Team

After studying Biology at the University of Firenze, I moved to Cambridge, UK, where I obtained my PhD working with Dr. J. Hutchison at the Babraham Institute and M. Gahr at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Seewiesen, on the neuroendocrine control of sexual behaviour in birds. After a period of work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Andechs (Host: E. Gwinner) and UCLA (Host: B.A. Schlinger), I went to Siena where I held a "Brain Gain" Assistant Professorship. Since 2007 I am a faculty member of the University of Ferrara. If you want to know more about my research, visit my laboratory homepage.

Virginie Canoine, PhD

After a period of studies at the University of Tuebingen, I moved to Munich where I graduated with a MSc in Biology working with O.F.X. Almeida at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry on the effects of gonadal steroids on the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis of rats. I did my PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology in Andechs, with Prof. E. Gwinner, with a thesis on the endocrine control of territorial behavior in birds. After a period as a post-doc at the University of Princeton (Host: M. Hau) and UCLA (Host: B.A. Schlinger), I moved together with Leonida Fusani to Siena and then Ferrara.