Lectures and seminars Guest lecture/Stratneuro Seminar with Prof. Carmen Sandi
Welcome to a guest lecture on Thursday 21 May 2026 as part of the PhD course in Stress Neurobiology 2026 (CF6086). As the closing keynote speaker, Prof. Sandi will discuss how individual differences in stress responses reveal key mechanisms of stress vulnerability and resilience. She will discuss a body of work highlighting how variability in brain, behavioral, and metabolic adaptations to stress informs our understanding of brain–body interactions.
"Stress and the individual: What differences in vulnerability reveal about brain-body resilience"
Prof. Carmen Sandi
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), SwitzerlandProf. Carmen Sandi is a leading expert in stress neurobiology and Head of the Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics at EPFL. Her research focuses on how stress and individual differences shape brain function and behavior, with a particular emphasis on motivation, social behavior, and vulnerability to psychopathology. Her work has provided important insights into the neurobiological and metabolic mechanisms through which stress influences brain circuits, including the role of the mesolimbic system and mitochondrial function in adaptive and maladaptive responses.