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.
Natalia Mesa
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The Transmitter
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Long-read sequencing unearths overlooked autism-linked variants
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Natalia Mesa
18 September 2025 | 6 min read
Autism-linked copy number variants always boost autism likelihood
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Natalia Mesa
4 September 2025 | 7 min listen
Poor image quality introduces systematic bias into large neuroimaging datasets
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Natalia Mesa
31 July 2025 | 7 min listen
Expanded view of hippocampal function comes into focus
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Natalia Mesa
24 June 2025 | 11 min listen
Newly awarded NIH grants for neuroscience lag 77 percent behind previous nine-year average
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Natalia Mesa
4 April 2025 | 5 min read
Education
- Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of Washington
- B.A. in biological sciences, Cornell University
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