Neurodegeneration (10)

Alessandro Bertoli

EDUCATION & RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Dr. Alessandro Bertoli got a degree in Physics at the University of Genova (Italy) in 1994 and a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2000. At the beginning, his scientific activity, was addressed to the electrophysiological characterization of mammalian CNS and mitochondrial ion channels ion channels. From 2000 to 2002 Dr. Bertoli had a post-doctoral at the Pharmacological Research Institute “Mario Negri” (Milano, Italy). During this period, he had the possibility to lead a research unit involved in the study of the molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Claudia Lodovichi

Claudia Lodovichi graduated in Medicine (1995) at the University of Pisa Medical School and Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Italy, with honors. She then obtained a PhD in Neurobiology (1999) at Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Italy, with honors, working on the interplay between neurotrophins and neuronal activity on cortical visual plasticity . She then moved to the USA where she worked as post doc, in LC Katz’s laboratory, HHMI, Duke Neurobiology Durham NC (1999- 2003) and then in JA Gogos’ laboratory, Columbia University NY, NY (2003 – 2005), where she continued to study circuit formation, function and plasticity, mostly in the olfactory system.

Diego Cecchin

Present position:

  • Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine (MED/36), University-Hospital of Padova, School of Medicine.
  • Chief of the postgraduate School of nuclear medicine, University of Padova.

Major Research interests:

  • PET/MR applications in amyloid semi-quantification and quantification
  • PET/MR applications in brain tumors
  • PET/MR applications in multiple sclerosis
  • PET/MR applications in neurodegenerative diseases
  • PET/MR applications in movement disorders
  • PET/MR applications in sarcoma of the adult (body)
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Elisa Greotti

I am currently a Research Scientist at the Neuroscience Institute of the National Research Council in Padova.

Over the last years, I have been involved in studying calcium (Ca2+) signaling in both health and disease. My research focused on the development of new tools to explore the mitochondrial functionality, generating both genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators and a new mitochondria-targeted channelrhodopsin. These methodologies are instrumental for addressing with novel approaches the role of second messenger heterogeneity in different pathophysiological conditions not only in cell cultures, but also ex vivo and in vivo.

Currently, I am interested in studying the role of organelle Ca2+ dynamics in pathophysiology, with a special focus on Alzheimer’s disease.

Francesco Rinaldi

Francesco Rinaldi is currently a Professor with the Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, University of Padova, and the coordinator of the Data Science Master’s Programme at the University of Padova.

He received the M.S. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in operations research from the Sapienza University of Rome, in 2005 and 2009, respectively.

He served as organizing/program committee member and as session/minisymposium organizer at many international conferences. He was also invited speaker at more than 40 international conferences and university seminars.

He received a number of research grants for his research (e.g., ARISLA 2021 grant).

He published over 50 papers in toptier academic journals including SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming Computation, Mathematics of Operations Research, Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions, Molecular Neurodegeneration.

Giorgia Cona

Giorgia Cona, PhD, is an assistant professor (Ricercatore di Tipo B) at the University of Padova, Department of General Psychology.

She received a Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Behavioural Neuroscience (110/110 cum laude) in 2008 at the University of Padova. She earned a PhD. in Psychobiology in 2012. She spent a period abroad in 2011 working at the University of Toronto, in the Morris Moscovitch’s Lab.

From 2012 to 2016, she had post-doc positions at the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of General Psychology (University of Padova). In 2017, she become lecturer (RTDa) at the Department of General Psychology.

Marco Dal Maschio

Present position
Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Padua.

Bio sketch
Marco Dal Maschio obtained the degree in Physics at the University of Padova in 2002. After completing a PhD in Biotechnologies, he undertook postdoctoral research first at the Italian Institute of Technology, Dept. Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, (Genua, Italy), and then at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Dept. Genes-Circuits-Behavior (Martinsried, Germany).

Research Interests
Is it possible to link neuronal activity to functional architectures supporting behavior? A growing toolbox of experimental and analysis methods allows to start addressing these questions in awake or even freely behaving animal models.

Maria Pennuto

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova

I got the Master in Science degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, in 1996.

In 2000, I obtained the PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Milan, Italy. During the PhD program, I studied the molecular mechanisms that regulate the interaction and sorting of the synaptic vesicle proteins (Mentor: Prof. F. Valtorta).

In between 2001-2004, I carried out a post-doctorate in the Lab of Dr L. Wrabetz at the S. Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, where I worked on the characterization of the pathogenetic mechanisms of neurodegeneration of a mouse model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1B neuropathy.

Mario Bortolozzi

Education and training

2004: Master Degree in Physics, University of Padova.
2008: PhD in Neurobiology, Biosciences School, University of Padova.
2008-2010: Postdoc at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.
2010-2017: Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy “G. Galilei”, University of Padova.
2012-2013: Visiting Scientist at the Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK.
Since 2013: Group leader at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.
Since 2017: Associate professor at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy “G. Galilei”, University of Padova.
Since 2018: scientific coordinator of PNC-SISMUR infrastructure for cellular imaging at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.

Tito Calì

Today: Associate Professor, University of Padova.

2017: Assistant Professor, (RTDB) Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova.

2015-2016: Assistant Professor, (RTDA) Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova.

2013-2015: Senior Research Associate, University of Padova.

2009-2013: Junior Research Associate, University of Padova.

2008: PhD Degree “in signi cum laude”, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Theodor Kocher institute, University of Bern (CH) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona (CH).

2005: Doctor in Biological Sciences 110/110 “Cum Laude”, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, University of L’Aquila and Centre d’Immunologie Marseille Luminy (CIML).

Selected Publications

Calì T, et al. The ataxia related G1107D mutation of the plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPase isoform 3 affects its interplay with calmodulin and the autoinhibition process.