The people behind the papers – Carla Argañaraz, Tamara Adjimann and Mariano Soiza-Reilly

Serotonin neurons have been implicated in maladaptive neural mechanisms that could contribute to mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. In a new paper in Development, Mariano Soiza-Reilly and colleagues identify a key postnatal period when the synaptic inputs to serotonin neurons undergo profound refinement. We caught up with PhD students and co-first authors Carla Argañaraz and Tamara Adjimann, and corresponding author Mariano Soiza-Reilly, a group leader at the Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias in Buenos Aires, to find out more about their research.