Juliette Godin is a researcher with French nationality. In 2004 she obtained a degree in bioscience and biotechnological engineering at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon. She then devoted her Masters to specializing in cellular biology at the Université Paris XI. She continued her journey and at the Curie Institute defended a thesis on the intercellular dynamics and degradation pathways as therapeutic targets in Huntington’s disease.

In 2010 she began postdoctoral work at the University of Liège’s GIGA-Neurosciences unit, in Laurent Nguyen’s laboratory. She is in particular enabling the Liège department to establish a new analytical model for the small fruit fly which will, in parallel with other models, permit interesting scientific questions to be addressed, notably concerning neurogenesis.

Selection of publications

GODIN JD*, COLOMBO C*, MOLINA-CALAVITA M, KERYER G, ZALA D, CHARRIN BC, DIETRICH P, VOLVERT ML, GUILLEMOT F, DRAGATSIS I, BELLAICHE Y, SAUDOU F, NGUYEN L, HUMBERT S, Huntingtin is Required for Mitotic Spindle Orientation and Mammalian Neurogenesis, Neuron, 2010 (* equal contribution)

GODIN JD, POIZAT G, HICKEY M, MASCHAT F, HUMBERT S, Mutant huntingtin-impaired degradation of ß-catenin causes neurotoxicity in Huntington's disease, EMBO J, 2010 (to be published)

DOMPIERRE JP*, GODIN JD*, CHARRIN BC, CORDELIERES FP, KING SJ, HUMBERT S, SAUDOU F, Histone deacetylase 6 inhibition compensates for the transport deficit in Huntington's disease by increasing tubulin acetylation, J. Neurosciences, 27(13)3571-83 (* equal contribution)