g.dipino@unicampus.it Università Campus Bio-Medico Via Álvaro del Portillo, 21 - 00128 Roma telephone +39 06 22541 9610 mobile +39 xxx xxx xxxx fax +39 06 22541 xxx

Giovanni Di Pino was born in Catania in August 1979. He received his Medical Degree in 2003 at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome with Summa Cum Laude and Honor Mention.
He worked in Italian and American Laboratories mainly involved in studying the mechanisms and molecules proper of neurodevelopment, apoptosis and neurophysiological intracellular recording.
In 2007 he started a Ph.d program primarily interested in developing bidirectional brain to computer interfaces to control sensorized cybernetic prostheses.

Research interest

• In Vivo evaluation of a biomechatronics multi-DoF sensorized hand prosthesis

• Deeper understanding neuroplastic changes after nervous system injuries

• Designing and development of innovative bidirectional neural interfaces

Publications

Journals

Di Pino, G., Moessner, K., Lesch, P., Lauder, J.M., Persico, A.M., 2004.
for serotonin in neurodevelopment: more than just neural transmissionNeuropharmacol. 2, 403-418.

Persico AM, Di Pino G, Levitt P., 2006
receptors mediate the trophic effects of serotonin on ventroposterior thalamic neurons in vitro.

Brain Res. 2006 May.

Di Pino G, Guglielmelli E, Rossini PM.
in amputees: Main implications on the development of cybernetic hand prostheses.

Presentations

Poster Presentation at the 32Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2002
, concentration-dependent trophic effects of serotonin on dissociated ventroposterior thalamic neurons: possible contributions by multiple serotonin receptors
A.M. Persico; G. Di Pino; F. Keller; P. Levitt

Poster Presentation at the 33Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2003
zinc accumulates in apoptotic neurons after target deprivation in vivo.

P.W.Land; G.Di Pino; E.Aizenman.

Poster Presentation at the 6 International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology 2008. Brain training softwares: is their efficacy real and influenced by age? A preliminary report.
G. Cavallo, M. Tombini, G. Di Pino, G. Curcio, P. M. Rossini, E. Guglielmelli

Poster Presentation at IEEE BIOROB 2008. Machine/Animal Hybrid Controller for Space Applications.
A. Benvenuto, G. Di Pino, F. Sergi, D. Campolo, D. Accoto, G. Assenza, PM. Rossini and E. Guglielmelli.