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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Luigi Petrucco</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <meta description="PhD student at the Portugues lab, studying cerebellar physiology and sensorimotor control in the larval zebrafish" charset="utf-8"/> </head> <body> <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <h1 itemprop="name">Luigi Petrucco</h1> <p>Postdoc at the <a href="https://armeniseharvard.org/scientists/giuliano-iurilli">Iurilli lab</a>, investigating the neural bases of intelligent behavior in the rodent brain. Big fan of brain interfaces, not cortical circuits, exotic animal models, history of (neuro)science, crackpot neuroscientific theories, Python programming and DIY setups. <br><br> I have got a PhD in Neuroscience in Munich under the supervision of <a href="http://www.portugueslab.com">Ruben Portugues</a>, describing for the first time a <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.27.489672.full.pdf">circuit for heading direction integration</a> in the larval zebrafish brain (you can read my thesis <a href="https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31211/">here</a>).</p> <br><br> <b>Talks:</b><ul> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/-7gNchGxI9s?t=9056">Cosyne 2022</a>: A network that integrates heading direction in the larval zebrafish brain</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcbeLzrZ6I">Neuromatch 2020</a>: BrainGlobe: a Python ecosystem for computational (neuro)anatomy</li> </ul> <b>Teaching:</b><ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/vigji/python-cimec">Python for (open) Neuroscience</a>: Python crash course for the Graduate School in Neuroscience at the University of Trento (teaching material, exercises, and lecture recordings available on GitHub!)</li> </li> </ul> <b>Open source software:</b><ul> <li><a href="http://www.portugueslab.com/stytra/">Stytra</a>: a Python package to control stimulation and track behavior in zebrafish experiments.</li> <li><a href="http://www.github.com/brainglobe">BrainGlobe</a>: a python toolbox for morphological analyses in systems neuroscience.</li> </ul> <b>Podcasts:</b><ul> <li><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/16388166/ep2-zebrafish">Here</a> an interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/FraLanzarini">Francesca Lanzarini</a> for the podcast <i>How animal's brain works</i>. </ul> <b>Notes:</b><ul> <li><a href="comp_neuro_notes.pdf">Lecture notes</a> for the course <i>Modelling of Cellular Physiology</i> by Prof. Christian Leibold</a> at LMU Munich. </li> </ul> <br><br> <h3> <a href="cv.pdf">CV</a> | <a href="https://github.com/vigji">github</a> | <a href="https://mastodon.social/@vigji">mastodon</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/l_petrucco">twitter</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=FQDeRWQAAAAJ">publications</a> </h3> </p> </div> </body> </html>