# Claire Meissner Bernard ## Posts - [Hello world!](https://cmeissnerbernard.com/index.php/2023/10/18/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! ## Pages - [Teaching](https://cmeissnerbernard.com/index.php/teaching/): From 2025: Assistant professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris – Programming, bachelor and master students – Statistics, bachelor students July 2025: Teaching assistant at Neuromatch Academy – Computational neuroscience summer school 2013-2016 : Teaching assistant at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (64h/year). – Molecular biology practical classes, 3rd year bachelor students – Biochemistry practical classes, 1st year bachelor students - [Scientific outreach](https://cmeissnerbernard.com/index.php/scientific-outreach/): Volunteering at science museums Organizing lab internships for high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds Organizing seminars introducing computational neuroscience Computational Neuroscience Initiative Basel (CNIB) Writing with and for kids Frontiers for Young Minds articles on flavor and sickness (link) and on the musical brain (link) Creating videos Vidéo sur le sommeil (fr): click here Participating in the Brain Awareness week (Semaine du Cerveau) - [Research](https://cmeissnerbernard.com/index.php/research/): I am interested in how the brain stores sensory information, and how this information is retrieved to generate behavior. I have been focusing on where and how memories are stored in the brain, using olfaction as a model system during my PhD and my postdoctoral project. My research is at the interface between theory and experiments, and spans from the synaptic to the circuit level.  - [Publications](https://cmeissnerbernard.com/index.php/publications/): Hu B., Temiz N., Chou C., Rupprecht P., Meissner-Bernard C., Titze B., Chung SY. & Friedrich RW. (2024) Representational learning by optimization of neural manifolds in an olfactory memory network. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.17.623906 Meissner-Bernard C., Jenkins B., Rupprecht P., Arn Bouldoires E., Zenke F., Friedrich RW. & Frank T. (2025) Computational functions of precisely balanced neuronal assemblies in an olfactory memory network. Cell reports, 44 (3) link Meissner-Bernard C., Zenke F. & Friedrich R.W. (2024) Geometry and dynamics of representations in a precisely balanced memory network related to olfactory cortex. eLife, 96303. link Meissner-Bernard C., Tsai M., Logiaco L. & Gerstner W. […] - [Contact](https://cmeissnerbernard.com/index.php/about/): You can contact me at cmeixxxxxberxxxx(at)gmail.com or on Linkedin. [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)