Bernardo L. Sabatini is an American
neuroscientist who is the Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of Neurobiology at
Harvard Medical School.
Education and academic career
Sabatini received his S.B. in
biomedical engineering from
Harvard College. He received his PhD in
neurobiology and his MD from
Harvard Medical School, having attended the joint
MD–PhD program co-administered by Harvard and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation he began as a
postdoctoral fellow with
Karel Svoboda, then at
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
In 2001, Sabatini established his own research group in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. He was named a
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, fil ...
Investigator in 2008.
He is also an investigator with the
Simons Foundation's Collaboration on the Global Brain.
He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014
and the
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...
in 2019.
Research
Sabatini's research group studies the
biophysics of
synapse
In the nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or to the target effector cell.
Synapses are essential to the transmission of nervous impulses from ...
s and
synaptic plasticity, and the connection between properties of
neurons and their networks to
animal behavior and disease. The group has developed methods and technologies to support this work and is well known in particular for advances in
two-photon microscopy and more recently,
super-resolution microscopy.
He is one of six co-founders of the Italy-based
biotechnology company OptogeniX, which sells equipment for
optogenetics studies.
Personal life
Sabatini is the son of
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
immigrants
David D. Sabatini, a
cell biologist at
New York University, and Zulema Sabatini, a doctor. His older brother
David M. Sabatini is also an M.D.–Ph.D. and was a professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
External links
Science Matters with Bernardo Sabatini- brief video talk
References
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American neuroscientists
Harvard Medical School alumni
Harvard Medical School faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Living people
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Harvard College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences