LIN Staff

Dr. Alessio Attardo

Head of Working Group

Cellular Neuroscience

Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Brenneckestr. 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany
Phone: +49 391 6263 93371
Email: Alessio.Attardo@lin-magdeburg.de
ORCID: 0000-0003-0665-6011

Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae
Academic positions
Jan 2022 – date
- Group Leader, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology, Dept. Cellular Neuroscience, Magdeburg (Germany)
- Faculty of the Integrative Neuroscience MSc Program, Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg (Germany)
July 2019 – date
Faculty of the Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (Germany)
Oct 2018 – Dec 2021
Faculty of the Biomedical Neuroscience MSc. Program, Technical University, Munich (Germany)
Jan 2016 – date
Faculty of:
- the International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry, Munich (Germany)
- the Neuroimaging Techniques advanced course. Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience. Jupiter, Florida (U.S.A.)
Feb 2015 – Dec 2021
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Dept. Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Munich (Germany)
Jan 2013-Jan 2015
HHMI Research Specialist, Stanford University (U.S.A)
Jan 2008-Dec 2012
Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University (U.S.A)
Jan 2007-Dec 2007
Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany)
Education
Sept 2002 -Dec 2006
Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany)
Jan 2002-Aug 2002
Graduate fellow, University of Palermo (Italy)
Feb 2000-Aug 2000
Erasmus exchange student, IFREMER University of Montpellier (France)
Sept 1996-Dec 2001
Student, Biological Sciences, University of Palermo (Italy)
Academic supervision
Bachelor theses: 1
Master theses: 8
Ph.D. theses: 4
Postdoctoral fellows: 3
Ad hoc reviewer for
Scientific Journals:
Biological psychiatry, Cell death and differentiation, eLife, Molecular brain, Neurobiology of stress, Scientific reports, Translational psychiatry and Trends in neurosciences.
Funding agencies:
ANR (French national funding agency), ISF (Israeli national funding agency), OAW (Austrian national funding agency) and Schram Foundation.
Publications
Publications
Klimmt H, Kappel D, Ulivi AF, Argunsah AO, Murthy B, Somatakis S, Huettl RE, Remy S, Attardo A. 2025. Learning reorganizes dendritic and stabilizes axonal initial segment inhibitory synapses in CA1 pyramidal neurons. bioRxiv. (bioRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.04.641429
Ries C, Stark T, Boulat B, Delling J-P, Ruhwedel T, Miralles-Infante A, von Poblotzki J, Ulivi A, von Muecke-Heim I-A, Chang S, et al. 2025. Neuropeptide CRH prevents premature differentiation of OPCs following CNS injury and in early postnatal development. bioRxiv. (bioRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.14.638041
Hauser SL, Brosig J, Murthy B, Attardo A, Kist AM. 2024. Implicit neural representations in light microscopy. Biomedical Optics Express. 15(4):2175-2186. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.515517
Attardo A, Cambridge SB. 2024. Learning to become addicted, one synapse at a time. Neural Regeneration Research. 19(2):401-402. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.379046
Murthy BKB, Somatakis S, Ulivi AF, Klimmt H, Castello-Waldow TP, Haynes N, Huettl RE, Chen A, Attardo A. 2023. Arc-driven mGRASP highlights CA1 to CA3 synaptic engrams. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 16:Article 1072571. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1072571
Chenani A, Weston G, Ulivi AF, Castello-Waldow TP, Huettl R-E, Chen A, Attardo A. 2022. Repeated stress exposure leads to structural synaptic instability prior to disorganization of hippocampal coding and impairments in learning. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1):Article 381. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02107-5
Castello-Waldow TP, Weston G, Ulivi AF, Chenani A, Loewenstein Y, Chen A, Attardo A. 2020. Hippocampal neurons with stable excitatory connectivity become part of neuronal representations. PLoS Biology. 18(11):e3000928. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000928
