Alberto Bacci, Ph.D.
Young Investigator

Alberto Bacci received his M.S. from the University of Milano, Italy at the dept. of General Physiology Biochemistry in 1994. In 2000, he obtained his PhD in Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Department of Medical Pharmacology at the University of Milano Italy, under the supervision of Dr Michela Matteoli. During his Ph.D. he studied mechanisms of synaptogenesis between hippocampal neurons and neuron-glia interactions during synaptogenesis and at the mature synapse. He the joined the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow (Nov. 1999-April 2003) and as research associate (May 2003 - Dec. 2005) under the supervision of Drs David A. Prince and John R. Huguenard. During his time at Stanford, Alberto Bacci studied studied properties of inhibitory synaptic transmission between cortical interneuons and their modulation by peptides and endogenous cannabinoids. In December 2005 he moved to the European Brain Research Institute in Rome, Italy, as a group leader in this newly established neuroscience institute. His major focus is the study of the cellular physiology of various elements of cortical microcircuits, the properties of their connections and their contribution to various network activities. Cortical neurons represent one of the most heterogeneous cell population in the central nervous system. The ultimate goal of this research is to understand the functional relevance of these different neuron subtypes within cortical circuits.

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