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NICOLETTA MARZOCCHI

LAST NAME: Marzocchi
FIRST NAME: Nicoletta

BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Bologna, Italy, April 25, 1979
CITIZENSHIP: Italian

ADDRESS:
Dipartimento di Fisiologia umana e generale
Università di Bologna
Piazza di Porta San Donato 2
40126 Bologna Italy

CONTACTS:
Tel:+39-051-2091748
FAX: +39-051-2091737
e-mail:nicoletta.marzocchi@unibo.it

PRESENT POSITION:
Post doctoral fellow

DEGREES:
2006: PhD in Neurophysiology (University of Bologna)
Supervisor: Prof. P. Fattori
Thesis title: “Gaze modulations on arm movement-related neural responses in area V6A of the macaque”

2002: Degree in Electronical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna) cum laude
Supervisor: Prof. S. Cavalcanti
Thesis title: "Analisi mediante simulazione numerica dell'influenza delle correnti ioniche sulle caratteristiche elettrofisiologiche del potenziale d'azione in motoneuroni spinali" (Numerical simulation analysis of ionic currents influence on the electrophysiological properties of spinal motor neurons action potentials).

POSITIONS HELD
2007-
Post doctoral fellow, Department of Human and General Physiology, University of Bologna, Italy. Research topic: “Connessioni cortico-corticali della porzione ventrale dell’area visiva associativa V6A del cervello di macaco” (Supervisor: Prof. C. Galletti)

2005-2007
Post doctoral fellow, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy. Research topic: “Development of techniques for the analysis of cortical neurons bioelectrical activity” (Supervisor: Prof. S. Cavalcanti)
Collaborator of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Vision (Prof Galletti)

2003-2005
PhD student in Neurophysiology, University of Bologna, Italy, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Vision, Supervisor: Prof P. Fattori. Research topic: Neural corr
elates of sensory, motor and cognitive processes

2002
Undergraduate student, University of Bologna, Italy, Laboratory of Bioengineering, Supervisor: Prof. S. Cavalcanti

TEACHING ACTIVITY:
Help to master students for the preparation of the thesis.

MEETINGS:
8-13/07/2001: XVIIIth Congress of International Society of Biomechanics, Zurich, Switzerland.
16-20/09/2002: XXI Scuola Annuale di Bioingegneria “Ingegneria dei tessuti biologici”, Bressanone, Italy.
16-20/06/2003: 1st European School on Neuroengineering “Massimo Grattarola”, Venice, Italy.
22-25/09/2003: XXII Scuola Annuale di Bioingegneria “Bioingegneria della postura e del movimento”, Bressanone, Italy.
12-15/12/2003: Symposium “Functional plasticity and cortical reorganization in the human visual and motor systems”, Bologna, Italy.
1-3/07/2004:  Conference “Mathematical models of visual perception”, Bologna, Italy.
10-14/07/2004:  4th Forum of European Neuroscience, Lisbon, Portugal.
6-17/09/2004:  European Summer School “Visual Neuroscience – from Spikes to Awareness”, Rauischholzhausen, Germany.
20-23/09/2004:  XXIII Scuola Annuale di Bioingegneria “Metodi avanzati di elaborazione di segnali biomedici”, Bressanone, Italy.
7-9/09/2005: Biomedicine 2005 (Sixth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology), Bologna, Italy.
12-16/11/2005: Neuroscience 2005 (SfN 35th Annual Meeting), Washington DC, US.
20-25/11/2005: EMBEC 2005 (3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference), Prague, Czech Republic.
13-17/06/06: 4th European School of Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering, Genova, Italy.
14-18/10/06: Neuroscience 2006 (SfN 36th Annual Meeting), Atlanta GA, US.
12-17/07/07: IBRO International World Congress of Neuroscience, Melbourne, Australia.
19-22/07/07: Vision Down-Under, Palm Cove, Cairns, Australia.

