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In conversation with Andrea Volterra

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As part of our special issue focused on glia, we are having conversations with both established leaders in the field and those earlier in their careers to discuss how the field has evolved and where it is heading. Here, we speak with Andrea Volterra (visiting faculty at the Wyss Center and honorary professor at the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Lausanne, Switzerland), an astrocyte biologist, who dedicated his research career to uncovering astrocyte–synapse communications in physiology and disease, and a strong advocate of the Socratic method.

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Floriddia, E. In conversation with Andrea Volterra. Nat Neurosci 27, 1439–1443 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01721-4

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