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Sebastiano Bariselli

Assistant Professor

Physiology

Assistant Professor

E-mail

sebastiano.bariselli@hunimed.eu
Sito

www.hunimed.eu/faculty/

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.