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Editors for Neuroscience

We aim to review research in all areas of neuroscience, including but not limited to brain function, neuronal circuits, synapses, sensory processing, and motor pattern generation. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

Sofia J Araújo

University of Barcelona, Spain

Sofia J Araújo is Associate Professor in Genetics, at the Department of Genetics Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, where she leads the genetics of cell behaviour research group. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London and did postdoctoral training at King’s College London and IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona. Her research at the University of Barcelona is centered in cell migration and branching morphogenesis, with the aim of understanding how branched organs develop and contribute to living organism homeostasis as well as the ageing process. She is currently head of the Genetics section of the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, and board member of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology. She also holds a Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College, London, and has extensive experience in teaching, communication, and training of scientists on better ways of bringing science to the public.

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
neurodevelopment
DNA repair
single-cell branching
cell migration
tubulogenesis
organogenesis

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster

Competing interests statement
Sofia J Araújo's research is currently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR).
Timothy Behrens

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Tim Behrens is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Oxford University and University College London, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. His work investigating the neural mechanisms that control behaviour has made an impact across scales from cells to brain regions across mammalian species. He has also developed widely used approaches for measuring brain connections non-invasively that have been taken up by the Human Connectome Project, where he is a senior investigator and chair of the anatomical connectivity team.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain imaging
fMRI
learning
cognition
behavioural neuroscience
learning and decision making
brain connectivity
computational neuroscience
neural coding

Experimental organism
human
macaque
mouse

Competing interests statement
Tim Behrens receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, the James S McDonnell Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is on the editorial board of PLOS Biology.
Yanchao Bi

Beijing Normal University, China

Yanchao Bi is a ChangJiang professor in IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, at Beijing Normal University. She received her PhD from the Department of Psychology, Harvard University in 2006. Her work focuses on the functional and neural architecture associated with semantic memory and language, tackling how the human brain represents and understands the meanings of words, objects and actions, and how such knowledge is acquired and interacts with sensory and language experiences. She mainly studies human models, including typically developed individuals and special populations such as congenitally blind, deaf, or patients with brain damage, using cognitive, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and computational methods. She also works with collaborators to study these questions from the comparative (nonhuman primates) and developmental (human infants) perspectives.

She has won various awards, scholarships or recognitions such as “The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”, “The National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars”, “New Century Excellent Talents in University”, Sackler scholar of psychophysiology, Fulbright scholar, and “rising star” in the Observer by the American Psychological Association.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
cognition
systems neuroscience
semantic memory
language
object perception and representation

Competing interests statement
Yanchao Bi is currently funded by National Science Foundation of China and Ministry of Science and Technology, China. In addition to serving as a Senior Editor at eLife, she is also currently serving on the editorial boards of Cognition, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Language.
Christian Büchel

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Christian Büchel is a member of the Hamburg Center for Neuroscience in Hamburg, where he is also the Director of the Department for Systems Neuroscience at Hamburg University Medical Center. He holds an Affiliate Professor appointment in the Psychology department at the University of Hamburg. After Medical School at the University of Heidelberg, he performed postdoctoral research with Karl Friston as a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience at UCL in London with a focus on effective connectivity.

Establishing his lab in Hamburg, he focused on the cognitive neuroscience of pain and motivation and initially studied decision making with an emphasis on delay discounting. In a parallel stream of projects he observed that the pain modulation underlying placebo analgesia can already be observed at the spinal cord level, a finding which he later also established for nocebo hyperalgesia. He is part of the IMAGEN study and during his time at Stanford he identified hypoactivation of reward circuits as a potential risk factor for addiction.

He is a member of the Academy of Science in Hamburg and was awarded the Jung Award for Medicine, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis by the German Research Foundation, and the Wiley Young Investigator Award of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping for recognition of his work in cognitive neuroscience.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
pain modulation
decision-making
fear
anxiety
addiction

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Christian Büchel has received research grants from the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. He serves on the board of reviewing editors of Science magazine. He serves on the Swiss National Research Council, the Scientific Advisory Board of the ICM in Paris and the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
Albert Cardona

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Albert Cardona is a programme leader at the MRC LMB and a professor of neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK. Formerly a group leader at HHMI Janelia and at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. Trained in biology with emphasis in genetics, development and evolution, a passion and need for image processing of bioimagery led to co-founding the Fiji open source software, as well as the TrakEM2 and CATMAID softwares for image registration, segmentation, visualization and the

analysis of neural circuits. His laboratory studies how the structure of a neural circuit relates to its function. Albert's core expertise is in reconstructing neuronal anatomy and synaptic circuits – the connectome – of small animal brains using volume electron microscopy, to then analyse the circuit architecture and formulate computational models of circuit function that capture the neural dynamics and explain how circuits implement behaviour.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
neuroscience
image processing
development
neural evolution

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
squids
Amphioxus
lizards

Competing interests statement
Albert Cardona receives funding from the MRC LMB and from the Wellcome Trust. He has served as editor of Open Biology and as Reviewing Editor for eLife.
Lu Chen

Stanford University, United States

Lu Chen is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity and memory engram formation during behavioral learning, and how synapse functions are altered in neurodevelopmental disorders. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California under the mentorship of Richard Thompson. After a postdoc fellowship in the University of California, San Francisco with Roger Nicoll, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. In 2011, she moved to Stanford University School of Medicine.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cellular neurophysiology
synaptic physiology
synaptic plasticity
learning
memory
memory engram
hippocampal function
induced human neurons
fragile-X syndrome

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Lu Chen currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is on the Editorial Board of Current Opinion of Neurobiology and PLOS One. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience.
Laura Colgin

The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States

Laura Colgin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and co-Director of the Center for Learning and Memory at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on understanding the functional significance of brain rhythms for learning and memory operations. Her lab also investigates how different brain rhythms affect neuronal ensemble representations of spatial memories, and how aberrant rhythmic activity influences neuronal activity and cognitive function in brain disorders. She received her PhD from the University of California at Irvine and completed her postdoctoral training in the Moser Lab at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. She is a recipient of the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience, an Alfred P Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the Klingenstein Foundation Award in the Neurosciences, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, and an NSF CAREER award.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
hippocampus
place cells
entorhinal cortex
grid cells
theta rhythms
gamma rhythms
sharp wave-ripples

Experimental organism
rat

Competing interests statement
Laura Colgin currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the USAMRMC Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, and the National Science Foundation. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Progress in Neurobiology. She is a member of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (LAM) study section for the National Institutes of Health.
Claude Desplan

New York University, United States

Claude Desplan, DSc, PhD is a Silver Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at NYU and an Affiliate Professor at the CGSB at NYU in Abu Dhabi. Dr. Desplan was born in Algeria and was trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in St. Cloud, France. He received his DSc at INSERM in Paris in 1983 working with M.S. Moukhtar and M. Thomasset on calcium regulation. He joined Pat O’Farrell at UCSF as a postdoc where he demonstrated that the homeodomain, a conserved signature of many developmental genes, is a DNA binding motif. In 1987, he joined the Faculty of Rockefeller University as an HHMI Assistant/Associate Investigator to pursue structural studies of the homeodomain and the evolution of axis formation.

