Maria Antonietta Tosches, Ph.D.

Tosches was born in Italy, where she studied biology. She earned her Ph.D. from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, working with Detlev Arendt on the early evolution of nervous systems. She was then a postdoc with Gilles Laurent at the Max Planck Institute in Germany before starting her lab at Columbia University in 2019. The Tosches lab studies brain evolution by comparing salamanders and other vertebrate species. She is an Allen Institute Next Generation Leader and a recipient of the McKnight Scholar Award, the Rita Allen Scholar Award and the CZI Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award.