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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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 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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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