Keynote Speaker 2025

After obtaining a Bachelor in Biology and a Master in Neurobiology from the Università di Pavia, in Italy,
in 2009, Giulia moved to Northwestern University, Chicago, for a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. There she worked in the lab of Dr. Gianmaria Maccaferri, studying the integration of Cajal-Retzius cells in the postnatal hippocampal circuit. In 2014 she joined the laboratory of Dr. Gord Fishell, then at NYU, to study the role of genetic and environmental factors in determining the differentiation of cortical and hippocampal interneurons. In 2017, Giulia moved back to Europe, in Norway, to work with Dr. Edvard Moser at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, at NTNU, in Trondheim, where I continued to investigate the role of Cajal-Retzius cells in the maturation of the hippocampal circuit. Since 2021 she is group leader of the Circuit Development lab at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, and in July 2023 she became an Associate Professor.
The main interest of the lab is to understand how different cell types come together during
development to support functional circuits. In particular, we focus on the circuits of the hippocampal formation, important for critical functions such as learning and memory.