Dr. De Marco is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. She earned her B.S. in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology from the University of Buenos Aires and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University. Her thesis, which she completed under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Jessell, focused on transcriptional programs controlling motor neuron development and muscle-nerve connectivity. During her postdoctoral studies in the Fishell lab at NYU Langone School of Medicine, she examined activity-dependent programs of brain development. In her own lab, Dr De Marco is investigating how inhibitory and excitatory neurons balance cortical activity during development. Using the mouse as a model system and, in collaborative efforts, translating these findings to the human brain, she developed in vivo approaches to study the impact of disease-relevant mutations on the assembly of cortical networks.