Maribel Patiño is a psychiatry resident in the research track at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She earned her M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience through the UCSD Medical Scientist Training program. She conducted her thesis research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies under the guidance of Edward Callaway. Through the BRAIN Initiative, she developed Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START), neurotechnology that integrates transcriptomics with viral tracing tools to study cortical connectivity at a more granular resolution. Patiño aims to combine her training in psychiatry and neuroscience to explore the biological foundations of psychiatric disorders. She co-administers the CoB-KIBM Scholars Program in collaboration with the UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, which offers a paid summer research experience to undergraduates from historically marginalized and excluded backgrounds in neuroscience.
Maribel Patiño
Psychiatry resident
University of California, San Diego
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Selected articles
- “ A trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students” | Nature Neuroscience
- “Transcriptomic cell type specificity of local cortical circuits” | Neuron
- “Postsynaptic cell type and synaptic distance do not determine efficiency of monosynaptic rabies virus spread measured at synaptic resolution” | eLife
- “Single-cell transcriptomic classification of rabies-infected cortical neurons” | PNAS
- “Bridging the gap: Advancing Latine representation in child and adolescent psychiatry amidst US demographic shifts” | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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