Abdeladim, Lamiae (UC Berkeley) Advanced multiphoton imaging and photostimulation techniques. Neural basis of visual perception.

Ahmed, Alaa (Univ. of Colorado) Neural and computational mechanisms of motor learning and decision making

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

Angelaki, Dora (Baylor College of Medicine) Multisensory integration for navigation

Angelucci, Alessandra (University of Utah) Neuronal circuits that underlie visual perception

Arber, Silvia (FMI and Biozentrum Switzerland) Function and assembly of neuronal circuits controlling motor behavior

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

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

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

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

Barkai, Naama (Haifa) Genetic regulation in cell populations; network adaptation

Barnes, Carol (University of Arizona) Hippocampus and spatial learning/memory

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

Bassett, Danielle (U. Penn) Understanding biological systems by using and developing tools from network science and complex systems theory

Basso, Michele (UCLA) Vision, sensorimotor integration

Bastian, Amy (Kennedy Krieger/Johns Hopkins) Movement disorders following neurological damage in adults & children

Behnia,Rudy (Columbia University Zuckerman Institute) Neuronal processing underlying two key modalities of visual processing: color discrimination and motion detection

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

Blakemore, Sarah Jayne (UCL) Using fMRI to understand decisions in adolescence

Bloodgood, Brenda (UCSD) How neuronal computations change following an animal’s interactions with the environment

Booth, Victoria (University of Michigan) Computational modeling to understand neuromodulation of neural circuit dynamics and neural control of sleep-wake states

Branson, Kristin (HHMI Janelia) Developing machine vision and learning technologies to extract scientific understanding from large image data sets

Briggs, Farran (University of Rochester Medical Center) Neural circuits of the early visual system

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

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

Buffalo, Beth (U. Washington) Neural mechanisms of learning and memory

Busse, Laura (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat Munchen) Modulation of neural circuits by cognitive factors

Cacucci, Francesca (UCL) The neural basis of spatial cognition, learning and memory

Card, Gwyneth (Janelia Farm) Drosophila sensorimotor integration

Cardin, Jessica (Yale) The role of interneurons in shaping cortical activity

Carey, Megan (Champalimaud) Cerebellar circuits: from synapses to behavior

Carlen, Marie (Karolinska Institute) Synchronous brain activity in the Prefrontal cortex

Carney, Laurel (Rochester) Neural mechanisms underlying the perception of complex sounds

Cayco Gajic, N Alex (Ecole Normale Superieure) Modelling circuits underlying cerebellar representations of sensorimotor behaviours

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

Chestek, Cindy (Uni of Michigan) Development of brain machine interface (BMI) systems using 100 channel arrays implanted in motor and premotor cortex

Churchland, Anne (UCLA) Neural circuits for sensory integration and decision-making

Wyart, Claire (ICM, Paris) Understanding how specific spinal cord circuits are recruited to produce movements

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

Cohen, Marlene (Pittsburgh) Multi-neuron recording to connect neural activity with behavior

Collins, Anne (UC Berkeley) Human learning, decision-making and executive functions

Cowell, Rosie (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Neural mechanisms of memory and vision; computational modelling, fMRI, behavioral studies

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

Cullen, Kathy (Johns Hopkins): Visual-vestibular interactions for self motion

Dan, Yang (UC. Berkeley) How visual information is processed, encoded and shaped by experience

de Sa, Virginia (UCSD) Neural basis of human perception and learning

de Vries, Saskia (Allan Institute) Function and computation in visual circuits

Deng, Xinyi (Beijing University of Techology) Statistical methods to analyze neural spiking activity

Desrochers, Theresa  (Brown University) Neural basis of behavioral sequence learning and control in cortical and striatal circuits through integrated studies in humans and animals

Diester, Ilka (Ernst Stungmann Institute) Sensorimotor integration for advancing protheses

Ding, Long (U. Penn) Subcortical circuits for perceptual decision-making

Dunn, Felice (UCSF) Circuitry and information processing in the retina

Dyer, Eva (Georgia Institute of Technology) Development of computational approaches for making sense of large-scale neural datasets

Engel, Tatiana (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Neural dynamics and computation in perception and cognition

Fedorenko, Evelina (MIT) Functional architecture of language processing mechanisms

Feller, Marla (UC. Berkeley) Mechanisms that guide assembly of neural circuits during development

Fletcher, Allie (UCLA)  Learning complex dynamical neural systems; mesoscale network structure; population dynamics in sensory perception

Fyshe, Alona (University of Victoria)  Computational analysis of Human Language

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

Geffen, Maria (U. Penn) A neural coding approach to audition

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

Gjorgjieva, Julijana (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) Principles of neural coding and how synaptic plasticity shapes neural circuits

Gottlieb, Jacqueline (Columbia) Neural mechanisms of attention, learning and decision making

Grill-Spector, Kalanit (Stanford) Neural basis of visual perception

Gritsenko, Valeriya (West Virginia University) Human sensorimotor control and develops new rehabilitation methods

Groh, Jennifer (Duke) Spatial processing in vision, hearing, and eye movements

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

Haas, Julie (Lehigh University) Electrical synapses in thalamic circuits

Hamilton, Liberty (UT Austin) Neural processing of speech and natural sounds using electrocorticography; sound representations in the auditory cortex

Hanganu-Opatz, Ileana (Hamburg-Eppendorf) Maturation of neuronal networks for sensation and cognition

Hellgren Kotaleski, Jeanette  (KTH) Modeling neural mechanisms underlying information processing

Hermundstad, Ann (Janelia Research Campus) Normative approaches to understand internal representations that link sensation and action

Judith Hirsch (USC) Thalamocortical circuits for visual processing

Holstein, Gay (Mt Sinai). What happens to rats when they go into space! (vestibular)

Insanally, Michele (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) Neural circuits for perceptual flexibility