Yuri Bozzi , Ph.D.

Yuri Bozzi was born in Pisa, Italy. After his Master Degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Pisa, he obtained his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy) working on experience-dependent expression of neurotrophins under the supervision of Prof. Lamberto Maffei. Then he moved for a post-doc to IGBMC (Strasbourg, France) to work with Emiliana Borrelli on dopamine receptors. Back in Italy, he established his own lab at the CNR Neuroscience Institute (Pisa, Italy) and recently moved to the Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO, University of Trento). His research interests are the molecular bases of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and epilepsy.