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 fragmenting cube hovers over a person reading a book.
Systems neuroscience Microphone

Error equation predicts brain’s ability to generalize

By Natalia Mesa
10 April 2026 | 5 min read
Digital model of a fly next to a digital model of a nematode.
Systems neuroscience

‘Digital sphinx’ raises questions about connectome models

By Natalia Mesa
2 April 2026 | 5 min read
Research image of a mouse hippocampus.
Memory Microphone

Hippocampus builds reputation as ‘general-purpose statistical learning machine’

By Natalia Mesa
10 March 2026 | 5 min read
Mouse father with pups.
Social behavior

Single gene sways caregiving circuits, behavior in male mice

By Natalia Mesa
18 February 2026 | 6 min read
Language-responsive regions light up in red on a series of brain scans.
Language Microphone

Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas

By Natalia Mesa
6 February 2026 | 5 min read

Education

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

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