Our lab investigates mechanisms of cerebral cortical development and related neurodevelopmental disorders

Joined September 2019
Our new paper is finally out!!! 🧠 DNMT1 links epigenetics to PV interneuron–glia crosstalk! Its loss in PV cells alters glial gene programs and disrupts cortical network synchrony and elicits depression like phenotypes! Thanks to all! nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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An excellent ALBA-IBRO @network_alba @IBROorg session on navigating non academic careers dke scientists at the Indian Academy of Sciences annual meeting @DBT_NBRC. @SmitaJainIISc @ParulSood05
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🧠 4-year, full-time funded PhD position at the @NeuroAlc to investigate how neural circuits underlying sex differences in adaptive behaviour develop. Join the @DelPino_lab and the DIFFER project! 📅 Deadline: 31 October 2026👇 in.umh-csic.es/es/ofertas/4-…
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Whiskers instead of cameras, lidar, GPS 🐭 @tudelft researchers built a 44g drone with touch sensors like a mouse's to map places where visual and radio signals aren't effective. The software requires only 34kB and keeps computational processing needs low.
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Why do neural networks become modular? Our paper is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence! @NaturePortfolio We show that multi-task learning promotes modularity under limited capacity and task demands help explain features of brain architecture in addition to the spatial constraints. Great thanks to all the co-authors. @WHYWYH007 @yifannnwu @DaniSBassett @marcelomattar rdcu.be/YJ12NBxvrHsa
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#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas
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📢Thrilled to announce that the 2nd piece of work from my postdoc at @Arlottalab is out in @Nature! This has been a huge co-lead effort with my friend @IreneFaravelli 👩‍🔬👩‍🔬🤝 Link: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… 👇🧵
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A couple of weeks ago, our paper on the developmental origins of cortical projection neurons was published in Science Advances 🧠 Very happy and proud to finally share this work! ✨ doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adw54…
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Big thanks to all co-authors and collaborators who contributed to this work 👏 @NietoLab @HippenmeyerLab @avillalre @garciamarquesJ Special thanks to the reviewers and the Science Advances team for their thoughtful feedback, which genuinely made the paper stronger!
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Un equipo del #CNB_CSIC revela que la corteza cerebral se desarrolla a partir de 2 linajes neuronales y no siguiendo un único programa secuencial También identifica un factor de transcripción que actúa como interruptor y decide qué neurona se producirá 👉f.mtr.cool/yzwtsypheq
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Como cada año, el IMI del CSIC muestra lo de siempre. La carrera investigadora está MUY mal planteada, es incompatible con la vida y las que primero lo sufren son las mujeres. Esto no se arregla con más financiación. Se arregla CAMBIANDO profundamente el sistema.
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Congratulations to our researcher @FelixFelxfel on receiving the FENS-EJN Early Career Investigator Prize 2026 at #FENS2026! 👏 Today, Félix also delivered a plenary lecture on the neural circuits regulating social preferences. Very well deserved! 🧠 @FENSorg
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🗣️Felix Leroy @FelixFelxfel , miembro de la #SENC e investigador del @NeuroAlc, imparte en #FENS2026 la EJN Special Feature Lecture “Neuronal circuits regulating social preferences”. 🧠La sesión aborda los circuitos neuronales que sustentan las preferencias sociales.
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🧠 Linbi Cai, investigadora del Brain Research Institute (HiFo) de la @UZH_en, ha recibido el premio Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award de @EraNeuron En su conferencia ha abordado cómo la quimiosensación nasal contribuye al desarrollo somatosensorial ¡Enhorabuena! 👏
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🔬🧠Apoyando a la próxima generación de neurocientífic@s en #FENS2026 La #SENC estuvo presente en la ceremonia con los ganadores del International #BrainBee World Championship, una iniciativa que promueve el interés por la #neurociencia entre estudiantes de todo el mundo 🎓
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🧠🎖️ Entrega de los SENC Ambassadors 2026 en #FENS2026 Una distinción que reconoce el liderazgo, el compromiso y la importante contribución a la proyección internacional de la #neurociencia española. ¡Enhorabuena y gracias!👏 #EmbajadoresSENC 🧵(1/3)
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More and better understanding on Cux functions.
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