Schiller, Jackie (The Rappaport Institute) Cortical computations and dendritic processing

Janak, Patricia (Johns Hopkins) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of associative learning

Jeffery, Kate (UCL) Neural mechanisms of learning & memory and navigation

Ji, Na (UC Berkeley) Neural circuits for vision in rodents

Jones, Stephanie (Brown University) Circuit mechanisms underlying human attention, perception and disease states

Jones, Susan (University of Cambridge) Channel kinetics of reward circuits

Josselyn, Sheena (University of Toronto) Understanding how the brain encodes, stores, manipulates and extract information from memories

Jovanic, Tihana (Institut des Neurosciences Paris Saclay) Neural circuits underlying sensorimotor decisions and action sequences and their modulation by the context and internal state

Kaltschmidt, Julia (Stanford University) Neuronal circuitry underlying locomotion, sexual function and motility

Kastanenka, Ksenia (Harvard Medical School) Role neural activity plays in onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease

Kaun, Karla  (Brown University) Mechanisms of memory, reward and addiction in the fruit fly

Keck, Tara (UCL) Imaging plasticity and adaptation of circuits in vivo

Kiss, Zelma (University of Calgary) Deep brain stimulation mechanisms of action

Kozorovitskiy, Yevgenia (Northwestern) Decoding neuromodulation and neural circuit design principles

Kuhlman, Sandra (Carnegie Mellon) Modification of sensory-motor circuits during learning

Larsen, Camilla (King’s College London) Neural basis of chemotaxis

Lazar, Andreea (Ernst Strungmann Institute) Studying dynamics and plasticity in biological and artificial recurrent neural networks.

Lüthi, Anita (University of Lausanne (Switzerland)) Exploration of thalamocortical networks, brain oscillations and rhythms, sensory processing during sleep, manipulation of sleep and wake states

Lee, Seung-Hee (KAIST, South Korea) Sensory processing and behavioral state

Lee, Soohyun (NIMH, NIH) Functional neural circuits for sensation and action in somatosensory system

Lerner, Talia (Northwestern) Neuromodulatory circuits regulating reward learning and motivation

Levine, Ariel (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Spinal cord motor circuits and cell types

Liang, Liang (Yale University) Organization, function and development of mammalian visual circuits

Lim, Lynette (King’s College London) Interneuron cell-type specification and development

Lima, Susana (Champalimaud) Decision-making, olfaction in ethological behaviors

Lin, Dayu (NYU) Neural circuits underlying mating, fighting, defense, predation and parenting

Lin, Yingxi (MIT) Neural plasticity, circuits and memory

Maffei, Arianna (Stony Brook) homeostatic mechanisms in the visual system

Marder, Eve (Brandeis) How circuit function arises from the intrinsic properties of individual neurons and their connections

Marlin, Bianca Jones (Columbia University) Investigating transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and how traumatic experiences in parents affect the brain structure and behavior of their offspring

Marquez, Cristina (Institute of Neuroscience of Alicante) Social decision-making in rodents, neural circuits

Martelli, Carlotta (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Drosophila sensory systems

McConnell, Susan (Stanford) Development of neural circuits

McElligott, Zoe (UNC Chapel Hill) Studying circuits and plasticity that underlie the development and manifestation of psychiatric illness

Meredith, Andrea (U. Maryland Medical School) Ion channels, circadian rhythms in neuronal activity and circuits

Miguel-Aliaga, Irene (Imperial College London) Gut Signalling and Metabolism

Morales, Marisela (NIH) Neurobiology of reward processing and drug addiction.

Moser, May-Britt (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU) Memory and navigation. Entorhinal cortex and hippocampus

Moss, Cynthia (Hopkins) Auditory processing and sensorimotor integration in bats

Murthy, Mala (Princeton) Sensorimotor integration and social interactions in Drosophila

Nagel, Katherine (NYU) Olfactory navigation in Drosophila

Narayan, Manjari (Stanford University) Using high dimensional statistics & statistical causal inference to model functional connectivity

Nelson, Alexandra (UCSF) Cellular and circuit mechanisms of basal ganglia movement disorders

Nielsen, Kristina (Johns Hopkins) Neural circuits underlying object recognition

Ogando, Mora Belen (University of California Berkeley) Visual circuits plasticity and reconfiguration during perceptual learning, E/I microcircuits

Oostland, Marlies (Princeton University) Cerebellar circuit mechanisms in motor systems, learning and memory, and decision making

Oswald, Anne-Marie (University of Pittsburgh) Cortical circuits for sensory learning and memory

Circuits, systems, olfactory, sensory, synapses

Oviedo, Hysell (City College of New York) Function and dysfunction of auditory cortical circuits

Pakan, Janelle (DZNE Magdeburg) Understand how neural circuits function during the transformation of information from sensory perception to behavioral output

