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Monica Pontearso

Affiliated Researcher
Neuroscience and Smart Materials
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About

Monica Pontearso is a PostDoc fellow at the University of Genoa (Dept. of Pharmacy) and Affiliated Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology. 

My colleagues and I are studying neuronal plasticity at different levels (structural and functional, at the synaptic level as well as looking at intrinsic excitability) using the cerebellum as a model area, to understand better the mechanisms used in this circuit to encode information and memory. We also investigate pathological alterations of the structure and function of this circuit in brain diseases such as multiple sclerosiscerebellar ataxia, autism and other neuropathologies.


Methods

  • patch-clamp electrophysiology in acute brain and spinal cord slices 
  • immunohistochemistry
  • confocal microscopy 
  • behaviour tests
  • real time PCR 
  • western blot



Contacts


Email: monica.pontearso [at] iit.it  

monica.pontearso [at] unige.it 

UniGE profile: https://rubrica.unige.it/personale/UkFCXlNr

ORCID:  0000-0003-4738-9845







Experience External

Title: PhD student
Institute: Institute of Physiology
Location: Prague
Country: Czech Republic
From: 2019 To: 2024

Title: Science Communicator
Institute: INAF-Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Location: Palermo
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2019