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Camilla Bellone

Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine

Group name: Synaptic brain dysfunctions

Domains: Development and Plasticity

Keywords: autism, child development, neuropsychiatric disorders, synapse

Department of Basic Neurosciences

Research activities

Our lab is interested in investigating the molecular mechanisms and the circuits underlying behavioural traits in neuropsychiatric disorders.

In mouse animal model, combining electrophysiological techniques with molecular approaches and behavioral paradigms, we investigate how the reward system during the postnatal development encodes experience and how defect in these processes may lead to neuropsychiatric disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Latest publications

Oxytocin neurons mediate the effect of social isolation via the VTA circuits.

Musardo S , Contestabile A , Knoop M , Baud O , Bellone C

eLife - Apr 2022

Heterogeneous fates of simultaneously-born neurons in the cortical ventricular zone.

Magrinelli E , Baumann N , Wagener RJ , Glangetas C , Bellone C , Jabaudon D , Klingler E

Scientific reports - 04 2022

Downregulation of the schizophrenia risk-gene Dgcr2 alters early microcircuit development in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex.

Molinard-Chenu A , Godel M , Rey A , Musardo S , Bodogan T , Vutskits L , Bellone C , Dayer A

International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience - May 2022

Superior Colliculus to VTA pathway controls orienting response and influences social interaction in mice.

Solié C , Contestabile A , Espinosa P , Musardo S , Bariselli S , Huber C , Carleton A , Bellone C

Nature communications - 02 2022

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Prof. Camilla Bellone

Group leader

CMU - D08.1544.A
+41 22 37 95 433
camilla.bellone@unige.ch

Nabil Benzina

Scientific collaborator

CMU - C08.1539.A
+41 22 37 95 844
nabil.benzina@unige.ch

Giulia Casarotto

Graduate student

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
giulia.casarotto@unige.ch

Giuseppe Chindemi

Postdoc

CMU - C08.1539.A
+41 22 37 95 844
giuseppe.chindemi@unige.ch

Alessandro Contestabile

Graduate student

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
alessandro.contestabile@unige.ch

Pedro Espinosa Ahumada

Graduate student

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
pedro.espinosa@unige.ch

Benoit Girard

Assistant

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
benoit.girard@unige.ch

Lorena Jourdain

Lab technician

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 844
lorena.jourdain@unige.ch

Mattia Lucchini

Graduate student

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
mattia.lucchini@unige.ch

Federica Maltese

Postdoc

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
federica.maltese@unige.ch

Stefano Musardo

Postdoc

CMU - D08.1545.A
+41 22 37 95 424
stefano.musardo@unige.ch

Bastien Redon

Postdoc

CMU - C08.1539.A
+41 22 37 95 844
bastien.redon@unige.ch

Clémence Simonnet

Postdoc

CMU - D08.1539.A
+41 22 37 95 844
clemence.simonnet@unige.ch

Mariia Telka

Postdoc

CMU
mariia.telka@unige.ch

Videos

Du nouveau sur l'origine du spectre autistique

De l'ecstasy contre les troubles du spectre autistique

L'altération des interactions sociales dans l’autisme

Rencontre avec Camilla Bellone, une spécialiste des interactions sociales

Contact

Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales

CMU

Rue Michel-Servet 1

Email: camilla.bellone@unige.ch