Neurobiology sector

Neuroscience:

                                                                 Curriculum in Neurobiology

Coordinator of the program is prof. Anna Menini

Summary

The Neurobiology Sector of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) has PhD fellowships available for training and research in molecular, cellular and systems Neuroscience.

Key features:

- Concentrated 3-4 year PhD program

- Courses covering a broad spectrum from molecular to systems Neuroscience

- Small research groups with close supervisor interactions

- International staff and students

- All activities are in English

- Excellent track record for job placement in top quality institutions

 

Inside Neuroscience:

 
 

Teaching Committee and Main Research lines

                                                  Teaching committee

                                                           Main research lines

Cellular and network mechanisms of  neurotransmitters

Synaptic plasticity in development

Sensory systems

Regeneration of immature spinal cord after injury

Neuronal and artificial computation

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Didactics

 

Candidate selection

 

Regulations

 

Student Representatives

 

Current PhD students

I year students

Antonelli Roberta       Cherubini

Arcangeletti  Manuel  Torre 

Ekramnia       Milad     Torre

Marchenkova  Anna    Nistri

Pietra   Gianluca           Menini

Piñeros   Cristian         Menini 

II year students

Cherian Lijo                   Menini

Maurya Devendra         Menini

Nowodworska Arletta Nistri

Olivieri Dario                 Nistri

Samadi Akbar               Torre

Sayyad Wasim             Torre

Serzysko Malgorzata   Nistri

Shabbir Ayisha              Nistri


 III year students 

Amjad Asma                 Menini

Bianchetti Elena          Nistri

Rosselli Federica        Zoccolan

Hullugundi Swathi      Nistri

Moshtagh  Majid         Torre


IV year students

     
Amin Ladan     Torre

Ebrahimi Nasrabady Sara Nistri

Betto Giulia     Menini

Caiati Maddalena  Cherubini

Gnanasekaran Aswini Nistri

Marchesi Arin   Torre

Pizzarelli Rocco  Cherubini

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Publications of PhD students

Publications 2011

Griguoli M, Cherubini E. Regulation of hippocampal inhibitory circuits by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.J Physiol. 2011 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Pizzarelli R, Cherubini E Alterations of GABAergic signaling in autism spectrum disorders. Neural Plast. 2011;2011:297153. Epub 2011 Jun 23

Cherubini E, Caiati MD, Sivakumaran S. In the developing hippocampus kainate receptors control the release of GABA from mossy fiber terminals via a metabotropic type of action. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2011;717:11-26. Review.

Varley ZK, Pizzarelli R, Antonelli R, Stancheva SH, Kneussel M, Cherubini E, Zacchi P. Gephyrin regulates GABAergic and glutamatergic synaptic transmission in hippocampal cell cultures. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jun 10;286(23):20942-51. Epub 2011 Apr 20

Tyzio R, Allene C, Nardou R, Picardo MA, Yamamoto S, Sivakumaran S, Caiati MD, Rheims S, Minlebaev M, Milh M, Ferré P, Khazipov R, Romette JL, Lorquin J, Cossart R, Khalilov I, Nehlig A, Cherubini E, Ben-Ari Y.  Depolarizing actions of GABA in immature neurons depend neither on ketone bodies nor on pyruvate. J Neurosci. 2011 Jan 5;31(1):34-45.

Cherubini E, Griguoli M, Safiulina V, Lagostena L. The depolarizing action of GABA controls early network activity in the developing hippocampus. Mol Neurobiol. 2011 Apr;43(2):97-106. Epub 2010 Nov 3

Boccaccio A, Sagheddu C, Menini A.  Flash photolysis of caged compounds in the cilia of olfactory sensory neurons  J Vis Exp. 2011 Oct 29;(55):e3195. doi: 10.3791/3195.
 