Ulivi AF, Castello-Waldow TP, Weston G, Yan L, Yasuda R, Chen A, Attardo A. 2019. Longitudinal Two-Photon Imaging of Dorsal Hippocampal CA1 in Live Mice. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2019(148):Article e59598. https://doi.org/10.3791/59598
Attardo A, Lu J, Kawashima T, Okuno H, Fitzgerald JE, Bito H, Schnitzer MJ. 2018. Long-Term Consolidation of Ensemble Neural Plasticity Patterns in Hippocampal Area CA1. Cell Reports. 25(3):640-650.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.09.064
Attardo A, Fitzgerald JE, Schnitzer MJ. 2015. Impermanence of dendritic spines in live adult CA1 hippocampus. Nature. 523(7562):592-596. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14467
Barretto RPJ, Ko TH, Jung JC, Wang TJ, Capps G, Waters AC, Ziv Y, Attardo A, Recht L, Schnitzer MJ. 2011. Time-lapse imaging of disease progression in deep brain areas using fluorescence microendoscopy. Nature Medicine. 17(2):223-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2292
Attardo A, Fabel K, Krebs J, Haubensak W, Huttner WB, Kempermann G. 2010. Tis21 expression marks not only populations of neurogenic precursor cells but also new postmitotic neurons in adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Cerebral Cortex. 20(2):304-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhp100
Kowalczyk T, Pontious A, Englund C, Daza RAM, Bedogni F, Hodge R, Attardo A, Bell C, Huttner WB, Hevner RF. 2009. Intermediate neuronal progenitors (basal progenitors) produce pyramidal-projection neurons for all layers of cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 19(10):2439-50. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhn260
Kosodo Y, Toida K, Dubreuil V, Alexandre P, Schenk J, Kiyokage E, Attardo A, Mora-Bermúdez F, Arii T, Clarke JDW, et al. 2008. Cytokinesis of neuroepithelial cells can divide their basal process before anaphase. The EMBO journal. 27(23):3151-63. https://doi.org/10.1038/emboj.2008.227
Attardo A, Calegari F, Haubensak W, Wilsch-Bräuninger M, Huttner WB. 2008. Live imaging at the onset of cortical neurogenesis reveals differential appearance of the neuronal phenotype in apical versus basal progenitor progeny. PLoS ONE. 3(6):e2388. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002388
Bonilla S, Hall AC, Pinto L, Attardo A, Götz M, Huttner WB, Arenas E. 2008. Identification of midbrain floor plate radial glia-like cells as dopaminergic progenitors. GLIA. 56(8):809-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.20654
Cappello S, Attardo A, Wu X, Iwasato T, Itohara S, Wilsch-Bräuninger M, Eilken HM, Rieger MA, Schroeder TT, Huttner WB, et al. 2006. The Rho-GTPase cdc42 regulates neural progenitor fate at the apical surface. Nature Neuroscience. 9(9):1099-107. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1744
Haubensak W, Attardo A, Denk W, Huttner WB. 2004. Neurons arise in the basal neuroepithelium of the early mammalian telencephalon: a major site of neurogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101(9):3196-201. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0308600100
Third party funds
Third party funds
2025 - 2099 (DFG)
Unterstützten die Stabilität der exzitatorischen synaptischen Konnektivität und die neuronaler Darstellungen im Hippocampus das räumliche Lernen?
2024 - 2027 (DFG)
CA1-Raumcodierung als Prädiktor für die Anfälligkeit für zwanghafte Alkoholsucht
2024 - 2027 (DFG)
Stabilität synaptischer Gedächtnisengramme
2024 - 2025 (EU)
STED-enabled super-resolution multimode-fibre based holographic endoscopy for deep-tissue observations of neuronal connectivity
2022 - 2025 (DFG)
Der Einfluss von CA3-Engrammneuronen auf die Raumrepräsentation in CA1
2022 - 2025 (DFG)
Aufrechterhaltung von Aktivi-täts-Set-Points im Hippocampus: Von der Langzeitdynamik exzitatorischer und inhibitorischer Synapsen zur funktionellen Stabilität von CA1-Schaltkreisen / Kooperation mit Frau Professorin Dr. Inna Slutsky (Israel)
2022 - 2024 (DFG)
Der Einfluss der neuronalen Aktivität auf die funktionelle Umverdrahtung von hippocampalen CA1-Erregungsneuronen