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
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

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.
Chris I Baker

National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, United States

Chris Baker is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Learning and Plasticity at the National Institute of Mental Healthealth. His research focuses on understanding how the structure, function and selectivity of the cortex support high-level vision (e.g. scene perception, face perception) and how those properties change with experience or impairment, even in adulthood. He received his PhD from the University of St Andrews (with David Perrett) and completed postdoctoral training at Carnegie Mellon University (with Carl Olson and Marlene Behrmann) and MIT (with Nancy Kanwisher).

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
vision
learning
plasticity
faces
scenes
objects

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates

Competing interests statement
Chris Baker is affiliated with the NIH.
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.
Marianne E Bronner

California Institute of Technology, United States

Marianne Bronner is a developmental biologist with a long-standing interest in specification, migration and differentiation of neural crest stem cells. Using a pan-vertebrate approach, her lab has been systematically studying the gene regulatory network responsible for neural crest formation and evolutionary origin. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Marianne’s family escaped to Austria during the Hungarian revolution when she was a small child. She received her ScB in Biophysics from Brown University and then a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. She assumed her first faculty position at the University of California, Irvine, before moving to Caltech in 1996. Marianne received the Conklin Medal from The Society for Developmental Biology in 2013, the Women in Cell Biology Senior Award from the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012, as well as several teaching awards from her institution. She was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
evo-devo
cell lineage
cell migration
developmental neurobiology

Experimental organism
chick
zebrafish
lamprey

Competing interests statement
Marianne Bronner is employed by the California Institute of Technology and receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is on the board of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and member of several other societies (e.g., Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Cell Biology, Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Differentiation). In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she is a Chief Editor for Natural Sciences and serves as monitoring editor for Journal of Cell Biology, PLOS Biology and PNAS. She is presently on the boards of the Sontag Foundation and Curci Foundation as well as the Conference Evaluation Committee of the Gordon Research Conferences.
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.
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.
Jeannie Chin

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Jeannie Chin is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular, circuit, and network mechanisms underlying cognitive and behavioral impairments in Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders. Her research program utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach ranging from RNA- and ChIP-sequencing to EEG and behavioral studies, as well as pharmacological, viral, and genetic strategies to interrogate novel therapeutic targets. She received her PhD from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and completed postdoctoral training at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease & UCSF. She then worked at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (later Pfizer) before returning to academia.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurobiology of disease
neurodegeneration
Alzheimer's disease
epilepsy
activity-dependent gene expression
epigenetics
hippocampus
neurogenesis
sleep
thalamic reticular nucleus

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Jeannie Chin receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Neurodegeneration Consortium at MD Anderson, and Baylor College of Medicine. She is also an Associate Editor at Progress in Neurobiology.
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Suzanne R Pfeffer

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Suzanne Pfeffer is the Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an expert in the field of membrane trafficking in the secretory and endocytic pathways, and her research currently focuses on the molecular basis of LRRK2-mediated, familial Parkinson's Disease and Niemann Pick Type C disease, with emphasis on Rab GTPase regulation and cholesterol export from lysosomes. She is a past President of the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
membrane trafficking
endosomes
lysosomes
Golgi complex
neurodegeneration
Parkinson's disease
endocytosis
secretory pathway
Rab GTPase
primary cilia

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Suzanne Pfeffer's research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation funded NCCR program in Chemical Biology at the EPFL and University of Geneva, and she is a chartered member of the NIH NCSD review panel. Suzanne Pfeffer also serves as Co-Section Head for Membranes and Sorting, Faculty of 1000.
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.
Piali Sengupta

Brandeis University, United States

Piali Sengupta is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Brandeis University. Dr Sengupta completed her PhD at MIT, and postdoctoral training with Dr Cori Bargmann at UCSF. Her lab uses the C. elegans experimental system to investigate the mechanisms by which animals sense and respond to environmental cues in a context- and experience-dependent manner. In one line of research, her lab examines how sensory cilia are generated and specialized for the unique functions of each neuron type. A second major focus is to identify the molecular and genetic pathways by which neurons sense and transduce chemical and thermal cues, and describe how this information is translated into specific developmental and behavioral responses. She is a MERIT awardee from the NIH, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served as elected Treasurer of the Genetics Society of America.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
cilia biology
sensory transduction
chemosensation
thermosensation
behavior