In 1999, Dr. Desplan joined NYU where he investigates the generation of neural diversity using the Drosophila visual system. His team has described the molecular mechanisms that pattern the eye and showed how stochastic decisions contribute to the diversification of photoreceptors. It also investigates the development and function of the optic lobes where neuronal diversity is generated by spatio-temporal patterning of neuroblasts, a mechanism that also applies to cortical development in mammals. Recently, his lab has also provided a functional understanding of the neuronal and computational mechanisms underlying motion detection.

His laboratory also uses ‘evo-devo’ approaches to understand the mechanisms by which sensory systems adapt to different ecological conditions, from flies to ants to butterflies.

Dr. Desplan serves on multiple scientific advisory boards and committees for funding agencies. He is an elected member of the AAAS, of EMBO, the New York Academy of Sciences as well as the US National Academy of Sciences.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
development neurobiology
evo-devo
vision
stochasticity in development
rhodopsin
aging and caste determination (ants)

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
ants
insects
butterflies
wasps
flies

Competing interests statement
Dr. Desplan has been a member of the Board of Reviewing Editor for Science for the last 10 years (non-renumerated). He is an academic editor for PLOS Biology and PLOS Genetics (non-renumerated). Dr. Desplan occasionally serves as academic editor for other scientific journals (e.g. PNAS). He is a consultant for the Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Al Ain, UAE. Dr. Desplan receives funding from the NIH and the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology.
Michael J Frank

Brown University, United States

Michael J Frank is Edgar L Marston Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences affiliated with the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University, where he directs the Initiative for Computation in Brain and Mind. He received his PhD in Neuroscience and Psychology in 2004 at the University of Colorado, following undergraduate and master's degrees in electrical engineering and biomedicine. Dr. Frank’s work focuses primarily on computational models of frontostriatal circuits across multiple levels of analysis, especially in terms of their cognitive functions and implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The models are tested and refined with multimodal experiments across species. He is a Kavli Science Fellow, and recipient of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award (2011), the Janet T Spence Award for early career transformative contributions (Association for Psychological Science, 2010) and the DG Marquis award for best paper published in Behavioral Neuroscience (2006).

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
decision making
reinforcement learning
dopamine
basal ganglia
prefrontal cortex
cognitive control

Experimental organism
human
mouse
rat
R.macaque

Competing interests statement
Michael Frank serves of the editorial boards of Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience, and he receives consulting fees for work with F Hoffman LaRoche Pharmaceuticals.
Joshua I Gold

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Joshua I Gold is Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Group, and Co-Director of the Computational Neuroscience Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 2002. He studied models of synaptic plasticity with Drs Mark Bear and Leon Cooper as an undergraduate at Brown University, plasticity in the sound-localization pathway of the barn owl with Dr Eric Knudsen as a graduate student at Stanford University, and computational and neural mechanisms of deicsion-making with Dr Michael Shadlen as a post-doc at the University of Washington. Gold currently studies the neural basis of learning and decision-making in the primate brain, with a focus on interactions between physiological arousal and cognitive processing. His work uses several complementary approaches, including theory and modeling; measures of behavior and pupil diameter in humans; and measures of behavior, pupil diameter, and brain activity in non-human primates. Much of his current work involves understanding how the brain adaptively processes information in dynamic environments. He won early career awards from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, the McKnight Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
probabilistic inference
predictive inference
perceptual learning

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates

Competing interests statement
Joshua Gold is employed by the University of Pennsylvania. He receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. He has also received funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the McKnight Foundation for Neuroscience, and the Sloan Foundation. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
John Huguenard

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

John Huguenard is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, with additional appointments in the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Neurosurgery. He joined the faculty in 1994, and served on the executive and steering committees from 2000-2016. He was director of the Stanford Neurosciences PhD program from 2006-2013, and of the NIH T32 supported Stanford Postdoctoral Epilepsy Training Program from 2004 to the present. His work is on neurophysiology of voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels in neural circuits related to neuropsychiatric diseases such as epilepsy and autism spectrum disorders. A particular focus is mechanisms of action of antiepileptic drugs, and development of modern therapeutic interventions such as on demand optogenetics. His work is multidisciplinary including in vitro electrophysiology, genetic models, computational neuroscience, multiphoton microscopy, image analysis, and in vivo imaging and extracellular neurophysiology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the research career award from the American Epilepsy Society and has served on its board.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
thalamocortical epileptic network
epilepsy
cortical microcircuitry
ion channels

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
John Huguenard is employed by Stanford University. He receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Simons Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves actively on the editorial boards of Experimental Neurology and Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
Andrew J King

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrew King is Professor of Neurophysiology and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he is the Director of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and heads the Auditory Neuroscience Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. His research uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the neural basis for auditory perception and multisensory integration. His group is currently investigating the representation and coding of sound features by populations of neurons, how neural responses adjust to changes in the statistical distribution of sounds associated with different acoustic environments, and the capacity of the brain to compensate for the changes in inputs that result from hearing loss. He was awarded the Wellcome Prize in Physiology in 1990 and was made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011, a Fellow of the Physiology Society in 2017, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory perception
multisensory processing
crossmodal perception
cortex
midbrain
neuronal adaptation
hearing

Experimental organism
ferret
mouse
human

Competing interests statement
Andrew King receives funding for his research from the Wellcome Trust, the University of Oxford, and from Action on Hearing Loss. He serves on the editorial board of Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. He is a member of Auditory Verbal UK Advisory Board and the Agir Pour L’Audition Scientific Prize Committee.
Huan Luo

Peking University, China

Dr Huan Luo is a tenured associate professor in the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University, China. She is also a PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at PKU. Her research primarily focuses on the human brain mechanisms of cognitive functions such as attention, working memory, perceptual decision-making, and learning, particularly from a dynamic perspective. She has recently been interested in abstract relational structures in learning and memory. Dr Luo received her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Maryland College Park under the mentorship of David Poeppel. She first worked at the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined the faculty at Peking University in 2015. As one of six labs in the world, her lab participated in a high-impact international collaborative project COGITATE to test theories of neural correlates of consciousness.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
neural dynamics
neural oscillation
working memory
attention
EEG/MEG
learning and memory
neural coding

Competing interests statement
Huan Luo is currently funded by the National Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. She is on the Editorial Board of PLOS Biology and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. She also serves as an associate editor for Progress in Neurobiology.
Merritt Maduke

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Merritt Maduke is an Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and co-director of the Neurosciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego and did postdoctoral training at Brandeis University with Professor Chris Miller. Her research at Stanford is centered on the biophysics of ion channels and transporters, with the overarching goal of understanding molecular mechanisms within the context of physiological functions. She also applies her mechanistic approach in the field of ultrasound neuromodulation. She was awarded the Society of General Physiologist’s Cranefield Award for her research on ion channels (2008) and served as the Society’s President from 2018-2019.

