Notizie
Le lezioni di Fisiologia Generale relative al Canale II° (M - Z) avranno inizio Mercoledì 1 Ottobre alle ore 11.00 in Aula Ponzi 1, Edificio CU005.
Curriculum
CURRICULUM VITAE
VALENTINA FERRETTI
Dip. Biologia and Biotecnologie
"Charles Darwin", Sapienza Università di Roma
Ed. Fisiologia Generale,
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
00185 Rome (Italy)
Email: valentina.ferretti@uniroma1.it
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-8852
PRESENT POSITION
Ricercatrice a tempo determinato in tenure track (RTT) at Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” Sapienza University of Rome
AFFILIATION
Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome
Department of Experimental Neurosciences, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Roma
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
1. Castellani G*, Ciampoli MS*, Benedetti A *, Ferretti V*, Trigilio G, Barcik W, Busnelli M, Contarini G, Paolino C, Devroye C, Maltese F,Braccia C, Pacinelli G, Manago' F, Sannino S, Albanesi E, Nigro M, Armirotti A, De Martin S, Chini B, Papaleo F. Oxytocin Seals the Brain Barriers Ameliorating the Immune-Behavioral Trajectories in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Brain doi: 10.1093/brain/awaf112.
2. Ferrucci L, Basilico B, Reverte I, Pagani F, Scaringi G, Cordella F, Cortese B, De Propis G, Galeone A, Mazzarela L, Mormino A, Garofalo S, Khan A, De Turris V, Ferretti V, Bezzi P, Gross C, Caprioli D, Limatola C, Di Angelantnio S, Ragozzino D. Time-dependent Phenotypical Changes of Microglia Drive Alterations in Hippocampal Synaptic Transmission in Acute Slices. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/fncel.2024.1456974
3. Mastrogiacomo R, Trigilio G, Devroye C, Dautan D, Ferretti V, Losi G, Caffino L, Orso G, Marotta R, Maltese F, Vitali E, Piras G, Forgiarini A, Pacinelli G, Lia, A, Rothmond D, Waddington J, Drago F, Fumagalli F, Papaleo F. (2022). Dysbindin-1A modulation of astrocytic dopamine and basal ganglia dependent behaviors relevant to schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 1-17.doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01683-8.
4. Lutfy, K., Hipolito, L., Ferretti, V., Vendruscolo, L.F., Kallupi, M.(2022). Editorial: The Role of Neuropeptides in Drug Addiction and Other Psychiatric Disorder. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 952551
5. De Stefano ME, Ferretti V, Mozzetta C (2022) Synaptic alterations as a neurodevelopmental trait of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Neurobiology of Disease 168, 105718
6. Basilico B, Ferrucci L, Ratano P, Golia MT, Grimaldi A, Rosito M, Ferretti V, Reverte I, Sanchini C, Marrone, MC, Giubettini M, De Turris V, Salerno D, Garofalo S, St-Pierre MK, Carrier M, Renzi M, Pagani F, Modi B, Raspa M, Scavizzi F, Gross C T, Marinelli S, Tremblay ME, Caprioli D, Maggi L, Limatola C, Di Angelantonio S, Ragozzino D. (2021) Microglia control glutamatergic synapses in the adult mouse hippocampus GLIA 70(1):173-195 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.24101
7. Scheggia D*, Managò F*, Maltese F, Bruni S, Nigro M, Dautan D, Latuske P, Contarini G, Gomez-Gonzalo M, Requie LM, Ferretti V, Castellani G, Mauro D, Bonavia A, Carmignoto G, Yizhar O & Papaleo F (2020). Somatostatin interneurons in the prefrontal cortex control affective state discrimination in mice. Nature Neuroscience 23, 47–60, doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0551-8
8. Leggio GM, Torrisi SA, Mastrogiacomo R, Mauro D, Chisari M, Devroye C, Scheggia D, Nigro M, Geraci F, Pintori N, Giurdanella G, Costa L, Bucolo C, Ferretti V, Sortino MA, Ciranna L, De Luca MA, Mereu M, Managò F, Salomone S, Drago F & Papaleo F (2019). The epistatic interaction between the dopamine D3 receptor and dysbindin-1 modulates higher-order cognitive functions in mice and humans. Molecular Psychiatry doi: 10.1038/s41380-019-0511-4
9. Castellani G, Contarini G, Mereu M, Albanesi E, Devroye C, D'Amore C, Ferretti V, De Martin S, Papaleo F. (2019) Dopamine-mediated immunomodulation affects choroid plexus function. Brain Behaviour and Immununity 81:138-150, doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2019.06.006
10. Contarini, G., Ferretti, V., & Papaleo, F. (2019). Acute administration of Urb597 fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor prevents attentional impairments by distractors in adolescent mice. Frontiers in Pharmacology 10, doi:10.3389/fphar.2019.00787
