Career
Postdoc, University of Regensburg, Germany, 2024- present (Chang lab)
Postdoc, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Germany, 2023-24 (Cai lab)
Dr. Rer. Nat., Neurobiology, LMU & MPI of Neurobiology, Germany, 2022 (Klein lab)
Research internship, EMBL, Italy, 2015-16 (Heppenstall lab)
MSc, Molecular & Industrial Biotechnology, University of Pisa, 2015
BSc, Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, 2012
Talks and seminars
2023 GRS Amygdala function in emotion, cognition and disease, Barcelona, Spain
"A role for neurons in the medial division of the central amygdala in appetitive behaviours"
2019 Inscopix User Group Meeting Europe, Paris, France
"A central amygdala circuit influences learning of appetitive environmental cues"
2019 Noldus User Meeting, Augsburg, Germany
"Recording Central Amygdala neuronal calcium activity during conditioned place preference"
2019 FAPESP-BAYLAT Workshop II on Neural basis of stress, fear and anxiety, Munich, Germany
"An intersectional approach to investigate the roles of central amygdala Htr2a-positive neurons in appetitive behaviours"
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Fermani F, Peters C, Gaitanos L, Alcala Morales P.L, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Klein R. A role for neurons of the medial division of the central amygdala in appetitive behaviours.
GRC Exploring the amygdala in pathology and physiology, 2023, Barcelona, Spain
Fermani F, Peters C, Gaitanos L, Alcala Morales P.L, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Klein R. A role for neurons in the medial division of the central amygdala in appetitive behaviours.
FENS, 2022, Paris, France
Fermani F, Peters C, Gaitanos L, Alcala Morales P.L, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Klein R. A role for neurons in the lateral and medial divisions of the central amygdala in appetitive behaviours.
3rd Munich winter conference on stress, 2022, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Fermani F, Peters C, Gaitanos L, Alcala Morales P.L , Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Klein R. A role for neurons of the medial division of the central amygdala in appetitive behaviours.
EBBS, 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fermani F, Alcala Morales P.L, Klein R. An intersectional approach to investigate the roles of central amygdala Htr2a-positive neurons in appetitive behaviours.
SFN Neuroscience 2018, San Diego, USA
Fermani F, Alcala Morales P.L, Klein R. The emotional amygdala: involvement in appetitive and aversive behaviour. FAPESP-BAYLAT Workshop on Neural basis of stress, fear and anxiety, 2018, Ribeirao Preto, Brasil
PUBLICATIONS
Christian Peters, Songwei He, Federica Fermani, Hansol Lim, Christian Mayer, Rüdiger Klein. Transcriptomics reveals amygdala neuron regulation by fasting and ghrelin thereby promoting feeding. Science Advances. 2023 May 24;9(21):eadf6521. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf6521. Epub 2023 May 24. PMID: 37224253
Simon Chang, Federica Fermani, Chu-Lan Lao, Lianyun Huang, Mira Jakovcevski, Rossella Di Giaimo, Miriam Gagliardi, Danusa Menegaz, Alexander Adrian Hennrich, Michael Ziller, Matthias Eder, Rüdiger Klein, Na Cai, Jan M. Deussing. Tripartite extended amygdala - basal ganglia CRH circuit drives arousal and avoidance behaviour. Science Advances. 2022 Nov 18;8(46):eabo1023. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abo1023. Epub 2022 Nov 16.PMID: 36383658
Marion Ponserre*, Federica Fermani*, Louise Gaitanos, Rüdiger Klein. Encoding of environmental cues in central amygdala neurons during foraging. Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1791-21.2022
*Co-first author
Ponserre M, Peters C, Fermani F, Conzelmann KK, Klein R. The Insula Cortex Contacts Distinct Output Streams of the Central Amygdala. J Neurosci. 2020 Nov 11;40(46):8870-8882. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0567-20.2020. Epub 2020 Oct 13.PMID: 33051345
Morley SJ, Qi Y, Iovino L, Andolfi L, Guo D, Kalebic N, Castaldi L, Tischer C, Portulano C, Bolasco G, Shirlekar K, Fusco CM, Asaro A, Fermani F, Sundukova M, Matti U, Reymond L, De Ninno A, Businaro L, Johnsson K, Lazzarino M, Ries J, Schwab Y, Hu J, Heppenstall PA. Acetylated tubulin is essential for touch sensation in mice. Elife 2016 Dec 13;5:e20813. doi:10.7554/eLife.20813.PMID: 27976998