Dr. Teresa Soda has a position as a researcher and is currently working at the Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Surgery, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Neurobiology in 2012 and was later awarded a PhD in Biomedical Sciences by the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. Her thesis focused on the electrophysiological analysis of the alterations in cerebellar plasticity at the mossy fiber-granule cell relay in a new mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her main scientific interests include the function of neurons, synapses, and networks of the brain, with a special interest in cellular and synaptic mechanisms of synaptic plasticity.
Dr. Giorgia Scarpellino has a position as a Research Fellow (RTDa) in Physiology and is currently working at the Laboratory of General Physiology, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Complex Systems for Life Sciences from the University of Turin, Turin, Italy. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Münster, Münster, Germany. Her research interests mainly include calcium signaling, calcium imaging, vascular biology, cell culture, signal transduction, tumor angiogenesis, cell migration, cell physiology, ATP, and GPCR signaling. She is the author of 23 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields (source from ResearchGate).
Francesco Moccia is Professor at the Department of Medicine and Health Sciences “V. Tiberio”, University of Molise. He completed his PhD studies in Physiology at the University of Turin. He is investigating the role of TRP channels and store-operated Ca2+ entry (Stim1 and Orai1) in endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) from both peripheral and umbilical cord blood. He is also studying the remodeling of the Ca2+ toolkit in EPCs from human cancer (kidney and breast) patients.