11. Ferretti V*, Maltese F*, Contarini G, Nigro M, Bonavia A, Huang H, Gigliucci V, Morelli G, Scheggia D, Managò F, Castellani G, Lefevre, Cancedda L, Chini B, Grinevich V, Papaleo F. (2019). Oxytocin signaling in the central amygdala modulates mice emotion discrimination. Current Biology 29(12): 1938-1953, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.070
12. Ferretti V°, Papaleo F°. (2019) Understanding others: emotion recognition abilities in humans and other animals. Genes Brain and Behavior, 18(1) e12544, doi:10.1111/gbb.12544 °co-corresponding author
13. Scheggia D, Zamberletti E, Realini N, Mereu M, Contarini G, Ferretti V, Managò F, Margiani G, Brunoro R, Rubino T, De Luca MA, Piomelli D, Parolaro D, Papaleo F. (2018). Remote memories are enhanced by COMT activity through dysregulation of the endocannabinoid system in the prefrontal cortex. Molecular Psychiatry 23(4): 1040-1050, doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.126
14. Capitano F, Camon J, Licursi V, Ferretti V, Maggi L, Scianni M, Del Vecchio G, Rinaldi A, Mannironi C, Limatola C, Presutti C, Mele A. (2017). MicroRNA-335-5p modulates spatial memory and hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 139:63-68, doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2016.12.019
15. Katsageorgiou VM, Zanotto M, Huang H, Ferretti V, F Papaleo, Sona D, Murino V. (2016). Unsupervised mouse behavior analysis: A data-driven study of mice interaction. Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition 0,925-930, 7899754, doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2016.7899754
16. Capitano F*, Camon J*, Ferretti V*, Licursi V, De Vito F, Rinaldi A, Vincenti S, Mannironi C, Fragapane P, Bozzoni I, Oliverio A, Negri R, Presutti C, Mele A. (2016). MicroRNAs modulate spatial memory in the hippocampus and in the ventral striatum in a region-specific manner. Molecular Neurobiology 53(7): 4618-30, doi:10.1007/s12035-015-9398-5 *co-first author
17. Song S, Grillo FW, Xi J, Ferretti V, Gao G, De Paola V. (2016) EPBscore: a novel method for computer-assisted analysis of axonal structure and dynamics. Neuroinformatics 14(1):121-7, doi:10.1007/s12021-015-9274-5
18. Zhang Z*, Ferretti V*, Güntan İ, Moro A, Steinberg EA, Ye Z, Zecharia AY, Yu X, Vyssotski AL, Brickley SG, Yustos R, Pillidge ZE, Harding EC, Wisden W, Franks NP. (2015). Neuronal ensembles sufficient for recovery sleep and the sedative actions of α2 adrenergic agonists. Nature Neuroscience 18(4):553-61, doi: 10.1038/nn.3957 *co-first author
19. Gelegen C, Gent TC, Ferretti V, Zhang Z, Yustos R, Lan F, Yang Q, Overington DW, Vyssotski AL, van Lith HA, Wisden W, Franks NP. (2014) Staying awake – a genetic region that hinders a2 adrenergic receptor agonist-induced sleep. European Journal of Neuroscience 40(1): 2311-9, doi: 10.1111/ejn.12570
20. Ferretti V*, Perri V*, Cristofoli A, Vetere G, Fragapane P, Oliverio A, Ammassari Teule M, Mele A. (2015). Phosphorylation of S845 GluA1 AMPA receptors modulates spatial memory and structural plasticity in the ventral striatum. Brain Structure and Function 220(5): 2653-61, doi: 10.1007/s00429-014-0816-7
21. Grillo FW, Song S, Teles-Grilo Ruivo LM, Huang L, Gao G, Knott GW, Maco B, Ferretti V, Thompson D, Little GE, De Paola V. (2013) Increased axonal bouton dynamics in the aging mouse cortex. PNAS 110(16):E1514-23, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1218731110
22. Ferretti V, Roullet P., Sargolini F, Rinaldi A, Perri V, Del Fabbro M, Costantini VJA, Annese V, Scesa G, De Stefano ME, Oliverio A, Mele A. (2010). Ventral striatal plasticity and spatial memory. PNAS 107 (17):7945-50, doi:10.1073/pnas.0911757107
23. Ferretti V, Sargolini F, Oliverio A, Mele A and Roullet P (2007). Effects of intra-accumbens NMDA and AMPA receptor antagonists on short-term spatial learning in the Morris water maze task. Behavioral Brain Research 179 (1): 43-9, doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.01.009
24. Ferretti V, Florian C, Costantini VJA, Roullet P, Rinaldi A, De Leonibus E, Oliverio A, Mele A. (2005). Co-activation of glutamate and dopamine receptors within the nucleus accumbens is required for spatial memory consolidation in mice. Psychopharmacology 179: 108-116, doi: 10.1007/s00213-005-2144-3
25. De Leonibus E, Costantini VJA, Castellano C, Ferretti V, Oliverio A, Mele A. (2003) Distinct roles of the different ionotropic glutamate receptors within the nucleus accumbens in passive-avoidance learning and memory in mice European Journal of Neuroscience 18(8): 2365-73, doi: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02939.x