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
ion channel and transporter molecular mechanisms
ion channel and transporter physiology
ion channel and transporter pharmacology
ultrasound neuromodulation

Experimental organism
E. coli
mouse
rat

Competing interests statement
Merritt Maduke is employed by Stanford University and receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health and Stanford Innovative Medicine Accelerator. She has served on the BPNS and BBM study sections at the NIH and as ad hoc member of additional panels. She serves on the editorial boards of the Biophysical Journal and The Journal of General Physiology and is a founding curator for Biophysics Colab.
Tamar Makin

University College London, United Kingdom

Tamar Makin is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, UK and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Her research seeks to define the boundaries of brain plasticity in body representation, by studying the extent to which brain areas supporting action are shaped by experience. Her primary model for this work is studying brain reorganisation in individuals with a missing hand, as well as the brain representation of motor substitution and augmentation technologies. Her lab integrates methods from the fields of neuroscience, experimental psychology and rehabilitation.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
fMRI
plasticity
motor control
body representation
somatosensory
deprivation
augmentation
assistive technology

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates

Competing interests statement
Tamar Makin is presently funded by the European Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
André F Marquand

Donders Institute, Radboud University / King's College London, Netherlands

André Marquand is a computational neuroscientist interested in the development of novel statistical techniques for neuroimaging data, aiming to further the understanding of human brain function. He has a particular focus on machine learning techniques that aim to learn to detect patterns of statistical regularity in empirical data. These methods hold significant promise for decoding cognitive states and predicting clinically relevant variables in health and disease.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimaging
computational psychiatry
machine learning
big data
probabilistic inference
normative modelling

Competing interests statement
André Marquand receives funding from the European Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
Tirin Moore

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States

Tirin Moore is a Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1995. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, and later a research fellow at Princeton. In 2003, he started his own laboratory at Stanford. His laboratory studies the neural mechanisms of visually guided behavior and the neural basis of cognitive functions (e.g. attention), with a focus on the primate brain. He has been a Sloan fellow, a Pew Scholar, a McKnight Scholar, and received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Before becoming an HHMI investigator, he was an HHMI Early Career Scientist. In 2009, he received a Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences for his work on visual attention. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Systems and cognitive neuroscience
Visual neuroscience
Perception and cognition
Prefrontal cortex
Electrophysiology
Psychophysics
Neural circuits

Competing interests statement
Tirin Moore is employed by Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and HHMI.
Sacha B Nelson

Brandeis University, United States

Sacha Nelson is the Tauber Professor of Biology and Chair of the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his MDPhD (Biology) from UCSD in 1991, did postdoctoral work at MIT and has been at Brandeis University since 1994. He has received awards from the Sloan, McKnight and Rett Syndrome Research Foundations. His current research focuses on transcriptional networks underlying neuronal plasticity and excitability in the mammalian neocortex.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
regulation of neuronal gene expression
cellular and systems electrophysiology
developmental disorders
learning and synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Sacha Nelson receives funding from the NIH and from the WM Keck Foundation. He serves on the Advisory Boards for eNeuro and for the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University.
Panayiota Poirazi

Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece

Panayiota Poirazi is a Research Director and head of the Dendrites Lab (www.dendrites.gr) at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH). She has a Bachelor in Mathematics from the University of Cyprus, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is interested in understanding how dendrites contribute to complex brain functions and uses computational modelling approaches, often in conjunction with experiments, to answer this question. Her work has significantly advanced our understanding of how single neurons compute, by revealing the power of dendrites in solving difficult problems.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
neurophysiology
dendrites
learning and memory
modeling

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Panayiota Poirazi receives funding from the European Commission (European Research Council, European Innovation Council, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions etc.), the EINSTEIN Foundation Berlin, the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (Greece), the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia). She is on the editorial board of Neuroscience.
Jonathan Roiser

University College London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Roiser is Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Deputy Director at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. His research interests lie in understanding the brain and psychological processes driving mental health problems, especially disrupted motivation in depression. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and his recent research has been funded by Wellcome, the MRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the Rosetrees Trust. He founded and directs two PhD schemes: the UCL-NIMH Joint Doctoral Training Program in Neuroscience and the UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD Programme in Mental Health Science.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
mental health
neuroimaging
behavior
psychopharmacology
computational modelling

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
I hold active grants from Rosetrees, Wellcome and the Leverhulme Trust. I supervise an ongoing PhD studentship co-funded by MRC and Cambridge Cognition Ltd. I have performed paid consultancy work for GE Ltd within the last 3 years. I sit on the Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Sonia Q Sen

Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India

Sonia Sen is a senior scientist at the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bangalore. Her research interests span neurodevelopment and behaviour. Her group studies how neural stem cells use and integrate spatial and temporal information to generate diverse cell types during development. Beyond neurodevelopment, her team explores how these diverse cell types form functional neural circuits and examines how these circuits give rise to appropriate behaviours, with a particular emphasis on mosquitoes.

Sonia did her PhD at the National Centre for Biological Sciences – TIFR, Bangalore and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oregon with Chris Q Doe.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
neural stem cells
neural circuits
evo-devo
mosquito

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Anopheles stephensi
Lois Smith

Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States

Lois EH Smith MD, PhD is an ophthalmologist and clinician/scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Her basic research work is in retinal neovascularization, both basic mechanism and treatment including diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.

She has a long standing interest in eye diseases particularly retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and AMD and in the mechanisms behind these diseases, particularly the underlying causes of neovascularization and the interactions between neurons and vessels. Many pathways that they have found have been translated into clinical trials, including replacement of IGF-1 in preterm infants and treatment of AMD with anti-VEGF antibodies in which they were the first to show the benefit of blocking VEGF in a mouse model of retinopathy. More recently Dr Smith's work has been interested in metabolic function in photoreceptors, particularly with respect to lipids. Photoreceptor metabolic dysfunction causes central vision loss in retinal degenerative diseases (including ROP) but is also implicated in age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

Dr Smith is the recipient of the Friedenwald award, the Alcon Research Institute award, the Silverman award, and the Bressler Prize.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
age-related macular degeneration
diabetic eye disease
retinopathy
ocular disease
developmental neuroscience

Competing interests statement
Dr Smith has received funding from the National Eye Institute, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, the European Union, the Lowy Medical Research Institute, Foundation Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Investigator Award, and the Alcon Award.Current editor roles include: Editor for Ophthalmology (Science), Editor for Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology, and Editor IOVS (Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science).
Kenton J Swartz

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States

Kenton Swartz has been a Senior Investigator in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke within the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland since 2003. He obtained a BS in Chemistry and Biology from Eastern Mennonite College in 1986 and a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard Medical School in 1993, where he worked with Bruce Bean studying the regulation of voltage-gated calcium channels by G-proteins and protein kinases. He obtained postdoctoral training with Roderick MacKinnon at Harvard Medical School, where he began isolating and studying toxins that interact with voltage-activated potassium channels. His laboratory uses biochemical, molecular biological, biophysical and structural techniques to understand how ion channel proteins sense critical biological stimuli, including membrane voltage, temperature, and both chemical and mechanical signals. He received an NIH Directors Award for Scientific Achievement in 2008, an NIH Office of the Director Honor Award on behalf of the Diversity Task Force in 2011 and the Kenneth S. Cole Award from the Biophysical Society in 2017. He has also served as the president of the Society of General Physiologists.

