Disease Mechanisms
Kaczorowski, Catherine
Kaczorowski, Catherine (The Jackson Laboratory) Mechanisms of resilience to disease
Ritter, Kerstin
Ritter, Kerstin (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) Machine learning for neuroimaging-based disease decoding
Vaidya, Vidita
Vaidya, Vidita (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Neurocircuits regulating emotion
De Rubeis, Silvia
De Rubeis, Silvia (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders
Motanis, Helen
Motanis, Helen (University of California, Los Angeles) Alterations of cortical neural dynamics in Fragile x syndrome.
Coulson, Elizabeth
Coulson, Elizabeth (University of Queensland) Loss of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and role of neurotrophins in the normal and pathological function of these neurons
Eggers, Erika
Eggers, Erika (University of Arizona) Retinal circuitry modulation in response to changing light conditions and disease
Kastanenka, Ksenia
Kastanenka, Ksenia (Harvard Medical School) Role neural activity plays in onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease
Garrido, Marta
Garrido, Marta (University of Melbourne) Brain’s circuitry underpinning the learning mechanisms that enable us to adapt to a novel environment and make predictions about future events
Olson, Elizabeth
Olson, Elizabeth (McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School) Decision-making, reward processing, and executive functioning in trauma and stress-related disorders including PTSD
Metz, Gerlinde Alexandra
Metz, Gerlinde Alexandra (University of Lethbridge) The influence of experience and environment on behavior and brain plasticity
Siclari, Francesca
Siclari, Francesca (CHUV, Lausanne (Switzerland)) Sleep, dreams, consciousness, Sleep’s disorders
Tan, Kelly
Tan, Kelly (University of Basel (Switzerland)) Mechanisms underlying cellular, synaptic and circuit function in the basal ganglia that control motor actions
Aits, Sonja
Aits, Sonja (Lund University) Combining artificial intelligence and biomedicine to study cell death and lysosome in neurological diseases and cancer
Evans, Carys
Evans, Carys (University College London) Interventions in pathology and healthy ageing
Aw, Sherry
Aw, Sherry (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore) Circuit and molecular mechanisms that underlie movement dysfunctions using Drosophila disease models
Prager-Khoutorsky, Masha
Prager-Khoutorsky, Masha (McGill University) Neurobiology of hypothalamic circuits controlling body fluid homeostasis
Bardet, Sylvia M
Bardet, Sylvia M (University of Limoges – CNRS) Cell biology and in vivo multiphoton microscopy and bioimaging applied to bio-electromagnetism
Sodhi, Monsheel
Sodhi, Monsheel (Loyola University Chicago) Molecular basis of psychiatric disorders that increase the risk of suicide
Cai, Denise
Cai, Denise (Mount Sinai) Cellular and circuit mechanisms for how memories change across time and experience; development of open-source tools and neurotechnology
Goel, Anubhuti
Goel, Anubhuti (UCLA) Investigating circuit alterations responsible for learning impairments in mouse models of autism
Arruda-Carvalho, Maithe
Arruda-Carvalho, Maithe (University of Toronto Scarborough) Understanding how the maturation of sensitive brain circuits underlies the emergence of complex behaviour and sensitivity to stress in mice
Bagot, Rosemary
Bagot, Rosemary (McGill University) Circuit and molecular mechanisms of altered brain function underlying depression
Murray, Jennifer
Murray, Jennifer (University of Guelph) Behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying interoceptive and motivational processing in addiction
Bloom, Ona
Bloom, Ona (Feinstein Institute Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell) Response to traumatic spinal cord injury in humans and animal models
Morgan, Jennifer
Morgan, Jennifer (Marine Biological Laboratory) Synaptic mechanisms associated with neurodegenerative and regenerative processes
Chaudhri, Nadia
Chaudhri, Nadia (Concordia University) The neural basis of addiction and learning
Muldoon, Sarah Feldt
Muldoon, Sarah Feldt (University at Buffalo – SUNY) Computational modeling and data analysis to understand the role of network organization in brain function
Monteggia, Lisa
Monteggia, Lisa (UT Southwestern) Synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders and treatments
Childress, Annarose
Childress, Annarose (University of Pennsylvania) Neuroimaging of addiction
Andreae, Laura
Andreae, Laura (King’s College London) Neuronal circuit and synapse formation during development
Carreira, Maria B
Carreira, Maria B (INDICASAT AIP) Biology of Alzheimer’s disease using cellular and animal models
de la Prida, Liset
de la Prida, Liset (Instituto Cajal CSIC) Hippocampal oscillations in health and disease
Gee, Dylan
Calakos, Nicole
Calakos, Nicole (Duke University) Synaptic plasticity mechanisms for adaptive & maladaptive behavior involving the basal ganglia
Singer, Annabelle
Mitchell, Cassie
Mitchell, Cassie (Georgia Institute of Technology). Investigating pathology dynamics in disorders such as spinal cord injury, ALS, and Alzheimer’s Disease
Parker, Krystal
Gunduz, Aysegul
Gunduz, Aysegul (University of Florida) Neural correlates of behavior and information processing in electrocorticographic signals (ECoG) in humans
Kornysheva, Katja
Kornysheva, Katja (Bangor University) Mechanisms of skilled motor perfomance
Sadri-Vakili, Ghazaleh
Miller, Courtney
Miller, Courtney (Scripps Research Institute) Therapeutic development of novel treatments for memory disorders
Fowler, Christie
Fowler, Christie (UC Urvine) Neurobiological mechanisms underlying motivated behaviors and behavioral deficits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders
Duffell, Lynsey
Duffell, Lynsey (UCL) Novel neuromodulatory therapies for humans with Spinal Cord Injury and activity-based therapies to promote recovery of function
Schwarz, Lindsay
Stensola, Hanne
Stensola, Hanne (Champalimaud, Lisbon) Entorhinal and hippocampal spatial cognition systems
Gillan, Claire
Gillan, Claire (Trinity College Dublin) Underlying biological mechanisms of mental health
Gittis, Aryn
Gittis, Aryn (Carnegie Mellon) Neural circuits of the basal ganglia
Fitzgerald, Melinda
Fitzgerald, Melinda (University of Western Australia) Mechanisms and treatment of neurotrauma
Rico, Beatriz
Rico, Beatriz (King’s College London) Neural circuit assembly and brain disorders
Rolls, Asya
Rolls, Asya (Israel Institute of Technology) Neuronal basis of brain-immune interactions
Brennand, Kristen
Brennand, Kristen (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Stem cell models of Psychiatric disorders
Ahmari, Susanne
Ahmari, Susanne (U. Pittsburgh) Neural circuits underlying obsessive compulsive disorder
Picciotto, Marina
Picciotto, Marina (Yale) The role of single molecules in both typical behaviors and those related to psychiatric illness
Lee, Virginia
Lee, Virginia (U. Penn) disease proteins that form pathological inclusions in hereditary and sporadic neurodegenerative disease
Sklar, Pamela
Sklar, Pamela (Mt. Sinai) Genetic causes of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Segal, Rosalind
Segal, Rosalind (Harvard) How growth factor signaling pathways regulate brain development
Bagni, Claudia
Bagni, Claudia (Univ. Rome & Univ. Leuven) Synaptic plasticity and cancer in the context of intellectual disabilities
Zoghbi, Huda
Zoghbi, Huda (Baylor College of Medicine) Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and Rett syndrome
Bastian, Amy
Bastian, Amy (Kennedy Krieger/Johns Hopkins) Movement disorders following neurological damage in adults & children
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