SCOLARSHIPS:
2003-2005: University scholarship for PhD students

FOREIGN LANGUAGES :
English
French

PUBLICATIONS
Papers:

Kutz D.F., Marzocchi N., Fattori P., Cavalcanti S., Galletti C.
A real-time supervisor system based on trinary logic to control experiments with behaving animals and humans
Journal of Neurophysiology, 93: 3674-3686, 2005

Fattori P., Kutz D.F., Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Galletti C.
Spatial tuning of reaching activity in the medial parieto-occipital cortex (area V6A) of macaque monkey
Eur J Neurosci., 22(4):956-72, 2005

Marzocchi N., Severi S., Pieri M., Zona C., Cavalcanti S.
Numerical simulation of motor neuron excitability in a transgenic mouse model of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
in Ursino M., Brebbia C.A., Pontrelli G., and Magosso E. (Ed): Modelling in medicine and biology VI, (WIT Press, Southampton, UK), pp. 221-8

Fattori P., Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Galletti C.
Brain area V6A: a cognitive model for an embodied artificial intelligence.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, accepted 2007

Marzocchi N., Breveglieri R., Galletti C., Fattori P.Reaching activity in parietal area V6A of macaque: eye influence on arm activity or retinocentric coding of reaching movements?European Journal of Neuroscience, accepted 2007

Abstracts:
Amoroso K., Fattori P.,  Kutz D.F., Marzocchi N., Galletti C.
Reach-to-grasp activity in the macaque parieto-occipital area V6A.
Atti del 54 Congresso Annuale della Società Italiana di Fisiologia, Chieti, 29 settembre  -  2 ottobre 2003 

Fattori P., Breveglieri R., Kutz D.F., Marzocchi N., Galletti C.
Reach-to-grasp movements modulate neural activity in the dorso-medial visual stream
Fourth Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida, April 30 – May 5th, 2004

Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Kutz D. F., Galletti C., Fattori P.
Possibile sources of arm-reaching responses in the visual-parieto-occipital area V6A of the macaque
Fourth Forum of European Neuroscience, Lisbon, July 10-14, 2004

Marzocchi N., Cavalcanti S., Galletti C., Fattori P., Kutz D. F.
A new real-time supervisor system for data acquisition analysis and control of visuomotor task experiments
Fourth Forum of European Neuroscience, Lisbon, July 10-14, 2004

Fattori P., Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Passarelli L., Galletti C.
Monkey area V6A codes reaching movements in the three dimensional peripersonal space
Fifth Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida, May 6 –11, 2005

Marzocchi N., Kutz D.F., Breveglieri R., Fattori P., Galletti C.
Gaze modulations on arm movement-related neural responses in area V6A of the macaque
Program No. 363.1. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2005. Online

Marzocchi N., Severi S., Zona C., Cavalcanti S.
Motor neuron firing in a transgenic mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a simulation study
IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 11. Prague: IFMBE, 2005. ISSN 1727-1983. Editors: Jiri Hozman, Peter Kneppo (Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference - EMBEC´05. Prague, Czech Republic, 20-25.11.2005), 1650-4

Fattori P., Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Filippini D., and Galletti C.
Foveal and peripheral reaching activity in the macaque cortical area V6A
VSS Annual Meeting, Sarasota (U.S.A.), 11-16/05/2007.

Marzocchi N., Breveglieri R., Filippini D., Galletti C., Fattori P.
Coding of target position in the posterior parietal area V6A of the macaque: neural responses during movement execution and hand holding.
IBRO congress 2007 Melbourne (Australia), 12-17/07/2007.

Fattori P., Marzocchi N., Breveglieri R., Bosco A., Galletti C.
Reaching activity in the parietal area V6A of the macaque: spatial or retinotopic frame of reference?
Vision Down Under, 7th IBRO Congress of Neuroscience Satellite Meeting on the Eye and Brain, Palm Cove - Cairns (Australia), 19-22/07/2007

Bosco A., Breveglieri R., Gaveau V., Marzocchi N., Galletti C., Fattori P.
Movimenti di raggiungimento di un bersaglio nello spazio 3-D: studio cinematico sul macaco sveglio.
Congresso per dottorandi organizzato dalla Società Italiana di Fisiologia, Siena (Italia), 2007.

Filippini D., Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Baldinotti I., Galletti C., Fattori P.
Attività neuronale correlata al raggiungimento e afferramento di oggetti nel lobulo parietale superiore di macaco.
Congresso per dottorandi organizzato dalla Società Italiana di Fisiologia, Siena (Italia), 2007.

Fattori P., Marzocchi N., Breveglieri R., Galletti C.
Multiple frames of reference during and after reaching execution in monkey medial parieto-occipital cortex (area V6A)
37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego (California U.S.A.) 3-7/11/ 2007

Fattori P., Breveglieri R., Marzocchi N., Bosco A., Galletti C.
A medial parieto-occipital area coding all phases of prehension movements
VSS 2008, submitted

 

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Neurophysiology and Neuroanatomy of the Visuo-Motor System