IIT People Search

Dmytro Shmal

Post-doctoral fellow
Affiliated Researcher
Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Telefono
+39 010 5558521
Indirizzo
Largo Rosanna Benzi 10, c/o CBA Torre D1
Research center
NSYN@UniGe
Interests
Visual cortex plasticity
Retinal prosthetics
In vivo electrophysiology
Imaging analysis
Education

Title: MD
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2007 To: 2017

Title: PhD
Institute: University of Genoa/IIT
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2019 To: 2022

Skills

Imaging
- Histopathology
- Confocal microscopy
- Image analysis

MATLAB

In vivo electrophysiology
- Visual evoked potentials
- Chronic cortical recordings in awake animals

Handling of in vivo rodent models
- Surgical implantation of chronic recording arrays
- Cortical microinjections

All Publications
2024
Shmal D., Mantero G., Floss T., Benfenati F., Maya-Vetencourt J.F.
Restoring vision in adult amblyopia by enhancing plasticity through deletion of the transcriptional repressor REST
iScience
DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109507
2022
Shmal D., Mantero G., Floss T., Maya-Vetencourt J.F., Benfenati F.
Involvement of The Transcription Factor REST in Visual Cortex Plasticity
FENS Forum 2022
Poster Conference
2022
Francia S., Shmal D., Di Marco S., Chiaravalli G., Maya-Vetencourt J.F., Mantero G., Michetti C., Cupini S., Manfredi G., DiFrancesco M.L., Rocchi A., Perotto S., Attanasio M., Sacco R., Bisti S., Mete M., Pertile G., Lanzani G., Colombo E., Benfenati F.
Light-induced charge generation in polymeric nanoparticles restores vision in advanced-stage retinitis pigmentosa rats
Nature Communications, vol. 13, (no. 1)
DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-31368-3
2022
Francia S., Di Marco S., DiFrancesco M. L., Ferrari D. V., Shmal D., Cavalli A., Pertile G., Attanasio M., Maya-Vetencourt J. F., Manfredi G., Lanzani G., Benfenati F., Colombo E.
P3ht-Graphene Device for the Restoration of Visual Properties in a Rat Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa
Advanced Materials Technologies
DOI 10.1002/admt.202201467
2020
DiFrancesco M.L., Lodola F., Colombo E., Maragliano L., Bramini M., Paterno G.M., Baldelli P., Serra M.D., Lunelli L., Marchioretto M., Grasselli G., Cimo S., Colella L., Fazzi D., Ortica F., Vurro V., Eleftheriou C.G., Shmal D., Maya-Vetencourt J.F., Bertarelli C., Lanzani G., Benfenati F.
Neuronal firing modulation by a membrane-targeted photoswitch
Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 15, (no. 4), pp. 296-306
DOI 10.1038/s41565-019-0632-6
Vedi tutto
Colleagues of Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Bruno Sterlini Affiliated Researcher Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Francesco Pisani Affiliated Researcher Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Francesca Vacca Post Doc Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Stefano Di Marco Affiliated Researcher Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Pietro Baldelli Affiliated Researcher Neuroscience and Smart Materials
Vedi tutto