Short Bio

Alessandra Angelucci is the Mary Boesche Endowed Chair and a Professor at the Moran Eye Institute, University of Utah. She received her MD from the University of Roma, “La Sapienza”. her PhD from MIT, and her postdoctoral training at University College London. Her laboratory studies the structure and function of neural circuits in the primate visual cortex. Her group pioneered optogenetics in the marmoset and applies novel viral and optogenetic tools to understand cortico-cortical communication and the role of inhibitory circuits in visual processing.