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
ion channel structure
ion channel mechanisms
ion channel physiology
ion channel pharmacology

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Kenton Swartz is employed by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health. In addition to serving as a Senior Editor at eLife, he has served as a Reviewing Editor for eLife and as an Associate Editor at the Journal of General Physiology. He also teaches yoga at LifeTime Athletic.
Michael Taffe

University of California, San Diego, United States

Mike is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD, a position he accepted following nearly two decades at The Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on furthering our understanding of the health impacts of acute and chronic exposure to drugs of abuse, including psychomotor stimulants, cannabinoids and opioids.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
addiction
substance use disorders
behavioral pharmacology
dementia
motivation
reward learning
reward memory
behavioral neuroscience
behavioral toxicology
monkey behavior

Experimental organism
rat
rodents

Competing interests statement
Michael Taffe currently receives funding from the United States National Institutes of Health. He serves as an academic editor at PLoS ONE and is an editorial board member at Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Kate Wassum

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Kate is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at UCLA. Her research focuses on the neural signals and circuits underlying appetitive associative learning, motivated behavior, and decision making and how dysfunction in these mechanisms can produce the maladaptive behavior underlying mental illness. Her lab uses multidisciplinary approach, combining behavioral procedures rooted in the rich traditions of learning theory with advanced systems neuroscience and molecular methods.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioural neuroscience
systems neuroscience
learning and memory
motivation
reward
decision making
addiction

Experimental organism
rat
mouse

Competing interests statement
Kate Wassum currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Neuroscience, editorial board member at Neuropsychopharmacology, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, and Scientific Reports, and a consulting editor at Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning & Cognition.
Ma-Li Wong

State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States

Ma-Li Wong, MD, PhD, FRANZCP, is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Neurosciences and Physiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Brazil, where she graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine (FMUSP). She had clinical and research training in psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NIH, and Yale University. Ma-Li Wong is a bench, clinical and translational researcher in the biology of depression and co-morbid conditions, chronic stress, and antidepressant drugs. She has conducted research for over 30 years at Yale (Chief Resident and Instructor), National Institutes of Health (Unit Chief), University of California, Los Angeles (Professor), University of Miami (Professor and Vice-Chair), and in Australia (Australian National University, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, and Flinders University). She was the recipient of the following awards: Milton Rosenbaum Award for Psychiatric Research (1989); Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship by the American Psychiatric Association (1990); SmithKline Beecham Award by the Society of Biological Psychiatry (1990); APA/Dista Research Award (1993); NIH Fare Award (1996 and 1997); Henry L. Moses Award by the Montefiore Medical Center (1998). She co-edited two books: Pharmacogenomics: The Search for Individualized Therapeutics (2002) and Biology of Depression: From Novel Insights to Therapeutic Strategies (2005).

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
major depression
chronic stress
neuroinflammation
neuroendocrinology
pharmacogenomics
genetics
obesity
leptin

Experimental organism
human
mouse
primary cells
immortalized cells

Competing interests statement
Ma-Li Wong is an Associate Editor for Molecular Psychiatry. She has been funded by organizations such as the NIH in the US and the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia.

Reviewing editors

D Nora Abrous

Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenesis
pathophysiology

Experimental organism
mouse
Alaa A Ahmed

University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
biomechanics
motor control
motor learning
decision making
neuroeconomics
computational neuroscience
energetics

Experimental organism
human
Athena Akrami

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
theoretical neuroscience
neural network
sensory memory
behavioural modelling
Sameh Ali

Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt, Egypt

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
metabolism
mitochondria
redox biology
reactive oxygen species
membrane biophysics
inflammation
aging
oncology
Toby W Allen

RMIT University, Australia

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Physics of Living Systems
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational biophysics
molecular dynamics
free-energy calculations
ion channels
ion permeation
membranes
Joon-Yong An

Korea University, South Korea

Expertise
Medicine
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
whole genome sequencing
noncoding mutation
neurodevelopment
autism spectrum disorders
multi-omics
Michelle Antoine

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
autism
ADHD
E-I balance
striatum
synaptic transmission
neurodevelopment
epilepsy
S P Arun

Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
vision
perception
recognition
visual search
object and feature representations
visual neuroscience

Experimental organism
human
monkey
primates
Demba Ba

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
statistical modeling
sparce coding
encoding
decoding
deep learning
artificial neural networks
Kavita Babu

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuropeptides
worm behavior
cell adhesion molecules

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Melissa Bates

University of Iowa, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
integrative pathophysiology
pathophysiological consequences of chronic intermittent hypoxia
cardiopulmonary function
long-term developmental consequences of prematurity
Brice Bathellier

Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory cortex
auditory system
two-photon calcium imaging
multisensory processing
sensory discrimination behavior
reinforcement learning models
sensory processing models
auditory-visual interactions

Experimental organism
mouse
Kurt Beam

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle
voltage-gated calcium channels
calcium release channels
Esteban J Beckwith

Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian
sleep
learning
memory
innate immunity
bacterial infections
insect behaviour

Experimental organism
drosophila
Annaliese K Beery

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroendocrinology
behavioural neuroscience
social behaviour
sex differences

Experimental organism
rodents
voles
Hugo J Bellen

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
neurobiology
human neurological disease
Alzheimer's disease
Parkinson's disease
diagnosis of human genetic diseases
fly technology
CRIMIC
MiMIC

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Gordon Berman

Emory University, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
animal behavior
theoretical biophysics
computational neuroscience
computational ethology

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
rat
Jimena Berni

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
locomotion
developmental biology
central pattern generators
neurogenetics
neurobiology
genetic basis of behavior

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Upinder S Bhalla

National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction
hippocampus
computational neuroscience
olfactory bulb
antibody
synapses
signaling

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
José Biurrun Manresa

National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), Argentina

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
pain
nociceptive system
EEG
EMG
biomedical signal processing
biostatistics
Roberto Bottini

University of Trento, Italy

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
cognitive maps
conceptual knowledge
brain plasticity
spatial navigation
neuroimaging
fMRI
Stefania Bracci

University of Trento, Italy

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
perception
visual cortex organization
category representations
object dimensions
Laura A Bradfield

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioural neuroscience
rodent models
decision-making
reward circuit

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Carlos D Brody

Princeton University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
computational neuroscience
behavioral neuroscience
cognitive neurophysiology

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Solange P Brown

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cortical circuits
somatosensory system
visual system
cortical inhibitory interneurons
cortical projection neurons
thalamus
claustrum

Experimental organism
mouse
Axel T Brunger

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurotransmission
membrane fusion
X-ray crystallography
electron microscopy
macromolecular computer simulation

Experimental organism
mouse
Hayriye Cagnan

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
brain stimulation
brain computer interfacing
computational neuroscience
motor control
Parkinson's disease
tremor
close-loop neuromodulation
Peng Cao

National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
superior colliculus
brain circuit
fear response
gut-to-brain axis
defensive behavior
Megan R Carey

Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational and systems neuroscience
cerebellum
neural circuits
locomotion
sensorimotor systems
motor learning

Experimental organism
mouse
Catherine Carr

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
auditory
evolution
temporal coding
comparative

Experimental organism
birds
reptiles
Marisa Carrasco

New York University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual perception
attention
cognitive psychology
neurophysiology
neuroimaging
Maria Chait

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory
attention
cognition
decision making
brain imaging
sensory systems
memory

Experimental organism
human
Moses V Chao

New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
trophic factors
receptor signal transduction
growth factors
Sumantra Chattarji

TCG Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
amygdala
autism spectrum disorders
neural basis of stress and anxiety disorders

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Ko-Fan Chen

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian rhythms
sleep
neurogenetics
behavioral genetics

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Ke Cheng

Yongchuan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
molecular mechanisms
neural circuits
major depressive disorder
neuropsychiatric disease
antidepressant mechanism
novel tool box development in neuropsychiatric disease
Alexander Chesler

National Institutes of Health, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
touch
pain
somatosensation
mechanosensation
interoception
ion channels
sensory neuron
somatosensory circuits
Isaac Chiu

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimmunology
pain
microglia
infection
bacterial pathogens

