Maximiliano José Nigro

I am very proud to share the published version of our work on the Biogeography of fast-spiking interneurons in the mouse cortex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#birding for mental health update 17 miles hiked 23 species observed between Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna #hikeOctober ihike.org/maximiliano-...

Birding for mental health ihike.org/maximiliano-... #hikeOctober is raising awareness on mental health. Consider donating to any of the hiking events. Birding is an excellent excuse for hiking and a wonderful resource for mental health. I recommend: Birding under the influence by Dorian Anderson

The chiffchaff and the willow warbler are very hard to tell apart by shape or color. But listen to them! Many neurons look alike but they sing different songs for different purposes. At Forskningstorget we will explore the shapes, colors and songs of neurons #birdingthebrain #birding #neuroskyence

I am organizing an exhibition for Forskningstorget i Trondheim Birding the brain: how a birdwatcher studies neurons The plan is to give a birding tour of the brain to explore the shapes, colors and songs defining the extraordinary diversity of neurons. #Birding #neuroskyence

Time to dive into a discipline that has inspired my #birding and my research on cell types #neuroskyence

I’m preparing some Golgi-like pictures from my patching collection for the outreach event “Birding the brain” #forskningstorget #neuroskyence

Some birding at Jardin des Plantes with a visit to Buffon and the carrion crow before joining @openlab.bsky.social @cam-openlab.bsky.social for the What is a neuron workshop #neuroskyence ebird.org/checklist/S3...

What a place to think about what is a neuron and neuronal diversity! La Gloriette de Buffon at the Jardins des Plantes #neuroskyence #birding

Getting ready for this interesting workshop in Paris: What is a neuron? @openlab.bsky.social school of ideas Back to the basics #neuroskyence

I wonder whether there is any theoretical framework for analyzing these patterns and knowing what goes through his mind #neuroskyence

Fantastic initiative at my Alma Mater University of Pavia by @ebrains.bsky.social School in Computational Neuroscience at the birthplace of Camillo Golgi! It is held in Piazza Botta, one of my favorite places in Pavia, close to the Golgi Institute and the Kosmos Museum! #neuroskyence

The latest story from the #QuattrocoloLab fulfills a long time dream. Are #CajalRetzius cells important for the maturation of spatial navigation? It turns out that superficial pyramidal cells in CA1 care much more about CR cells postnatal presence that deep pyramidal cells.

While @gquattrocolo.bsky.social is out with our favorite developmental neuroscientist @gordfishell.bsky.social I take the chance to introduce my son to Norse mythology and Led Zeppelin

We are #hiring 2 PhD students at the University of Oslo! 🇳🇴 1️⃣ Systems Neuro: Spatial memory & addiction 2️⃣ Neuro/Cancer: Glioblastoma invasion. Details: vervaeke-lab.org/Hiring Please RT! 🔄 @UiO_LifeSci #Neuroscience #PhD #SystemsNeuro #Glioblastoma

This #DarwinDay I discovered that the Museum of Natural History in NTNU has a little piece of Darwin’s collection from his voyage on the Beagle #evolution #biology norwegianscitechnews.com/2025/12/the-...

Alfred Russel Wallace born OTD in 1823. He said he shared with Darwin “an intense interest in … the variety [of living things] that catches the eye of the observer even among those which are very much alike, but which are soon found to differ in several distinct characters.” 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

I just started this nice book by Ivan Soltesz. I found out about it by chance after a brief chat with Ariel Agmon and I am so happy to find Ernst Mayr all over a book on the diversity of interneurons! #neuroskyence www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Veldig interessant bok om Alfred Russel Wallace. Boken forteller om de forskjellige sider av en veldig interessant mann som oppdaget naturlig utvalg, ble opptatt med spiritisme og med sosiale problemer www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...

This afternoon’s journal club took me and my kid to the Gulf of Mexico We think that the term «interaction» is an understatement

#Onthisday was published On the origin of the species by Charles Darwin I get inspired by this book every time I read it #evolution #neuroskyence

#QuattrocoloLab preprint out 👇! We explored changes in the proteome of hippocampal and dentate gyrus growth cones at early postnatal stages. We see that at P1 growth cones from the two subregions are very similar, but start to diverge from P3, with HP growth cones maturing earlier then DG ones.

The family coat of arms made at school by my son features birdwatching. I did get something right so far @gquattrocolo.bsky.social

Developmental neuroscientists please keep inviting @gquattrocolo.bsky.social to your conferences. She is a great speaker and her lab is doing very interesting research. Plus she has great taste for presents to her husband when she returns from those conferences

In today’s lecture on microcircuit organization we will go through the classics from Penfield to Eccles and get to cell type specific optogenetics to dissect circuits for top down modulation of vision How neurons connect to compute with a reminder to their biophysical properties #neuroskyence

From the series “Once upon a time…the discoverers” an episode about Buffon and the concept of deep time #evolution

Immunology is such a beautiful field! It was just recognized with another Nobel prize. Richard Lewontin included it (“mechanisms of self-recognition”) in the five properties defining living organisms. #biology #neuroskyence www.nobelprize.org/all-nobel-pr...

To honor the memory of Dr Jane Goodall I am sharing her 1963 article for National Geographic Magazine #neuroskyence

A pioneer of science, conservation and education who left a long lasting legacy. Dr Jane Goodall #neuroskyence

Short philosophical summary for the lecture on Touch #neuroskyence

This looks like a promising step forward that improves quality rather than quantity Looking forward to dig in more!

Grilling on a gorgeous fall evening while enjoying a wonderful Zinfandel. A present from the last master student graduated from the lab. The joys of teaching…

Basket cells, parvalbumin expressing or fast-spiking neurons, names that emphasize different properties of the same type. However they are not all the same, like these in the mouse barrel cortex: one has axon in its layer; the other sends axon to other layers Both are very beautiful #neuroskyence

Congratulations to @seanfw.bsky.social and team! Very interesting project leveraging large scale models to make sense of the even larger scale anatomical diversity across regions and species

Interesting passage. Buffon starts with a jab at the idea of classification by means of reducing beings to an ideal form. Are we, cell typers, exaggerating in splitting the transcriptomic dendrograms? This reminds me of Agmon’s review pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39091993/ #neuroskyence #evolution

Our first steps into sensory processing is now online! Work spearheaded by Rejwan Salih from experiments by @prime5222.bsky.social and François Pauzin We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods. #neuroskyence

This week I am sharing the closing remarks from Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago. Here Wallace gives a critique of of Victorian society and what he learned living with the people he met in his travels #historyofscience #biogeography #neuroskyence

A few highlights of a morning birdwatching in Bali Barat National Park @gquattrocolo.bsky.social The two mynas are critically endangered and the park has a repopulation program