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

Bales, Karen (UC Davis) Endocrinology and neurobiology of social bonding

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

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

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

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

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

Choi, Gloria (MIT) How olfactory stimuli guide social behavior

Crockett, Molly (Yale) Social decision-making in humans

den Ouden, Hanneke (Radboud University) (Mal)adaptive learning & decision-making

Donaldson, Zoe (University of Colorado Boulder) Neurobiology of attachment and response to social loss

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

Dudek, Serena (NIH) Synaptic plasticity and development

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

Eisenberger, Naomi (UCLA) Social connection and its mark on our minds, brains, and bodies

Farah, Martha (University of Pennsylvania) Effects of early experience (especially poverty) on brain development; also ethical, legal and societal implications of neuroscience

Friedman, Allyson (Hunter College, CUNY) Factors that alter neural circuit responses to influence stress susceptibility

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

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

Griffith, Leslie (Brandeis) locomotion, circadian rhythms, sleep and courtship 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

Hammock, Elizabeth (Florida State University) Neural mechanisms of infant attachment and its long term consequences

Hoekstra, Hopi (Harvard, HHMI) Genetics and evolution in wild mice

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

van Harmelen, Anne-Laura (Cambridge) Cognitive and neural consequences of adverse childhood experiences

Kimchi, Tali (Weizmann) Neural mechanisms that govern reproductive behavioral patterns and social interactions

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

Korsching, Sigrun I. (Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne) Sensation, perception and behavior in vertebrate olfaction

Lim, Miranda (OHSU) Translational research at the interface of sleep and neurological disorders

Lima, Susana (Champalimaud) How the brain controls key processes in sexual behaviour

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

Malavika, Murugan (Emory University) Neural mechanisms underlying social behavior

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

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

Martinowich, Keri (Lieber Institute/ Johns Hopkins) Molecular regulation of defined neural circuits during learning, memory, aggression, and social behavior

Mathur, Vani (Texas A& M University) Mechanisms of disparities in pain, social and cultural modulation of pain, pain neuroimaging

Mills, Kathryn (Univ of Oregon) Human brain development

Murray, Betsy (NIMH) neural basis of learning, memory, emotion and response selection

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

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

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

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

Sangha, Susan (Indiana University School of medicine) Neural circuitry of fear, safety and reward learning.

Scherf, Suzy (Penn State) Facial processing and development

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

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

Sliwa, Julia (ICM Paris) Neural mechanisms of social cognition and perception

Stowers, Lisa (Scripps) How environmental cues are detected and transformed into electrical activity in the brain to generate behavior

Sullivan, Regina (New York University Langone Medical Center) Neurobiology of infant attachment to caregiver and neural mechanisms of enduring mental health effects of abuse and trauma in early life

Theofanopoulou Constantina (Rockefeller University) Neurobiology of vocal learning

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

Viswanathan, Pooja (The Rockefeller University) Neuronal mechanisms of social memory

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

White, Stephanie A (UCLA) Social influence on learning using the learning of vocalizations in avian vocal learners as models

Woolley, Sarah (Columbia University) Sensory processing and social communication

Zelikowsky, Moriel (University of Utah) Neural circuits underlying stress, fear and social behavior