Short CV
PhD in Neuroscience. Senior Investigator of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Acting co-chairman for the Pisa laboratories of the Neuroscience Institute.
Expert in the field of retinal connectivity, morphology and functional correlation and inherited degeneration.
Uses a collection of state-of-the art neuroanatomical methods and collaborates closely with retinal electrophysiologists and biochemists to produce multidisciplinary studies.
- Retinal connectivity
- Cell biology of retinitis pigmentosa
- Mechanisms of apoptosis in photoreceptor degeneration
- Retinal development
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- Society for Neuroscience
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Laboratory on retinal functional architecture in health and disease
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Key Publications
- Strettoi E.
Mammalian rod pathways.
In: A Basbaum, A Kaneko, G Sheperd, G Westheimer, editors. The Senses: a Comprehensive Reference. Vol.1, Vision I, R Masland and T Albright. San Diego: Academic Press; 2008. pp-303-311. (Encyclopedia).
- Strettoi E.
Synaptic organization of the mouse retina.
In: Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse. L Chalupa and R Williams editors. MIT Press., 2008. pp-157-164.
- Damiani D, Alexander JJ, O'Rourke JR, McManus M, Jadhav AP, Cepko CL, Hauswirth WW, Harfe BD, Strettoi E (2008).
Dicer inactivation leads to progressive functional and structural degeneration of the mouse retina.
J Neurosci 28(19):4878-87.
- Oh EC, Khan N, Novelli E, Khanna H, Strettoi E, Swaroop A (2007).
Transformation of cone precursors to functional rod photoreceptors by bZIP transcription factor NRL.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(5):1679-84.
- Gargini C, Terzibasi E, Mazzoni F, Strettoi E (2007).
Retinal organization in the retinal degeneration 10 (rd10) mutant mouse: a morphological and ERG study.
J Comp Neurol 500(2):222-38.
- Pignatelli V, Strettoi E (2004).
Bipolar cells of the mouse retina: a gene-gun, morphological study.
J Comp Neurol 476(3):254-66.
- Pignatelli V, Cepko CL, Strettoi E (2004).
Inner retinal abnormalities in a mouse model of Leber's congenital amaurosis.
J Comp Neurol 469:351-9.
- Strettoi E, Mears AJ, Swaroop A (2004).
Recruitment of the rod pathway by cones in the absence of rods.
J Neurosci 24(34):7576-82.
- Marc RE, Jones BW, Watt CB, Strettoi E (2003).
Neural remodeling in retinal degenerations.
Progr Ret Eye Res 22(5):607-55. Review.
- Rossi C, Strettoi E, Galli-Resta L (2003)
The spatial order of horizontal cells is not affected by massive alterations in the organization of other retinal cells.
J Neurosci 23(30):9924-8.
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