The Academy devotes substantial resources to neuroscience: it offers the Alexander Bodini Research Fellowship and sponsors other Fellowships each year in this field, and presents annual public symposia with leaders in this area. To spotlight the promising younger researchers who come from Italy to Columbia, we offer this panel —moderated by Columbia neurophysiologist David Sulzer— with former Italian Academy Fellows:
Francesca Bartolini (on changes in cytoskeletal dynamics that contribute to neurodegenerative disease)
Tiziano Colibazzi (on the imaging of adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis)
Luana Fioriti (on the pathological and physiological significance of protein aggregation)
Franco Pestilli (on the highways to healing aging dementia), and Francesca Zanderigo (on PET quantification for brain research and clinical application).
They will also address such topics as What is my research work, and my background? What path brought me here to my present job? What’s it like to work in Columbia lab? What was my experience in the Academy’s interdisciplinary Fellowship program? What do I bring from Columbia back to Italy? What distinguishes my research from the work of others on the panel?