{"id":109,"date":"2017-09-01T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/?p=109"},"modified":"2020-11-24T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:30:58","slug":"marco-tripodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/2017\/09\/01\/marco-tripodi\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Tripodi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main aim of my research is to understand how the brain encodes movements. Motor control has been the main theme of my career, I probably belong to the class of those that Daniel Wolpert would define as motor chauvinist &#8211; proudly so. I graduated in Italy for my BSc, I then moved to Cambridge for my MSc and PhD, where I was lucky to be accepted into the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Biomedical-science\/Funding-schemes\/Strategic-awards-and-initiatives\/wtx058687.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Trust Four-year PhD programme<\/a>. I graduated under the supervision of\u00a0Michael Bate\u00a0studying motor circuits assembly in Drosophila. After that I became an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.embo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMBO<\/a>\u00a0fellow in the lab of Silvia Arber in Switzerland. In those years I implemented viral strategies to visualise and manipulate motor circuits in vivo. In the autumn of 2013 I became junior group leader at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main aim of my research is to understand how the brain encodes movements. Motor control has been the main theme of my career, I probably belong to the class of those that Daniel Wolpert would define as motor chauvinist &#8211; proudly so. I graduated in Italy for my BSc, I then moved to Cambridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/Tripodi.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/Tripodi.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/tripodi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}