Education
- 2016: PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Geneva, Switzerland
- 2012: Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Università degli Studi di Milano
- 2009: Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Università degli Studi di Milano
Academic Background
- 2019 – 2023: Postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. David Lovinger at NIAAA-NIH, USA
- 2017 – 2019: Postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Alexxai Kravitz at NIDDK-NIH, USA
- 2016 – 2017: Postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Camilla Bellone, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Teaching Appointments
- 2023: Physiology (BIO/09) teaching at Humanitas University.
- 2022: Methods in Neuroscience, Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES).
Academic Honors, Awards and Prices
- 2017: Biaggi de Blasys Award for the best PhD thesis in Neuroscience 2016, Lausanne
- 2015: Best Presentation Award, “Fonds Jean Falk-Vairant”, Les Diablerets
- 2015: Best Poster Award NCCR Meeting, Villars sur l’Olone
- 2014: Travel Grant fellowship from Swiss Society of Neuroscience for FENS
- Center on Compulsive Behaviors (CBB) fellowship at NIH
- Swiss National Science FoundationPostdoc mobility grant (Grant n. 183841)
- Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship.Early Postdoc mobility grant (Grant n. 174898)
- Laureate of the AMICITIA foundation excellence Prize 2019, Switzerland
His goal is to understand the role of alterations in the mother-child dyad in the development and severity of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases. In particular, Sebastiano uses animal models, both environmental and genetic, of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) to study sex-specific alterations in meso-cortico-striatal circuits. Sebastiano uses a range of physiological techniques, including ex vivo and in vivo electrophysiology, and in vivo photometry combined with behavioural techniques.
- Bariselli, S. *, Mateo, Y., Reuveni, N. et al. Gestational ethanol exposure impairs motor skills in female mice through dysregulated striatal dopamine and acetylcholine function. (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01594-4 Corresponding author
- Bariselli S., & Lovinger D.M. (2021). Corticostriatal Circuit Models of Cognitive Impairments Induced by Fetal Exposure to Alcohol. Biological Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.014
- Bariselli S., Miyazaki N.L., Creed M.C., Kravitz A.V. (2020). Orbitofrontal-striatal potentiation underlies cocaine-induced hyperactivity. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17763-8.
- Bariselli* S., Hörnberg* H., Prévost-Solié* , Musardo S., Hatstatt-Burkle L., Scheiffele P. and Bellone C. (2018). Role of VTA dopamine neurons and Neuroligin3 in sociability traits related to non-familiar conspecific interaction. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05382-3.
- Bariselli* S., Tzanoulinou* S., Glangetas C., Prevost-Solie C., Viguiè J., Pucci L., O’Connor E.C., Bezzi P., Georges F., Lüscher C., Bellone C. (2016) SHANK3 insufficiency impairs social reward circuit maturation in VTA. Nature doi: 10.1038/nn.4319.