News and Updates

Meet me at the AREADNE conference with a poster titled "Estimating local field potentials from presynaptic firing rates".

New paper out: "Rodents’ visual gamma as a biomarker of pathological neural conditions." Journal of Physiology

Meet me at the Internet Festival where I'll be a speaker at a conference discussing the employment of open data and artificial intelligence in political science.

Meet me at SINS 2023 conference in Turin for a poster on "Gamma oscillations in mouse primary visual cortex as a biomarker of pathological conditions".

Meet me at CNS 2023 conference in Leipzig for a poster on "Extracellular potentials of Allen Institute’s V1 model approximated with spatiotemporal kernels". .

Check out my divulgative interview (ITA with ENG sub) about our paper on party switching in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. .

New paper out: "Predicting party switching through machine learning and open data." iScience

I have earned the P.h.D. in Biorobotics

New paper out: "Molecular changes underlying decay of sensory responses and enhanced seizure propensity in peritumoral neurons." Neuro-oncology

New paper out: "Environmental enrichment counteracts the effects of glioma in primary visual cortex." Neurobiology of Disease

Check out my divulgative interview (ITA with ENG sub) about our paper on migraine. Please also check out the media coverage of the paper on Ansa, Il Messaggero, Il Mattino, Tiscali News, La Nazione, Aise, and Sky Tg 24.

3 months as visiting Ph.D. Student at the CINPLA Lab of the Department of Biosciences (University of Oslo) under the supervision of Prof. Gaute Einevoll and Prof. Marianne Fyhn

New paper out: "Synaptic alterations in visual cortex reshape contrast-dependent gamma oscillations and inhibition-excitation ratio in a genetic mouse model of migraine." The Journal of Headache and Pain 23:125

New paper out: "Disruption of layer-specific visual processing in a model of focal neocortical epilepsy." Cerebral Cortex

31th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2022): What determines the frequency and the duration of intermittent epileptic episodes in local cortical networks?

Finally my first in person Conference. Meet me at FENS Forum 2022 in Paris with my poster: Alterations of visual cortical activity in a genetic mouse model of migraine

30th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: (CNS*2021): A network model for migraine-driven alterations in the contrast sensitivity of rodent visual cortex

10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER 2021): Functional connectivity between EEG topographical maps and muscle synergies while using an upper limb exoskeleton

New paper out: "Narrow and Broad γ Bands Process Complementary Visual Information in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex." Eneuro, 8(6).

New paper out: "Direct activation of zebrafish neurons by ultrasonic stimulation revealed by whole CNS calcium imaging." Journal of Neural Engineering, 17(5), 056033.

29th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2020): An integrate-and-fire model of narrow band modulation in mouse visual cortex

VII Congress of the National Group of Bioengineering (GNB 2020): Ultrasonic neural stimulation of zebrafish larvae reveals region-specific calcium imaging activation patterns

New paper out: "The role of network architecture in the onset of spontaneous activity." STEMedicine, 1(1), e1-e1.

My first paper is out: "Ultrasound stimulations induce prolonged depolarization and fast action potentials in leech neurons." IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology, 1, 23-32.

I am now a Ph.D. candidate at the Biorobotics Institute of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. I will be working with Dr. Alberto Mazzoni in the Computational Neuroengineering Lab

Master’s degree in Bionics Engineering at University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies

Internship at International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste with Professor Vincent Torre

Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Genoa