Marta Zlatic

Early life and education Zlatic is from Zagreb, Croatia. She has said that growing up she had excellent Latin and Greek teachers. She was awarded a full scholarship to study the Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge. During her summer holidays from Cambridge, Zlatic studied linguistics and Russian at the University of Zagreb. Alongside her studies, Zlatic was involved with the Cambridge theatre scene, taking part in Greek tragedies and Shakespeare's plays. At Janelia she learnt about the genetic tools used to manipulate the types of neurons in Drosophila. and studies the strengths of the connections between neurons that are structurally connected. By investigating the connectivity of these neurons it is hoped that these particular patterns could be associated with the formation of memories.

Awards and honours

2025: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2024: Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2020: Elected to EMBO Membership by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). 2020: Awarded the Crick Lecture by the Royal Society 2017 Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientist Prize 2004 Thomas Henry Huxley Award from the Zoological Society of London include: Labeling of active neural circuits in vivo with designed calcium integrators A multilevel multimodal circuit enhances action selection in Drosophila The complete connectome of a learning and memory centre in an insect brain

Personal life Zlatic is fluent in several languages, including Croatian, English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Ancient Greek, and Latin. Alongside her enthusiasm for languages and neuroscience, Zlatic is an actress. She is married to neuroscientist Albert Cardona.