Editors for Neuroscience

We aim to publish significant 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

Richard Aldrich

The University of Texas at Austin, United States

Rick Aldrich is the Karl Folkers Chair II in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and Professor of Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty in 2006 and served as chair until 2011. Previously he was on the faculty of Neurobiology (1985-1990) and of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (1990-2006) at Stanford University where he served as department chair from 2001–2004. He was an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1990 to 2006. His work is on molecular mechanisms of ion channels and calcium signaling proteins, with an emphasis on understanding gated conformational changes and allosteric mechanisms. Work in the laboratory is multidisciplinary including electrophysiology, biochemistry, spectroscopy, informatics and computation. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society. He is past president of the Biophysical Society and the Society of General Physiologists, and has received the Kenneth Cole Award for Membrane Physiology from the Biophysical Society and Alden Spencer Award for Neuroscience Research from Columbia University.

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
calcium binding proteins
membrane transport
allostery and cooperativity
cellular neurophysiology
biochemical neuroscience

Competing interests statement
Richard Aldrich is employed by The University of Texas at Austin. He receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society. He serves actively on the editorial boards of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of General Physiology.
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.
Olga Boudker

Weill Cornell Medicine, United States

Olga Boudker is an Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Boudker's lab uses crystallography and cryo-EM to define the high-resolution structures of key functional states of transporters; single molecule FRET TIRF microscopy and NMR to probe their dynamics; biochemical approaches and isothermal titration calorimetry to probe their function and energetics; and bioinformatics to follow their evolution.

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
membrane transporters
membrane biology
glutamate pumps
membrane protein structure and function
x-ray crystallography
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

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.
Ronald L Calabrese

Emory University, United States

Ron Calabrese earned his BS in Biochemistry from Cornell University and a PhD in Neurobiology from Stanford University. He has been on the Faculty of the Department of Biology, Emory University since 1986 and is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology and Senior Associate Dean for Research. Calabrese's research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of motor control by central pattern generator (CPG) networks and the importance and implications of individual variation for network function and motor performance. His group uses an invertebrate model system, leeches, and focuses on the CPG that controls the beating of the animals two coordinated hearts. His research closely integrates electrophysiological experiments and computational modeling. They are particularly excited about their discovery, in collaboration with GS Cymbalyuk, that the Na/K pump current contributes to the bursting dynamics of oscillator neurons that pace the CPG, and in their recent eLife publication on output variability across animals and levels in a the leech-heartbeat motor system. Calabrese has been actively engaged in training 12 doctoral students, 2 masters' students, and 22 postdoctoral fellows. In 2017, he received the Award for Education in Neuroscience of the Society for Neuroscience.

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor pattern generation
neuronal and small networks models
electrophysiological properties of neurons and synapse
computational neuroscience

Experimental organism
leech

Competing interests statement
Over the past 30 years, Ron Calabrese has been consistently supported by NIH R01 grants. Since 2015, Calabrese has been a regular member of the SMI study section of NIH.
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
hippocampus
in vivo physiology
entorhinal cortex
brain rhythms/oscillations
place cells
grid cells
memory

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 an Associate Editor for Progress in Neurobiology and a Review Editor for Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. She is a member of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (LAM) study section for the National Institutes of Health.
Jonathan A Cooper

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Jon Cooper is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and an Affiliate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington. After undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge and post-graduate research at the University of Warwick, he performed postdoctoral research with Bernard Moss at the NIH and with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute. With Tony, he found that oncogenic retroviruses (Rous sarcoma virus and others) and growth factors (EGF and PDGF) stimulate the tyrosine phosphorylation of overlapping subsets of cell proteins, which were candidates to regulate cell proliferation and metabolism. He joined Fred Hutch in 1985 to continue the work he started at the Salk, investigating the mechanisms by which protein kinases regulate cell proliferation and transformation. His laboratory played important roles in establishing how Src is regulated, how activated growth factor receptors recruit signaling proteins, and establishing Ras-Raf-MAPK signaling. In 1995, postdoc Brian Howell knocked out the gene for a Src substrate and observed a distinctive brain development phenotype. Efforts by several laboratories rapidly established a signaling pathway that regulates neuron migrations during brain development. Further studies on this pathway revealed the importance of ubiquitination and degradation for terminating signaling, and led in recent years to detailed investigation of the roles of Cullin-RING ligases in regulating signal transduction events in vivo and in cultured cells.