Pifferi S, Cenedese V, Menini A. Anoctamin2/TMEM16B: a calcium-activated chloride channel in
olfactorytransduction. Exp Physiol. 2011 Sep 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Dibattista M, Massimino ML, Maurya DK, Menini A, Bertoli A, Sorgato MC. The cellular prion protein is expressed in olfactory sensory neurons of adult mice but does not affect the early events of the olfactory transduction pathway. Chem Senses. 2011 Nov;36(9):791-7.

Bedolla DE, Torre V. A component of retinal light adaptation mediated by the thyroid hormone
cascade. PLoS One. 2011;6(10):e26334. Epub 2011 Oct 24.

Bisson G, Torre V. Statistical characterization of social interactions and collective behavior
in medicinal leeches. J Neurophysiol. 2011 Jul;106(1):78-90.

A. Ostroumov, M. Simonetti and A. Nistri. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulates synaptic chloride homeostasis in motoneurons of the rat spinal cored during neonatal development. Developmental Neurobiology 2011, 71, 253-268.

A. Cifra, F. Nani and A. Nistri. Riluzole is a potent drug to protect neonatal rat hypoglossal motoneurons in vitro from excitotoxicity due to glutamate uptake block. European Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 33, 899-913.

S. E. Nasrabady, A. Kuzhandaivel, M. Mladinic and A. Nistri. Effects of 6(5H)phenanthridinone, an inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase-1 activity (PARP-1), on locomotor networks of the rat isolated spinal cord. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology 2011, 31, 503-508.

A. Cifra, F. Nani and A. Nistri. Respiratory Motoneurons and Pathological Conditions: lessons from hypoglossal motoneurons challenged by excitotoxic or oxidative stress. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 2011,179, 89-96.

S. E. Nasrabady, A. Kuzhandaivel and A. Nistri. Studies of locomotor network neuroprotection by the selective PARP-1 inhibitor PJ-34 against excitotoxic injury to the rat spinal cord in vitro. European Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 33, 2216-2227.

G. Mazzone and A. Nistri. Delayed neuroprotection by riluzole against excitotoxic damage evoked by kainate on rat organotypic spinal cord cultures. Neuroscience 2011, 190, 318-327.

A. Kuzhandaivel, A. Nistri, G. Mazzone and M. Mladinic. Molecular mechanisms underlying cell death in spinal networks in relation to locomotor activity after acute injury in vitro. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 2011, 5, 9.

A. Gnanasekaran, M. Sundukova M, A.M. van den Maagdenberg, E. Fabbretti and A. Nistri. Lipid rafts control P2X3 receptor distribution and function in trigeminal sensory neurons of a transgenic migraine mouse model. Molecular Pain 2011,7,77.

A. Cifra, G. L. Mazzone, F. Nani, A. Nistri and M. Mladinic. Postnatal developmental profile of neurons and glia in motor nuclei of the brainstem and spinal cord, and its comparison with organotypic slice cultures. Developmental Neurobiology 2011, in press.

Publications 2010

Puzzolo E* and Mallamaci A. 2010 Cortico-cerebral histogenesis in the opossum Monodelphis domestica: generation of a hexalaminar neocortex in the absence of a basal proliferative compartment. Neural Development 5:8


Spigoni G, Gedressi C and Mallamaci A 2010 Regulation of Emx2 expression by antisense transcripts in murine cortico-cerebralprecursors. PLoS One 5:e8658


Caiati MD, Sivakumaran S and Cherubini E 2010In the developing rat hippocampus, endogenous activation of presynaptic kainate receptors reduces GABA release from mossy fiber terminals.J. Neurosci.30:1750-1759


Safiulina VF,Caiati MD, Sivakumaran S, Bisson G, Migliore M and Cherubini E  2010 Control of GABA release at single mossy fiber-CA3 connections in the developing hippocampus. Front. Syn. Neurosci.2:1-11. doi:10.3389/neuro.19.003.2010


Griguoli M, Maul A, Nguyen C, Giorgetti A, Carloni P and Cherubini E  2010 Nicotine blocks the hyperpolarization-activated current Ih and severely impairs the oscillatory behavior of O-LM interneurons J. Neurosci 30:10773-10783


