Marta Zlatic is a Group Leader and MRC Investigator in the Neurobiology Division at the LMB. She studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, followed by a Masters in Chemistry. She then completed her PhD in Developmental Neuroscience at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, with Professor Michael Bate. In October 2009, she started her own lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus, USA. She was appointed a Reader in Systems and Circuits Neuroscience in the University of Cambridge in 2017 and moved her research lab to the LMB in December 2019. In 2017 she was awarded the biennial FENS/Hertie Foundation Erick Kandel Young Neuroscientist prize. In 2020, she was elected to EMBO membership and awarded the Royal Society Francis Crick Medal and Lecture.

Marta’s lab is aiming to understand the relationship between the structure of the nervous system and its function, and to discover the basic principles by which neural circuits implement fundamental computations. Their focus is on the circuit basis of learning, predicting and decision making in the brain, using the Drosophilalarvae as a model system.