Natalia Mesa is a reporter for The Transmitter, covering funding trends, neurogenetics and neural coding. Before joining The Transmitter in 2025, she was a fellow at High Country News and freelanced for National Geographic, Science, The Scientist and elsewhere.
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Hippocampus builds reputation as ‘general-purpose statistical learning machine’
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Natalia Mesa
10 March 2026 | 5 min read
Single gene sways caregiving circuits, behavior in male mice
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Natalia Mesa
18 February 2026 | 6 min read
Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas
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Natalia Mesa
6 February 2026 | 5 min read
Cell atlas cracks open ‘black box’ of mammalian spinal cord development
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Natalia Mesa
3 February 2026 | 5 min read
Some facial expressions are less reflexive than previously thought
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Natalia Mesa
8 January 2026 | 5 min read
Education
- Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of Washington
- B.A. in biological sciences, Cornell University
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