Experimental organism
C. elegans

Competing interests statement
Dr Sengupta’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She has served on the NCF and NDPR study sections at the NIH, serves as ad hoc member of additional NIH panels, and was on the Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program. She is an Advisory Board Member of PLOS Biology, and on the Editorial Boards of PLOS Biology, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, and Section Editor (Neurobiology and Behavior) of WormBook (in Genetics). She previously served on the Editorial Boards of Genetics, eNeuro, Genes Brain and Behavior, BMC Neuroscience, and Developmental Neurobiology.
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
hearing
auditory
attention
sensory processing spatial perception
cortical networks
oscillations
cognitive neuroscience
cochlea

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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Sofia J Araujo

University of Barcelona, Spain

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
morphogenesis
organogenesis
tubulogenesis
cell migration
axon guidance
branching morphogenesis
cytoskeletal dynamics
tissue repair

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
David Badre

Brown University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
prefrontal cortex
cognitive control
executive function
memory

Experimental organism
human
Claudia Bagni

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
cancer
intellectual disability
Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam

ICMR Emeritus Scientist, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India

Expertise
Medicine
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
disease biology
diabetes
aging
omnics
calcium signaling
endocrine disruptors
probiotics
molecular medicine
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
pain
itch
nociceptor
spinal cord
imaging
neuroanatomy

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
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
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
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
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
neural development
neurodevelopmental disorders
neurogenesis
iPSCs
Down syndrome
intellectual disability

Experimental organism
human
Yanchao Bi

Beijing Normal University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
semantic memory
language
knowledge representation
object representation
cognitive neuroscience
cognitive neuropsychology
Roberto Bonasio

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
noncoding RNAs
ants
epigenetics
chromatin
genes and behavior
Polycomb
Planarians
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
Paola Bovolenta

Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Spain

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
developmental neurobiology
visual system development
gene regulatory networks
cell signalling
neurodegeneration
neuroinflammation
Alzheimer's disease
Laura A Bradfield

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioural neuroscience
rodent models
decision-making
reward circuit

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Nils Brose

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
synapses
transmitter release
synaptogenesis
synaptic transmission
synaptopathies

Experimental organism
mouse
brain slices
cultured neurons
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
Denise Cai

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
learning and memory
spatial navigation
sleep
hippocampus
calcium imaging

Experimental organism
mouse
Nicole Calakos

Duke University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity mechanisms
striatum
basal ganglia
habit
compulsion
movement disorders
Marco Capogna

University of Aarhus, Denmark

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
amygdala
hippocampus
cerebral cortex
synaptic transmission
GABAergic interneurons
electrophysiology
imaging

Experimental organism
mouse
Albert Cardona

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
neuroscience
connectomics
electron microscopy
neural circuits
image processing

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
Charlotte Cecil

Erasmus MC, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
epigenetics
DNA methylation
psychiatric disorders
development
(early life) stress
epidemiology
birth cohort
child mental health
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
Joseph F Cheer

University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motivation
addiction
cannabinoids
endocannabinoids
dopamine
accumbens
ventral tegmental area

Experimental organism
rat
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
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
Damon A Clark

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual processing
motion detection
visual circuits
visual computations
computational models
navigational control
navigation
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
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
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
Liset M de la Prida

Instituto Cajal, Spain

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hippocampus
oscillations
sharp wave-ripples
epilepsy
cell type

Experimental organism
rat
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
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
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
Chris Q Doe

HHMI, University of Oregon, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
Drosophila
neural development
neural circuit formation
neural stem cells

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
C. elegans
Ana Domingos

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
metabolism
obesity
neuroimmunity
autonomic nervous system
eating behaviour
inflammation
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
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
Laura Dugué

Université de Paris, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive and behavioural neuroscience
computational neuroscience
cognition
attention
perception
psychophysics
EEG/MEG
TMS
fMRI
computational modelling
oscillations

Experimental organism
human
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
Joel K Elmquist

