Natalia Mesa.

Natalia Mesa

Reporter
The Transmitter

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.

From this contributor

A child sits at a table moving around small cutout drawings.
Spectrum

Genetic profiles separate early, late autism diagnoses

By Natalia Mesa
27 November 2025 | 5 min read
Kevin B Marvel.
Teaching

A change at the top of SfN as neuroscientists gather in San Diego

By Natalia Mesa
16 November 2025 | 6 min read
Illustration of coins falling through space.
Funding

Establishing a baseline: Trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024

By Natalia Mesa
15 November 2025 | 8 min read
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Funding

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

By Natalia Mesa
29 September 2025 | 4 min read
Research image visualizing genetic variation.
Spectrum

Long-read sequencing unearths overlooked autism-linked variants

By Natalia Mesa
18 September 2025 | 6 min read

Education

  • Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of Washington
  • B.A. in biological sciences, Cornell University

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