Natalia de Marco

Postdoctoral associate
NYU Langone Medical Center

Natalia de Marco is a postdoctoral associate in Gordon Fishell’s laboratory at New York University Langone Medical Center in the departments of cell biology and neural science.

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A case for the importance of interneurons in autism

By Gordon Fishell, Natalia de Marco
22 November 2011 | 5 min read

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