Niccolo DE MARZO

Former and Current Positions

2024-current - PhD student in Sofia Grade's lab at IMBA

2023-2024 - Intern in Ryuichi Shigemoto's lab at ISTA, Klosterneuburg (Austria)

2022-2023 - Master student in Susanne Wolf's lab at MDC, Berlin (Germany), and Rosa Chiara Paolicelli's lab at Unil, Lausanne (Switzerland)

2019-2021 - Bachelor student in Valeria Poli's lab at MBC, Turin (Italy)

Research Projects

Exposing the Orchestrators of Circuit Regeneration: Glia Regulation of Transplanted Neuron Integration in the Injured Brain.

Glia are essential contributors to neuronal circuitry establishment and refinement during postnatal development but their role in rewiring after traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been so far overlooked. With my project I will investigate the role played by glia in the integration of neuronal progenitor cells transplanted in a model of TBI. To this end I will perform analysis of microscopy, transcriptomics, connectomics and behavioural tests.

Research interests

I am deeply interested in glia-neuron interactions, neurodevelopment and the relation between neurocircuit physiology and animal behavior.