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I am a neuroscientist and brain imager at the Italian institute of Technology. My lab (https://www.fnimg.iit.it/) focuses on the study of mammalian brain organization at the macroscale. We are interested in understanding how the brain works as an integrated network, both in healthy and in pathological states. Key objectives of our research are to understand (a) how brain regions dynamically communicate with each other (b) how this large-scale communication, often referred to as “functional connectivity”, emerges out of the fixed anatomical structure of the brain, (c) how this interareal communication breaks down in brain disorders (e.g. autism) and (d) how brainwide patterns of activity respond to internal and external input.To achieve our goals, we've developed ways to study how different brain regions reciprocally interact and communicate in the mouse brain. We want to understand how brain activity patterns, measured using techniques like fMRI (and more recently functional ultrasound imaging), relate to their underlying physiological determinants. To do this, we use various advanced neuroscience techniques such as optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium imaging and large-scale electrophysiology in mice. We then combine these experiments with computational models to explore how each factor affects overall brain activity.

Listed skills include Mri, Neuroscience, Drug Discovery, Fmri, and 13 others.