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
signaling pathways
cell migration
phosphorylation
cell transformation

Competing interests statement
Jon Cooper receives research grants from the NIH.
Floris de Lange

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands

Floris de Lange is a Professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands and Principal Investigator of the Predictive Brain Lab at the Donders Institute, where he studies how various forms of prior knowledge modify perception and decision-making, both in health and disease. He is an elected member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
perception
action
attention
learning
fMRI
EEG/MEG
TMS
behaviour/psychophysics

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Editorial duties include membership of the Wellcome Trust Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health Expert Review Group. Current funding includes ERC Starting Grant (European Research Committee, ERC), Vidi Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Award (Netherlands Science Foundation, NWO) and the James S McDonnell Scholar Award (McDonnell Foundation).
Catherine Dulac

Harvard University, United States

Catherine Dulac is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Her work explores the identity and function of neural circuits underlying instinctive social behaviors in mice, and the role of genomic imprinting in the adult and developing brain. She grew up in Montpellier, France, graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and received her PhD from the University of Paris VI. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and joined the faculty of Harvard as a junior faculty, before becoming full professor, and Chair of Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology from 2007 until 2013. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and of the French Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Philosophical Society. She is a recipient of multiple awards including the Richard Lounsbery Award, the National Academy’s Pradel Research Award, the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, and the Society for Neuroscience’s Ralph W. Gerard Prize.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cellular and molecular neuroscience
molecular and genetic basis of sex and species-specific social behavior
hypothalamic circuits
vomeronasal sensing
pheromone detection

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Catherine Dulac receives funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the Simons Foundation. She is a member of the editorial board of Current Opinion in Neurobiology. She is a member of selection committees for the following awards and prizes: Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, The Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, New York Stem Cell Foundation Innovator Awards in Neuroscience, The Brain Prize, and Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize. She also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the following organizations: Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, International Brain Lab, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (Trondheim), and NICHD Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), Boston Children’s Hospital. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Richard Lounsbery Foundation and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, is a member of The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences Steering Committee and is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Salk Institute.
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
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
cognitive control
reinforcement learning

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
computational neuroscience
systems neuroscience
decision-making
perception
arousal
learning
electrophysiology

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
biophysical studies of voltage-gated ion channels
synaptic physiology
thalamocortical networks
real-time seizure detection
dynamic clamp
multiphoton microscopy
biophysically constrained computational models

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.
Richard Ivry

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Rich Ivry is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. Ivry studies various aspects of human performance using behavioral studies in healthy and neurologically impaired populations, brain stimulation, neuroimaging, and computational modeling. His work has advanced our understanding of how people select and implement movements, and acquire new motor skills, with a special interest in how subcortical systems interact with the cortex in sensorimotor control and learning. For over a decade, Ivry served as an associate editor for the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and is co-author of the textbook, The Cognitive Neurosciences: The Biology of the Mind.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
psychology
non-invasive brain stimulation
sensorimotor control and learning
timing
attention
human performance

Competing interests statement
Rich Ivry receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Cerebellum.
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 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.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory processing
auditory perception
multisensory integration
sensory coding
adaptation
perceptual learning
in vivo physiology
neuroanatomy
psychophysics

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.
Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham is an electrical engineer turned neuroscientist who uses behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods to understand auditory processing and perception. Her interests span from sensory coding in the cochlea to influences of brain networks on auditory processing in cortex (and everything in between). She is the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, a position she took up after over two decades on the faculty of Boston University. In her copious spare time, she competes in saber fencing and plays the oboe/English horn. She received the 2019 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal and the 2013 Mentorship Award, both from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She is a Fellow of the ASA and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers, a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council, and a recipient of fellowships from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and the Vannevar Bush Fellows program.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory perception
auditory cognitive neuroscience
attention
sensory coding
fMRI
EEG
MEG
computational modeling

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Defense. She is on the editorial board of Auditory Perception and Cognition.
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

