Contact Information

phone: 212-263-7693

Email: demarn02@med.nyu.edu

Title: Postdoc

Education and Training

2007-Present    Postdoctoral fellow at NYU. Smilow Neuroscience Program.

1999-2007    Ph.D in the lab of Thomas Jessell, Columbia University. GS AS.  PhD Thesis title: “Determinants of motor neuron-muscle connectivity in the developing limb”

1993-1999                B.S. in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Current Work

Recent experimental evidence suggests that patterned neuronal activity acts together with transcriptional programs to regulate the assembly of neuronal circuits during development.  As a postdoctoral fellow in the Fishell lab, I plan to explore the role of activity in determining aspects of connectivity.  In particular, I will assess in vivo the role of neuronal activity in the establishment of morphology, laminar targeting and synapse formation of GABAergic interneurons.