Postdoctoral fellow
Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and the Broad Institute
Kevin Mastro is a postdoctoral fellow jointly mentored by Bernardo Sabatini and Beth Stevens at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Broad Institute. His long-term goal is to understand how the brain and behavior change over the course of adolescence.
Mastro completed his B.S. in biological sciences and psychology at the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Barth uses learning tasks in mice as a tool to drive synaptic plasticity in the sensory cortex, hoping to unlock more general principles of how the cortex works.
Barth uses learning tasks in mice as a tool to drive synaptic plasticity in the sensory cortex, hoping to unlock more general principles of how the cortex works.
The approach uses a protein found in fruit flies to ferry the gene editor Cas9 into muscle cells.
The approach uses a protein found in fruit flies to ferry the gene editor Cas9 into muscle cells.
The CA3 region, long thought to have just one circuit, has two, sporting different wiring and functions, a new preprint suggests.
The CA3 region, long thought to have just one circuit, has two, sporting different wiring and functions, a new preprint suggests.