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Allen, Annette (Univ. of Manchester) Visual processing in retina and thalamus

Avitan, Lilach (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The neural population codes in the zebrafish optic tectum

Ayash, Sarah (Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz) Mouse models of stress resilience

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

Babayan, Benedicte (Harvard) Decision-making in state uncertainty

Badura, Aleksandra (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) Cerebellar computation and autism

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

Barron, Helen (Oxford) Memory: hippocampal-neocortical interactions and inhibitory engrams

Batista-Brito, Renata (Yale) Interneuron development

Beck, Anne (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, CCM, Berlin) Neurobiological correlates of emotional, motivational and cognitive processes in psychiatric disorders

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

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

Bruno, Angie (Caltech) Characterization of neural population dynamics and connectivity in behavior-generating circuits

Charpentier, Caroline (Caltech) Neuro-computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making

Choi, Hannah (Univ. WA) Modeling in the ventral visual pathway

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

Cohen, Ali (NYU) How emotional learning, memory and underlying neural circuitry change from childhood to adulthood

Constantinescu, Alexa (Oxford) Organisation of abstract concepts in human brain

Constantinople, Christine (Princeton) Cortical circuits and behavior

deBettencourt, Megan (University of Chicago) Cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory

Delevich, Kristen (UC Berkeley) Value based decision making

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

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

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

Dyer, Eva(Northwestern) Large scale neuroanatomy and organization

Eissa, Tahra (University of Colorado Boulder) Mathematical models of decision-making

Gabard-Durnam, Laurel (Harvard) Development of amygdala and prefrontal cortex in humans

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

Garvert, Mona (Oxford) Learning, memory and decision making in the human brain

Gore, Felicity (Stanford) Neural circuits mediating motivated behavior

Gratton, Caterina (Northwestern) Large-scale brain networks, and their roles in attention and cognition

Hakimi, Shabnam (Duke University) Cognitive neuroscience of motivated learning and decision making with a focus on self regulation and behavior change

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

Holly, Elizabeth (University of Pennsylvania) Effects of stress on goal-directed behavior and decision-making and underlying neural circuits/systems

Holmes, Emma (UCL) Speech and voice perception, auditory attention, and computational cognitive neuroscience

Iacaruso, Florencia (Oxford) Synaptic organisation and visual perception

Igloi, Kinga (University of Geneva) Human Cognition- learning and memory

Jozwik, Kamila (Cambridge) Object recognition: computational modelling, brain representations and behaviour.

Klein-Flügge, Miriam (Oxford) Human decision making, learning and action planning

Leijon, Sara (Karolinska Institute) Sound processing in early auditory pathways

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

Maggi, Silvia (Univ. of Manchester) Network theory, modelling basal ganglia and cortical dynamics

Marciniak, Karolina (The Rockefeller University) The Neural Computations of Intuitive Physics

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

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

Mills, Kathryn (Univ of Oregon) Human brain development

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

Oganian, Yulia (University of California, San Francisco) Neurophysiology of speech/language processing and bilingualism

Olafsdottir, Freyja (UCL) Spatial Cognition in rodents

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

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

Piochon, Claire (Northwestern) Cerebellar plasticity and Motor learning

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)

Rajan, Kanaka (Princeton) Mathematical and computational frameworks to understand brain function

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

Sarvestani, Madineh (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Thalamocortical circuits, dynamics and visual processing

Saxena, Shreya (Columbia University) Estimation and Control for Neural Populations; Sensorimotor Control

Schiemann, Julia (Edinburgh) Modulation of Motor Output

Schiff, Hillary (Stony Brook University) Threat learning in amygdala and sensory circuits

Schroeder, Karen (Columbia University) Cortical neuroprosthetics; motor control and planning

Seaman, Kendra (Duke University) Intersections of learning, motivation, and decision making across the adult life span.

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

Semprini, Marianna (Italian Institute of Technology) Neuroprostheses, neural control of movement and high density electroencephalography.

Severi, Kristen (New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ, USA) Neural control of swimming speed in zebrafish

Song, Zhouyi (Univ. of Sheffield) Computational analysis of photoreceptors

Steinberg, Elizabeth (Stanford) Physiology and function of neural circuits for reinforcement learning

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

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

Suri, Sana (Oxford) Multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to study risk and resilience for cognitive decline in ageing

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

Thorn, Katy (Brown) Neural Mechanisms of neocortical rhythms

Trouche, Stephanie (Oxford) Neural circuits and mechanisms for spatio-contextual memories

Tschida, Katherine (Duke University) Neural circuits for the production of social vocalizations in the mouse

Vassena, Eliana (Radboud University) Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivation, decision-making, effort and cognitive control

Veit, Lena (UCSF) Context-dependent learning in songbirds

Vertes, Petra (Univ. of Cambridge) Network Science and brain mapping

Vijayakumar, Nandita (Univ. of Oregon) Brain development during adolescence

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

Zavitz, Elizabeth (Monash University) How spatial and temporal context impact population codes for vision