Transitions in development - an interview with Giulia Quattrocolo
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Published on: June 8, 2018
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Giulia Quattrocolo is an Associate Professor at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway, where her group studies neural circuit development. Notably, Giulia's work is providing insight into the role of Cajal-Retzius cells, a transient population of cells that are present in the hippocampus during postnatal development. We met Giulia over Zoom to discuss her career path so far. She told us about how she first became interested in neural development, how she developed her research niche during her time in the USA, and her childhood ambitions to become a volcanologist.
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