Calli McMurray.

Calli McMurray

Senior reporter
The Transmitter

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Calli McMurray is senior reporter at The Transmitter, where she covers research integrity, brain-body physiology and unique animal models. She also reports on structural and regulatory issues that affect research.

Before joining The Transmitter in 2024, she interned at The Chronicle of Higher Education and freelanced for STAT, The Texas Observer, KFF Health News and elsewhere.

From this contributor

Barbara Finlay looking at a glass jar with a brain.
Evolution

Remembering Barbara Finlay, ‘maverick’ of evolutionary neuroscience

By Calli McMurray
23 October 2026 | 8 min read
Illustrated collage of a monkey profile, a gloved hand holding a vaccine syringe touching an outline of the United States with two primates sitting near it, a strand of DNA, and flags of the United States and China in the background.
What if nonhuman primate research goes away?

U.S. national primate research centers face an uncertain future

By Calli McMurray
9 October 2026 | 12 min read
Davi Bock standing in front of a poster showing visualizations of connectomes.
Connectome

Beyond wiring diagrams: Inside a $19 million effort to expand access to connectome technology

By Calli McMurray
6 October 2026 | 11 min read
Headshots of Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel.
Optogenetics

How Nobel Prize-winning optogenetics has revolutionized neuroscience

By Claudia López Lloreda, Calli McMurray, Natalia Mesa, Madeline Shaw
5 October 2026 | 11 min read
Illustration of pipa frog showing nerves in fingertips.
Neuro’s ark Microphone

How the pipa frog hunts prey by touch

By Calli McMurray
30 September 2026 | 7 min read

Education

  • M.A. in science journalism, New York University
  • B.S. in neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin

Articles

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