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Dr. Arianna Maffei is a Full Professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior at Stony Brook University's Renaissance School of Medicine. She holds a PhD from the University of Pavia (2002) and joined Stony Brook in 2008, advancing to Associate Professor (2014) and Full Professor (2020). Her research focuses on neural circuits and plasticity, particularly in gustatory, visual, and motor cortices. She investigates how experience and learning modify neuronal connectivity and excitability, with applications to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
Research Expertise: Dr. Maffei's lab studies inhibitory transmission, synaptic plasticity, and circuit dynamics using optogenetics, electrophysiology, and calcium imaging. Key projects include conditioned taste aversion mechanisms, postnatal cortical maturation, and thalamocortical circuit organization. She collaborates on metastable neural dynamics research and editorial roles for Frontiers in Cellular Neurophysiology and The Journal of Neuroscience.
Publications: Recent work includes studies on thalamocortical signaling in Parkinson's models (2023), experience-dependent gustatory plasticity (2023), and metastable circuit dynamics (2022). Her research often features in Science Advances and Journal of Neuroscience with press coverage.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Plasticity. Current trainees include postdocs Hillary Schiff and Alexandra Matthews, and PhD students like Priscilla Yevoo and Maria Isaac. Undergraduates Patrick Serrentino and Justin Leung also contribute.
