Short CV
1996 | Master’s degree in Microelectronics and Bioengineering, University of Bologna. |
1998–04 | PhD program with Dr. S. Grillner at the Dept. of Neuroscience of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. |
2004 | Postdoc with Dr. A. Büschges at the Dept. of Animal Physiology, Zoological Institute, University of Köln, Germany. |
2005–08 | Postdoc with Dr. L. Cervetto at the Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, University of Pisa. |
2009– | Assistant Professor of Physiology at the Dept. of Physiological Sciences, University of Pisa. |
Scientifc Interest
- Retina - Neurophysiology of the outer retina of the mouse (light responses and signal processing in photoreceptors and bipolar cells)
- Retina - Rod single photon responses
- Retina - Rod–cone electrical coupling
- Spinal cord - Neurophysiology of locomotor pattern generation in the lamprey spinal cord
Lorenzo Cangiano |
Key Publications
- Cangiano L, Asteriti S, Cervetto L, Gargini C (2012).
The photovoltage of rods and cones in the dark–adapted mouse retina.
J Physiol 590, 3841-55. - Della Santina L*, Piano I*, Cangiano L*, Caputo A, Ludwig A, Cervetto L, Gargini C (2012).
Processing of retinal signals in normal and HCN deficient mice.
PLoS ONE 7, e29812. - Cangiano L, Hill RH, Grillner S (2012).
The hemisegmental locomotor network revisited.
Neuroscience 210, 33–7. - Mentel T, Cangiano L, Grillner S and Büschges A (2008).
Neuronal substrates for state-dependent changes in coordination between motoneuron pools during fictive locomotion in the lamprey spinal cord.
J Neurosci 28, 868–879. - Cangiano L, Gargini C, Della Santina L, Demontis GC and Cervetto L (2007).
High–pass filtering of input signals by the Ih current in a non–spiking neuron, the retinal rod bipolar cell.
PLoS ONE 2, e1327. - Cangiano L and Grillner S (2005).
Mechanisms of rhythm generation in a spinal locomotor network deprived of crossed connections: the lamprey hemicord.
J Neurosci 25, 923–35. - Cangiano L and Grillner S (2003).
Fast and slow locomotor burst generation in the hemi-spinal cord of the lamprey.
J Neurophysiol 89, 2931–42. - Buffelli M, Busetto G, Cangiano L and Cangiano A (2002).
Perinatal switch from synchronous to asynchronous activity of motoneurons: link with synapse elimination.
PNAS 99, 13200–5. - Cangiano L, Wallén P and Grillner S (2002).
Role of apamin–sensitive KCa channels for reticulospinal synaptic transmission to motoneuron and for the afterhyperpolarization.
J Neurophysiol 88, 289–99.
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