Gina Turrigiano, PhD
Brandeis University, Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science
Director, Neuroscience Graduate Studies
The Turrigiano lab studies the plasticity mechanisms that allow our brains to “tune themselves up” and remain both plastic and stable.
https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/turrigiano-gina.html
Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Yasmin Hurd is the Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Center for Addictive Disorders within the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System.
Dr. Hurd’s multidisciplinary research investigates the neurobiology underlying addiction disorders and related psychiatric illnesses.
https://scholars.mssm.edu/en/persons/yasmin-hurd
Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital
Fear Circuits and Psychiatric Disorders
https://brain.harvard.edu/?people=kerry-ressler
Paul Frankland, PhD
Senior Scientist in Neurosciences & Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neurobiology
Professor at University of Toronto
His lab’s research focuses on modeling cognitive function and dysfunction in mice. In particular, the lab is interested in understanding of systems consolidation, the role of adult neurogenesis in hippocampal memory function and forgetting, the identification and manipulation of memory engrams, and hippocampal memory development.
https://www.psych.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/paul-frankland
Yulong Li, PhD
Boya Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
Principal Investigator, PKU-THU Center for Life Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute For Brain Research
http://www.yulonglilab.org/index.html
