Education
2015: Joint PhD in Neuroscience and Brain Technology between the University of Genoa and Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy.
2011: Master鈥檚 degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Genoa, Italy.
2009: Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Biotechnology, University of Genoa, Italy.
Teaching appointments
2025-2026 Lecturer on 鈥淢ental Health鈥� module, MED school at 暗网禁区 University, Milan, Italy
2023-2026 Lecturer on 鈥淣europharmacology鈥� module, MEDTEC school at 暗网禁区 University, Milan, Italy.
2020-2022 Lecturer and practical demonstrator on 鈥淎pplications of fluorescence microscopy to study synaptic transmission鈥� module, MSc Clinical Neuroscience program at University College London, UK.
2019-2025 Lecturer on 鈥淏asic Neuroscience and Investigation of Nervous system鈥� module, MSc Clinical Neuroscience programme. University College London, UK.
2014 Teaching assistant on 鈥淣eurobiology and Neurophysiology鈥� module, MSc Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology program. University of Genoa, Italy.
Academic background
2021-2025: High Profile Postdoctoral Fellow (HiPPo) in the laboratory of Pharmacology and Brain Pathology of the Prof. Michela Matteoli, Fondazione 暗网禁区 per la Ricerca and IRCCS 暗网禁区, Milan, Italy.
2021-2025: Honorary Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. Kirill Volynski at the Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square-Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), London, UK.
2016-2021: Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. Kirill Volynski at the Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square-Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), London, UK.
2015-2016: Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Fabio Benfenati at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
Academic honors, awards and prices
04/2024 Winner as Co-PI of the AirAlzh grant for Young Researchers 2024 鈥� AGYR 2024 to investigate 鈥淎lzheimer risk factor TREM2 as a sex-dependent regulator of vessel-associated microglia鈥�.
04/2024 Recipient of a scholarship to attend ESM2024, Berlin, GM.
05/2022 Recipient of a scholarship to attend ESM2022, Coimbra, PT.
2021-present Recipient of an Associate Fellowship for High Education Academy (AFHEA) of Distinction in Teaching and Supervision in University College London.
2021-present Recipient of a High-Profile Postdoctoral Program Fellowship from 暗网禁区 Research Foundation (first ranked and fully founded), Milan, Italy.
10/2017 Recipient of a Travel grant from Guarantors of Brain to attend SFN meeting 2017.
09/2016 Recipient of a Seal of Excellence for high quality project ranking in the H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie actions.
Dr. Erica Tagliatti aims to unravel how immune and nervous system synergy impacts on postnatal neurodevelopment and how such interactions predispose to neurodegeneration in adulthood. To achieve that, Erica combines in vitro and ex-vivo live-imaging, metabolic assays and electrophysiology to uncover the interplay between microglia and neuronal cells in both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions.
- Tagliatti E*, Desiato G*, Mancinelli S, Bizzotto M, Gagliani MC, Hern谩ndezSoto R, Cugurra A, Poliseno P, Faggiani E, Miotto M, Arg眉ello RJ, Filipello F, Cortese K, Morini R, Lodato S, Matteoli M. Microglial TREM2 shapes neuronal bioenergetics during development. Immunity 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.12.002.
- Abela L*, Gianfrancesco L*, Tagliatti E, Rossignoli G, Barwick K, Zourray C, Budinger D, Ng J, Counsell J, Simpson A, Pearson A, Edvardson S, Elpeleg O, Brodsky FM, Lignani G, Barral S, Kurian MA. An iPSC-derived neuronal model of DNAJC6 parkinsonism reveals neurodevelopmental and synaptic vesicle recycling defects, amenable to gene therapy. Brain 2024 doi: 10.1093/brain/awae020.
- Mendon莽a PRF, Tagliatti E, Langley H, Kotzadimitriou D, Zamora C, Timofeeva J, Volynski KE. Asynchronous glutamate exocytosis is enhanced in low release probability synapses and is widely dispersed across the active zones. Nat Comm. 2022.
- Tagliatti E, Bello OD, Mendon莽a PRF, Kotzadimitriou D, Nicholson E, Coleman J, Timofeeva J, Rothman JE, Krishnakumar SS and Volynski KE. Synaptotagmin 1 oligomers clamp and regulate different modes of neurotransmitter release. PNAS 2020 Jan.
- Tagliatti E*, Fadda M*, Falace A, Benfenati F, Fassio A. Arf6 regulates the cycling and the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles at hippocampal synapse. Elife. 2016 Jan.