Johns Hopkins University. Photo: Art Anderson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johns_Hopkins%27_Historic_Dome_-_panoramio.jpg)
Johns Hopkins University. Photo: Art Anderson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johns_Hopkins%27_Historic_Dome_-_panoramio.jpg)
Luis Enrique Politi is an Argentine neurobiologist and cell biology educator whose research focuses on retinal photoreceptors and the role of docosahexaenoic acid in retinal development. Born in Buenos Aires in 1950, he trained in Argentina and the United States and has taught at the National University of the South in Bahía Blanca since 1998.
Background
Luis Enrique Politi was born on December 12, 1950, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Horacio Daniel Politi and Zulema Hena Daniele. Buenos Aires, the national capital, was the country's largest urban center and a principal seat of its universities and research institutions.
His formative years and scientific training unfolded in the Argentine university system, and his later career connected the national research council with institutions in Bahía Blanca, Baltimore, and Boston.
Education
Politi received his doctorate in biology from the National University of the South (Universidad Nacional del Sur) in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, in 1990. The university is a public institution in Bahía Blanca, a port city in Buenos Aires Province, and it has served as the academic base for much of his subsequent work.
His doctoral training in Bahía Blanca preceded his postdoctoral work abroad and his later appointment as a professor there. The university's biology program, within which he later taught cell biology and neurobiology, formed the academic setting for his research on the retina.
Career
Politi began his research career in Bahía Blanca as a research fellow with the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) from 1980 to 1985. CONICET, created in 1958, is Argentina's national council for scientific and technical research and provides research posts and fellowships to scientists in universities and institutes.
From 1985 to 1989 he was a research associate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Johns Hopkins is a private research university founded in 1876, and its laboratories were a major center of American biomedical research during this period.
He returned to Argentina as a postdoctoral fellow with CONICET in Buenos Aires from 1989 to 1991. He then spent 1991 and 1992 as a postdoctoral fellow at Children's Hospital in Boston, the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, which was founded in 1869.
From 1992 he worked as a researcher with CONICET in Bahía Blanca. His research there is associated with the joint institute of CONICET and the National University of the South, the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca (INIBIBB), where he is affiliated with the neurobiology department.
Since 1998 he has been a professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the National University of the South, combining university teaching with research in Bahía Blanca.
(Co-authored with Harmonie Agostina Vallese and published ...)
2020
book
Estructura y funciones de la membrana
(Co-authored with Nora Patricia Rotstein and published by ...)
2007
journal article
Damaging effects of BMAA on retina neurons and Müller glial cells
(Co-authored with Tamara Belen Soto, Edgardo David Buzzi, ...)
2020
Effect of GDNF on neuroblast proliferation and photoreceptor survival: additive protection with docosahexaenoic acid
(Co-authored with Nora Patricia Rotstein and Nestor Gabrie...)
2001
Docosahexaenoic acid promotes photoreceptor differentiation without altering Crx expression
(Co-authored with Andres Garelli and Nora Patricia Rotstei...)
2006
Effects of docosahexaenoic acid on retinal development: Cellular and molecular aspects
(Co-authored with Nora Patricia Rotstein and Nestor Gabrie...)
2001
Protective effect of docosahexaenoic acid on oxidative stress-induced apoptosis of retina photoreceptors
(Co-authored with Nora Patricia Rotstein, Olga Lorena Germ...)
2003
Docosahexaenoic acid is required for the survival of rat retinal photoreceptors in vitro
(Co-authored with Nora Patricia Rotstein, M. I. Aveldaño, ...)
1996
Membership
Politi is a member of the Argentinian Society Neurochemistry, a professional society devoted to neurochemistry, the study of the chemical processes that govern the nervous system. He is also a member of the International Society Eye Research, an international scientific society that brings together researchers working on the structure and function of the eye.
Argentinian Society Neurochemistry
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Argentina
International Society Eye Research
Connections
Politi married Monica Liliana Siccar on January 8, 1971. The marriage ended in divorce in August 1997. He married Nora Patricia Rotstein on September 10, 1998, and she has also co-authored several of his research papers on retinal photoreceptors.
He is the father of five children: Gimena, Pablo, Natalia, Emilio, and Julieta.
child:
Gimena Politi
child:
Pablo Politi
child:
Natalia Politi
child:
Emilio Politi
child:
Julieta Politi
Parent:
Horacio Daniel Politi
Parent:
Zulema Hena Daniele
Wife:
Monica Liliana Siccar
Marriage began on January 8, 1971, and ended in divorce in August 1997.
Wife:
Nora Patricia Rotstein
Marriage began on September 10, 1998. She is a co-author of several of his research papers on retinal photoreceptors.
References
CONICET Repository author profile
Author profile for Luis Enrique Politi in the CONICET institutional repository, listing his doctoral degree, workplaces, and co-authored articles.