Research focus
ion channel proteins as molecular sensors
voltage-activated ion channels
Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels
ATP-activated P2X receptor channels
Mechanosensitive ion channels

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.
K VijayRaghavan

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

Vijay’s research aims to understand motor- and olfactory- circuit assembly: from deciphering how each component is made, interacts, and stabilises into functioning in the animal to allow behaviour in the real world. Related to the development of network function is its maintenance in the mature animal; another aspect of the work in the laboratory addresses how mature neurons and muscles are maintained. The laboratory uses a genetic approach, mainly using the fruit fly but also collaborating with those using mouse and cell-culture. VijayRaghavan is Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Department of Biotechnology. He temporarily holds additional charge of the Department of Biotechnology. VijayRaghavan’s research continues at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bangalore, India, where he is Distinguished Professor. He studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His doctoral work was at TIFR, Mumbai and postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. VijayRaghavan is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience

Research focus
genetics and genomics
developmental biology
neurogenetics
neurobiology
genetic basis of behavior

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
K VijayRaghavan currently receives research support from the Indo–French research agency CEFIPRA, and core support from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Previous support was from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), CEFIPRA, the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). VijayRaghavan serves on the Board of Governors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the HHMI, Chair of the Research Council of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, and Member of the Governing Council of the National Institute of Immunology. He is Associate Editor of BMC Developmental Biology, and a member of the editorial boards of Development, Seminars in Developmental Biology, and Bioconcepts. He is Chair of the Board of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a not-for-profit company of the National Centre for Biological Sciences and the stem cell institute, inStem, created to manage platform technologies and for technology transfer on the NCBS–inStem campus. He is a member of the board of the Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children, a not-for-profit school for disabled children in Chennai, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program.
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.
Gary Westbrook

Vollum Institute, United States

Gary Westbrook is a Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute and Rocky and Julie Dixon Professor of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Westbrook is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroscience. He has received Javits and Merit awards from NIH for his research as well as an International Cooperation Award from the Max Planck Society. Dr. Westbrook received his medical training and did graduate study in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Neurology, and basic neuroscience research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Earlier work in his lab was mostly directed at the level of receptors, particularly N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and the function of single synapses. The emphasis has now largely shifted to studies of small networks (microcircuits) in the hippocampus. Dr. Westbrook maintains interests in clinical neurology, particularly epilepsy, as well as graduate research training. He was co-Director of the Vollum Institute (2005-2015) and director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Vollum/OHSU (2008-2018).

Expertise
Neuroscience
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
synaptic transmission
synaptic plasticity
ligand-gated ion channels
hippocampus
olfactory bulb
epilepsy
in vitro physiology
activity-dependent gene expression

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Gary Westbrook is employed by Oregon Health and Science University. He receives research and training funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Ellison Medical Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on Scientific Advisory Boards for Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen (MPIEM) and Florida (MPFI), the Myelin Repair Foundation, and on study sections for the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a member of editorial boards for Physiological Reviews and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Huda Zoghbi

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, United States, United States

Huda Zoghbi is Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. She is also an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on understanding normal brain development and on elucidating the pathogenesis of several neurological disorders including the autism spectrum disorder, Rett syndrome, and late-onset neurodegenerative diseases.

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurobiology of disease
animal models of human disease and behavioural sciences
neurodegenerative disorders
polyglutamine disorders
autism
synaptic disorders
neurogenetics

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Huda Zoghbi is actively receiving funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, Rett Syndrome Research Trust, International Rett syndrome Foundation (and she is a member of advisory panels for all four organizations), Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children’s Hospital. She is Editor-in-chief of Annual Reviews of Neuroscience and a member of the editorial team of Cell and Neuron. She is immediate past President of the McKnight Neuroscience Fund and a member of the following Scientific Advisory Panels: Shaw Prize Jury, Breakthrough Prize Jury, and Vilcek Prize Jury; and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Denali Therapeutics and The Column Group. She is also a member of Regeneron’s Board.

