Filippo Del Bene

Biography

 He is a neurologist and currently working on the optic tectum has emerged as a tractable visuomotor transformer, in which anatomical and functional studies can allow a better understanding of how behavior is controlled by neuronal circuits. Positions and education 2010-present      Junior Group Leader at Institute Curie, Department of Genetics and Developmental biology Paris, CR1 INSERM 2005-2010            Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Herwig Baier, in the department of Physiology, UC San Francisco 2004-2005           Postdoctoral Fellow at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany 2000-2004           Ph.D. student at EMBL, Laboratory of Prof. Jochen Wittbrodt Heidelberg, Germany 1999-2000            Master thesis at the University of Bologna, Italy   Honors and Awards   2012                       ERC starting grant 2012                      Ville de Paris Programme EMERGENCES (declined) 2010                      ATIP/AVENIR Grant from CNRS-INSERM 2008                      Sandler Postdoctoral Fellowship   2005                      HFSP long-term postdoctoral fellowship 2005                      EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship (declined) 2001                      Company of Biologists traveling fellowship 2000                      EMBL Ph.D. student fellowship Funding for graduate research

Research Interest

 Neurology