Lorraine Franco

She trained as a biologist at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (FCEyN) of the UBA, completed her PhD at the Laboratory of Physiology and Molecular Biology of the FCEyN and a first postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Neurobiology of the Institute of Neurosciences, CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. She then completed a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics at the Leloir Institute, studying mechanisms of neuronal degeneration in both mice and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Since 2017 she has been a researcher at the Department of Medical Physics. Her current interest is studying neural circuits involved in the control of different rhythmic behaviors (such as locomotor activity and oviposition) at the molecular and circuit level.