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Cheng-Ming Chuong

Keck School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
pathology
Roshan Cools

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognition
cognitive control
motivation
prefrontal cortex
dopamine
basal ganglia
serotonin
decision making
reinforcement learning
noradrenaline

Experimental organism
human
Joshua Corbin

Children's National Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
amygdala
transcriptomics
cell migration
nervous system development
circuit mapping
innate behaviors
neuronal specification

Experimental organism
mouse
Laura H Corbit

University of Toronto, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioral neuroscience
extinction
noradrenaline
associative learning
decision making
reward

Experimental organism
rat
Rui Ponte Costa

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
computational neuroscience
systems neuroscience
learning
machine learning
cortical circuits
synaptic plasticity
credit assignment
Noah J Cowan

The Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
sensorimotor control
active sensing
navigation
biomechanics
robotics
control theory
motor learning
Lila Davachi

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
recognition
recollection
working memory
episodic encoding
Jeremy Day

University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
CRISPR/Cas
gene regulation
genomic enhancers
long non-coding RNAs
drug addiction
dopamine
reward
motivated behavior

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
cell cultures
Ruth de Diego-Balaguer

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
language learning
statistical learning
artificial grammar
development
huntington's disease
basal ganglia
neuropsychology
rule-learning
attention
temporal attention

Experimental organism
human
Tessa Dekker

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimaging
visual system
behavioural psychophysics
Filippo Del Bene

Institut de la Vision, France

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
zebrafish
visual system
optogenetics
neural circuits
behavior
brain function
genome editing
Hanneke EM den Ouden

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
dopamine
reinforcement learning
motivation
cognitive control
serotonin
computational modelling

Experimental organism
human
Andreea O Diaconescu

University of Toronto, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimaging
learning
decision making
Dion K Dickman

University of Southern California, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
plasticity
homeostasis
neuromuscular junction
glutamate

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Jörn Diedrichsen

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
Jun Ding

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
motor learning
motor control
Parkinson's disease
synaptic transmission
synaptic plasticity
dendrite
spine
dopamine

Experimental organism
mouse
Long Ding

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
decision making
basal ganglia
neurophysiology
oculomotor pathway
Nai Ding

Zhejiang University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
language
speech
audition
EEG/MEG
computational models
Ana Domingos

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
metabolism
obesity
neuroimmunity
autonomic nervous system
eating behaviour
inflammation
Paul Donlin-Asp

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
mRNA localization
protein synthesis
synapses
post-transcriptional gene regulation
RNA binding proteins
neurodevelopmental disorders
mRNA
Tobias H Donner

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
inference
attention
perception
arousal
cortical network dynamics
neuromodulation
neurophysiology
psychophysics
neuroimaging
computational modeling

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Xin Duan

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse formation
superior colliculus
optic neuropathy
retinal circuitry
transsynaptic tracing
cadherins
optic nerve regeneration
Jessica Dubois

Inserm Unité NeuroDiderot, Université Paris Cité, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain development
sensory and motor capacities
connectivity
neurodevelopmental disorders
plasticity
neuroimaging
prematurity
anatomy

Experimental organism
human
Eugene P Duff

Imperial College London, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
proteomics
dementia
functional neuroimaging
functional connectivity
single cell RNA sequencing
gene expression networks
multimorbidity
Hannelore Ehrenreich

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
translational neuroscience
erythropoietin
hypoxia
neuropsychiatric phenotypes
deep phenotyping
autoantibodies

Experimental organism
human
Leonardo A Elias

University of Campinas, Brazil

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
sensorimotor systems
proprioception
motor unit physiology
motor neurons
electromyography
neurodegenerative diseases
Jeffrey Erlich

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
computational modelling
neuroeconomics
neural coding
spatial cognition
Bayesian hierarchical models

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
human
John Ewer

Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
animal behaviour
neuropeptides
circadian clocks
insect endocrinology

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Rafael Fernández-Chacon

Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Spain

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
synapse
neurotransmitter release
synaptic maintenance
electrophysiology
neurodegeneration
synaptic vesicle cycle
neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

Experimental organism
mouse
Karim Fifel

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
circadian biology
dopamine
memory
motivation
mood disorders
neurodegenerative diseases
chronotherapy
Shelly B Flagel

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
addiction
reward learning
dopamine
animal models

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Patrick A Forcelli

Georgetown University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
epilepsy
behavioral pharmacology
circuits
toxicology
basal ganglia
neurophysiology
anti-seizure medications

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
non-human primates
Alex Fornito

Monash University, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
MRI
connectivity
networks
genetics
psychiatry
psychosis
schizophrenia
connectome

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Juan A Gallego

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
neurophysiology
motor learning
computational modelling
neuroprosthetics
computational systems neuroscience
neural populations
brain-computer interfaces
Florent Ginhoux

Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
dendritic cells
monocytes
macrophages
development
hematopoiesis

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Lisa Giocomo

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
circuit neuroscience
cellular
ion channels
behavior
electrophysiology
navigation
memory

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
Teresa Giraldez

Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
ion channels
neuronal excitability
channelopathies

Experimental organism
mouse
Julijana Gjorgjieva

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
systems modeling
synaptic plasticity
cortical development
Jesse H Goldberg

Cornell University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
dopamine
motor control
motor cortex
basal ganglia
songbird
reinforcement learning

Experimental organism
zebra finch
mouse
Marcel Goldschen-Ohm

University of Texas at Austin, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
ion channel structure and mechanisms
single molecule dynamics
single molecule fluorescence
patch-clamp electrophysiology
ligand binding
Christine Grienberger

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
learning and memory
synaptic plasticity
neurodegenerative diseases
dendritic integration
Theanne N Griffith

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
sensorimotor
somatosensation
pain
proprioception
somatosensory circuits
spinal cord
Iris Groen

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
visual perception
scene perception
computational modeling
fMRI
EEG/MEG
TMS
deep learning

Experimental organism
human
Jennifer M Groh

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sensory coding
neural representations
neural computation
spatial processing
auditory neuroscience
eye movement
multisensory processing

Experimental organism
human
rhesus macaque
Xiaosi Gu

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
fMRI
intracranial recording
social neuroscience
reinforcement learning
deep brain stimulation
digital phenotyping
computational psychiatry
Weiping Han

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
diabetes
enzymes
metabolism
obesity
secretion
exocytosis
Timothy D Hanks

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision making
neural mechanisms
Julia J Harris

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
behavior
olfaction
synapse
electrophysiology
memory
respiration
energy
Brandon Harvey

NIDA/NIH, Intramural Research Program, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroinflammation
ER stress
UPR
ER calcium
KDEL receptor
manf
stroke

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
human cells
Gaiti Hasan

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
calcium signaling
motor function
regulation of gene expression
IP3R
STIM
Orai

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Björn Herrmann

Baycrest, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory system
aging
hearing loss
auditory cognitive neuroscience
auditory perception
electrophysiology
psychophysics
speech perception

Experimental organism
human
P Robin Hiesinger

Institute for Biology Free University Berlin, Germany

Expertise
Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain development
synapse
neurogenetics
membrane trafficking
Drosophila
neurodegeneration
computational modelling
live-cell imaging

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
organoids
Matthew N Hill

University of Calgary, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
stress
cannabinoids
anxiety
amygdala
fear
feeding
endocannabinoids

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Margaret S Ho

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
glia
neurodegenerative disease
protein degradation
neuron-glia interactions
inflammation
innate behaviors