Motti D, Le Duigou C, Eugene E, Chemaly N, Wittner L, Lazarevic D, Krmac H, Marstrand T, Valen E, Sanges R, Stupka E, Sandelin A, Cherubini E, Gustincich S and Miles R  |2010|Gene expression analysis of the emergence of epileptiform activity after focal injection of kainic acid into mouse hippocampus Eur.J. Neurosci 32:1364–1379


Martire M, Barrese V, D’Amico M, Iannotti FA, Pizzarelli R, Samengo I, Viggiano D, Ruth P, Cherubini E and Taglialatela M 2010 Presynaptic BK channels selectively control glutamate versus GABA release from cortical and hippocampal nerve terminals. J. of Neurochem.115:411-422.


Deganuto M, Cesaratto L, Bellarosa C, Calligaris R,Vilotti S, Foti R, Renzone G, Scaloni A, Gustincich S, Quadrifoglio F, Tiribelli C and Tell 2010 A proteomic approach to the bilirubin-induced toxicity in neuronal cells reveals a protective function of DJ-1 protein Proteomics.10(8):1645-57.


Foti R, Zucchelli S, Biagioli M, Roncaglia P, Vilotti S, Calligaris R, Krmac H, Girardini JE, Del Sal G and Gustincich S  2010 Parkinson’s disease-associated DJ-1 is required for the expression of the Glial cell line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor receptor Ret in human neuroblastoma cells.J Biol Chem 285(24):18565-74.

Zucchelli S, Codrich M, Marcuzzi F, Pinto M, Vilotti S, Biagioli M, Ferrer I and Gustincich S |2010| TRAF6 promotes atypical ubiquitination of mutant DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein and is localized to Lewy bodies in sporadic Parkinson's disease brains. Hum Mol Genet 19(19):3759-70


Benvegnù S, Poggiolini I, Legname G  2010 Neurodevelopmental expression and localization of the cellular prion protein in the central nervous system of the mouse. J Comp Neurol 1;518(11):1879-91.


Brancaccio M, Pivetta C, Granzotto M, Filippis C, Mallamaci A  2010 Emx2 and Foxg1 Inhibit Gliogenesis and Promote Neuronogenesis. Stem Cells 28(7): 1206-1218.

Sagheddu C, Boccaccio A, Dibattista M , Montani G, Tirindelli R, Menini A  2010 Calcium concentration jumps reveal dynamic ion selectivity of calcium-activated chloride currents in mouse olfactory sensory neurons and TMEM16B/anoctamin2-transfected HEK 293T cells.J. Physiol.588:4189-204

Margaryan G ,Mattioli C,Mladinic M and Nistri A2010  Neuroprotection of locomotor networks after experimental injury to the neonatal rat spinal cord in vitro. Neuroscience 165, 996-1010.


Nani F,Cifra A and Nistri A 2010 Transient oxidative stress evokes early changes in the functional properties of neonatal rat hypoglossal motoneurons in vitro. European Journal of Neuroscience 31, 951-966.

Nair A,Simonetti M ,Fabbretti E and Nistri A 2010 The Cdk5 kinase downregulates ATP-gated ionotropic P2X3 receptor function via serine phosphorylation Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology 30:505-509.


Nistri A,Taccola G,Mladinic M, Margaryan G and Kuzhandaivel A 2010  Deconstructing locomotor networks with experimental injury to define their membership.Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 1198:242-251.


 Mazzone G, Margaryan G, Kuzhandaivel A, Nasrabady S,Mladinic M and Nistri A 2010 Kainate-induced delayed onset of excitotoxicity with functional loss unrelated to the extent of neuronal damage in the in vitro spinal cord. Neuroscience  168:451-462


Kuzhandaivel A,Margaryan G, Nistri A and Mladinic M 2010 Extensive glial apoptosis develops early after hypoxic-dysmetabolic insult to the neonatal rat spinal cord in vitro. Neuroscience 169:325-338.

