Janak, Patricia (Johns Hopkins) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of associative learning

Jeffery, Kate (UCL) Neural mechanisms of learning & memory and navigation

Ji, Na (UC Berkeley) Neural circuits for vision in rodents

Alla Karpova (Janelia Farm) Neural circuits of reward-dependent behavior

Kastanenka, Ksenia (Harvard Medical School) Role neural activity plays in onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease

Kastner, Sabine (Princeton) Neural mechanisms of attention

Kay, Leslie (U. Chicago) Sensory processing in rodents with a focus on olfaction

Keck, Tara (UCL) Imaging plasticity and adaptation of circuits in vivo

Kiorpes, Lynne (NYU) Neural mechanisms that underlie development of the primate visual system

Kiss, Zelma (University of Calgary) Deep brain stimulation mechanisms of action

Kuhlman, Sandra (Carnegie Mellon) Modification of sensory-motor circuits during learning

Lee, Soohyun (NIMH, NIH) Functional neural circuits for sensation and action in somatosensory system

Lerner, Talia (Northwestern) Neuromodulatory circuits regulating reward learning and motivation

Lewis, Laura (MGH/Harvard) Thalamocortical network dynamics, computational neuroimaging techniques, and sensory coding in sleep and wake states.

Li, Zhaoping (University College, London) Vision and psychophysics as well as theory

Liang, Liang (Yale University) Organization, function and development of mammalian visual circuits

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

Lima, Susana (Champalimaud) Decision-making, olfaction in ethological behaviors

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

Linden, Jennifer (University College London) Auditory perception and learning

Livingstone, Margaret (Harvard University) Structure and function of the visual system

Ma-Wyatt, Anna (University of Adelaide) Visual perception, eye movements, hand movements

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

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

Martinez-Conde, Susana (SUNY Downstate) Neural bases of our visual experience

Moghaddam, Bita (University of Pittsburgh) Neural circuits and cognitive neuroscience

Moita, Marta (Champalimaud, Portugal) Neural mechanisms of behavioral plasticity and memory

Moser, May-Britt (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU) Memory and navigation. Entorhinal cortex and hippocampus

Moss, Cynthia (Hopkins) Auditory processing and sensorimotor integration in bats

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

Nagel, Katherine (NYU) Olfactory navigation in Drosophila

Naumann, Eva (Duke University) Whole-brain activity mapping in zebrafish

Nautiyal, Kate (Dartmouth College) Serotonin modulation of the neural circuits underlying impulsive behavior.

Nielsen, Kristina (Johns Hopkins) Neural circuits underlying object recognition

Hendrikje Nienborg (Tuebingen) Mechanisms of visual perception at the network level

Olafsdottir, Freyja (UCL) Spatial Cognition in rodents

Oswald, Anne-Marie (University of Pittsburgh) Cortical circuits for sensory learning and memory

Circuits, systems, olfactory, sensory, synapses

Pallas, Sarah (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Developmental Neurobiology of Mammalian Sensory Systems

Park, Hyojin (University of Birmingham) Neural oscillations in audiovisual speech/language and communication

Pastalkova, Eva (Janelia Farm) Hippocampal ensemble coding

Pasternak, Tania (U. of Rochester) Cortical circuitry underlying memory guided sensory decisions

Pasupathy, Anitha (U Washington) Processing of complex visual inputs

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

Prinz, Astrid (Emory) Homeostatic regulation

Quattrocolo, Giulia (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience – NTNU) Development of the hippocampal circuit and of the hippocampal dependent behavior

Rangel, Lara M (UCSD) Neural rhythms in the hippocampus during associative memory processing

Raymond, Jennifer (Stanford) Neural circuits for motor learning in the cerebellum

Heather Read (U. Conn) Cortical and brainstem circuits for processing auditory inputs

Reinagel, Pam (UCSD) Vision and rat behavior

Ribeiro M.A., Ines (Max Planck Institute Neurobiology, Germany) Neural basis for visually guided behavior in fruit flies.

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

Rivlin, Michal (Weizmann Institute of Science) Visual processing in retinal circuits

Rochefort, Nathalie (Edinburgh University) Cortical processing of visual information

Roitman, Jamie (Univ. Illinois) Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making

Role, Lorna (NIH NINDS) The role of cholinergic circuits in neuropsychiatric disease

Rolls, Asya (Israel Institute of Technology) Neuronal basis of brain-immune interactions

Romanski, Lizabeth (Univ. Rochester) The integration and mnemonic processing of social communication information by the prefrontal cortex

Roux, Lisa (Bordeaux University) Oscillations and memory

Nicole, Rust (U. Penn) Visual processing at the nexus of visual perception and cognition

Ruta, Vanessa (Rockefeller) Neural circuits for sensory processing and learning

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

Sani, Ilaria (The Rockefeller University) Neural basis of visual attention

Santacruz, Samantha (The University of Texas at Austin) Closed-loop neuromodulation and neurotherapeutic devices for investigating and modulating behaviors related to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Sara, Susan J (Collège de France) Neurobiology of memory with focus on the noradrenergic nucleus Locus Coeruleus. Off-line memory consolidation during sleep oscillations

Schiemann, Julia (Edinburgh) Modulation of Motor Output

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

Schnell, Bettina (Caesar/ Max Planck) Neurobiology of flight control in Drosophila

Scott, Kristin (UC. Berkeley) Neural circuits for taste recognition in drosophila

Sereno, Anne (The University of Texas) Physiological mechanisms of attention and short-term memory

Sereno, Margaret (University of Oregon) Neural basis of perception in primates

Shin, Hyeyoung (University of California, Berkeley) Neocortical dynamics underlying perception

Silies, Marion (European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen) Visual processing in Drosophila

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

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

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

Suzuki, Wendy (NYU) Associative learning and memory

Swann, Nicole (University of Oregon) Human motor system in health and disease

Teng, Ching-Ling (U. Virginia) Auditory perception and learning

Thirumalai, Vatsala (NCBS) Understanding the hierarchy, mechanisms and development of neural circuits that generate movement.

Ting, Lena (Emory University) Neural control of movement, balance

Trommershäuser, Julia (NYU) Using fMRI, computation and behavior to study human decision-making

Tsao, Doris (Caltech) Brain mechanisms for object recognition and spatial vision

Turrigiano, Gina (Brandeis) Homeostatic mechanisms

Uchida, Mitsuko (Harvard Univ) Decision making and the basal ganglia

Vazquez, Yuriria (The Rockefeller University) Neural mechanisms supporting facial movements

Veit, Julia (University of Freiburg) Cortical circuits and perception

Verghese, Preeti (Smith Kettlewell) Probing vision with signal detection theory and psychophysics

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

Vosshal, Leslie (Rockefeller, HHMI) How chemosensory cues drive complex behavior

Warden, Melissa (Cornell University) Neural basis of motivated behavior

Werner, Annette (Tuebingen) Color vision and adaptation

Wilbrecht, Linda (UC Berkeley) Synapses, circuits and behavior in adolescent brains

Wilson, Rachel (Harvard Medical School, HHMI) Neural circuits for sensory processing in drosophila

Witten, Ilana (Princeton) Circuit level analysis of reward and motivation

Yoshida, Wako (ATR, Japan) Studying human decision-making with brain imaging