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  • WHERE I WORK

Orderly desk, orderly mind

Carla Shatz stays organized to help her spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves.
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Dr Carla Shatz, Neuroscientist at Stanford University, California, in her office

Carla Shatz is a biologist and neurobiologist and director of the Stanford Bio-X interdisciplinary centre at Stanford University in California. Credit: Gabriela Hasbun for Nature

This office is my hut, where I do lots of brainstorming to go over laboratory members’ experiments and results. It’s where ideas get put into action or put down onto paper. People say it’s cosy.

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Nature 577, 442 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00063-y

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