académie, royale, sciences, lettres, beaux, arts, belgique, institut, universitaire, france, acknowledged, wor. Martin Giurfa is an Argentinean French neurobiologist and neuroethologist born September 1962 member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina the Academie royale des sciences des lettres et des beaux arts de Belgique and the Institut Universitaire de France IUF He is acknowledged for his work on the neural mechanisms of cognition in invertebrates which he mostly explores using honeybees as models for understanding basic principles of learning and memory Excellence Class ProfessorMartin GIURFABornSeptember 1962 age 61 Lima PeruNationalityArgentinean FrenchAlma materFaculty of Exact and Natural Sciences University of Buenos Aires Free University of BerlinScientific careerFieldsNeuroethology Neurosciences Animal Behavior Cognition Learning amp Memory InvertebratesInstitutionsSorbonne UniversityPaul Sabatier UniversityFree University of BerlinUniversity of Buenos AiresDoctoral advisorJosue NunezOther academic advisorsRandolf Menzel Hector MaldonadoWebsitewww wbr ibps wbr sorbonne universite wbr fr wbr en wbr research wbr neuroscience wbr insect cognitive neuroethology engtwitter wbr com wbr martingiurfa Contents 1 Life and career 1 1 Early years in South America 1 2 Career in Europe 2 Research achievements 3 Bibliography 3 1 Journal articles most highly cited 3 2 Books 4 References 5 External linksLife and career editEarly years in South America edit Martin Giurfa was born in Lima Peru from an Argentinean mother who raised him alone and registered him as an Argentinean citizen He grew up in Lima where he attended the French School Lycee franco peruvien and moved to Buenos Aires Argentina at the end of 1980 to study Biology at the University of Buenos Aires Argentina was still under control of the military dictatorship National Reorganization Process and Martin Giurfa enrolled in the student movement resisting dictatorial oppression Under the banner of the Partido Intransigente a left wing party he played an influential role in that movement and in 1984 after the return of the democracy to Argentina he became president of the Student Union of his faculty the Faculty of Natural and Exact Sciences As many students in the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences he benefited then from the return to Argentina of numerous prestigious Argentinean scientists who were in exile during the dictatorship and who participated in the academic reconstruction of the country see Historia de la ciencia y la tecnologia en Argentina He met Prof Josue Nunez who trained him in the field of insect behavioral physiology and contacted him with German academia in particular with Prof Randolf Menzel Free University of Berlin a leading neurobiologist working on color vision learning and memory in honeybees 1 Career in Europe edit After obtaining his PhD Degree from the University of Buenos Aires under the supervision of Josue Nunez he moved to Germany in 1990 to work at the institute of Neurobiology of the Free University of Berlin under the supervision of Prof Menzel He was first Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and then Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation His first works focused on color and shape vision in honeybees leading to the discovery of color preferences 2 and color detection mechanisms by bees 3 His work on symmetry categorization by honeybees in 1996 4 followed by his demonstration of concept learning in bees 5 represented a turning point for the field of insect behavior as they promoted a novel cognitive perspective to analyze honey bee behavior and decision making This framework represented conceptual switch for a research domain which had mostly attributed limited cognitive capacities to insects until then In 1997 he obtained his Habilitation Degree of the Free University of Berlin and became group leader and assistant professor at the institute of Neurobiology of that University In 2001 he moved to Toulouse France as a Professor of Neurosciences of Paul Sabatier University In 2003 he created the Research Center on Animal Cognition a multidisciplinary research institute depending both on Paul Sabatier University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research which focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive processing in various animal species and which he directed until 2017 From 2008 to 2012 he was President of the National Committee of Neurosciences of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and served in numerous French and European boards of neurosciences In 2016 he adopted the French nationality He has produced significant contributions dissecting the neural mechanisms of learning and memory in bees and other insects In 2023 he moved to Paris following an offer to become the director of the Institute of Biology Paris Seine IBPS 6 of Sorbonne University He is currently and Exceptional Class Professor of Neurosciences of Sorbonne University and will start his function of IBPS director in 2025 Giurfa is a recipient of the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research 7 and of an Advanced Fellowship from the European Research Council ERC 8 He is also an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France IUF 9 10 11 In 2013 He was distinguished with the Raices Award of the Argentinean Government 12 He is an Honors Professor of the University of Buenos Aires and the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Giurfa has published ca 200 articles in international scientific journals in the fields of insect cognition insect neurobiology and insect behavior 13 many of them being highly cited He is an Associate Editor of several scientific journals such as EJN 14 Learning amp Memory 15 Animal Cognition 16 and Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences 17 among others He is a member of Faculty of 1000 18 and deploys an intensive science dissemination activity to render scientific knowledge accessible to broad audiences During the COVID 19 pandemics he established a highly attended series of virtual scientific seminars to provide scientific stimulation and keep morale high in difficult times 19 Research achievements editMartin Giurfa