Degree Course in Veterinary Medicine

Adalberto MERIGHI graduated (with honors) at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Turin, IT. He obtained a M.Phil. (Histochemistry and Cytochemistry) at the University of Pavia (IT) and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Royal Post-graduate Medical School of the University of London, UK. He was then a Research Fellow in Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School of Boston, USA, being awarded an International Research Fellowship from the Fogarty International Center — NIH, USA. He his now  Full Professor of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Turin. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Paris VI, Paris, FR, and Special Volunteer at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, USA.

His main research interests concern the processing of nociceptive information in the spinal cord and the regulation of cell proliferation and death during post-natal development of central neurons.

In the past years he has also been involved in management and organization of research and evaluation procedures at the University of Turin, as the Head of the Department of Veterinary Morphophysiology, Chairman of the Research Committee of the University Senate, and Deputy Rector for Research of the University of Turin.

In the years 2012-2015 has served as the President of the Italian Association of the Veterinary Morphologists, the scientific society of the scholars of anatomy, histology and embryology of the Italian Universities.

• Neuroanatomia funzionale delle vie nocicettive spinali
• Meccanismi cellulari e molecolari della morte neuronale spontanea
• Neurotrasmettitori centrali di tipo non convenzionale: neuropeptidi e fattori trofici
• Sviluppo di metodiche di analisi morfostrutturale per lo studio del sistema nervoso centrale

• Functional neuroanatomy of spinal nociceptive pathways
• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of naturally-occuring neuronal death
• Transmitter function of neuropeptides and growth factors in central neurons
• Development of morphostructural methods for circuit analysis in CNS