Alberini, Cristina (NYU) Molecular mechanisms of Long-term memory

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

Batista-Brito, Renata (Yale) Interneuron development

Bautista Diana (UC Berkeley) Mechanisms of touch, pain and itch

Blackwell, Kim (George Mason University) Signaling pathways involved in long term memory

Bobeck, Erin (Utah State University) Molecular mechanisms of pain and opioid addiction

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

Bradshaw, Heather (Indiana University) Cannabinoid-related lipid signaling in the CNS

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

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

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

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

Creed, Meaghan (University of Maryland) Synaptic transmission and plasticity in the reward system

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

DeNardo, Lara (Stanford) Role of prefrontal cortex in remote fear memory retrieval; circuit mapping tools

Dona, Erika (MRC LMB, Cambridge) Developmental genetic basis and behavioural significance of sexually dimorphic circuits

Dudek, Serena (NIH) Synaptic plasticity and development

Dus, Monica (University of Michigan) Neuroepigenetics of feeding circuits in Drosophila

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

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

Gall, Christine (UC Irvine) Neuroplasticity and neuronal survival

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

Giocomo, Lisa (Stanford University) Neural representations of spatial memory and navigation

Goodman, Miriam (Stanford) Sensory mechanotransduction and thermotransduction in C.elegans

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

Grissom, Nicola (University of Minnesota) Molecular mechanisms underlying decision making

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

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

Houart, Corinne (King’s College London) Comparative studies of CNS development

Hurd, Yasmin (UCLA) Cannabinoids and addiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pedarzani, Paola (UCL) Ion channels and the regulation of membrane excitability and firing properties of neurones

Polter, Abigail (George Washington University) Synaptic and peptidergic regulation of monoamine circuits

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

Regev, Aviv (MIT & Broad Institute) Biological circuits, gene regulation, and evolution

Riabinina, Olena (Univ. of Manchester) Insect sensory neuroscience and genetics

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

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

Sivilotti, Lucia (UCL) Single-molecule function of ion channels in the nicotinic superfamily

Skinner, Frances (Krembil Research Institute and Univ Toronto) Modeling cellular-based hippocampal activities

Sousa-Nunes, Rita (King’s College London) Neurogenesis and cancer

Stern, Sarah (Rockefeller University) Regulation of innate behaviors by learning

Sylwestrak, Emily (Stanford) High-throughput molecular phenotyping of brain tissue

Takehara-Nishiuchi, Kaori (University of Toronto) Physiological mechanisms underlying memory

Tong, Michelle (Earlham College) Molecular mechanisms of olfactory memory

Tronson, Natalie (Univ. of Michigan)  Molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory

Venton, Jill (University of Virginia) Neurotransmitter dynamics in rodents and Drosophila

Wefelmeyer, Winnie (King’s College London) Homeostatic plasticity; Axon Initial Segment regulation

Williams, Megan (University of Utah) The role of selective cell adhesion in synapse formation and function