2021 Laureate
Current position
Group leader, Inserm Research Director (DR2)
Host Institution
Institut de la Vision, Paris ; Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, France
flippo.del-bene@inserm.fr
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.
• 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
• Elected EMBO Member 2020
• Selected FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence 2015
• Selected EMBO Young Investigator, 2014
• ERC Starting grant, 2012
Press coverage of 2021 Science paper (Co-corresponding)
Youtube video made by the magazine Science on our work
Institute news about the election as EMBO member in 2020
“Le monde” article about our work with zebrafish
Press Release of UC Berkeley of 2009 Nature paper (Co-first)