Experimental organism
Drosophila
mouse
Nathan Holmes

UNSW Sydney, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
attention
learning
memory
Catarina Homem

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
neurobiology
stem cells
neural stem cells
tumor metabolism
transcription regulation
cellular metabolism
cell fate regulation
tumors
neuron differentiation
maturation

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Sakiko Honjoh

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
cortex
thalamus
in vivo extracellular recordings
Xiaoqing Hu

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
episodic memory
emotional memory
memory reactivation
memory control/forgetting
social learning
cognitive neuroscience
Susie Y Huang

Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
development
translation
magnetic resonance imaging
Krystel R Huxlin

University of Rochester, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
perceptual learning
vision loss
vision rehabilitation
nerve regeneration
visual plasticity
Bradley Hyman

Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
tau
alzheimer
neuropathology
Mihaela D Iordanova

Concordia University, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
learning
memory
dopamine
amygdala
prefrontal cortex
prediction error
fear
reward

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Aya Ito-Ishida

Keio University School of Medicine, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse formation
circuit development
cerebellum
neurodevelopmental disorders
Rett syndrome

Experimental organism
mouse
Alicia Izquierdo

University of California, Los Angeles, USA, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioral and systems neuroscience
frontal cortex
reward learning
value learning
behavioral flexibility
value-based decision making
Andres Jara-Oseguera

University of Texas at Austin, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels
membrane transport proteins
nociception
voltage-activated channels
cellular excitability
pain-signaling
Saad Jbabdi

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain
magnetic resonance imaging
big data
connectivity
computational anatomy
Gaspar Jekely

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
nervous system evolution
marine larvae
cilia
sensory systems
eukaryogenesis
neuromodulation

Experimental organism
P. dumerilii
C. hemisphaerica
N. vectensis
Trichoplax
Joshua Johansen

RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
aversive learning and memory
amygdala
locus coeruleus
noradrenaline
neural circuits
behavioral neuroscience
brainstem
prefrontal

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Tihana Jovanic

Neuro-PSI, UMR-9197, CNRS, UPSaclay, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
behavior
neuromodulation
sensorimotor
internal state
decisions

Experimental organism
drosophila
Thorsten Kahnt

National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, NIH, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
associative learning
decision making
reward
olfaction
orbitofrontal cortex
dopamine
connectivity

Experimental organism
human
Koichi Kawakami

National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
organogenesis
disease models
biotechnology
optogenetics
transposable elements
behavior
brain function
neural circuits

Experimental organism
zebrafish
Shella Keilholz

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimaging
functional MRI
brain network models
brain dynamics
Caleb Kemere

Rice University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
computational tools for hippocampal electrophysiological signals
place cells
replay
hippocampal rhythms
Tali Kimchi

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
animal behavior
social behaviour
reproductive neuroethology
sensory perception
pheromone
sexual dimorphism
aggression
sexual behavior
oxytocin
dopamine

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
mole rat
Peter Kok

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
perception
neuroimaging
fMRI
visual perception
prediction
expectation
predictive coding

Experimental organism
human
Nils Kolling

Stem-cell and Brain Institute (SBRI), U1208 Inserm, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision making
learning
neural mechanisms
Genevieve Konopka

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
comparative genomics
autism
schizophrenia
neurogenomics
cognition
language
molecular neuroscience

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Paschalis Kratsios

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuronal development
transcription factors
chromatin factors
neuronal identity
genetics

Experimental organism
C. elegans
mouse
Kristine Krug

University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual perception
sensory systems
decision-making
electrophysiology
neuroanatomy

Experimental organism
human
rhesus macaque
primates
Ryan T LaLumiere

University of Iowa, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
addiction
memory
learning
reward
behavior

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Angela Langdon

National Institute of Mental Health, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
reward learning
decision making
dopamine
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

Expertise
Medicine
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolution
gene/genome duplications
cellular and molecular neuroscience
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
neuropeptides
endocrine peptides
phototransduction
ligand-gated ion channels

Experimental organism
human
zebrafish
Peter Latham

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
bayesian inference
network dynamics
neural coding
synaptic plasticity
Daeyeol Lee

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision making
reinforcement learning
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
neural coding
timing

Experimental organism
human
rat
rhesus macaque
Taraz Lee

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive control
motor skills
TMS
fMRI
reward
motivation
working memory
Scott F Leiser

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
aging
longevity
hypoxia
geroscience
proteostasis
stress response
flavin-containing monooxygenase
healthspan
Jason Lerch

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
biomedical imaging
computational biology
data science
Jian Li

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
reinforcement learning
decision making
social cognition
fMRI
dopamine
neuromodulation
oxytocin

Experimental organism
human
Mimi Liljeholm

University of California, Irvine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
learning
decision making
reasoning
reinforcement learning
social cognition
Sukbin Lim

New York University Shanghai, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
neural circuits
synaptic plasticity
working memory
decision-making
Xiaorong Liu

University of Virginia, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
retina
retinal ganglion cell
retinal degeneration
glaucoma
in vivo imaging
optic nerve
axon bundles

Experimental organism
mouse
tree shrew
Mychael V Lourenco

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
Alzheimer's disease
synaptic plasticity
translational control
hormones
memory
neurodegeneration
biomarkers
Xin-Yun Lu

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
chronic stress
neurodegeneration
depression
synaptic plasticity
behavior
Farah Lubin

University of Alabama, Birmingham, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory and synaptic plasticity
learning
gene transcription
neurodevelopment
developmental disabilities
epilepsy disorders
non-coding RNAs
Lan Ma

Fudan University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
addiction
stem cells
Tianyi Mao

Vollum Institute, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
thalamus
cortex
basal ganglia
connectome
imaging

Experimental organism
mouse
Bianca Jones Marlin

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenetics
transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
trauma
neuroepigenetics
parental behaviour
oxytocin
Andrea E Martin

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
language
speech
cognition
computational modeling
oscillations
structured representations in neural systems
magnetoencephalography (MEG)
electroencephalography (EEG)
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
Pascal Martin

Institut Curie, France

Expertise
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
active mechanical processes
hair cells of the inner ear
molecular motors and the cytoskeleton
oscillations
mechanosensitivity
frequency selectivity
in vitro reconstituted motor systems

Experimental organism
rat
Xenopus
Michael A McDannald

Boston College, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
fear
uncertainty
optogenetics
electrophysiology
PTSD
pavlovian
Zoe A McElligott

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
optogenetics
psychiatric illness
whole-cell electrophysiology
chemogenetics
caspase ablation
behavioral assays
Mitul Mehta

King's College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
psychopharmacology
neuroimaging
schizophrenia
depression
dopamine
glutamate
novel therapeutics
Markus Meister

California Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
computational neuroscience
theoretical neuroscience
systems neuroscience
vision
retina
superior colliculus
electrophysiology
magnetoreception
Ming Meng

South China Normal University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
perception
attention
consciousness
psychophysics
fMRI
visual cortex

Experimental organism
human
Hugo Merchant

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neurophysiology
timing
time perception
premotor areas
parieto-prefrontal circuit
computational neuroscience

Experimental organism
non-human primates
Lisa Monteggia

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
depression
antidepressant
synaptic plasticity
synaptic transmission
rett syndrome
transcriptional regulation
neurotrophins
epigenetics
Mecp2

