Jeanne Ster joined the IGF in Montpellier as a researcher in the CNRS in 2015. She obtained her Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of Montpellier, France in 2007. As a postdoctoral fellow (2008-2014), she worked in the laboratory of Prof. Urs Gerber at the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she examined the modulation of synaptic properties affecting neuronal networks in the hippocampus. As an electrophysiologist, she is one of only few researchers worldwide, who masters the recording from synaptically coupled pairs of neurons. During the course of a postdoctoral project, she provided the first characterization of the roles of the type 3 metabotropic glutamate receptor in modulating activity within hippocampal circuits.

In the IGF she has been investigating the interactions between the mGlu3 receptor and intracellular signaling proteins and their implications for synaptic transmission in physiological and pathological conditions. In her work, she employs electrophysiological approaches, which she complements with a range of techniques ranging from calcium imaging, molecular biological assays, immunohistochemistry, and behavioral studies.