Skip to main content

Transforming the understanding
and treatment of mental illnesses.

Celebrating 75 Years! Learn More >>

SBN Section on Behavioral Neuroscience Section on Behavioral Neuroscience

Fany Messanvi

Photo of Fany Messanvi
Research Fellow
B.Sc. Cell biology and physiology, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
M.Sc. Neuroscience, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

kokoefany.messanvi@nih.gov
+1 301 594 4569

Fany Messanvi joined the Chudasama lab in June 2016 as a postdoctoral fellow and was promoted to Research Fellow in 2022. She is interested in the anatomical and functional relations between the neural circuits underlying executive functions and the brainstem neuromodulatory systems. To investigate these links, she applies various methods including behavioral testing, pharmacology, viral transynaptic tracing, fiber photometry and optogenetics.

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Messanvi F, Berkun K, Perkins A, Chudasama Y (2023) Parallel pathways provide hippocampal spatial information to prefrontal cortex . Journal of Neuroscience. 43 (1) 68-81

Messanvi F, Perkins A, du Hoffmann J, Chudasama Y. Fronto-temporal galanin modulates impulse control . Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2020 Feb;237(2):291-303. PMID: 31705163

Beldjoud H, Messanvi F, Nadif Kasri N, Roozendaal B. Extraction, Identification, and Quantification of Histones from Small Quantities of Specific Brain Tissue.  Curr Protoc Neurosci. 2016 Jul 1;76:4.38.1-4.38.20. PMID: 27367963.

Messanvi F, Eggens-Meijer E, Roozendaal B, van der Want JJ. A discrete dopaminergic projection from the incertohypothalamic A13 cell group to the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray in rat.  Front Neuroanat. 2013;7:41. PMID: 24367297.

Fornari RV, Wichmann R, Atsak P, Atucha E, Barsegyan A, Beldjoud H, Messanvi F, Thuring CM, Roozendaal B. Rodent stereotaxic surgery and animal welfare outcome improvements for behavioral neuroscience.  J Vis Exp. 2012 Jan 30;(59):e3528. PMID: 22314779.

Fournet V, Jany M, Fabre V, Chali F, Orsal D, Schweitzer A, Andrieux A, Messanvi F, Giros B, Hamon M, Lanfumey L, Deloulme JC, Martres MP. The deletion of the microtubule-associated STOP protein affects the serotonergic mouse brain network.  J Neurochem. 2010 Dec;115(6):1579-94. PMID: 20969568.

Presentations

Messanvi F, Senneca C, Viscockis V, Bradley SP, Chudasama Y. (2022) Optogenetic investigation of Galanin 1 receptors in fronto-temporal circuits that modulate impulse control. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. #235.03, San Diego, CA, USA

Messanvi F, Kalicharan D, Sjollema K, Jafari S, van der Want JJ, Roozendaal B. (2012) Glucocorticoid receptor and β2-adrenoceptor colocalize at excitatory synapses in the rat basolateral amygdala. Forum of Neuroscience Abstr. #2236. Barcelona, Spain

Messanvi F, Roozendaal B. (2011) Acute corticosterone administration induces delayed effects on anxiety behavior via an interaction with the noradrenergic system. IBRO World Congress, Florence, Italy.

Messanvi F, van Vliet S, Eggens-Meijer E, Roozendaal B, Klop EM. (2009) Dopamine input to dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, a possible for dopamine in defense behavior. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. #343.22, Chicago, IL, USA.