Vincent Castellucci is the Biology and Assistant Dean of Research, Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal. His major research interest is how the nervous system is modified by experience and learning. He collaborated for 20 years with Dr. Eric R. Kandel, Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine in the year 2000 and used the marine mollusc Aplysia californica as a model system to study the physiological changes associated with behavioural modifications. Based on this research he developed a model of experimentation to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurological changes underlying learning and memory. Its experimental model makes it possible to observe the changes which occur in the structure of neurons when information is stored for the transition between short-term and long-term memory. He received the Premio Internazionale Maria Luisa Ferrari Soave e Dottore Luigi Soave from the Science Academy of Torino (Italy) and the Prix Marcel-Piché from the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal.