Thomas Bourgeron is a French scientist working at the

Institut Pasteur The Pasteur Institute (, ) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. T ...

. His group discovered the first monogenic mutations involved in

autism Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing d ...

. He is a member of the

French Academy of sciences The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...

. He works on genes, changes in synapse properties and changes in circadian rhythm in autism-spectrum disorders.

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21st-century French biologists French geneticists French neuroscientists Living people Pasteur Institute Members of the French Academy of Sciences 1965 births {{neuroscientist-stub