Giampaolo Milior

I hold a PhD in Neurophysiology and Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences, which I obtained in 2016 from the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome. My thesis focused on the involvement of microglial cells in brain development and depressive-like behaviors. After completing my PhD, I joined the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris, where I conducted pioneering research on a new living model of the human brain, studying the role of microglial cells in the onset of epilepsy. In 2019, I moved to the Collège de France, working in Dr. Nathalie Rouach's laboratory, where I explored the role of astrocytes in epilepsy using imaging and electrophysiology techniques. I was recently recruited as a tenured researcher at the Molecular Imaging Research Center (CEA), where I am starting my own research group focusing on the role of the gut microbiota–glia axis in human brain development and epilepsy. I am currently refining a new 3D ex vivo model of the human brain that allows for various genetic manipulations of glial cells, with the aim of developing new therapeutic strategies against epilepsy.