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06. August 2024
First image with the stacked probe!!! A new chapter opens at the @GozziLab.
First ever image with the probe. Next time we put a mouse. But quite a milestone… Next year is going ot be fun.
01. August 2024
My main PhD paper is out as a preprint.
We investigated the fingerprint of opioids on awake, behaving mice FC. We demonstrate some static FC dysconnection, morphine injection inducing the apparition of two main anticorrelated super-synchronous networks: thalamo-cortical vs. thalamo-hippocampal. In addition we show that this pattern is explained by a rich spatio temporal reorganisation of brain aemodynamics. Finally we link this fingerprint to MOR activation and describe a two steps process, where injection initiates a fast, transient hyperemia concurrently with hyperlocomotor event; These first 10min are followed by a more gradual shift of FC which matches analgesia and phosphorylation of the receptor dynamics.
28. June 2024
Super happy to present our last results with Chiara Pepe on FC in anaesthetised mice at fENS2024!! Come pass by at poster PS05-28AM-474 on Friday.
Using an amazing dataset aquired by Chiara Pepe, I investigated the properties of FC networks in anaesthetised mice measured with fUSI. In addition to recapitulate fMRI typical RSNs, we showed that FC patterns co-vary with structural connectivity, acounting for 55.6% of the total variance of Structural Functional connectivity matrix. Finally by investigating the dynamical features of these signals, we showed that recently described CMODES can be defined as attractors of the two steps CAPs transition dynamics.
19. June 2024
I finally graduated officially from Universite Paris Cite… I have now the paper that goes with the PhD.
The end of a long journey.
13. June 2024
Extremely honoured to give a talk on Advances in functional Connectivity Mapping at the 9th Neuroengineering School Massimo Grattarola in Genova.
Excellent class on Neuroengineering. It was great to discover once more this field a few years after my master at Imperial College. I felt priviledged to present the results of our lab among such renown scientists.
06. June 2024
Presenting our results with Chiara Pepe at the ICTP Junior Scientists Workshop on Recent Advances in Theoretical Neuroscience poster session in Trieste.
Great week in Trieste with Dr. Daniel Gutierrez. I discovered a whole new field of research. I hope to meet this great comunity again in the next few years.