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 sclerosis, cerebellar 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
