Memory consolidation in the developing brain

Laura DeNardo is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; CA, USA). Her lab, which she has led for 5 years, brings together her PhD work on synaptic development and the mechanisms that govern wiring specificity, and her postdoc training on developing tools to examine the synaptic organization of neural circuits at the whole-brain level. DeNardo’s lab brings these two fields together, applying viral-genetic approaches for linking neural circuits and behavior to the developing brain. In this interview with Digital Editor Annie Coulson, DeNardo explains how she took a more holistic approach to the project they...