Benoîte Bargeton obtained her Masters in Biology at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI, FR). During her PhD thesis in Stephan Kellenberger’s lab at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at UNIL she studied mechanisms of the activity of a mammalian neural sodium channel. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Lausann. She is joining R. Benton’s lab in September 2010.