Reviewing editors

D Nora Abrous

Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenesis
pathophysiology

Experimental organism
mouse
Susan L Ackerman

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodegeneration
neurodevelopment
cerebellum
mouse genetics

Experimental organism
mouse
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
Paola Arlotta

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
murine cerebral cortex development
In vitro models
3D cerebral organoids
neural stem cells

Experimental organism
mouse
Adam Aron

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive control
imaging
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
EEG
TMS
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
mouse
David Badre

Brown University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
prefrontal cortex
cognitive control
executive function
memory

Experimental organism
human
Chris I Baker

National Institute of Mental Health, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
objects
faces
scenes
learning
plasticity
vision

Experimental organism
human
Morgan Barense

University of Toronto, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
perception
amnesia
dementia
fMRI
neuropsychology

Experimental organism
human
Allan Basbaum

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
nociceptor
dorsal horn
neuropathic pain
itch
spinal cord
gabaergic progenitor cell transplant
neuroanatomical methods

Experimental organism
mouse
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
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
Dwight Bergles

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
glia function
neuron-glia interactions
Gordon Berman

Emory University, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
theorectical and computational biophysics
animal behavior
bio-locomotion
computational neuroscience
machine learning
dimensionality reduction
dynamical systems

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
rat
human
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
Anita Bhattacharyya

University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disorders
brain development
pluripotent stem cell

Experimental organism
human
Alexander Borst

Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computation
vision
insect
motion detection
neurogenetics
compartmental modeling

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Michael Breakspear

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
computational neuroscience
clinical neuroscience
Nils Brose

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
synapses
synaptogenesis
transmitter release
synaptic plasticity
synaptopathies
Axel T Brunger

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurotransmitter release
membrane fusion
signaling
structural biology
computational biology

Experimental organism
mouse
Neil Burgess

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hippocampus
episodic memory
spatial navigation
human short term memory

Experimental organism
human
rat
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
Constance Cepko

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
developmental neurobiology
viral vectors
retina
blindness
Maria Chait

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory neuroscience
Baron Chanda

University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
voltage-gating
ligand-activation
allosteric signaling
single channel electrophysiology
single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
voltage clamp fluorometry
Moses V Chao

New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
trophic factors
receptor signal transduction
growth factors
Joseph F Cheer

University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cannabinoids
endocannabinoids
dopamine
accumbens
ventral tegmental area
reward
motivation
Lu Chen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
mouse
Eunji Cheong

Yonsei University, South Korea

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
thalamocortical circuits
T-type Ca2+ channels
excitability of neurons
sleep control
glia-neuron interaction
thalamus
sensory processing
Isaac Chiu

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimmunology
pain
microglia
somatosensation
infection
Don Cleveland

University of California San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
mitosis
chromosome movement
spindle assembly
motor neuron disease
axonal growth
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
Cynthia M Czajkowski

University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
ligand-gated ion channels
structure-function
drug modulation
Yang Dan

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
prefrontal cortex
circuits
optogenetics
cell type

Experimental organism
mouse
Graeme W Davis

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodegeneration
neural development
synaptic transmission
plasticity

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Ruth de Diego-Balaguer

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
language
learning
attention
memory
development
neuroimaging
Sachin Deshmukh

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hippocampus
place cells
LEC
MEC
grid cells
theta oscillations
phase precession
tetrode
cognitive map
perirhinal cortex
olfactory bulb
spatial navigation
landmarks
path integration

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Claude Desplan

New York University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
evo-devo
neural development
retina
vision
color vision
stochasticity

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
ants
Jörn Diedrichsen

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
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
Laura Dugué

Université Paris Descartes, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognition
attention
perception
psychophysics
EEG/MEG
fMRI
TMS
computational modelling
oscillations
Joel K Elmquist

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hypothalamus
feeding
energy balance
diabetes
obesity
autonomic
vagus
sympathetic nervous system
exercise
fasting

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
Birte Forstmann

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
magnetic resonance imaging
brain
decision making
model-based cognitive neuroscience

Experimental organism
human
John D Fryer

Mayo Clinic, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
neurodegeneration
Alzheimer's disease
microglia

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Sonia Garel

Ecole Normale Superieure, France

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
brain development
plasticity
neuroglial interactions
microglia

Experimental organism
mouse
Claire Gillan

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
reinforcement learning
goal-directed planning
habit
compulsivity
psychiatric taxonomy
computational psychiatry
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
David D Ginty

