Dr. Stéphane Martin was a postdoctoral fellow at the MRC Centre for synaptic plasticity, University of Bristol, from 2002 to 2008. He then came back to France as an ATIP-CNRS group leader at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC) in 2009. Since then, he has been a team leader and Inserm Research Director at the IPMC (University Côte d'Azur - CNRS - Inserm). His research interests are focused on the study of the synaptic function and post-translational modifications including SUMOylation, protein trafficking and neurological disorders.