Agrawal, Sweta (University of Washington) Neural circuits for limb proprioception

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

Al-Hasani, Ream (Washington University) Endogenous opioid circuits in motivated behaviors

Alhadeff, Amber (Monell Center and University of Pennsylvania) Neural control of motivated behavior, gut-brain signaling

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bagnall, Martha (Washington University) Organization and dynamic function of spinal circuits in zebrafish

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

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

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

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

Barth, Alison (Carnegie Mellon) Neural circuits of learning and memory

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

Bizley, Jennifer (University College London) The neural basis of listening and auditory-visual integrations

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

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

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

Brown, Solange (Johns Hopkins) Functional organization of cortical circuits

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

Burwell, Rebecca (Brown University) Structure and function of the cortical regions that surround the hippocampus

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

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

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

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

Carr, Catherine (University of Maryland) Sound localization circuits in birds and other reptilia, interaural time differences detection.

Chait, Maria (UCL) Representation of sound during behavior

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

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

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

Clark, Beverley (UCL) Neuronal integration and axonal signalling

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

Colgin, Laura (UT Austin) Brain rhythms in complex cognitive functions

Constantinople, Christine (Princeton) Cortical circuits and behavior

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 Hoz, Livia (Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin) Role of subcortico-cortical loops in statistical learning.

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

Delevich, Kristen (UC Berkeley) Value based decision making

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

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

Disney, Anita (Vanderbilt University) Neuromodulators in mammalian cortical circuits

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

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

Dudek, Serena (NIH) Synaptic plasticity and development

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

Esposito, Maria Soledad (Medical Physics Department, CNEA, Argentina) Neurobiology of movement

Falkner, Annegret (Princeton) Social decision-making circuits in mice

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

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

Fernandez, Laura (University of Lausanne (Switzerland)) Sensory processing during the sleep-wake cycle, brain oscillations in thalamocortical and hippocampic networks, learning and memory during sleep

Finn, Emily (Dartmouth College) Naturalistic paradigms to draw out individual differences in cognitive and social information processing

Fioravante, Diasynou (University of California, Davis) Neurophysiology of small neural networks for learning and memory

Fox, Jessica (Case Western) Quantitative behavioral approach to insect sensory systems

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

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

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

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

Gollub, Randy (MGH) Neuroimaging of pain and modulation of pain perception

Gore, Felicity (Stanford) Neural circuits mediating motivated behavior

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

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

Gradinaru, Viviana (Caltech) Axonal stimulation and DBS-targeted disorders

Green, Andrea (University of Montreal) Motor control, sensory processing

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

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

Heilbronner, Sarah (University of Minnesota) Using connectomics to understand the neural circuitry for motivation and decision-making

Judith Hirsch (USC) Thalamocortical circuits for visual processing

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

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

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

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

Hoy, Jennifer (University of Nevada, Reno) Function and development of neural circuits for natural vision

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