Jean-Claude Lacaille is professor of Physiology at the Université de Montréal. He was director of the Department of Physiology from 2001-05, and is a founding member of the Research Group on the Central Nervous System. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology and his research focuses on understanding cortical network activity at cellular, molecular and genetic levels, with applications for learning, memory, and epilepsy. His laboratory is specialized in the use of electrophysiological, cellular imaging and molecular biological techniques in brain slices from normal and transgenic rodents to investigate the function of hippocampal neurons.