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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1983 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Georges Pelletier is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular focus on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Cellular transport and secretion

Pelletier has published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Movement Disorders
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Cell Reports

Recent publications include:

  • "Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation Impairs Motivation: Implication for Apathy in Parkinson's Disease," 2020, Movement Disorders
  • "TP53INP1 exerts neuroprotection under ageing and Parkinson's disease-related stress condition," 2021, Cell Death and Disease
  • "Cholinergic interneuron inhibition potentiates corticostriatal transmission in direct medium spiny neurons and rescues motor learning in parkinsonism," 2022, Cell Reports
  • "Enhanced differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells toward the midbrain dopaminergic neuron lineage through GLYPICAN-4 downregulation," 2021, Stem Cells Translational Medicine
  • "Targeted Tshz3 deletion in corticostriatal circuit components segregates core autistic behaviors," 2022, Translational Psychiatry

Georges Pelletier has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Pascal Salin
  • Christophe Melon
  • Paolo Gubellini
  • Xavier Caubit
  • Jordan Molitor

Their work notably addresses complex neurological mechanisms and therapies, with a pronounced emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and neurodevelopmental conditions like autism spectrum disorder.

Pelletier was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • In planta Agrobacterium mediated gene transfer by infiltration of adult Arabidopsis thaliana plants

    N. Bechtold;J. Ellis;G. Pelletier

  • In planta Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of adult Arabidopsis thaliana plants by vacuum infiltration.

    Nicole Bechtold;Georges Pelletier

  • The TT8 Gene Encodes a Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Domain Protein Required for Expression of DFR and BAN Genes in Arabidopsis Siliques

    Nathalie Nesi;Isabelle Debeaujon;Clarisse Jond;Georges Pelletier

  • Intergeneric cytoplasmic hybridization in cruciferae by protoplast fusion

    G. Pelletier;C. Primard;F. Vedel;P. Chetrit

  • AtSPO11‐1 is necessary for efficient meiotic recombination in plants

    Mathilde Grelon;Daniel Vezon;Ghislaine Gendrot;Georges Pelletier

  • Mitochondrial recombination in cytoplasmic hybrids of Nicotiana tabacum by protoplast fusion

    Geneviève Belliard;Fernand Vedel;Georges Pelletier

  • HLM1, an Essential Signaling Component in the Hypersensitive Response, Is a Member of the Cyclic Nucleotide–Gated Channel Ion Channel Family

    Claudine Balagué;Baiqing Lin;Carine Alcon;Guylaine Flottes

  • The BANYULS gene encodes a DFR-like protein and is a marker of early seed coat development.

    Martine Devic;Jocelyne Guilleminot;Isabelle Debeaujon;Nicole Bechtold

  • Male sterility in plants: occurrence, determinism, significance and use

    Françoise Budar;Georges Pelletier

  • FLAGdb/FST: a database of mapped flanking insertion sites (FSTs) of Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA transformants.

    Franck Samson;Véronique Brunaud;Sandrine Balzergue;Bertrand Dubreucq

  • T-DNA integration into the Arabidopsis genome depends on sequences of pre-insertion sites

    Véronique Brunaud;Sandrine Balzergue;Bertrand Dubreucq;Sébastien Aubourg

  • Sequence and transcript analysis of the Nco2.5 Ogura-specific fragment correlated with cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica cybrids

    Sandrine Bonhomme;Françoise Budar;Dominique Lancelin;Ian Small

  • Method of producing double low restorer lines of Brassica napus having a good agronomic value

    Catherine Primard-Brisset;Régine Delourme;Jean-Pierre Poupard;Raymonde Horvais

  • SWITCH1 (SWI1): a novel protein required for the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion and for bivalent formation at meiosis.

    Raphaël Mercier;Daniel Vezon;Erika Bullier;Juan C. Motamayor

  • DNA sequence imparting cytoplasmic male sterility, recombinant plant mitochondrial and nuclear genome, mitochondria and cytoplasm containing mitochondrial genome

    Bonhomme Sandrine;Budar Francoise;Lancelin Diminique;Pelletier Georges

  • Ogura cytoplasmic male-sterility (CMS)-associated orf138 is translated into a mitochondrial membrane polypeptide in male-sterile Brassica cybrids

    Mathilde Grelon;Françoise Budar;Sandrine Bonhomme;Georges Pelletier

  • A high throughput genetic screen identifies new early meiotic recombination functions in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Arnaud De Muyt;Lucie Pereira;Daniel Vezon;Liudmila Chelysheva

  • The two genes homologous to Arabidopsis FAE1 co-segregate with the two loci governing erucic acid content in Brassica napus

    M. Fourmann;P. Barret;M. Renard;G. Pelletier

  • The meiotic protein SWI1 is required for axial element formation and recombination initiation in Arabidopsis.

    Raphael Mercier;Sunsan J. Armstrong;Christine Horlow;Neil P. Jackson

  • Quantitative trait loci mapping in five new large recombinant inbred line populations of Arabidopsis thaliana genotyped with consensus single-nucleotide polymorphism markers

    Matthieu Simon;Olivier Loudet;Stéphanie Durand;Aurélie Bérard

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Renard
Michel Renard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Ian Small
Ian Small University of Western Australia
Michel Caboche
Michel Caboche INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Dominique Brunel
Dominique Brunel INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michel Delseny
Michel Delseny University of Perpignan
Loïc Lepiniec
Loïc Lepiniec University of Paris-Saclay
Catherine Bellini
Catherine Bellini Umeå University
Régine Delourme
Régine Delourme INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Lise Jouanin
Lise Jouanin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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