Flaminio (Sam) Glaubitz joined the Optogenetics and Neuromodulation Core in February 2025. Having received a B.A. in Psychology from Carleton College, he joined the Mouse Behavior Core in the Institute for Translational Neuroscience in June, 2024. He works with Dr. Erin Lind, PhD to develop, integrate, and expand optogenetics, fiber photometry, and behavior equipment, tools, and approaches so interested labs on campus can perform real-time brain imaging and manipulation of targeted cell populations while simultaneously conducting behavioral experiment to assess a wide array of functional outcomes. As Sam works concurrently for the Mouse Behavior Core, he also provides training for and performs a variety of neuromotor and cognitive assays, and assists in transgenic mouse colony maintenance. Prior to working at UMN, he was involved in research on neurodegenerative disease in aging primates at Carleton College, with a particular focus on how Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Lobar Dementia (FTLD) differ from typical aging, and how these diseases present similarly and differently in non-human primates vs. humans.
