Anna Menini
Professor
Neuroscience
International School for Advanced Studies
Italy
Biography
Anna Menini received her Laurea in Physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Genova, Italy, where she also obtained her PhD in Physics (Biophysics). She was a Research Associate at the Department of Physiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, then “Ricercatore” and “Primo Ricercatore” in Biophysics at the Istituto di Cibernetica e Biofisica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy. She has also been an Invited Fellow Researcher of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science at the Department of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki National Research Institutes, Okazaki, Japan. Since November 2002 she is Full Professor of Physiology at SISSA. Her research interests include sensory neuroscience and ion channels in health and disease.
Research Interest
Molecular mechanisms of olfactory transduction, Calcium-activated chloride channels
Publications
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Bergami M, Vignoli B, Motori E, Pifferi S, Zuccaro E, Menini A, Canossa M. TrkB signaling directs the incorporation of newly generated periglomerular cells in the adult olfactory bulb. J Neurosci. 2013 Jul 10;33(28):11464-78
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De Palo G, Facchetti G, Mazzolini M, Menini A, Torre V, Altafini C. Common dynamical features of sensory adaptation in photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons. Scientific Reports 2013, 3, 1251.
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Franceschini V, Bettini S, Pifferi S, Menini A, Siciliano G, Ognio E, Brini AT, Di Oto E, Revoltella RP. Transplanted human adipose tissue-derived stem cells engraft and induce regeneration in mice olfactory neuroepithelium in response to dichlobenil subministration. Chemical Senses 2014 39(7):617-29. 23