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Eilif B Muller

University of Montreal, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
neocortex
plasticity
learning
deep learning
Nara I Muraro

Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
patch-clamp electrophysiology
behavior
ion channels
neuronal circuits
circadian rhythms
sleep
neuropeptides

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Richard Naud

University of Ottawa, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
neural coding
dendritic computation
learning and plasticity
Klaus-Armin Nave

Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuron-glia interactions
myelin-associated diseases
oligodendrocytes
schwann cells
Mark T. Nelson

The University of Vermont, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
calcium signaling
neurovascular coupling in the brain
vascular, cell and systems biology

Experimental organism
mouse
Jean-Paul Noel

University of Minnesota, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive and systems neuroscience
computational psychiatry
perception
multisensory integration
probabilistic inference
navigation
autism
embodied cognition

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates
mouse
Redmond G O'Connell

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
evidence accumulation
performance monitoring
attention
aging
electrophysiology
EEG
Jonas Obleser

University of Lübeck, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural dynamics
neural oscillations
audition
electrophysiology/EEG
functional neuroimaging
executive functions

Experimental organism
human
Izuchukwu Okafor

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
developmental biology
reproductive biology
gene expression
molecular biology
public health
reproductive health
medical education
anatomical sciences
neuroreproduction
Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry

KU Leuven, Belgium

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
eye movement
aging
proprioception
motor learning
motor adaptation
internal model
brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS)
Kassandra Ori-McKenney

University of California , United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
microtubules
microtubule-associated proteins
microtubule motors
tau neurofibrillary tangles
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mammalian cell culture
Harry Orr

University of Minnesota, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
molecular genetics
neurodegenerative disease
spinocerebellar ataxia
Srdjan Ostojic

École Normale Supérieure, France

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
computational neuroscience
network dynamics
neural computations
population coding
neural circuits
plasticity
Tiago Outeiro

University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodegeneration
molecular mechanisms
Linda Overstreet-Wadiche

University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
inhibition
GABA receptors
dentate gyrus
interneurons
adult neurogenesis
excitability

Experimental organism
mouse
Bamidele Owoyele

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
animal models
natural products
neuroinflammation
neurodegenerative diseases
pain
Parkinson's disease
gastrointestinal system
Richard Palmiter

University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
parabrachial nucleus
appetite
threats
neural circuits
CGRP
aversive events

Experimental organism
mouse
Candie Paulsen

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
TRP channels
ligand-gated ion channels
calcium regulation
membrane protein structural biology
cryo-EM of ion channels and membrane proteins
pain signaling
redox biology
signal transduction
Jonathan Peelle

Northeastern University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory
speech
language
hearing

Experimental organism
human
Leopoldo Petreanu

Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Portugal

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cortical circuits
vision
circuit mapping
cortical hierarchy
two-photon imaging
sensory cortex

Experimental organism
mouse
Adrien Peyrache

McGill University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
spatial navigation
sleep
memory consolidation
replay
neural coding

Experimental organism
mouse
Nicolás Pírez

Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
sensory physiology
olfactory system
neural circuits
circadian rhythms
learning and memory
behavior and genetics
in vivo imaging

Experimental organism
Drosophila melanogaster
mouse
Samuel Pleasure

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
circuit development
hippocampus
cerebral cortex
epilepsy
human
forebrain development
autoimmune encephalitis
morphogenic signals
mouse
multiple sclerosis
Markus Ploner

Technische Universität München, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
pain
brain
oscillations
synchrony
electroencephalography (EEG)

Experimental organism
human
Douglas Portman

University of Rochester, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenetics
behavioral genetics
behavioral plasticity
hypothamalus sex differences
neuronal development

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Murali Prakriya

Northwestern University, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
cell imaging
cellular electrophysiology
calcium signaling
ion channels
neurobiology
cell physiology

Experimental organism
mouse
Clare Press

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
action
perception
learning
prediction

Experimental organism
human
J Andrew Pruszynski

Western University, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
somatosensory system
reaching
grasping
reflexes
electrophysiology
neural coding

Experimental organism
human
R.macaque
Serge Przedborski

Columbia University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
Parkinson's disease
neurodegeneration
mitochondrial damage
motor neuron disease
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
astrocytes
autophagy
mitophagy
necroptosis
apoptosis

Experimental organism
human
Mani Ramaswami

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
RNA granules
RNA binding proteins
neuronal translational control
ALS models
inhibitory plasticity and memory
behavioral circuits
habituation
modulation of behaviour

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Supratim Ray

Indian Institute of Science, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
gamma
high-gamma
local field potential
electrocorticogram
primary visual cortex
attention
normalization
EEG

Experimental organism
non-human primates
human
Jennifer Raymond

Stanford School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
learning
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse
Tania Reis

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience

Research focus
obesity
energy homeostasis
RNA binding proteins
sex differences
alternative splicing

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Erin L Rich

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
prefrontal cortex
working memory
decision-making

Experimental organism
rhesus macaque
rat
Fred Rieke

HHMI, University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
non-human primates
computational neuroscience
biophysics

Experimental organism
mouse
Matthew J Rowan

Emory University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
dendrites
cortex
interneurons
proteomics
AAVs
alzheimer's
hyperexcitability
layer 2/3
Tomás J Ryan

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
engram
behavior
evolution
learning
neuroimmunology
development
instinct
Vitaly Ryu

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
pituitary hormones
neurogenesis
neural plasticity
neurobehavior
ingestive behavior
sympathetic and sensory innervation of fat
Jon T Sack

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
voltage gating
voltage clamp electrophysiology
ligand binding
allostery
rate theory modeling
thermodynamics
Juan C Sáez

Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
connexin
pannexin
innexin
neuroinflammation
neuromuscular diseases
Emilio Salinas

Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
saccade
choice
perception
attention
oculomotor
visuomotor
sensory-motor

Experimental organism
primates
non-human primates
human
Irene Salinas

University of New Mexico, United States

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
mucosal immunology
neuroimmunology
host-microbe interactions
evolutionary immunology
Andreas T Schaefer

The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction
neurotechnology
electrophysiology
synchrotron x-ray imaging
electron microscopy
sensory circuits
olfactory bulb
piriform cortex

Experimental organism
mouse
Anna C Schapiro

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
learning
neural network modeling
sleep-dependent consolidation

Experimental organism
human
Helen Scharfman

New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hippocampus
neuronal excitability
neurogenesis
brain-derived neurotrophic factor
neuroendocrinology
epilepsy
Alzheimer’s disease
Casey M Schneider-Mizell

Allen Institute for Brain Science, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
electron microscopy
connectomics
neural circuits
interneurons
network theory
neuronal morphology
computational neuroanatomy

Experimental organism
mouse
Drosophila
Annalisa Scimemi

University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic physiology
synaptic plasticity
synaptic integration
neurotransmitter transporters
astrocytes
modeling
hippocampus
basal ganglia
neurological disorders
Audrey Sederberg

Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
theoretical biophysics
computational neuroscience
neural dynamics
neural decoding
criticality
Amita Sehgal

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian rhythms
sleep
circuits
genes

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Eve Seuntjens

KU Leuven, Belgium

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
Development of the nervous system
neural stem cells
evolution of the nervous system
nothobranchius furzeri (African turquoise killifish)

Experimental organism
cephalopod
killifish
Rebecca Shansky

Northeastern University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
prefrontal cortex
fear conditioning
extinction
sex differences
neuroanatomy
dendritic spines
Tatyana O Sharpee

