Davide Franco Zoccolan
Role: Full professor
Coordinator of Neuroscience Area
Brain, Genes, Functions, Behaviours
Neuroscience
PhD courses:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Functional and Structural Genomics
- Neurobiology
About
Understanding the brain from genes and cells to neural circuits, perception and behaviour. SISSA Neuroscience brings together experimental, quantitative and computational approaches to explore the nervous system across scales.
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Paul Alexander Heppenstall
Role: Full professor
Deputy coordinator of Neuroscience Area
Academic Offer
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Coordinator: Mathew Ernest Diamond
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Coordinator: Giuseppe Legname
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Coordinator: Laura Ballerini
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Master in Data Management and Curation
Collecting, cleaning, preserving and sharing research data: the profession behind open science, with AREA Science Park.
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International Master in Physics of Complex Systems (opens in a new tab)
Partner institutions: Politecnico di Torino, ICTP, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris-Saclay
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Master's Degree in Neuroscience (opens in a new tab)
Partner institution: Università degli Studi di Trieste
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Master's Degree in Cognitive Science (opens in a new tab)
Partner institution: Università degli Studi di Trento
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Master's Degree in Engineering Physics – Physics of the Brain track (opens in a new tab)
Partner institution: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
18 Research Groups
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Flexibility in Circuits and Behaviour
Coordinator Katja Reinhard
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Food, action control and social cognition
Coordinator Raffaella Rumiati
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Laboratory of Cerebral Cortex Development
Coordinator Antonio Mallamaci
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Laboratory of Computational Genomics
Coordinator Remo Sanges
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Laboratory of Neurogenetics
Coordinator Alessia Soldano
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Laboratory of Prion Biology
Coordinator Giuseppe Legname
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Neural computation in the hippocampus and in language
Coordinator Alessandro Treves
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Neural Computation Lab
Coordinator Eugenio Piasini
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Neurons and Nanomaterials
Coordinator Laura Ballerini
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Olfactory System
Coordinator Anna Menini
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Physiology of somatosensation
Coordinator Paul Alexander Heppenstall
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Reading, language and abstract cognition
Coordinator Davide Crepaldi
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SISSA BabyLab
Coordinator Ambra Ferrari
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Spinal cord Neurophysiology
Coordinator Giuliano Taccola
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Tactile perception and learning
Coordinator Mathew Ernest Diamond
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Time and space perception
Coordinator Domenica Bueti
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Visual Neuroscience Lab
Coordinator Davide Franco Zoccolan
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Visual Systems Neuroscience
Coordinator Hiroki Asari
Latest publications
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
A Bio‐Electronic Hybrid Solid–Liquid Pixelated Color Image Sensor Array as a Direct‐to‐Display Artificial Retina Emulator (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
Absence of local retinotopy in the mouse optic tract (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Review in journal Publication year: 2026
Beyond night vision: the expanding role of rod photoreceptors in bright light (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
Beyond the Virial Expansion: Microscopic Origins of Partial Molar Volumes in LiCl Solutions (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Review in journal Publication year: 2026
BioModels’ model of the year 2024 (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
Central infusion of prostaglandin E2 reveals a unified representation of sickness in the mouse insular cortex (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
Cocaine remodels m6A RNA-dependent signaling to drive locomotor plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
Deciphering Rapid Cell Signaling and Control of Cell Motility by Reverse Opto-Chemical Engineering (opens in a new tab)
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Decoding neuronal vulnerability: Multidimensional analysis of D1R- and D2R- medium-sized spiny neurons in Huntington's disease (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Journal article Publication year: 2026
Different modality-specific mechanisms mediate serial dependence effects in visual and auditory perception (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Review in journal Publication year: 2026
Distinct Functional Circuits in the Superior Colliculus and Their Connection to Behavior (opens in a new tab)
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Category: Review in journal Publication year: 2026
Foxg1 and companions: Not only transcription factors (opens in a new tab)
Latest news
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Category: Institutional & Community
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Category: Projects & Partnerships
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People
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Laura Ballerini
Principal Investigator of Fisiologia e Tecnologia dei Neuroni; Coordinator of the Neurobiology PhD course; Coordinator of the NBIO group
A-542 Main building
Domenica Bueti
Principal Investigator of Neuroscienze del Tempo
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Mathew Ernest Diamond
Coordinator of the CNS group; Principal Investigator of Lettura Linguistica e Cognizione Astratta; Coordinator of the Cognitive Neuroscience PhD course; Principal Investigator of Meccatronica; Principal Investigator of Percezione Tattile e Apprendimento
A-238 Main building
Paul Alexander Heppenstall
Deputy Coordinator of the Neuroscience Area; Principal Investigator of Fisiol. Molec. della Somatosensazione
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Giuseppe Legname
Principal Investigator of Biologia dei Prioni; Coordinator of the Functional and Structural Genomics PhD course; Coordinator of the GMB group
Antonio Mallamaci
Principal Investigator of Sviluppo della Corteccia Cerebrale
A-618 Main building
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Anna Menini
Principal Investigator of Trasduzione Olfattiva
A-543 Main building
Raffaella Rumiati
Principal Investigator of Cognizione sociale e neur. int.
A-341 Main building
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Remo Sanges
Principal Investigator of Genomica Computazionale
Alessandro Treves
Principal Investigator of Indagini Liminari
A-241 Main building
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Davide Franco Zoccolan
Principal Investigator of Neuroscienze Visive; Coordinator of the Neuroscience Area
A-440 Main building
Eugenio Piasini
Principal Investigator of Neural Computation Lab
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Katja Reinhard
Alessia Soldano
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Giuliano Taccola
Principal Investigator of Neurofisiol. e Neurofarmac. Applicate
A-526 Main building
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Audrey Franceschi Biagioni
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Michele Giugliano
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Maria Ayub
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Maria del Carmen Costas Ferreira
A-448 Main building
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Nour El Kazwini
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Homna Agnihotri
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Lorenzo Arena
Giovanni Avelli
A-223 Main building
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Francesca Bertolini
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Elif Duran
A-324 Main building
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Federica Ferrero
Sara Finaurini
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Jessica Franzot
Marco Gigante
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Micaela Grandolfo
Giulio Iaconcig
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Helena Krmac
Serena Maiocchi
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Beatrice Pastore
Francesca Pulecchi
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Massimo Righi
Coordinator of Area Supporto Laboratori
Christina Vlachouli
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Marco Zanon
Erik Zorzin
Our Network
From local institutes to international consortia, the network our research is built on.