has pioneered the field of insect cognition and has investigated during several decades elemental and non elemental forms of learning He adopted conceptual frameworks from experimental psychology and neuroethology to address questions on olfactory learning and memory in honeybees and performed the first experiments showing concept learning in insects trained to solve visual discriminations He grounded thereby a field he termed cognitive neuroethology 20 in which the neural bases of the cognitive capacities of animals are studied in the framework of their natural environment He has developed his research addressing questions both at the behavioral level establishing various novel protocols for insect conditioning 21 22 and at the neural level using multiple invasive techniques to record neural activity in the bee brain such as calcium imaging recordings electrophysiology and neuropharmacological interference among others 23 24 His work has led to the establishment of virtual reality scenarios for honey bees in which he studies their visual learning and decision making 25 His discoveries have changed the way scientists regard insects and have brought in particular wide attraction and respect towards honeybees Bibliography editJournal articles most highly cited edit Giurfa M Eichmann B Menzel R 1996 Symmetry perception in an insect Nature 382 458 461 doi 10 1038 382458a0 Giurfa M Zhang S Jenett A Menzel R Srinivasan MV 2001 The concepts of sameness and difference in an insect Nature 410 6831 930 933 doi 10 1038 35073582 Menzel R Giurfa M 2001 Cognitive architecture of a mini brain the honeybee Trends in cognitive sciences 5 2 62 71 doi 10 1016 s1364 6613 00 01601 6 Stach S Benard J Giurfa M 2004 Local feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees Nature 429 6993 758 761 doi 10 1038 nature02594 Guerrieri F Schubert M Sandoz JC Giurfa M 2005 Perceptual and neural olfactory similarity in honeybees PLoS Biology 3 4 e60 doi 10 1371 journal pbio 0030060 Giurfa M 2007 Behavioral and neural analysis of associative learning in the honeybee a taste from the magic well Journal of Comparative Physiology A 193 8 801 824 doi 10 1007 s00359 007 0235 9 Giurfa M Sandoz JC 2012 Invertebrate learning and memory fifty years of olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honeybee Learning amp memory 19 2 54 66 doi 10 1101 lm 024711 111 Devaud JM Papouin T Carcaud J Sandoz JC Grunewald B Giurfa M 2015 Neural substrate for higher order learning in an insect Mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112 43 E5854 62 doi 10 1073 pnas 1508422112 Giurfa M 2013 Cognition with few neurons higher order learning in insects Trends in Neurosciences 36 5 285 94 doi 10 1016 j tins 2012 12 011 Avargues Weber A Combe M Dyer A Giurfa M 2012 Simultaneous mastering of two abstract concepts by a miniature brain Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109 7481 7486 doi 10 1073 pnas 1202576109 Books edit Galizia G Eisenhardt D amp Giurfa M eds 2012 Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior Springer 509pp References edit Martin Giurfa s Scientific Genealogy Giurfa M Nunez J Chittka L Menzel R 1995 Colour preferences of flower naive honeybees Journal of Comparative Physiology A 177 3 247 259 doi 10 1007 BF00192415 S2CID 36437846 Giurfa M Vorobyev M Kevan P Menzel R 1996 Detection of coloured stimuli by honeybees minimum visual angles and receptor specific contrasts Journal of Comparative Physiology A 178 5 699 709 doi 10 1007 BF00227381 S2CID 12322747 Giurfa M Eichmann B Menzel R 1996 Symmetry perception in an insect Nature 382 6590 458 461 Bibcode 1996Natur 382 458G doi 10 1038 382458a0 PMID 1861051 S2CID 4360492 Giurfa M Zhang S Jenett A Menzel R Srinivasan MV 2001 The concepts of sameness and difference in an insect Nature 410 6831 930 933 Bibcode 2001Natur 410 930G doi 10 1038 35073582 PMID 11309617 S2CID 1753638 Institut de Biologie Paris Seine Martin Giurfa Awarded with the Silver Medal of CNRS Martin Giurfa Awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant Martin Giurfa s Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Martin Giurfa s Membership in the Royal Academy of Sciences amp Arts of Belgium Members of the Institut Universitaire de France IUF 2013 Awardees of the Raices Prize Argentina 24 April 2019 Martin Giurfa Google Scholar Citations scholar google com Retrieved 2021 03 18 EJN Editorial Board doi 10 1111 ISSN 1460 9568 Learning amp Memory Editorial Board Animal Cognition Editorial Board Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Editorial Board F1000 members Neuroscience in Times of Quarantine An online lecture series to stimulate your brain while you remain confined and safe Giurfa M 2003 Cognitive neuroethology dissecting non elemental learning in a honeybee brain Current Opinion in Neurobiology 13 6 726 735 doi 10 1016 j conb 2003 10 015 PMID 14662375 S2CID 31785233 Vergoz V Roussel E Sandoz JC Giurfa M 2007 Aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex PLOS ONE 2 3 e288 Bibcode 2007PLoSO 2 288V doi 10 1371 journal pone 0000288 PMC 1810431 PMID 17372627 Marchal P Villar ME Geng H Arrufat P Combe M Viola H Massou I Giurfa M 2019 Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive avoidance task Learning amp Memory 26 10 412 423 doi 10 1101 lm 050120 119 PMC 6749929 PMID 31527185 Guerrieri FM Schubert M Giurfa M 2005 Perceptual and neural olfactory similarity in honeybees PLOS Biology 3 4 e60 doi 10 1371 journal pbio 0030060 PMC 1043859 PMID 15736975 Devaud JM Papouin T Carcaud J Sandoz JC Grunewald B Giurfa M 2015 Neural substrate for higher order learning in an insect mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112 43 E5854 62 Bibcode 2015PNAS 112E5854D doi 10 1073 pnas 1508422112 PMC 4629335 PMID 26460021 Buatois A Laroche L Lafon G Avargues Weber A Giurfa M 2020 Higher order discrimination learning by honeybees in a virtual environment European Journal of Neuroscience 51 2 681 694 doi 10 1111 ejn 14633 PMID 31785107 S2CID 208497764 External links editMartin Giurfa publications indexed by Google Scholar Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Martin Giurfa amp oldid 1193004496, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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