Mauro Costa-Mattioli

Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Mauro Costa-Mattioli is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Director of the Memory and Brain Research Center (MBRC) at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) and PhD in microbiology from the University Nantes (France). He performed his postdoctoral training in neurobiology at McGill University (Canada).

His laboratory has produced several important contributions to the understanding of the neurobiological basis of memory formation. More recently, his laboratory has swift fields to study how our microbial communities affect behavior, physiology and brain health.

Mauro has won numerous awards, including the International Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology, the Searle Scholar Award, Whitehall Scholar Award, International Society for Neurochemistry’s Young Investigator Award and the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award. He holds the Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair in Neuroscience.