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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Revealing how crabs make their escape
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28 August 2026 | 0 min watch
Discovering how butterflies choose their mate
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28 August 2026 | 0 min watch
Descobrindo como as borboletas escolhem seus parceiros
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28 August 2026 | 0 min watch
Identificando o que torna o canto de uma ave único
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28 August 2026 | 4 min read
Education
- Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of Washington
- B.A. in biological sciences, Cornell University
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