Pallas, Sarah (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Developmental Neurobiology of Mammalian Sensory Systems

Pastalkova, Eva (Janelia Farm) Hippocampal ensemble coding

Perrodin, Catherine (UCL) Neuronal substrates of auditory social communication

Prager-Khoutorsky, Masha (McGill University) Neurobiology of hypothalamic circuits controlling body fluid homeostasis

Preston, Alison (University of Texas) Memory formation and retrieval

Priesemann, Viola (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization) Network dynamics and function in vivo; analytical treatment of spatial subsampling constraints

Prinz, Astrid (Emory) Homeostatic regulation

Quattrocolo, Giulia (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience – NTNU) Development of the hippocampal circuit and of the hippocampal dependent behavior

Quilichini, Pascale (Marseille, France) Hippocampal neuronal networks & epilepsy (freely moving rodents)

Quinlan, Elizabeth (University of Maryland) Initiation, termination and reactivation of critical periods.

Rajasethupathy, Priya (Rockefeller) Neural circuits supporting memory and cognition

Raman, Indira (Northwestern University) Synaptic and biophysical mechanisms of cerebellar function

Raymond, Jennifer (Stanford) Neural circuits for motor learning in the cerebellum

Heather Read (U. Conn) Cortical and brainstem circuits for processing auditory inputs

Rennie, Katie (University of Colorado) Physiology of vestibular hair cells

Rezaval, Carolina (University of Birmingham, UK) Genetic and neural basis underlying behavior

Ribeiro M.A., Ines (Max Planck Institute Neurobiology, Germany) Neural basis for visually guided behavior in fruit flies.

Ribic, Adema (University of Virginia) Mechanisms of learning and activity-dependent circuit development

Rico, Beatriz (King’s College London) Neural circuit assembly and brain disorders

Rivlin, Michal (Weizmann Institute of Science) Visual processing in retinal circuits

Roberts, Angela (Uni. of Cambridge) Neural circuits underlying the regulation and dysregulation of positive and negative emotion

Rochefort, Nathalie (Edinburgh University) Cortical processing of visual information

Roe, Anna (Vanderbilt) Organization and connectivity of functional modules in the cerebral cortex

Role, Lorna (NIH NINDS) The role of cholinergic circuits in neuropsychiatric disease

Rolls, Asya (Israel Institute of Technology) Neuronal basis of brain-immune interactions

Ros, Hana (University College London) Neural circuits for sensory and motor processing in the cerebellum

Rouach, Nathalie (College de France) Role of glia and connexins in synaptic transmission and neuronal networks

Runyan, Caroline (University of Pittsburgh) Contextual modulation of coding in cortical circuits, focusing on neuromodulation, inhibition, and information flow between regions.

Ruta, Vanessa (Rockefeller) Neural circuits for sensory processing and learning

Sachse, Silke (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology) Olfactory coding and processing in Drosophila

Sahara, Setsuko (King’s College London) Development of the mammalian neocortex

Sanchez-Vives, Mavi (ICREA- Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona) Spontaneous emergent activity, slow oscillations, brain states, immersive virtual reality, body representation

Sani, Ilaria (The Rockefeller University) Neural basis of visual attention

Santacruz, Samantha (The University of Texas at Austin) Closed-loop neuromodulation and neurotherapeutic devices for investigating and modulating behaviors related to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Sara, Susan J (Collège de France) Neurobiology of memory with focus on the noradrenergic nucleus Locus Coeruleus. Off-line memory consolidation during sleep oscillations

Sargolini, Francesca (Aix-Maseille, France) Coding of spatial information in the hippocampal and entorhinal cortex.

Sarma, Sridevi (John’s Hopkins) Modeling, Estimation and Control in Neuroscience: Applications to Disease

Schiemann, Julia (Edinburgh) Modulation of Motor Output

Schmidt, Tiffany (Northwestern University) Mapping visual circuits from retinal function to visual behavior

Schnell, Bettina (Caesar/ Max Planck) Neurobiology of flight control in Drosophila

Scott, Kristin (UC. Berkeley) Neural circuits for taste recognition in drosophila

Sedigh-Sarvestani, Madineh(Penn) Thalamocortical circuits in vision

Sekuler, Allison (McMaster University) Visual and cognitive neuroscience

Sengupta, Piali (Brandeis) How chemicals and temperature translate into specific in behavior and development

Sereno, Anne (The University of Texas) Physiological mechanisms of attention and short-term memory

Shansky, Becca (Northeastern) Sex-specific mechanisms of stress-induced plasticity

Shrestha, Prerana (Stony Brook University) Protein synthesis dynamics in learned and innate emotional behaviors

Silies, Marion (European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen) Visual processing in Drosophila