HHMI, Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
somatosensation
mouse molecular genetics
sensory neuron development
sensory neuron physiology
spinal cord physiology
development of the peripheral nervous system

Experimental organism
mouse
Lisa Giocomo

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
rodents
navigation
memory
learning
electrophysiology

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Aryn Gittis

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
basal ganglia
Parkinson's disease
motor learning
globus pallidus
intrinsic excitability
Joseph G Gleeson

The Rockefeller University, United States

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disease
brain development
neurogenetics
autism
epilepsy
intellectual disability
organoid
stem cells
genomics
bioinformatics

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Alison Goate

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Alzheimer's disease
addiction genetics
genomics
microglia
genetic risk
dementia
iPSC-models of disease

Experimental organism
human
iPSC
Yukiko Goda

RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
homeostatic plasticity
release probability
synapse-astrocyte interaction
dendritic spine
NMDA receptors
AMPA receptors
hippocampus

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Michel Goedert

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
tau
alpha-synuclein
neurodegeneration
protein misfolding
amyloid
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
Leslie C Griffith

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
circuit
behavior
CaMKII
sleep

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Timothy D Griffiths

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory
cognition
neurology
imaging

Experimental organism
human
macaque
Saskia Haegens

Columbia University, United States
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain oscillations
sensory systems
attention
decision making
EEG/MEG
electrophysiology
alpha rhythm
beta rhythm
Brandon Harvey

NIDA/NIH, Intramural Research Program, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
ER stress
ER calcium
neuroinflammation
gene therapy
cellular neuroscience
gene delivery

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
human cells
Moritz Helmstaedter

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
connectomics
cerebral cortex
electron microscopy
image analysis

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Matthew N Hill

University of Calgary, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
cannabinoids
addiction
behavioral neuroscience
Argye E Hillis

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
stroke recovery
aphasia
functional imaging
transcranial direct current stimulation
Oliver Hobert

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
microRNAs
epigenetics
developmental neurobiology

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Yuichi Iino

University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
chemotactic behavior
behavioral genetics
behavioral plasticity
learning

Experimental organism
C. elegans
nematode
Mihaela D Iordanova

Concordia University, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioural and systems neuroscience
associative learning
memory
fear
reward
learning theory
rodents
Muireann Irish

University of Sydney, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognition
dementia
neurodegeneration
episodic memory
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
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
Ingrid Johnsrude

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuropsychology
auditory cognitive neuroscience
speech
perceptual psychology
aging
cognitive psychology
language
Thorsten Kahnt

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
learning
decision making
olfaction
orbitofrontal cortex
dopamine
computational modeling
fMRI
transcranial magnetic stimulation

Experimental organism
human
Julie Kauer

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
opioids
electrophysiology
brain slice
optogenetics
addiction

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Mary B Kennedy

California Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
synaptic regulation
biochemical signal transduction networks
systems biology

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Eunjoon Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse adhesion and synapse development
synaptic transmission and plasticity
neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders
autism spectrum disorders
intellectual disability

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Tali Kimchi

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
social behaviors
wild mice
pheromone
hypothalamus

Experimental organism
mouse
David Kleinfeld

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
active sensing
blood flow
brainstem
neuronal circuitry
optical imaging
sensorimotor control
Vibrissa
whisking
orofacial
vasculature

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
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
Rohini Kuner

Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
pain
nociception
neural circuits
mouse models

Experimental organism
mouse
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
evolution
gene/genome duplications
cellular and molecular neuroscience
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
neuropeptides
endocrine peptides
hypothalamus
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

Yale University School of Medicine, 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
Stephen Liberles

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sensory neuroscience
olfaction
vagus nerve
interoception
autonomic

Experimental organism
mouse
Mary Kay Lobo

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
molecular neuroscience
basal ganglia
reward circuit
addiction
stress
mitochondria
Paul Lucassen

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
structural plasticity
adult neurogenesis
hippocampus
stem cells
Huan Luo

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
attention
auditory neuroscience
speech
sequence memory
EEG/MEG
neural dynamics

