{"id":1382,"date":"2025-02-15T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imn.u-bordeaux.fr\/2025\/02\/15\/interview-de-maelle-hardel\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:00:00","slug":"interview-de-maelle-hardel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imn.u-bordeaux.fr\/en\/2025\/02\/15\/interview-de-maelle-hardel\/","title":{"rendered":"Maelle Hardel – Stagiaire \u00e0 l’IMN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Can you say a few words about your research?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maelle: <\/strong>I’m currently doing my Master’s degree, and I’m going to study vigilance and anxiety behavior in mice: what happens in a mouse’s brain when faced with a potential threat? To find out, we’ll need to determine whether activation of a brain region called the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus is necessary to detect a threat and escape. I imagine you’re all wondering, but no, there’s no eagle in the lab! I will mimic the eagle’s approach with a black disk projected onto a high screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To escape or not to escape?<\/em><\/strong> @image generated via AI . Which brain regions control this behavior? <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of a coronal brain slice showing the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus, a brain region potentially involved in threat detection behavior and defensive reaction to predators.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Did you always know that you wanted to be a scientist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maelle: <\/strong>It was never very clear, because I always loved everything and wanted to do everything. My STEM classes fascinated me, but I loved French just as much, for example. Post-bac, I was accepted everywhere at Parcours sup: psychology, biology, speech therapy, literature and English. And I thought, \u201cGosh, what am I going to do with my life!\u201d. The psychology degree was pretty general and that’s why I liked it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interest in science came later, when I was explaining psychobiology to my classmates. That’s why I went on to do a Masters in Neuroscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you decide to switch from a Bachelor’s degree in psychology to a Master’s degree in neuroscience?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maelle: <\/strong>It was perhaps a bold move on my part. During my undergraduate studies, I realized that I particularly liked biological mechanisms. Psychobiology was my favorite subject. So I said to myself, I’m going for it, and I don’t care if I fail! I gave it a go, and that’s how I ended up here. I love studying emotions, behavior and mental pathologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you complete the following sentence: \u201c To do Science you need to \u2026 \u201c <\/strong><\/strong>Maelle:  be curious!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you encounter difficulty as a woman to do Sciences? Did you hear that Sciences are not for girls?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maelle: <\/strong>No, I didn’t feel any difficulty. My promotions at university were mainly female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maelle: <\/strong>I still have a lot of doubts, but in the sciences, that’s for sure! On the other hand, I don’t know if I want to do a PhD. I’m afraid I’d get frustrated studying just one subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science popularization is a field that would appeal to me too, and would enable me to work on a multitude of scientific subjects at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to finish this portrait, Maelle’s Science in music: what are you listening to on the bench?<\/strong>Maelle: <\/strong>At the moment, I’m listening to Bad Bunny’s \u201cTurista\u201d to motivate me during my analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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