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I’m Fabrizio Musacchio and I work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Neuroimmunology and Imaging groupꜛ at the DZNE Research Centerꜛ in Bonn, Germany.

My work focuses on the analysis of neurological data to better understand the neuronal processes related to the Hippocampus, especially memory and learning and neurodegenerative diseases. This covers the analysis of multi-fluorescence ex- and in-vivo imaging data as well as conducting behavioral experiments, incorporating machine learning to decipher underlying patterns and dynamics within the data.

       

Research interests

  • Computational Neuroscience, especially neuronal plasticity and processes that drive learning
  • Behavioral Science
  • Bioimage Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Teaching
  • Open Science and Free Open Source Software

Science Communities

Publications

Three-photon in vivo imaging of neurons and glia in the medial prefrontal cortex with sub-cellular resolution

Falko Fuhrmann, Felix C Nebeling, Fabrizio Musacchio, Manuel Mittag, Stefanie Poll, Monika Mueller, Eleonora Ambrad Giovannetti, Michael Maibach, Barbara Schaffran, Emily Burnside, Ivy Chi Wai Chan, Alex Lagurin, Nicole Reichenbach, Sanjeev Kaushalya, Hans-Ulrich Fried, Stefan Linden, Gabor Petzold, Gaia Tavosanis, Frank Bradke, Martin Fuhrmann (2024), bioRxiv, Pre-Print, 2024.08.28.610026.

Dual truncation of tau by caspase-2 accelerates its CHIP-mediated degradation

Lydia Reinhardt, Fabrizio Musacchio, Maria Bichmann, Annika Behrendt, Ebru Ercan-Herbst, Juliane Stein, Isabelle Becher, Per Haberkant, Julia Mader, David C. Schöndorf, Melanie Schmitt, Jürgen Korffmann, Peter Reinhardt, Christian Pohl, Mikhail Savitski, Corinna Klein, Laura Gasparini, Martin Fuhrmann, Dagmar E. Ehrnhoefer (2023), Neurobiology of Disease, Vol. 182.

Active Debris Removal

Fabrizio Musacchio (2022), in: Neue Technologien. Kernthemen des Technologiemonitorings am Fraunhofer INT zwischen 2009 und 2021, (2022), editors: Michael Lauster, René Bantes, Jürgen Kohlhoff ; Fraunhofer INT, Euskirchen, Fraunhofer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8396-1825-7.

Morphology of Ganymede’s FUV auroral ovals

Fabrizio Musacchio, Joachim Saur, Lorenz Roth, Kurt D. Retherford, Melissa A. McGrath, Paul D. Feldman, Darrell F. Strobel (2017), Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics, Volume 122, Issue 3 p. 2855-2876.

Oral and poster presentations

    7th International BonnBrain Conference
Bonn, Germany, August 19-21, 2023, poster presentation (Abstract)
    6th International BonnBrain Conference
Bonn, Germany, August 7-9, 2023, poster presentation (Abstract 1, Abstract 2)
    16th European Meeting on Glia Cells in Health and Disease 2023
Berlin, Germany, June 10, 2023, poster presentation (Abstract)
    Bonn Conference on Mathematical Life Sciences
Bonn, Germany, April 19, 2023, poster presentation (Abstract)
    Göttingen Meeting of the German N­euroscience Society
Göttingen, Germany, March 22, 2023, poster presentation (Abstract)
    Bernstein Conference
Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2022, poster presentation (Abstract)
    Nature Conferences: AI, Neuroscience and Hardware
Bonn, Germany, September 07, 2022, poster presentation (Abstract)
    FENS Forum
Paris, France, July 13, 2022, poster presentation (Abstract)
  DZNE Science Meeting
Bonn, Germany, September 20, 2019, oral presentation
    Bonn-Cologne Neuroscience Symposium
Bonn, Germany, July 7, 2019, poster presentation (Abstract)
  Fraunhofer INT Seminar
Euskirchen, Germany, November 14, 2017, oral presentation
  Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Meeting
Washington, D.C., USA, November 12, 2015, oral presentation (Abstract)
  Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (MOP)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 3, 2015, oral presentation (Abstract)
  KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Seminar, Stockholm, Sweden, March 17, 2015, oral presentation
  Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) Tagung
Wuppertal, Germany, March 12, 2015, oral presentation (Abstract)
    Graduate School of Geosciences (GSGS) Research Conference
Cologne, Germany, January 23, 2015, poster presentation
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California, USA, December 11, 2014, poster presentation (Abstract)
  Graduate School of Geosciences (GSGS) Research Conference
Cologne, Germany, July 4, 2014, oral presentation
    European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Vienna, Austria, April 29, 2014, poster presentation (Abstract)
    Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (MOP)
Athens, Greece, June 27, 2013, poster presentation (Abstract)

Teaching experience

Please check out in the Teaching section.

Education

Ph.D. – 2012-2017
in Geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology ꜛ, University of Cologne. Dissertation: “The far ultraviolet aurora of Ganymede”.
Master of Science – 2009-2012
in Geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology ꜛ, University of Cologne. Thesis: “Ion cyclotron waves in the Kronian system”.
Bachelor of Science – 2006-2009
in Geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology ꜛ, University of Cologne. Thesis: “The Exploration of a Roman settlement near Nettersheim with geophysical methods”.
Training – 2003-2006
as a technical illustrator for interior design at CK GmbH, Erkrath, Germany.

Work experience

Post-Doctoral Researcher – since 2018
in the lab Neuroimmunology and Imaging led by Martin Fuhrmann ꜛ at the DZNE Research Center ꜛ in Bonn, Germany.
Technology Analyst – 2017-2018
Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT ꜛ.
Research Assistant – 2012-2016
Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology ꜛ, University of Cologne.
Student Assistant – 2009-2012
Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology ꜛ, University of Cologne.
Student Assistant – 2006-2009
CK GmbH, Erkrath, Germany.
Technical Illustrator – 2006
CK GmbH, Erkrath, Germany.

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