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
metabolism
obesity
diabetes
hypothalamus
feeding
autonomic
exercise

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
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
Marla B Feller

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
retina physiology
neural circuit development

Experimental organism
mouse
Vilaiwan M Fernandes

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Cell Biology

Research focus
glial biology
glia-neuron interactions
developmental neurobiology
visual system
inter-cellular signalling
retinotopy

Experimental organism
drosophila
Shelly B Flagel

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
addiction
reward learning
dopamine
animal models

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Alex Fornito

Monash University, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
MRI
connectivity
networks
genetics
psychiatry
psychosis
schizophrenia
connectome

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Birte Forstmann

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
cognitive modeling
structural and functional MRI
decision-making

Experimental organism
human
Claire Gillan

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience

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
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
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
Medicine
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

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

Experimental organism
human
mouse
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
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
Ki Goosens

ki.goosens@mssm.edu, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
chronic stress
translational science
systems neuroscience
brain-body interactions
Timothy D Griffiths

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
auditory
cognition
neurology
imaging

Experimental organism
human
macaque
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
Ilona C Grunwald Kadow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Biology

Research focus
circuit neuroscience
behavior
in vivo imaging
chemosensation
olfactory system
neuromodulation
metabolism
internal state

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Saskia Haegens

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

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
cognitive neuroscience
brain oscillations
sensory systems
attention
working memory
decision-making

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates
rodents
Catherine Hartley

New York University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
learning
decision making
developmental cognitive neuroscience
reinforcement learning
memory

Experimental organism
human
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
Mary E Hatten

The Rockefeller University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
central nervous system development
cerebellum
neuronal migration
neurogenesis

Experimental organism
mouse
human
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
Oliver Hobert

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
microRNAs
epigenetics
developmental neurobiology

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Sakiko Honjoh

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
cortex
thalamus
in vivo extracellular recordings
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
Alzheimer's disease
amyloid beta-peptides
alpha-synuclein
amyloid beta-protein precursor
Mihaela D Iordanova

Concordia University, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Muireann Irish

University of Sydney, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
social cognition
aging
neuroimaging
dementia
Alzheimer's disease
imagination
theory of mind
default mode network

Experimental organism
human
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
Autumn Ivy

University of California, Irvine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
epigenetics
exercise
hippocampus
early-life
synaptic plasticity
neurodevelopment
stress

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
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
Reinhard Jahn

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
membrane fusion
SNARE proteins
synaptic vesicles
vesicular neurotransmitter transporters
endosomes
synaptotagmin
neuronal exocytosis

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
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
Simon C Johnson

Seattle Children's Research Institute, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
mitochondria
neurodegenerative disease
aging
pediatric disease
genetic disease
mTOR
cell culture

Experimental organism
mouse
C. elegans
Ingrid Johnsrude

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuropsychology
auditory cognitive neuroscience
speech
perceptual psychology
aging
cognitive psychology
language
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
Julie Kauer

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
VTA
spinal cord
electrophysiology
synapse
PAG
dorsal horn

Experimental organism
mouse
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
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
Brian S Kim

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
basophil
cytokine
innate lymphoid cell
itch
mast cells
neuroimmunology
sensory neuron
somatosensation
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
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
Sanmi Koyejo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain connectivity
machine learning
statistical modeling
encoding
decoding
deep learning

Experimental organism
human
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
Rohini Kuner

Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
pain
nociception
neural circuits
mouse models

Experimental organism
mouse
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

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
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
Stephen Liberles

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction
vagus nerve
interoception
pheromone
sensory neuroscience
area postrema

Experimental organism
mouse
Mimi Liljeholm

University of California, Irvine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
learning
decision making
reasoning
reinforcement learning
social cognition
Matthieu Louis

University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
olfaction
sensorimotor
computational ethology
motor control
locomotion
biomechanics
tool development

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
C. elegans
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
Huan Luo

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
human
Lan Ma

Fudan University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
memory
addiction
stem cells
Merritt Maduke

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
transporters
structure function
electrophysiology
ultrasound neuromodulation
pharmacology
membrane proteins
structural dynamics

