Massimo Contini

Biography

1986: Diploma in Matura Classica, Liceo Ginnasio Machiavelli, Florence  1995: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery,  title of thesis:  "Collateral Circumstances in the obstruction of over-trunk trunks ".  Prof. Prof. C. Catini.  Military Service:  1996-1997: serving in the Military Medical Body as a Medical Officer at the 3rd Special Athletics Department in Bologna.  Postgraduate Education:  1998, February. The Doctoral Program in Morphology and Morphogenesis of Humanity, which lasts four years, is winner at the University of Florence Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. 1999, From October 4th to 29th, she attended the Cell Biology Laboratory of the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Pavia to learn the basic immunocytochemical methods for the study of the nervous system, under the supervision of Prof. G.Bernocchi.  2000-2002. From November 1, 2000 to October 30, 2002, he has been researcher, first as a research fellow, then as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Neuobiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA under the guidance of Prof. Elio Raviola. Research Topic: dopaminergic amacrine cells in the retina of the mouse.  2002: April, he graduated from the PhD in Morphology and Human Morphology at the University of Florence, discussing the thesis: "GABAergic synapses of dopaminergic neurons in the rat retina". April 2003. Overcomes the researcher's competition for the disciplinary science disciplines M-EDF / 02 (Methods and Didactics of Sports Activities).  2003. From 01/09 to 31/12 he works at the Neurodegenerative Neurodegenerative Study Laboratory of the Department of Biophysics of the Advanced Study School of Trieste SISSA-ISAS, directed by Prof. S. Gustincich as responsible for: "Characterization morphology of some animal models within Parkinson's disease. "  2004. Since January 1, she has been appointed Researcher for the M-EDF / 02 "Methods and Didactics of Sporting Activities" under the Degree in Motor Science at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Florence. February 9-11. She participates in the Intensive Confocal Microscopy Workshop entitled From Microscopy to Nanoscopy, organized by the Department of Physics at the University of Genoa.  2004. July-August, Visiting Scientist at the Department of Motor Control, led by Prof. E. Mugnaini at the North Western University of Chicago, the Laboratory for the Analysis of the Movement directed by Prof. Bonanno at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston and in September of the same year as that of Prof. U. Della Croce at IUSM in Rome. October 2005. Spends a period in Parma in the laboratory of Prof. G. Luppino of the Department of Neurophysiology of the University of Parma, led by Prof. G. Rizzolatti, to develop a study on the cytotoxic characterization of premotory areas in primates. Since then he has collaborated with the same group.  2004, 2005 and 2006. Periods: June-August; He is a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Neurobiology of Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA, in the laboratory of Prof. Elio Raviola with whom he continues the study on the Nervous Network of the Rat Retina.  2007. He is re-affirmed full-time researcher from the first January of the same year. 2007, June-August is Visiting Professor at the Department of Neurobiology of Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA, in the laboratory of Prof. Elio Raviola

Research Interest

Experimental and Clinical Medicine