Bernardo L. Sabatini

Bernardo L. Sabatini is an American neuroscientist who is the Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.[1]

Bernardo Luis Sabatini
Alma materHarvard College (S.B.)
Harvard Medical School (M.D., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsHarvard 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.[2]

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 Investigator in 2008.[2] He is also an investigator with the Simons Foundation's Collaboration on the Global Brain.[3] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014[4] and the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.[5]

Research

Sabatini's research group studies the biophysics of synapses 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.[6] He is one of six co-founders of the Italy-based biotechnology company OptogeniX, which sells equipment for optogenetics studies.[7]

Personal life

Sabatini is the son of Argentine immigrants David D. Sabatini, a cell biologist at New York University, and Zulema Sabatini, a doctor. Bernardo Sabatini's older brother David M. Sabatini is also an M.D.-Ph.D. and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[8] He has three sons: the eldest and middle attend the University of Chicago and Harvard College, respectively, while the youngest is a student at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School.

References
  1. "Bernardo Sabatini". Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  2. "Bernardo L. Sabatini". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. "Bernardo Sabatini". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. "Bernardo Luis Sabatini". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  5. "2019 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  6. "Sabatini Lab Research". Harvard University. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  7. "Founders". OptogeniX. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  8. Ware, Lauren (2013). "Science in their Blood". HHMI Bulletin. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
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