Kinga Iglòi
Function: Scientific collaborator — “Sleep & Cognition” Lab (Pr. Sophie Schwartz)
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences (UniGE)
Keywords: physical exercise, hippocampus, memory, fmri, plasticity
Short Biography
Kinga IGLOI received her master’s degrees in Neurosciences from Ecole Normale Supérieure. She then completed a PhD in 2009 at Pierre and Marie Curie University and University College London under the supervision of Dr. Laure Rondi-Reig and Pr. Alain Berthoz. She has joined the lab of Pr. Sophie Schwartz in Geneva in 2010 and currently is also the manager of the Biomarker facility at the Campus Biotech. Her research focuses primarily on the effects of physical exercise on brain plasticity and memory with a focus on the whole lifespan.
Key Publications
• Iglói, K., Doeller, CF., Berthoz, A., Rondi-Reig, L., Burgess, N. (2010). Lateralized human hippocampal activity predicts navigation based on sequence or place memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1004243107.
• Iglói, K. , Gaggioni, G., Sterpenich, V., Schwartz, S. (2015) A nap to recap or how reward regulates hippocampal-prefrontal memory networks during daytime sleep in humans. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07903.
• Marin Bosch, B., Bringard, A., Logrieco, M.G., Lauer, E., Imobersteg N., Thomas A., Ferretti G., Schwartz S., & Iglói, K. (2021). A single session of moderate intensity exercise influences memory, endocannabinoids and brain derived neurotrophic factor levels in men. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93813-5.
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Contact
Mail: kinga.igloi@unige.ch
Tel: +41 22 37 90 471
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3428-8474
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kinga-igloi/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kingaigloi.bsky.social