Agrawal, Sweta (University of Washington) Neural circuits for limb proprioception

Ahmari, Susanne (U. Pittsburgh) Neural circuits underlying obsessive compulsive disorder

Al-Hasani, Ream (Washington University) Endogenous opioid circuits in motivated behaviors

Alhadeff, Amber (Monell Center and University of Pennsylvania) Neural control of motivated behavior, gut-brain signaling

Andreae, Laura (King’s College London) Neuronal circuit and synapse formation during development

Angelucci, Alessandra (University of Utah) Neuronal circuits that underlie visual perception

Aponte, Yeka (NIDA) Neuronal mechanisms regulating food reward and drug addiction.

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

Ayaz, Asli (Neuro-electronic research Flanders) Neural circuits of sensory-motor integration

Bagnall, Martha (Washington University) Organization and dynamic function of spinal circuits in zebrafish

Bagot, Rosemary (McGill University) Circuit and molecular mechanisms of altered brain function underlying depression

Baker, Christa (Princeton University) Neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication

Bargmann, Cori (Rockefeller, HHMI) Neural circuits for sensory processing in c elegans

Bastian, Amy (Kennedy Krieger/Johns Hopkins) Movement disorders following neurological damage in adults & children

Bellone, Camilla (University of Geneva) Neuronal circuits underlying social behaviour in physiological conditions and in psychiatric diseases

Ben-Tov, Mor (Duke University) Neural circuits for context-dependent song production in songbirds

Beyeler, Anna (Neurocentre Magendie – French NIH (INSERM)) Neural substrate of anxiety-related behaviors

Bizley, Jennifer (University College London) The neural basis of listening and auditory-visual integrations

Bloodgood, Brenda (UCSD) How neuronal computations change following an animal’s interactions with the environment

Borgland, Stephanie (Univ. of Calgary) Synaptic plasticity in circuits underlying motivated behaviour

Boulanger, Lisa (Princeton University) Immune proteins in the formation and function of neuronal connectivity

Briggs, Farran (University of Rochester Medical Center) Neural circuits of the early visual system

Brown, Jennifer  (UC Berkeley) Cortical circuits and computations underlying sensory perception

Brown, Solange (Johns Hopkins) Functional organization of cortical circuits

Brumback, Audrey (University of Texas at Austin) Understand how abnormal neuronal electrophysiology contributes to the cognitive symptoms of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism

Burwell, Rebecca (Brown University) Structure and function of the cortical regions that surround the hippocampus

Busse, Laura (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat Munchen) Modulation of neural circuits by cognitive factors

Butler, Samantha (UCLA) Development and regeneration of spinal cord Neural Circuitry

Cai, Denise (Mount Sinai) Cellular and circuit mechanisms for how memories change across time and experience; development of open-source tools and neurotechnology

Carcea, Ioana (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Neural substrates for social learning, the representation of social contexts and maternal behaviors

Card, Gwyneth (Janelia Farm) Drosophila sensorimotor integration

Cardin, Jessica (Yale) The role of interneurons in shaping cortical activity

Carey, Megan (Champalimaud) Cerebellar circuits: from synapses to behavior

Carlén, Marie (Karolinska Institutet) Map the structure and function of circuitry underlying cognition, and investigate how specific neuronal cell types underlie cognitive behavior

Carr, Catherine (University of Maryland) Sound localization circuits in birds and other reptilia, interaural time differences detection.

Chaudhri, Nadia (Concordia University) The neural basis of addiction and learning

Chiappe, Eugenia (Champalimaud) Drosophila sensorimotor integration

Churchland, Anne (UCLA) Neural circuits for sensory integration and decision-making

Clancy, Kelly (Univ. of Basel) Principles of biological information processing

Clark, Beverley (UCL) Neuronal integration and axonal signalling

Clopath, Claudia (Imperial College) Computational approaches to learning and memory

Clowney, Josie (University of Michigan) Development of random vs stochastic wiring in the fly olfactory system

Cossart, Rosa (INSERM, Aix-Marseille University) Functional organization of hippocampal circuits: shaping inhibitory circuits during development

Couzin-Fuchs, Einat (University of Konstanz) Sensory integration and decision making in insects

Cummings, Kirstie (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Cortical microcircuits underlying memory storage and expression

Dan, Yang (UC. Berkeley) How visual information is processed, encoded and shaped by experience

de Hoz, Livia (Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin) Role of subcortico-cortical loops in statistical learning.

de la Prida, Liset (Instituto Cajal CSIC) Hippocampal oscillations in health and disease

