Marta Zlatić studies how neural circuits generate behaviour. She grew up in Croatia and after receiving a full scholarship from Trinity College, moved to Cambridge University to read Natural Sciences. After doctoral and post-doctoral training at Cambridge, she established her own lab at HHMI Janelia Research Campus. In 2019 she relocated back to Cambridge, as a Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, a Director of Research at the Department of Zoology, and a Fellow of Trinity College.
Marta has pioneered brain-wide mapping of synaptic-resolution architecture of neural circuits in the tractable Drosophila larva and combined it with the analysis of neural activity and behaviour to provide fundamental insights into nervous system development and function. She has made important discoveries of the mechanisms by which sensory information is processed, actions are selected, and learning is implemented in the brain.
Marta is EMBO member and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She was awarded the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientist Prize 2017 and the Royal Society Francis Crick Medal 2020.
Professional position
- Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Director of Research, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
- Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Awards
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Francis Crick Medal and Lecture
For discovering how neural circuits generate behaviour by developing and disseminating definitive techniques, and by discovering fundamental principles governing circuit development and function.
