Marta Zlatic

Dr. Marta Zlatic is a Principal Research Associate at the Department of Zoology, part of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She leads the Zlatic Lab, focusing on the structural and functional relationships within neural circuits.

Her research explores how nervous systems integrate sensory information and prior experiences to enable decision-making, emphasizing learning and memory, sensorimotor transformations, and connectomics. Using Drosophila melanogaster larvae as a model organism, her work combines optogenetics, electron microscopy, and functional imaging to decode circuit principles.

Recent publications highlight trends in connectome analysis and behavioural neuroscience, with subfields spanning synaptic architecture, neural network modeling, and genetic manipulation techniques. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams and maintains active research partnerships at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Group members include Bernd Breuer, Nicolo Ceffa, Michael Clayton, and other researchers advancing understanding of Drosophila neurobiology. The lab contributes to Cambridge's Athena Swan Bronze Award initiatives for equality and inclusion in research environments.