About: Elisa Martí

Biography:

Elisa Martí is the head of the “Development of the Spinal Cord in health and disease” group at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC). She initiated her carrier in the field of Developmental Neurobiology as a doctorate student at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS), London University and the University of La Laguna, Spain, were she set the grounds to identify patterns, conserved along evolution, for the generation of cell diversity in the developing Spinal Cord. During her postdoctoral training at Harvard University, she established the role of Sonic Hedgehog in the generation of cell diversity in the developing nervous system. After a second postdoctoral period at the Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, she established her independent research group in Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) in 2001, were she is currently a CSIC Research Professor.

Website:

http://www.ibmb.csic.es/