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
- Center on Compulsive Behaviors (CBB) fellowship at NIH
- Swiss National Science FoundationPostdoc mobility grant, #183841
- Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship.Early Postdoc mobility grant #174898
- Laureate of the AMICITIA foundation excellence Prize 2019, Switzerland
- Biaggi de Blasys Award for the best PhD thesis in Neuroscience 2016, Lausanne, March 2017
- Best Presentation Award, “Fonds Jean Falk-Vairant”, Les Diablerets, August 2015
- Best Poster Award NCCR Meeting, Villars sur l’Olone, April 2015
- Travel Grant fellowship from Swiss Society of Neuroscience for FENS 2014
Sebastiano Bariselli aims to understand the role of aberrant mother-infant interaction in the development and severity of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases. In particular, he utilizes environmental and genetic models of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) to investigate sex-specific deficits in meso-cortico-striatal circuits. To do so, he combines a wide array of physiology techniques, including in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology as well as in vivo fiber photometry combined with behavioral assays.
- 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.