Davide Comoletti

I always loved science! I grew up in Milan (Italy) where I obtained a high school diploma in Agricultural Sciences, I graduated in Veterinary Medicine (DVM), and then obtained a PhD in Pharmacology. In 1998 I moved to La Jolla at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) as a Postdoc (and later junior faculty) with the great Dr. Palmer Taylor where I learned molecular neuroscience and how to study the three-dimensional structure of proteins. In 2011, I moved to Rutgers University (NJ, USA) as a resident scientist of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ), and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). In October of 2018 I accepted a new faculty position here at Victoria University of Wellington where I continue to study molecular aspects of how synaptic adhesion proteins interact to each-other and how they function in health and disease