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Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D. is the Frederick P. Rose Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology at the Rockefeller University and Co-Director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior at Rockefeller. She has made landmark discoveries on the mechanisms underlying glial-guided migration, a critical process in brain histogenesis. Her lab discovered the Astrotactin gene family, which function as neuron-glial ligands in migration and are implicated in a broad range of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism and ADHD.  In recent work she developed robust protocols to differentiate the two principal human cerebellar neurons, Purkinje cells and granule cells from human pluripotent stem cells or patient-derived human induced pluripotent stem cells. To model cerebellar circuits, she has engineered a microfluidic system in which to culture purified human PCs or GCs in laminae that mimic the layered architecture of the cerebellar cortex.

Dr. Hatten received a B.A. from Hollins College, a Ph.D. from Princeton University and postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School.  Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Ralph W. Gerard Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for Neuroscience and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA, the National Academy of Medicine USA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.