Claudia Bagni is a professor and the director of the Department des Neurosciences Fondamentales (DNF) at the Universite de Lausanne. Her laboratory works on cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, with a particular focus on disorders affecting synaptic function (i.e., synaptopathies), including autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. Using mouse and fly model systems, her team is assessing roles that local protein homeostasis and actin remodeling play in regulating synaptic plasticity, brain circuits and behavior, and how their dysfunction leads to disease.