Experimental organism
E. coli
mouse
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
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
Carol Mason

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual system development
cell adhesion
axon guidance
neuron-glial interactions
Mackenzie Mathis

EPFL, Switzerland

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
sensorimotor control
deep learning
motor learning
intelligent systems
computer vision

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Margaret M McCarthy

University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
steroids
hypothalamus
social behaviour
sex differences
neuroimmunology
neuroendocrinology

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
Gillian J McLellan

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
ophthalmology
pathology
imaging
glaucoma
retina
optic nerve
animal models
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
Lucia Melloni

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
electrocorticography
MEG
language
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
Karla L Miller

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
MRI
neuroimaging
diffusion MRI
fMRI
Kelly Monk

Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
glia
neuron-glial interactions
astrocytes
microglia
glial-glial interactions
myelinating glia

Experimental organism
mouse
zebrafish
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
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
cell types
neural plasticity
neocortex
synaptic physiology
autism spectrum disorders
epilepsy

Experimental organism
mouse
other mammals
Lauren O'Connell

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavior
evolution
predator-prey interactions
toxins
communication
sensory systems

Experimental organism
amphibians
lizards
fish
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
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
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
parabrachial nucleus
appetite
threats
neural circuits
CGRP
aversive events

Experimental organism
mouse
David J Paterson

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
autonomic neuroscience
physiology
cardiac arrhythmias
hypertension
chemoreception
gene therapy
Julian Paton

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
autonomic neuroscience
translational physiology
Marius V Peelen

Radboud University, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual cortex
perception
attention
concepts
consciousness

Experimental organism
human
Jonathan Peelle

Northeastern University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory
speech
language
hearing

Experimental organism
human
Mario Penzo

National Institute of Mental Health, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
learning and memory
emotion
fear conditioning
anxiety
stress
thalamus
amygdala

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Adrien Peyrache

McGill University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
spatial navigation
sleep
memory consolidation
replay
neural coding

Experimental organism
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
Panayiota Poirazi

Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
neurophysiology
dendrite
learning and memory
modeling

Experimental organism
mouse
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

Birkbeck, University of 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
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
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
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
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
Rebecca M Sappington

Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience
Immunology and Inflammation
Developmental Biology

Research focus
retina
optic nerve
neurodegeneration
glia
neuroinflammation
regeneration
axon
cytokine/chemokine
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
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
Oren Schuldiner

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
neural development
neuronal remodeling
axon pruning
circuit formation
developmental axon regrowth
mushroom body
Rebecca Seal

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurotransmitter transporters
basal ganglia circuits
cells and molecules
somatosensory circuits

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Amita Sehgal

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian rhythms
sleep
circuits
genes

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Sonia Sen

Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
neural stem cells
neural circuits
evo-devo
Drosophila
mosquito

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
vision
computational neuroscience
deep learning

Experimental organism
monkey
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
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
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
Miriam Spering

The University of British Columbia, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Visual neuroscience
visual sciences
eye movement
perception and action
visual attention
visual memory
movement disorders
ophthalmology

Experimental organism
human
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
Parkinson's disease
electrophysiology
EEG/ECoG/iEEG
DBS
motor control

Experimental organism
human
Rudolph E Tanzi

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
Alzheimer's disease
genetics
neurodegenerative disease
amyloid
neuroinflammation

Experimental organism
mouse
human
brain organoids
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
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
Naoshige Uchida

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision-making
learning
dopamine
cognition
basal ganglia

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Vidita Vaidya

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
anxiety
depression
antidepressant
serotonin
thyroid
early stress
BDNF

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Virginie van Wassenhove

Université Paris-Saclay, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognition
neuroscience
oscillations
timing
multisensory

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
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
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
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
Makiko Yamada

National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
fMRI
PET
cognitive neuroscience
cognitive bias
psychiatry
self
social

Experimental organism
human
Ryohei Yasuda

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
dendritic spines
long-term potentiation
signal transduction
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
Gene W Yeo

University of California, San Diego, United States

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

Research focus
RNA biology
computational biology
CRISPR
neurodegeneration
single cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Xiang Yu

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

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

Experimental organism
mouse
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
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