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Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD
Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD
    Dr Cirelli is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. Chiara Cirelli received her medical degree at the University of Pisa, Italy. She obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, in Pisa, Italy. Her thesis focused on the molecular changes in gene expression occurring in the brain across sleep and wakefulness. From 1994 to 2000 she was a Fellow of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. She is currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she moved in 2001. The research in Dr. Cirelli’s laboratory aims at understanding the function of sleep and clarifying the functional consequences of sleep loss. Her team uses a combination of different approaches, from genetics in fruit flies to whole-genome expression profiling in invertebrates and mammals, to behavioral and EEG analysis in mice and rats.
    Schedule28 Mar 2024