Professor Oscar Marín FMedSci FRS

My lab investigates the development of the cerebral cortex in health and disease and our research largely focuses on cortical interneurons. The cerebral cortex is one of the most complex neuronal systems in the brain and much of this complexity emerges from interaction of two distinct neuronal types, glutamatergic projection neurons and GABAergic interneurons. We believe that our research may contribute to understanding the aetiology of some of the most devastating psychiatric disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia. I also lead the Department of Developmental Neurobiology and the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, which manages the MRC PhD Fellowship Programme. I regularly engage with the community outside science through media interviews and offering input to science policy and public awareness forums.

Please see my Research Staff Profile for more detail.

Find out more about my research:

• CDN - Oscar Marín
• Marín Lab

Key publications:

• Lim et al., 2018. Optimization of interneuron function by direct coupling of cell migration and axonal targeting programs. Nature Neuroscience.
• Wong et al., 2018. Pyramidal cell regulation of interneuron survival sculpts cortical networks. Nature.
• Mi et al., 2018.Early emergence of cortical interneuron diversity in the mouse embryo. Science.

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Key collaborators:

• Beatriz Rico, King’s College London
• Nenad Sestan, Yale University
• Declan Murphy, King’s College London
• Philip McGuire, King’s College London