Editorial Board for section 'Cells of the Nervous System'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: neurodevelopment; synapse formation; synaptic plasticity; anesthetics; neurodegeneration; neurite outgrowth; brain-chip interfacing

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Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: neurons; microglia; peripheral nerve or dorsal root injury; injured spinal cord
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Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Côte d'Azur, INSERM, CNRS, IPMC, Valbonne, France
Interests: Parkinson’s disease; Alzheimer’s disease, brain tumors; transcription; autophagy; cell death; ER-stress/unfolded protein response
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1. Institute of Translational Pharmacology (IFT)-CNR, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
2. European Brain Research Institute (EBRI), Viale Regina Elena 295, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: tau protein; Alzheimer's disease (AD); amyloid beta; Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP); synapse; non-AD tauopathies; neurodegeneration
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Department of Peripheral Nervous System Research, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; axonal degeneration and regeneration; de-myelination and re-myelinataion

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Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, VIC 3086, Australia
Interests: dementia; stroke; stroke (brain attack) care and prevention

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Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory, Singapore 117604, Singapore
Interests: neurotransmitter release; membrane trafficking; brain circuitry; optogenetics
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Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029 Urbino, Italy
Interests: cerebral hypoxia/ischemia; neuronal death and regeneration; neuroprotection
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UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Interests: molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease and fronto-temporal dementias
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Senior Clinician and Research Head, Division of Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Geneva, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland
Interests: perinatal brain damage; neonatal brain damage; angiogenesis; brain development; brain imaging; brain lesions; cortical connectivity

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Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766-1854, USA
Interests: learning and memory; hippocampus; neurodegeneration; calpain; translational studies

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Department Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences (BIOMETEC), Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: rats; corticosterone; neuroendocrinology; behavioral neuroscience; neurobiology; neuropharmacology; immunohistochemistry; behavioral pharmacology

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Department of Ob/Gyn and the Center for Reproductive Sciences and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco 513 Parnassus Ave, HSE1645, Box 0556, San Francisco, CA 94143-0556, USA
Interests: brain–gut; stress; molecular pathways; signaling; sex differences
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Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Neuromed, Via Atinense 18, 86077 Pozzilli (IS), Italy
Interests: autophagy; dopamine; neurodegeneration; neurodegenerative diseases; neurological diseases; neurobiology; immunohistochemistry; behavioral neuroscience; molecular biology; neuroscience; cell biology; cancer biology

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UMR-S 1075 INSERM/Unicaen (COMETE), Campus Jules Horowitz, Boulevard Henri Becquerel, 14032 Caen, France
Interests: electrophysiology; long-term potentiation; glutamate; brain diseases; aging
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Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Dentistry Sciences, Division of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, “Federico II” University of Naples, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: glial cell biology; neuron-glia crosstalk; ion channels and transporters; neurodegeneration; myelin repair; demyelinating diseases
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Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Biomedicine and KG Jebsen Centre for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
Interests: neurocience; synaptic plasticity; memory mechanisms; gene expression; protein synthesis; protein biochemistry

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Neuron Glia Biology in Health and Disease Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa, Av Prof Gama Pinto, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: microglia activation; exosomes; astrocyte reactivity; inflammatory miRNAS; vesicular traficking; alzheimer's disease; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; neuron-glia communication

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The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences & Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute ; Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL 5290002, Israel
Interests: Molecular mechanisms of brain tumors and their interactions with the microenvironment; Neurological and neuromuscular diseases; Extracellular vesicles as disease mediators, circulating biomarkers and drug vehicles

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Metabolic Biochemistry, Biomedical Center (BMC), Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Munich, Germany
Interests: Parkinson's disease; Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA) disorders; dopamine metabolism; mitochondria; neurons

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Direttore Clinica Neurologica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Gemelli IRCCS, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168 Roma, Italy
Interests: synaptic plasticity; basal ganglia; dopamine; movement disorders; parkinson's disease; basic mechanisms of neurological disorders

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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
Interests: C. elegans; neurodegeneration; movement disorders; epilepsy; proteostasis; endolysosomal trafficking; functional annotation of genomic variation; epigenetic regulation of neuronal resilience
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Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
Interests: vascular biology; angiogenesis; neurodegeneration; inflammation; ischemia; diabetes
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1. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
2. IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Del Fosso di Fiorano 64, 00143 Rome, Italy
Interests: neuroscience; learning and memory; post traumatic stress disorder; neuropsychopharmacology; endocannabinoid system

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Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO) University of Trento, 38123 Povo, Italy
Interests: mechanisms of neurotrophin plasticity; neuron-astrocyte interaction; neuronal polarity; mechanisms of adult neurogenesis; memory engrams
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Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Interests: molecular dynamics; computational chemistry; drug discovery; cancer; Alzheimer's disease; molecular recognition; protein misfolding and aggregation

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Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR7275 CNRS-UCA, 660 route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France
Interests: Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; glioblastoma; secretases; presenilins; amyloid; APP processing; aggregation; spreading; cell death; autophagy; parkin; PINK1

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS/NIH), Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709, USA
Interests: neuroimmunology; neuron glia biology; neurodegeneration; gene delivery; gene therapy; viral vectors; virus-cell interactions
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Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58203, USA
Interests: endosome; lysosome; pH; calcium; iron; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer’s disease; HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders; COVID-19
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