Marco Tripodi gained his MSc and PhD at the University of Cambridge. During his PhD, under the supervision of Michael Bate, he characterised mechanisms of motor circuits assembly and the molecular underpinnings of activity-dependent dendritic remodelling. He was awarded an EMBO fellowship to work with Silvia Arber with a joint appointment at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. There Marco pioneered the development of novel viral strategies to visualise and manipulate neural circuits in vivo and characterised fundamental aspects of the spinal network controlling locomotion. He is currently a Senior MRC Principal Investigator at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. His lab studies circuit mechanisms underlying motor control and the link between motor and cognitive functions. Marco’s lab also continues to develop advanced methods to access, visualise and manipulate neural circuits in vivo. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2015 and subsequently an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2021.