Experimental organism
human
Merritt Maduke

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
chloride ion channels
transporters
electrophysiology
structure-function
membrane protein biophysics
ultrasonic neuromodulation

Experimental organism
E. coli
mouse
Tamar Makin

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
plasticity
reorganisation
neuroimaging
body representation
sensorimotor control
assistive technology
deprivation
touch

Experimental organism
human
Gail Mandel

Oregon Health and Science University, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience

Research focus
central nervous system
gene expression
disease models

Experimental organism
mouse
human cells
Olivier Manzoni

Aix Marseille University, INSERM, INMED, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurophysiology
synaptic plasticity
synaptopathies
endocannabinoids
addiction
cannabis
autism
mental retardation
pathophysiology of synaptic plasticity
Tianyi Mao

Vollum Institute, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
thalamus
cortex
basal ganglia
connectome
imaging

Experimental organism
mouse
Andrea E Martin

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

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
oscillations
computational modeling
neuroimaging
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
Carol Mason

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual system development
cell adhesion
axon guidance
neuron-glial interactions
Peggy Mason

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
nociceptive modulation
pain
serotonin
empathy
bulbospinal modulation

Experimental organism
rat
Margaret M McCarthy

University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
neuroendocrinology
neuroimmunology
steroids
microglia
mast cells
astrocytes
social behaviors
endocannabinoids
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
cognitive neuroscience
motor control
timing
time perception

Experimental organism
human
rhesus macaque
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
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
Sacha B Nelson

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
genome-wide gene expression in the nervous system
cellular and systems neurophysiology
forebrain development and function
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
other mammals
Redmond G O'Connell

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
evidence accumulation
performance monitoring
attention
aging
electrophysiology
EEG
Timothy O'Leary

Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurobiology
control engineering
neuromodulation
neural circuits
feedback mechanisms
Jonas Obleser

University of Lübeck, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
human
Harry Orr

University of Minnesota, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
molecular genetics
neurodegenerative disease
spinocerebellar ataxia
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
Stephanie Palmer

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroscience of vision
neural computation
prediction

Experimental organism
rodents
Richard Palmiter

University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
genetics and behaviour
body weight control
catecholamines
mitochondria

Experimental organism
mouse
Tatiana Pasternak

University of Rochester, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
central visual pathways
visual attention
visual perception
working memory
prefrontal cortex
extrastriate cortex
motion perception
high level vision

Experimental organism
macaque
Marius V Peelen

Radboud University, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
high-level vision
attention
neuroimaging
concepts
object
social cognition

Experimental organism
human
Jonathan Peelle

Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
language
speech
auditory neuroscience
auditory
neuroimaging
fMRI
VBM
aging
hearing loss

Experimental organism
human
Serge Przedborski

Columbia University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
human
Louis Ptacek

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenetics
circadian rhythms
sleep
episodic disorders

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Joseph V Raimondo

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
epilepsy
chloride
GABA
pH
inhibitory plasticity
neurocysticercosis
Mani Ramaswami

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurogenetics
neural circuits
olfaction
learning and memory
mechanisms of neuronal translational control
mRNA localization
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
insects
Jennifer Raymond

Stanford School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
learning
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse
Tobias Reichenbach

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory neuroscience
cochlear mechanics
computational modelling
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
Fred Rieke

HHMI, University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
non-human primates
computational neuroscience
biophysics

Experimental organism
mouse
Anna Wang Roe

Zhejiang University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual cortex
optical imaging
UHF MRI
electrophysiology
non-Human primate (NHP)
optical stimulation
behavior
Jonathan Roiser

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
depression
cognition
neuroimaging
psychopharmacology
dopamine
serotonin
computational psychiatry
Emilio Salinas

Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
attention
decision-making
eye movement
perception
choice behavior
frontal eye field
network model

Experimental organism
primates
human
Samantha R Santacruz

The University of Texas at Austin, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
experimental neuroscience
network dynamics
neuromodulation
electrophysiology
brain-machine interfaces
machine learning
signal processing
Andreas T Schaefer

The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction

Experimental organism
mouse
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
Margaret L Schlichting

University of Toronto, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
episodic memory
cognition
brain development
hippocampus
prefrontal cortex
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
Geoffrey Schoenbaum

