Laurent GROC is research director at the CNRS and Bordeaux University, director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, and head of the Developmental Brain Physiology and Pathology laboratory. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying cell communication in the healthy and diseased brain. His lab pioneered the exploration of the glutamatergic synapse using superresolution imaging, uncovering in particular how NMDA receptor traffic at the neuronal membrane in physiological and pathological conditions (e.g. autoimmune encephalitis). He received a Ph.D. in Neurosciences in 2000 from Wayne State University (Michigan, USA) and Université de Lyon (France). He then joined the Department of Physiology at the University of Goteborg (Sweden). In 2004, he was appointed CNRS young investigator to decrypt excitatory synapse maturation. He received several awards, including 2020 ERC Synergy Award and 2022 CNRS Silver Medal.