Dr. Eloísa Herrera
Developmental Neurobiology, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, CSIC, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

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Eloisa Herrera has identified some of the molecules that control the growth and guidance of visual and spinal axons to establish synaptic connections on the correct side of the developing brain. Research carried out in Dr. Herrera´s lab on the determination of axonal laterality in the central nervous system has contributed to understand how bilateral symmetry emerged in evolution and to extend our poor knowledge about the regulatory mechanisms underlying axon guidance and targeting processes during the wiring of neural circuits. Dr. Herrera was a recipient of the Human Frontiers Career Development Award, she recently got the Alberto Sols Award and is currently an ERC-Consolidator Grant holder.