
Camilla Bellone
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine
Group name: Synaptic brain dysfunctions
Domains: Development and Plasticity
Keywords: autism, child development, neuropsychiatric disorders, synapse
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.
Heterogeneous fates of simultaneously-born neurons in the cortical ventricular zone.
Downregulation of the schizophrenia risk-gene Dgcr2 alters early microcircuit development in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex.
Superior Colliculus to VTA pathway controls orienting response and influences social interaction in mice.
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Prof. Camilla Bellone
+41 22 37 95 433
camilla.bellone@unige.ch

Nabil Benzina
+41 22 37 95 844
nabil.benzina@unige.ch

Giulia Casarotto
+41 22 37 95 424
giulia.casarotto@unige.ch

Giuseppe Chindemi
+41 22 37 95 844
giuseppe.chindemi@unige.ch

Alessandro Contestabile
+41 22 37 95 424
alessandro.contestabile@unige.ch

Pedro Espinosa Ahumada
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pedro.espinosa@unige.ch

Benoit Girard
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benoit.girard@unige.ch

Lorena Jourdain
+41 22 37 95 844
lorena.jourdain@unige.ch

Mattia Lucchini
+41 22 37 95 424
mattia.lucchini@unige.ch

Federica Maltese
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federica.maltese@unige.ch

Stefano Musardo
+41 22 37 95 424
stefano.musardo@unige.ch

Bastien Redon
+41 22 37 95 844
bastien.redon@unige.ch

Clémence Simonnet
+41 22 37 95 844
clemence.simonnet@unige.ch

Mariia Telka
mariia.telka@unige.ch
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Contact
Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales
CMU
Rue Michel-Servet 1
Email: camilla.bellone@unige.ch