Martial CAILLAUD

Martial CAILLAUD is a postdoctoral researcher at UMR INSERM U2135-TENS in Nantes. He specializes in the study of peripheral nervous systems (enteric and somatic), which he studies at molecular, cellular and functional levels. After a Master's degree in Neuroscience at the University of Bordeaux he obtained a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Limoges in 2018. During his thesis, he studied the therapeutic potential of dietary polyphenols in peripheral neuropathies of traumatic, genetic and chemo-induced origin. He pursued his expertise in peripheral neuropathies with a post-doctorate in the USA in the Pharma/Tox department of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he worked on the anti-inflammatory role of PPARα and α7nAchR receptors in neuropathic pain. In 2021 he joins UMR INSERM U2135-TENS, where he studies the impact of extracellular vesicles from the gut microbiota of patients with autism spectrum disorder on the activity and connectivity of enteric neurons.