Affiliation: University of East London, London, U.K.

Dr Stefano Casalotti is an honorary lecturer at the University of East London and director of BiosearLab CIC. He completed his PhD in neuroscience in Professor Barnard’s lab at Imperial College London and MRC, Cambridge, UK. He progressed to a post-doc at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA before taking a lecturer position at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Returning to the UK, he taught at University College London, Birkbeck and University of East London. Dr. Casalotti is still associated with the University of East London, and has founded the community interest company BiosearLab which delivers R&D services to health providers and academic groups, while also providing training for bio-scientists. Stefano’s scientific interests within neuroscience have more recently focused on molecular mechanisms of alcohol-induced changes in gene expression and how they can be altered pharmacologically using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model organism.