Role of epigenetic mechanisms in visual cortical plasticity
Il 08/04/2013 ore 12.00
Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"
Aula Conferenze CNR
Via Pietro Castellino 111
80131 Napoli
Seminario del Dott. Tommaso Pizzorusso, Laboratorio Neurobiologia, Scuola Normale Superiore
Istituto Neuroscienze CNR, Area della ricerca, Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56100 PISA, ITALY.
Research interests:
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity. His research is mainly focussed on experience-dependent plasticity of the visual cortex.
Specifically, he is presently studying:
1) Intracellular signaling activated by visual experience in cortical neurons mediating experience-dependent plasticity.
2) Molecular determinants of the critical period for monocular deprivation.
Selected refereed publications
Berardi N., Pizzorusso T., Ratto G.M., Maffei L. Molecular mechanisms of visual cortical plasticity. (2003) TINS 26:7:369-378.
Cancedda L., Putignano E., Impey S., Maffei L., Ratto G.M.,Pizzorusso T. Patterned vision causes CRE-mediated gene expression in the visual cortex through PKA and ERK. (2003) J. Neurosci. 23:7012-7020.
Pizzorusso T., Medini P., Berardi N., Chierzi S., Fawcett J.W., Maffei L. Reactivation of ocular dominance plasticity in the adult visual cortex. (2002) Science 298:1248-51
Di Cristo G., Berardi N., Cancedda L., Pizzorusso T., Putignano E., Ratto G.M., Maffei L. ERK activation is required for experience-dependent plasticity and long-term synaptic potentiation in the developing visual cortex. (2001) Science 292: 2337-2340.
Bartoletti A., Cancedda L., Reid S.W., Tessarollo L., Porciatti V., Pizzorusso T., Maffei L., Heterozygous Knock-Out Mice for BDNF Show a Pathway-Specific Impairment of Long-Term Potentiation But Normal Critical Period for Monocular Deprivation (2002) J. Neurosci. 2002 22: 10072-10077.
Rossi F.M., Pizzorusso T., Porciatti V., Marubio L.M., Maffei L, Changeux J.P. Requirement of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit for the anatomical and functional development of the visual system. (2001) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 98 6453-6458.
Pizzorusso T., Ratto G.M., Putignano E., Maffei L. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor causes cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein phosphorylation in absence of calcium increases in slices and cultured neurons from rat visual cortex. (2000) J. Neurosci. 20:2809-2816.
Huang Z.J., Kirkwood A., Pizzorusso T., Porciatti V., Morales B., Bear M.F., Maffei L., and Tonegawa S. BDNF regulates the maturation of inhibition and the critical period of plasticity in mouse visual cortex. (1999) Cell 98:739-755.
Carmignoto G., Pizzorusso T., Tia S., Vicini S. Neurotrophins BDNF and NGF potentiate excitatory synaptic transmission in the visual cortex. (1997) J. Physiol. 498:153-164.
Maffei L., Berardi N., Domenici L., Parisi V., Pizzorusso T. Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) prevents the shift in ocular dominance distribution of visual cortical neurons in monocularly deprived rats. J. Neurosci. (1992). 12:4651-4662.
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IGB-CNR
Referente organizzativo:
Maurizio D'Esposito
CNR - Istituto di genetica e biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso"
Istituto di genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"
Aula Conferenze CNR
Via Pietro Castellino 111
80131 Napoli
maurizio.desposito@igb.cnr.it
0816132606
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