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  • Honeybee under the two-photon microscope (Paoli & Haase 2018, email for copy)
  • Piero Angela visiting our lab (January 2013)
  • New role of pheromones (Baracchi et al. 2020)
  • Odour-specific glomerular response maps (Paoli et al. 2018)
  • Collapse of odour response maps under neonicotinoid exposure (Andrione et al. 2016)
  • Antennal lobe optical slices and volumetric reconstruction (Haase et al. 2010)
  • SEM images of sensilla hairs on the bee antenna (Haase at al. 2012)
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New Postdoc Position available starting in Feb 2021 23/11/2020
Publication on a new role of pheromones 17/08/2020
Large collaborative paper on Drosophila suzukii oviposition finally out 08/07/2020
Documentary about insect decline on Italian television featuring our work 03/02/2020
Methods paper on counting synaptic clusters published 18/12/2019

The Neurophysics Group is an interdisciplinary research laboratory jointly operated by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and the Department of Physics. It aim is to investigate physical mechanisms underlying signal perception and transduction in the nervous system and to apply experimental physics methods to neuroscientific problems.

The core facility is a two-photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Department of Physics, a technique that allows non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of entire brains to high resolution microscopy of neural networks, single neurons, and even subcellular structures. In vivo mapping of brain activity is implemented via calcium imaging techniques at high temporal resolution.

The laboratory's research activities start at the receptor level (olfaction, vision, magnetoreception) testing potential quantum biological models, to studies of information coding and transduction mechanisms in primary processing centers to learning-associated changes in structure and function of large neural networks. A promising model animal for this is the honeybee. With a brain of only one million neurons it shows exceptional performances in a broad spectrum of behaviours such as communication, navigation, or learning.

In order to decipher coding mechanisms, connectivity and plasticity down to the single neuron level, we added optogenetic tools to our experimental repertoire, which enables us to artificially stimulate single network nodes and then follow the propagation of that stimulus throughout the whole network.

 

Coordinators of the Brain Network Dynamics initiative

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RAI3 Presadiretta showing our work about neonicotinoid impact on the bee brain in their documentary "L'ultima ape" (February 2020).

Luca Turin explaining our work Paoli et al. 2016 Differential Odour Coding of Isotopomers in the Honeybee Brain at a meeting of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists in 2016.

NPhys - Neurophysics Group, CIMeC/Department of Physics
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Piazza Manifattura 1, Building 14
38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy
Tel: +39 0464 808699
Email: albrecht.haase [at] unitn.it