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Daniele Piomelli ha studiato in Italia, dove è nato e dove si è laureato in Farmacia nel 1982. Nel 1983 si è trasferito a New York, dove ha studiato Farmacologia e Neuroscienze presso la Columbia University con James H. Schwartz e Eric Kandel, e successivamente presso la Rockefeller University con Paul Greengard.

Entrambi i suoi mentori hanno ricevuto il Premio Nobel nel 2000 per il loro contributo nel campo della neurofarmacologia.

Dopo aver lavorato all’INSERM di Parigi e al Neurosciences Institute di San Diego (California), il dott. Piomelli è entrato a far parte dell’Università della California, a Irvine, dove tuttora è docente di Farmacologia e titolare della cattedra Louise Turner Arnold in Neuroscienze.

Vittorio Murino is full professor at the University of Verona, Italy, and director of the PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision) department at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He took the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1989 and the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 at the University of Genova, Italy.

He held a post-doctoral position from 1993 to 1995, working in the Signal Processing and Understanding Group of the Dept. of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Genova as supervisor of research activities on image processing for object recognition and pattern classification in underwater environments. From 1995 to 1998, he was assistant professor at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine, Italy, and since 1998 he works at the University of Verona. He was chairman of the Department of Computer Science from 2001, year of foundation, to 2007. Prof. Murino is scientific responsible of several national and European projects, and evaluator of EU project proposals related to several frameworks and programs.

Enzo Di Fabrizio is director of the Nanostructures Department at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genova since 2009. He is also full professor of Physics at the University of Magna Grecia in Catanzaro (UMG) and director of the Bio and Nano engineering for Medicine-BIONEM Laboratory at UMG.

Doctor in physics at University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1987, his research in micro and nanotechnology started more than 20 years ago. He spent several years as visiting and associate scientist at the centre of excellence for X-ray lithography (CxrL) at University of Madison-Wisconsin, US. In 2001 he became permanent senior scientist and research director at INFM, where he was responsible for advanced projects on micro and nanofabrication at TASC laboratory and ELETTRA synchroton in Trieste; there he founded the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Litography (LILIT) for which he designed and built beamlines labs for soft and hard X-ray lithography. In 2004 he became Full Professor of physics at the University of Magna Graecia in Catanzaro and in 2007, 2011, 2012 he has been appointed as visiting Professor at IUSS in Pavia.

Liberato Manna received his MSc in Chemistry from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1996 and his PhD in Chemical Sciences from the same University in 2001. During his PhD studies, and later as postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the University of California Berkeley (USA).

In 2003 he moved back to Italy, as staff scientist at the National Nanotechnology Lab of CNR-INFM in Lecce, (Italy) where he became later responsible for the Nanochemistry Division in 2006.

In April 2009 he moved to the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova as head of the Nanochemistry Department.

Alberto Diaspro is Director of the Department of Nanophysics at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Professor of Applied Physics at the Department of Physics of University of Genova, and scientific coordinator of the Ph.D. Course in Nanosciences at the University of Genova within an IIT program. He is President of OWLS (Optics with Life Sciences), past President of EBSA (European Biophysical Societies Association), Appointed Vice President of ICO (Interational Commission of Optics) and founder of the Nanoscale Biophysics Subgroup of the Biophysical Society.

During the 90's he carried out part of his research activity at Drexel University (PA, USA), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic). He also coordinates a research program (2004-2012) at IFOM-IEO Campus in Milano on Biomedical Research and is associated with the Institute of Biophysics of the National Research Council (CNR) since 2006. He founded LAMBS (Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy) in 2003. He realized a hybrid artificial "nanobiorobot" within EU and national Research Projects (2000-2005), and designed and realized the first Italian multiphoton microscope within a research grant of the National Institute of Physics of Matter (1999). He recently directed the design and realization of the first Italian nanoscopy architecture at the Neuroscience and Brain Technologies Department of IIT (2008).

Fabio Benfenati
Nato a Bologna in 5 novembre 1954.

1979: Università di Bologna, facoltà di Medicina
Titolo: Dottore in Medicina – Campo di studi: Neurochimica
1983: Università di Bologna, facoltà di Medicina, Scuola di Specializzazione in Neurologia
Titolo: Specialista in Neurologia – Campo di studi: Neurofisiologia

John Assad ha conseguito la laurea di primo livello presso la State University di New York e il Dottorato in Neurobiologia presso la Harvard University.

Le ricerche del suo Dottorato sono state focalizzate sui meccanismi della trasduzione meccano-elettro sensoria nelle cellule vestibolari dell’orecchio.

Ha svolto il suo tirocinio post laurea in elettrofisiologia con John Maunsell, prima presso l’Università di Rochester e poi presso il Baylor College of Medicine, dove ha studiato il meccanismo della percezione visiva. È entrato a far parte del corpo accademico della Harvard Medical School nel 1996 ed è stato nominato professore ordinario ad Harvard nel 2007.

Ultimo aggiornamento Mercoledì 13 Maggio 2009

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