National Institute on Drug Abuse, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
orbitofrontal
dopamine
associative learning
neurophysiology
addiction

Experimental organism
rat
Kristin Scott

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sensory
gustatory processing
receptors
neural circuits

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Rebecca Seal

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurotransmitter transporters
pain
basal ganglia
Parkinson's disease

Experimental organism
mouse
macaque
Amita Sehgal

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian rhythms
sleep
circuits
genes

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Piali Sengupta

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
cilia biology
sensory transduction
chemosensation
thermosensation
behavior

Experimental organism
C. elegans
John T Serences

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
attention
working memory
short-term memory
decision making
neural coding
information processing
Thomas Serre

Brown University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
deep learning
computational vision
computational modeling
monkey electrophysiology
psychophysics
Alexander J Shackman

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
affective/translational neuroscience
dimensional models of psychopathology
emotion
multimodal brain imaging
fear and anxiety
individual differences
EMA/ESM
psychiatric disorders
Kang Shen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuronal cytoskeleton
neuronal cell biology
developmental neurobiology
Jiwon Shim

Hanyang University, South Korea

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
hematopoiesis
inter-organ interaction
sensory neuron

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Frances K Skinner

Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
mathematical modeling
hippocampus
inhibitory cells and microcircuits
nonlinear dynamics
oscillations
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
Lois Smith

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
mouse
Nahum Sonenberg

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
biochemistry
mRNA translation
cancer
autism
learning and memory
4EBP
eIF4E
translational control

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
Beth Stevens

Boston Children's Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
microglia
neuron-glia interactions
synapse loss
neuro-immune interactions
activity-dependent circuit refinement

Experimental organism
mouse
Nicole C Swann

University of Oregon, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
electrophysiology
EEG/ECoG/iEEG
DBS
Parkinson's disease
oscillations
LFPs
cortex
basal ganglia

Experimental organism
human
J Paul Taylor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
liquid-liquid phase separation
RNA granules
biomolecular condensates
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
Kristin Tessmar-Raible

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology
Ecology

Research focus
chronobiology
marine biology
photobiology
behavior
reproductive timing
seasons
lunar rhythms
tool establishment for "non-conventional animal models”

Experimental organism
P. dumerilii
C. marinus
zebrafish
medakafish
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
Katalin Toth

Université Laval, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
neurotransmitter release
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Naoshige Uchida

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
learning
dopamine
cognition
basal ganglia

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Eilon Vaadia

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor cortex
sensorimotor learning
brain machine interface
cortical dynamics
neuronal synchrony
oscillations
active inference
motor control
Vidita Vaidya

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurocircuitry of emotion
depression
behavioural disorders

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Mark CW van Rossum

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
synaptic plasticity
noise in neural systems
the early visual system
retina
Gaël Varoquaux

INRIA, France

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
human brain connectivity
machine learning

Experimental organism
human
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
Timothy Verstynen

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroscience
white matter
brain sensorimotor pathways
plasticity
action planning
decision-making
complex skill learning
obesity
basal ganglia
striatum
drift diffusion models
attractor networks

Experimental organism
human
Martin Vinck

Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
neural coding
vision
computation
behavioral State
functional connectivity
cell types
oscillations
predictive coding

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
human
R.macaque
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
transcriptional mechanisms
synapse development and plasticity
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
Claire Wyart

Institut du Cerveau et la Moelle épinière, France

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
locomotion
behavior
interoception
cerebrospinal fluid
motor control
optogenetics
sensory feedback

Experimental organism
zebrafish
mouse
macaque
Valentin Wyart

École normale supérieure, PSL University, INSERM, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
EEG/MEG
psychophysics
computational modeling of decision-making
attention
awareness
metacognition
Ryohei Yasuda

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
dendritic spines
long-term potentiation
signal transduction
Gary Yellen

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
neuronal metabolism and excitability
fluorescent biosensors
Gene W Yeo

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
RNA biology
computational biology
CRISPR
neurodegeneration
single cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Thomas Yeo

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
fMRI
brain connectivity

Experimental organism
human
Manuel Zimmer

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
C. elegans