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Small worm, big impact: Nobel prize for Ambros’s and Ruvkun’s microRNAs

This success story underscores that we need to look beyond the scope of immediate application; scientific breakthrough requires thriving basic research - and of course suitable models like C. elegans , a gift that keeps on giving.  

15 october 2024

Brain Iron Dyshomeostasis and Ferroptosis in Alzheimer's Disease Pathophysiology: Two Faces of the Same Coin

Aging and Disease , June 2024.

Serena Stanga, Mariarosa Mezzanotte 

Research Group: Brain Development and Disease

28 august 2024

Gut microbiota depletion delays somatic peripheral nerve development

Gut Microbes , June 2024

Matilde Cescon, Giovanna Gambarotta, Sonia Calabrò, Chiara Cicconetti, Francesca Anselmi, Svenja Kankowski, Luisa Lang, Marijana Basic, Andre Bleich, Silvia Bolsega, Matthias Steglich, Salvatore Oliviero, Stefania Raimondo, Dario Bizzotto, Kirsten Haastert-Talini & Giulia Ronchi

5 july 2024

Adult neurogenesis and “immature” neurons in mammals: an evolutionary trade-off in plasticity?

Brain Structure and Function , October 2023

Luca Bonfanti, Chiara La Rosa, Marco Ghibaudi, Chet C Sherwood

Research group: Adult Neurogenesis

20 march 2024

JOIN US - OPEN POSITIONS AT NICO

Two one-year positions  (research grant) are available in the Brain Development and Disease laboratory at Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (University of Torino, Italy), starting from April 2024.

One Postdoctoral position  available at the Neuroendocrinology Lab - Research Fellowship under PRIN project -   “Developmental, Reproductive and Metabolic effects of Endocrine Disruptors (the DReaM-ED study)”

One-year Research Fellowship  under the PRIN project - Call 2022 – “ Nr2f1-dependent regulation of Mitochondrial Function in Neural Development and Disease " at the Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO) and Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology in Turin, Italy, under the supervision of prof. Silvia De Marchis

DEADLINE: January 22, 2024

9 january 2024

Advanced materials and biofabrication technologies to design in vitro functional central nervous system models

Frontiers in Medical Engineering , 4 October 2023
Traldi C, Chiappini V, Menduti G, Tonda-Turo C, Boido M

Research Group NICO:   Brain development and disease

18 october 2023

A novel compound enhances nerve-muscle interaction stability and physical endurance, counteracting sarcopenia in the elderly.

Aging and Disease , 2 August 2023 
Synergistically Acting on Myostatin and Agrin Pathways Increases Neuromuscular Junction Stability and Endurance in Old Mice

Schellino Roberta, Marina Boido, Jan W. Vrijbloed, Ruggero G. Fariello, Alessandro Vercelli

Research Group NICO:  Brain development and disease

4 september 2023

HD: human striatal progenitors transplanted in the lesioned striatum are able to survive long-term

Stem Cell Research & Therapy , 28 July 2023

Roberta Schellino, Dario Besusso, Roberta Parolisi, Gabriela B. Gómez-González, Sveva Dallere, Linda Scaramuzza, Marta Ribodino, Ilaria Campus, Paola Conforti, Malin Parmar, Marina Boido, Elena Cattaneo, Annalisa Buffo

Research Groups NICO:  Physiopathology of neural stem cells   and  Brain development and disease

4 august 2023

Events & Meetings

06 december 2024

NICO NeuroWebinar & Seminar

1 appointment per week, on Friday at 2.00 pm