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

Aits, Sonja (Lund University) Combining artificial intelligence and biomedicine to study cell death and lysosome in neurological diseases and cancer

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

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

Aw, Sherry (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore) Circuit and molecular mechanisms that underlie movement dysfunctions using Drosophila disease models

Bagni, Claudia (Univ. Rome & Univ. Leuven) Synaptic plasticity and cancer in the context of intellectual disabilities

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

Bardet, Sylvia M (University of Limoges – CNRS) Cell biology and in vivo multiphoton microscopy and bioimaging applied to bio-electromagnetism

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

Bloom, Ona (Feinstein Institute Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell) Response to traumatic spinal cord injury in humans and animal models

Brennand, Kristen (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Stem cell models of Psychiatric disorders

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

Calakos, Nicole (Duke University) Synaptic plasticity mechanisms for adaptive & maladaptive behavior involving the basal ganglia

Carreira, Maria B (INDICASAT AIP) Biology of Alzheimer’s disease using cellular and animal models

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

Childress, Annarose (University of Pennsylvania) Neuroimaging of addiction

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

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

Duffell, Lynsey (UCL) Novel neuromodulatory therapies for humans with Spinal Cord Injury and activity-based therapies to promote recovery of function

Eggers, Erika (University of Arizona) Retinal circuitry modulation in response to changing light conditions and disease

Evans, Carys (University College London) Interventions in pathology and healthy ageing

Fitzgerald, Melinda (University of Western Australia) Mechanisms and treatment of neurotrauma

Fowler, Christie (UC Urvine) Neurobiological mechanisms underlying motivated behaviors and behavioral deficits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders

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

Gillan, Claire (Trinity College Dublin) Underlying biological mechanisms of mental health

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

Goel, Anubhuti (UCLA) Investigating circuit alterations responsible for learning impairments in mouse models of autism

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

Gunduz, Aysegul (University of Florida)  Neural correlates of behavior and information processing in electrocorticographic signals (ECoG) in humans

Hurd, Yasmin (UCLA) Cannabinoids and addiction

Kaczorowski, Catherine (The Jackson Laboratory) Mechanisms of resilience to disease

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

Knafo, Shira (The University of the Basque Country) Molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying social behavior, learning and memory, cognitive malfunction and cognitive enhancement

Kornysheva, Katja (Bangor University) Mechanisms of skilled motor perfomance

Lee, Virginia (U. Penn) disease proteins that form pathological inclusions in hereditary and sporadic neurodegenerative disease

London, Edythe (UCLA) Neuroimaging of exercise and addiction

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

Metz, Gerlinde Alexandra (University of Lethbridge) The influence of experience and environment on behavior and brain plasticity

Miller, Courtney (Scripps Research Institute) Therapeutic development of novel treatments for memory disorders

Mitchell, Cassie (Georgia Institute of Technology). Investigating pathology dynamics in disorders such as spinal cord injury, ALS, and Alzheimer’s Disease

Monteggia, Lisa (UT Southwestern) Synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders and treatments

Morgan, Jennifer (Marine Biological Laboratory) Synaptic mechanisms associated with neurodegenerative and regenerative processes

Morton, Jenny (Univ. of Cambridge) Genetic neurological disorders

Motanis, Helen (University of California, Los Angeles) Alterations of cortical neural dynamics in Fragile x syndrome.

Muldoon, Sarah Feldt (University at Buffalo – SUNY) Computational modeling and data analysis to understand the role of network organization in brain function

Murray, Jennifer (University of Guelph) Behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying interoceptive and motivational processing in addiction

Olson, Elizabeth (McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School) Decision-making, reward processing, and executive functioning in trauma and stress-related disorders including PTSD

Picciotto, Marina (Yale) The role of single molecules in both typical behaviors and those related to psychiatric illness

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

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

Ritter, Kerstin (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) Machine learning for neuroimaging-based disease decoding

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

Segal, Rosalind (Harvard) How growth factor signaling pathways regulate brain development

Siclari, Francesca (CHUV, Lausanne (Switzerland)) Sleep, dreams, consciousness, Sleep’s disorders

Sklar, Pamela (Mt. Sinai) Genetic causes of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Sodhi, Monsheel (Loyola University Chicago) Molecular basis of psychiatric disorders that increase the risk of suicide

Stensola, Hanne (Champalimaud, Lisbon) Entorhinal and hippocampal spatial cognition systems

Stevens, Beth (Harvard) Interactions between neurons and glia

Tan, Kelly (University of Basel (Switzerland)) Mechanisms underlying cellular, synaptic and circuit function in the basal ganglia that control motor actions

Ungerleider, Leslie (NIH) Neurocircuits for cognition

Vaidya, Vidita (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Neurocircuits regulating emotion

Volkow, Nora (National Institute on Drug Abuse) Neuroimaging of addiction, dopamine circuits

Zoghbi, Huda (Baylor College of Medicine) Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and Rett syndrome