Kuzhandaivel A, Nistri A and Mladinic M 2010 Kainate-mediated excitotoxicity induces neuronal death in the rat spinal cord in vitro via a PARP-1 dependent cell death pathway (parthanatos).Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology  30:1001-1012.

Nair A, Simonetti M, Birsa N, Ferrari MD,van den Maagdenberg A.M.J.M. , Giniatullin R, Nistri A and Fabbretti E  2010 Familial hemiplegic migraine CaV2.1 channel mutation R192Q enhances ATP-gated P2X3 receptor activity of mouse sensory ganglion neurons mediating trigeminal pain. Molecular Pain 6, 48.


Ostroumov A ,Simonetti M and Nistri A  2010 Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulates synaptic chloride homeostasis in motoneurons of the rat spinal cored during neonatal development. Developmental Neurobiology, (E-pub), in press.


Shahapure R, Difato F, Laio A, Bisson G, Ercolini E, Amin L, Ferrari E, Torre V. 2010 Force generation in lamellipodia is a probabilistic process with fast growth and retraction events Biophys J. Mar 17;98(6):979-88.

* SISSA PhD students are in red

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Alumni

2011

Kuzhaindavel Anujaianthi  Postdoc, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linkoping University, Sweden

Cifra Alessandra                 Postdoc, Experimental Epilepsy Group, University of Lund, sweden

Bisson Giacomo                 ItalTBS Clinical Engineering, area di Ricerca, Trieste, Italy

Bedolla Diana                    Postdoc, Sincrotrone, Elettra, Italy

Juarez Joacobo  -----------

2010

Kasap Zeynep      Postdoc      UCL                                 London      England

Griguoli Marilena   Postdoc     Institut Magendie, CNRS,   Bordeaux   France

Vilotti Sandra       Postdoc     SISSA                               Trieste       Italy

Benvegnù Stefano Postdoc     Centro Severo Ochoa          Madrid      Spain

Brancaccio Marco Postdoc      MRC                                 Cambridge England

Sagheddu Claudia Postdoc    Department of Neuroscience, University of Cagliari, Italy

Ostroumov Alexey Postdoc    Baylor Medical College         Houston    USA

Nani Francesca     Postdoc    University College London     London     England

2009

Rievaj Juraj          Postdoc     University of Alberta              Edmonton Canada

Shripad  Kondra  Postdoc      University of Napoli                 Napoli     Italy

Pinto Milena        Postdoc       University of Miami               Miami      USA

Motti Dario           Postdoc       University of Miami               Miami      USA

Vlachouli Christina

Spigoni Giulia  Postdoc  CRICM - UPMC/Inserm                 Paris      France

PuzzoloElisa

Margaryan Gayane  Postdoc Karolinska Institute                 Stockholm  Sweden

Sivakumaran Sudhir Postdoc  University of Helsinki           Helsinki Finland

 Dibattista Michele    Postdoc Monell Chemical Senses     Philadelphia   USA

Nair Asha                 Postdoc                                           Nijmegen Netherlands

 2008

Broccard  Frederic     Postdoc  University of Geneva           Geneva Switzerland

D’Arco  Marianna        Postdoc   University College London   London  England

Simonetti Manuela     Postdoc   Heidelberg University          Heidelberg Germany

Codega  Paolo             Postdoc  Columbia University            New York   USA

Pifferi  Simone            Postdoc    Max Delbrück Center         Berlin      Germany

2007

Minneci Federico Postdoc University College London               London England

Mohajerani Majid Postdoc Universisty of British Columbia    Vancouver Canada


Daliri Mohammad Postdoc German Primate Center             Goettingen Germany

Mazzarol Flavia   Assicurazioni Generali                              Trieste     Italy

Marchionni Ivan   Postdoc University of Chicago                    Chicago USA

Moretto Zita Matteo Postdoc University of California               San Diego  USA

Lamanauskas Nerijus Postdoc Karolinska Institute               Stockholm Sweden

 Michelazzi Silvia                                                               San Diego USA

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