Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical and computational biology. He has performed pioneering research in neural networks and computational neuroscience.
Anirvan Ghosh is an American neuroscientist and Biotech executive. His research has contributed to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate development and function of the mammalian brain. A major focus of his research has been to identify mechanisms that regulate neuronal connectivity and the effects of neuronal activity on brain development. He served as the Global Head of Neuroscience Discovery at F. Hoffmann-La Roche from 2011 to 2016 and as founding CSO of E-Scape Bio from 2016-2017. He was the Head of Research and Early Development at Biogen from 2017-2020 and is currently the CEO of Unity Biotechnology.
Semaphorins are a class of secreted and membrane proteins that were originally identified as axonal growth cone guidance molecules. They primarily act as short-range inhibitory signals and signal through multimeric receptor complexes. Semaphorins are usually cues to deflect axons from inappropriate regions,especially important in the neural system development. The major class of proteins that act as their receptors are called plexins,with neuropilins as their co-receptors in many cases. The main receptors for semaphorins are plexins,which have established roles in regulating Rho-family GTPases. Recent work shows that plexins can also influence R-Ras,which,in turn,can regulate integrins. Such regulation is probably a common feature of semaphorin signalling and contributes substantially to our understanding of semaphorin biology.
Carla J. Shatz is an American neurobiologist and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,the American Philosophical Society,the National Academy of Sciences,and the National Academy of Medicine.
Barry John Everitt FRS,FMedSci,ScD,was Master of Downing College,Cambridge and is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience and director of research at the University of Cambridge. Since 2013 he is Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust at Cambridge University.
Emery Neal Brown is an American statistician,neuroscientist,and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience,the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science,and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
Dr. David D. Ginty is an American neuroscientist and developmental biologist.
Semaphorin-3A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SEMA3A gene.
Eve Marder is a University Professor and the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. At Brandeis,Marder is also a member of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems. Dr. Marder is known for her pioneering work on small neuronal networks which her team has interrogated via a combination of complementary experimental and theoretical techniques.
Richard Lewis Huganir is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences,Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience,and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments in the Department of Biological Chemistry and the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Mark P. Mattson is a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He is the former Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging.
The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI),located in Jupiter,Florida,is the first institute established by the Max Planck Society in North America.
David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist.
Patricia Janak is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies the biological basis of behavior through associative learning. Janak applies this research to pathological behaviors,such as addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder,to improve understanding of how stimuli affect relapse and responses.
Chris Q Doe is a professor of Biology,and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the Institute for Neuroscience,University of Oregon,Eugene,Oregon. Doe did his PhD work with Corey Goodman at Stanford University,followed by postdoctoral fellowship with Matthew P. Scott at University of Colorado Boulder. He is a researcher in developmental biology known for his studies on neurogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster neural stem cell neuroblasts. His lab investigates the generation of neuronal diversity and neural circuit formation in Drosophila melanogaster. Doe is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering has both undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering programs located at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland,
Ted M. Dawson is an American neurologist and neuroscientist. He is the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Director of the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments in the Department of Neurology,Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences.
Chenghua Gu is a Professor of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School where her research focuses on the Blood–brain barrier. She is also part of the Harvard Brain Science Initiative and has won numerous awards for her groundbreaking research on the brain's vascular component.
Hu Hailan is a Chinese neuroscientist,professor,and executive director of the Center for Neuroscience at Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou,China. Hu explores neural mechanisms underlying social behaviors and psychiatric diseases. She specifically explores the neural substrates of social rank and the role of neuron-glia interactions in driving depressive behaviors. Hu discovered the anatomical and molecular targets of ketamine's fast-acting antidepressant effects to be localized to the lateral habenular circuits in rodents. Hu was also the first scientist outside of Europe and America to be awarded the IBRO-Kemali Prize in over 20 years.
Fan Wang is a neuroscientist and professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She is an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Wang is known for her work identifying neural circuits underlying touch,pain,and anesthesia;and the development of a technique for capturing activated neuronal ensembles (CANE) to label and manipulate neurons activated by stimuli or behavioral paradigms.
