Filippo Del Bene

2021 Laureate

Current position

Group leader, Inserm Research Director (DR2)

Host Institution

Institut de la Vision, Paris ; Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, France

The Del Bene lab
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flippo.del-bene@inserm.fr

Zebrafish larvae expressing a red fluorescent optogenetic actuator in glutamatergic cells, allowing their optical excitation, and a green calcium indicator, to visualize and measure the induced neuronal activity.

Development and function of the vertebrate visual system

Filippo Del Bene and his research group are interested in the formation and function of neurl circuits in the visual system using the zebrafish model system. They focus their analysis on the retinal ganglion cells, the cells connecting the retina to the brain, and on the main retinorecipient area of the zebrafish brain, the optic tectum. Using a combination of advanced molecular genetics and in vivo imaging approaches the goas of their research is to understand how visual inputs are processed and to reveal the development of the neurons that perform this function.

Training

• 2010 : Appointed Group leader at the Institut Curie, Paris, France

• 2005-2010 : Postdoctoral fellow, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA, Herwig Baier’s lab

• 2004, PhD, EMBL/Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Jochen Wittbrodt’s lab