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural coding
information theory
natural scenes statistics

Experimental organism
mouse
Kang Shen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuronal cytoskeleton
neuronal cell biology
developmental neurobiology
Guangwei Si

Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction
computational neuroscience
neural circuits
neural representations
calcium imaging
connectome
microfluidics

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Roy V Sillitoe

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
cerebellum
dystonia
tremor
electrophysiology
mouse genetics
development

Experimental organism
mouse
Inna Slutsky

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cellular and circuit-level neuroscience
neuronal homeostasis
synaptic plasticity
synaptic transmission
Alzheimer's disease

Experimental organism
rodents
Jeffrey C Smith

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain stem

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Mariano Soiza-Reilly

Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
synapses
mood disorders
stress
serotonin
neuropharmacology
neuroanatomy
emotional behavior
Yan Song

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
developmental neurobiology
cell fate decisions
epigenetics
stem cells
neurodevelopmental disorders
transcriptional control
cell fate memory

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
Jing Sui

Beijing Normal University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
MRI
multimodal fusion
neuroimaging biomarker
individualized prediction
depression
ADHD
brain connectivity
brain development
Nicole C Swann

University of Oregon, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Parkinson's disease
electrophysiology
EEG/ECoG/iEEG
DBS
motor control

Experimental organism
human
Daniel Y Takahashi

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
social interaction
vocal learning
neurophysiology
computational modeling
ontogeny of behavior
Hiromu Tanimoto

Tohoku University, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
behavioral genetics
neuronal circuits
synapse
elementary nervous systems
translation
neuromodulation by monoamines and peptides
evolutionary neuroscience
psychophysics
psychochemistry

Experimental organism
invertebrates
Drosophila melanogaster
Cnidaria
jellyfish
Kristin Tessmar-Raible

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
chronobiology
marine
photobiology
rhythms
clocks
physiology

Experimental organism
platynereis
clunio
danio
medakafish
oryzias
Vatsala Thirumalai

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cerebellum
Purkinje neurons
locomotion
swimming
motor adaptation
central pattern generators
dopamine
excitability
development
gap junctions
darpp-32
optomotor response
synaptic transmission
neuromodulation
electrophysiology

Experimental organism
zebrafish
Muriel Thoby-Brisson

Université de Bordeaux, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural network
rhythmogenesis
motor activity
embryo
membrane properties
development

Experimental organism
mouse
Xing Tian

New York University Shanghai, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
EEG/MEG/intracranial EEG/fMRI
speech
sensorimotor integration
action
perception interaction
internal forward model
predictive coding
memory
language
mental imagery

Experimental organism
human
Fadel Tissir

University of Louvain, Belgium

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural progenitors
neuronal migration
polarity
axon guidance
neurodevelopmental disorders
ciliogenesis
cortical malformations
gene/genome editing

Experimental organism
mouse
Katalin Toth

University of Ottawa, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
neurotransmitter release
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
John C Tuthill

University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
sensory coding
motor control
locomotion
animal behavior
proprioception
weird insects

Experimental organism
drosophila
chionea
Naoshige Uchida

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
learning
dopamine
cognition
basal ganglia

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Hiroki R Ueda

RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
circadian
genetics
tissue clearing

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Nicolas Unsain

INIMEC-CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
axonal cytoskeleton
spectrin
actin
axon degeneration
super-resolution microscopy
expansion mycroscopy
Vidita Vaidya

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
anxiety
depression
antidepressant
serotonin
thyroid
early stress
BDNF

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Simon van Gaal

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
consciousness
perception
neuromodulation
decision making
cognitive control
EEG/fMRI
experimental psychology

Experimental organism
human
Ivan Velasco

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
embryonic stem cells
induced pluripotent stem cells
neural stem cells
CNS development
Parkinson's disease
animal models of neurological diseases
cell grafting
axonal guidance
regeneration
Patrik Verstreken

VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurodegeneration
synaptic communication
vesicle recycling at synapses

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
mouse
Petra E Vértes

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain networks
neuroimaging
complex systems

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Henrique von Gersdorff

Oregon Health and Science University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
exocytosis and endocytosis of synaptic vesicles
short and long-term plasticity in the retina and brainstem
electrophysiology of auditory pathway
ribbon synapses
Huili Wang

Hefei University of Technology, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
learning
memory
engram cell
neural circuits
gene-environment interactions
epigenetic regulation
Shuo Wang

Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
social
amygdala
attention
eye tracking
single-neuron recording
Ashley Webb

Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
aging
epigenetics
gene regulation
stem cells
hypothalamus

Experimental organism
mouse
Kunlin Wei

Peking University, Beijing, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
motor learning
motor rehabilitation
Andrew West

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurological disorders
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
human
rodents
Anne West

Duke University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
epigenetics
gene regulation
neuronal plasticity
neuronal development
transcription factors
BDNF

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
D. melanogaster
Alyssa M Wilson

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
single cell biology
multi-omics
neuroinformatics
cellular neuroanatomy
disease-related neurodegeneration
bioinformatics methods development

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Mathieu Wolff

CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioral neuroscience
systems neuroscience
learning and memory
adaptive behaviors
decision-making
thalamocortical circuits
prefrontal cortex
thalamus

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Doris Wu

National Institutes of Health, Section on Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
inner ear development
vestibular and cochlear patterning and development

Experimental organism
chicken
mouse
zebrafish
Gui Xue

Beijing Normal University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
episodic memory
working memory
fMRI
EEG
MEG
executive function
tDCS
iEEG
Yunlei Yang

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
glia
neural circuits
anxiety
diabetes
obesity
neuron
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory
songbird
plasticity
critical period
learning
Keqiang Ye

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Medicine
Cancer Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroscience
molecular cytobiology
cancer biology
neurodegenerative disease

Experimental organism
mouse
Qing Yu

Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
working memory
mental imagery
learning
memory
cognitive control
consciousness
fMRI
EEG/MEG

Experimental organism
human
Xiang Yu

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
developmental neuroscience
neural development
neural circuit development
synaptic plasticity
autism spectrum disorders

Experimental organism
mouse
Meet Zandawala

University of Nevada, Reno, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
neuropeptides
feeding
metabolism
GPCRs
endocrinology
osmoregulation

Experimental organism
Drosophila
invertebrates
Moriel Zelikowsky

University of Utah, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
social behaviors
emotion
aggression
neuropeptides
tachykinin
social isolation
Hang Zhang

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
computational modeling
decision making
cognition
learning
probabilistic structure
inductive bias
rational analysis
EEG/MEG

Experimental organism
human
Xilin Zhang

South China Normal University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
attention
perception
consciousness
emotion
perceptual learning
visual cortex
brain imaging
computational modeling
Juan Zhou

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain imaging
machine learning
aging
neurodegenerative disorders
psychosis
connectivity
Manuel Zimmer

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuronal circuit analysis
behavioural genetics
sleep and arousal
quantitative ethology

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Marta Zlatic

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodevelopment
neurobiology
sensory perception
neural circuits
behavior

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Natalie E Zlebnik

University of California, Riverside, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
addiction
dopamine
cannabinoids
nucleus accumbens
cocaine
relapse
craving
corticostriatal

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Moussa Zouache

University of Utah, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
visual neuroscience
population genetics
transcriptomics
proteomics
biology of aging
mathematical modelling
clinical research