Development, Wiring and Function of Cerebellar Circuits
News
2025
December 2025 — Our map of developing cerebellar connectivity is published in PNAS!
When, and to where, does the cerebellum first connect to the rest of the brain? In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Raquel Murcia-Ramón and colleagues reconstruct the full developmental trajectory of cerebellar output across the whole mouse brain — from the first axons leaving the cerebellum in the embryo, through a phase in which projections reach a far broader set of targets than they will ultimately keep, to the refined adult pattern. The resulting atlas defines the periods during which cerebellar connectivity is being built, and therefore the windows in which it is most open to disruption.
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September 2025 —We organized a cerebellum satellite symposium at SENC. We organized the satellite symposium "The Cerebellum: Neural Circuits, Pathology, and Emerging Therapeutic Pathways" at the 20th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, bringing together groups working on cerebellar circuits, cerebellar pathology and emerging therapeutic approaches.
July 2025-The lab at the Gordon Research Conference on the Cerebellum. Juan Antonio presented our work on the developmental mapping of cerebellar long-range connectivity at the Gordon Research Conference on the Cerebellum, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

Read the paper :
Murcia-Ramón R, Riva M, Muñoz-Cobos S, Arzalluz-Luque Á, Moreno-Bravo JA (2025). Brain-wide mapping of developmental trajectories of cerebellar efferent projections. PNAS 122(48):e2521091122
2022
Juan Antonio has become member of the “Teófilo Hernando” Forum of Young Researchers, organized by the Teófilo Hernando Foundation and the Royal National Academy of Medicine. Link

The Institute of Neurosciences from Alicante organizes the Brain Awareness Week 2022 in collaboration with the DANA Alliance, the Spanish Society of Neuroscience (SENC) and the Vice President for Research of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche for the promotion and dissemination of basic science of the Central Nervous System . Link

2021


Juan Antonio is awarded with the Olympus Prize for Young Researchers from the Spanish Society of Neuroscience (SENC). Link

Recipient of a SEJIGENT Grant (Excellent junior researchers in the valencian system) from the Generalitat Valenciana to study how local cerebellar circuits develop.
Interview with Juan Antonio Moreno Bravo.Cells & Development. Volume 167, September 2021, 203733. Link
2020

Recipient of a ERC Starting Grant to study the role of the cerebellum in the development of the cerebral cortex. Press release here

