De Rubeis, Silvia (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)  Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders

de Vries, Saskia (Allan Institute) Function and computation in visual circuits

Delevich, Kristen (UC Berkeley) Value based decision making

DeNardo, Laura (UCLA) Cortical circuits underlying adaptive behaviors

Desrochers, Theresa  (Brown University) Neural basis of behavioral sequence learning and control in cortical and striatal circuits through integrated studies in humans and animals

Devineni, Anita (Columbia University) Using the taste system of Drosophila as a model of how flexible dynamics can link sensory stimuli to behavioral responses

Disney, Anita (Vanderbilt University) Neuromodulators in mammalian cortical circuits

Doig, Natalie (Oxford) Synaptic connectivity underlying basal ganglia function

Dreosti, Elena (UCL) Circuits underlying social behaviour in zebrafish

Du Lac, Sascha (Hopkins) Neural mechanisms of learning

Dudek, Serena (NIH) Synaptic plasticity and development

Dulac, Catherine (Harvard) Molecular and neuronal basis of innate social behaviors in mice

Ehrlich, Ingrid (University of Tuebingen) Cellular and synaptic basis of fear conditioning and extinction.

El-Shamayleh, Yasmine (Columbia University) Neural circuits for visual form processing in primates; optogenetics in primates

Engel, Tatiana (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Neural dynamics and computation in perception and cognition

Falkner, Annegret (Princeton) Social decision-making circuits in mice

Feller, Marla (UC. Berkeley) Mechanisms that guide assembly of neural circuits during development

Fernandez, Laura (University of Lausanne (Switzerland)) Sensory processing during the sleep-wake cycle, brain oscillations in thalamocortical and hippocampic networks, learning and memory during sleep

Fioravante, Diasynou (University of California, Davis) Neurophysiology of small neural networks for learning and memory

Fisher, Yvette (University of California Berkeley) Mechanisms and circuits of spatial navigation in fruit flies

Flagel, Shelly (University of Michigan) Neural circuitry underlying individual differences in reward learning and addiction liability

Fox, Jessica (Case Western) Quantitative behavioral approach to insect sensory systems

Galliano, Elisa (King’s College London/ Harvard University) Development, plasticity and learning in olfactory circuits

Garrison, Jennifer (Buck Institute for Research on Aging) Cellular and circuit mechanisms of neuromodulation in behavior

Geffen, Maria (U. Penn) A neural coding approach to audition

Gittis, Aryn (Carnegie Mellon) Neural circuits of the basal ganglia

Gjorgjieva, Julijana (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) Principles of neural coding and how synaptic plasticity shapes neural circuits

Glickfeld, Lindsey (Duke) Functional organization of visual cortex

Gogolla, Nadine (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology) Insular cortex circuit functions

Goodrich, Lisa (Harvard) Development of sensory circuits

Gore, Felicity (Stanford) Neural circuits mediating motivated behavior

Goshen, Inbal (The Hebrew University) Hippocampal neurons and glia in recent and remote memory

Gremel, Christina (University of California, San Diego) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of decision-making and alterations in addiction

Griffith, Leslie (Brandeis University) Cellular, genetic, biochemical and physiological processes that contribute to sleep and learning in Drosophila

Grunwald Kadow, Ilona (Technical University of Munich) Chemosensory processing and behavior in Drosophila

Gu, Xiaosi (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Modeling subjectivity in addiction and psychiatric disorders

Haas, Julie (Lehigh University) Electrical synapses in thalamic circuits

Hanganu-Opatz, Ileana (Hamburg-Eppendorf) Maturation of neuronal networks for sensation and cognition

Hartmann, Mitra  (Northwesteren) Active touch sensing and sensorimotor integration

Hasenstaub, Andrea (UCSF) Circuits and functional organization of auditory cortex

Heckscher, Ellie (University of Chicago) Development and Function of Neural Circuits in the Sensorimotor System

Heilbronner, Sarah (University of Minnesota) Using connectomics to understand the neural circuitry for motivation and decision-making

Hermundstad, Ann (Janelia Research Campus) Normative approaches to understand internal representations that link sensation and action

Heron, Rosalind (University of Glasgow) Neuronal function in relation to learning and memory, the regulation of fat metabolism, and recovery from peripheral nerve damage

Hidalgo, Alicia (University of Birmingham) Structural plasticity in the central nervous system, in health, in development, regeneration and repair

Hofer, Sonja (Basel) Neural circuits for perception and learning of visual information

Hoffman, Kari (Vanderbilt University) Neural mechanisms underlying perception and memory formation