The author of the prize-winning essay, Mauro Costa-Mattioli, received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1998, he moved to France, where he received his master's degree (diplome universitaire) from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nantes under the supervision of Sylviane Billaudel. In 2002, he joined the laboratory of Nahum Sonenberg at McGill University, Montreal, as a postdoctoral fellow. His work defined the role of trans-lational (protein synthesis) control in long-lasting synaptic plasticity and memory formation. In the summer of 2008, he joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as an assistant professor of neuroscience.
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