Speakers & Attendees

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Amy Arnsten, Yale University, USA

Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Western University, CA

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Tamar Gutnick, University of Naples, IT

Kristen Harris, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Elizabeth Hong, Cal Tech, USA

Bobby Kasthuri, University of Chicago, USA

Andreas Neef, Gottingen University, DE

Andreas Nieder, University Tuebingen, DE
Kristina Nielsen, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Sylvia Wirth, ISC Marc Jeannerod, FR

Accelerating the Development of Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators

• Beatriz Campillo, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
• Michelle Land, Baylor College of Medicine, USA 
• Alex McDonald, Baylor College of Medicine, USA 
• Francois St-Pierre, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Advancing Neuronal and Genetic Approaches to Animal Behavior Research

• Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Behavioral Technologies

Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging

• Dmitrijs Celinskis, Brown University, USA

Chemical and Genetic Methods to Measure and Manipulate Neurons with Light

Columbia University Theoretical Neuroscience Center

Communication, Coordination and Control in Neuromechanical Systems (C3NS)

• Jan Ache, University of Würzburg, DE
• Ben Bolen, Portland  State University, USA
• Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne, DE 
• Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Chris Julian Dallmann, University of Würzburg, DE
• Kaiyu Deng, Portland State University, USA
• Gesa Dinges, West Virginia University, USA
• Michael Dübbert, University of Cologne, DE
• Clarus Goldsmith, West Virginia University, USA
• E. Axel Gorostiza, University of Cologne, DE
• CJ Heckman, Northwestern University, USA
• Alexander Hunt, Portland State University, USA 
• Kei Ito, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, DE
• Clayton Jackson, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Sander Liessem, University of Würzburg, DE
• Manuel Mansilla, PSU
• Stu McNeal, Portland State University, USA
• Kenneth Moses, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• William Nourse, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Roger Quinn, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Shane Riddle, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Cody Scharzenberger-Braet, Portland State University, USA
• Nicholas Szczecinski, West Virginia University, USA
• William Zyhowski, West Virginia University, USA

Enabling Identification and Impact of Synaptic Weight in Functional Networks

• Ashwin De Silva, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Joseph Gogola, University of Chicago, USA
• Ali Karimi, MPI for Brain Research, DE
• Narayanan ‘Bobby’ Kasthuri, University of Chicago, USA
• Masaaki Kuwajima, University of Texas at Austin, USA
•  Sahil Loomba, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, DE
• Nelson Medina, University of Chicago, USA
• Andrea Nam, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Kristina Nielsen, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Kun Song, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, DE 
• Anastasia Sorokina, University of Chicago, USA
• Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Qingyang Wang, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Gregg Wildenberg, University of Chicago, USA 

Enhanced Resolution for 3DEM Analysis of Synapses across Brain Regions and Taxa

• Michael Chirillo, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Kristen Harris, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Anna-Maria Escherich, University of Texas at Austin, USA

The Fabric of the Primate Neocortex and the Origin of Mental Representations

• Amy Arnsten, Yale University, USA
• Alex Busch, Western University, CA
• Hyo Lim Cho, Yale University, USA
• Benjamin Corrigan, Western University, CA
• Dibyadeep Datta, Yale University, USA
• Michael Feyerabend, University of Western Ontario, CA
• Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Pitt, USA
• Wataru Inoue, Western University, CA
• Mary Kate Joyce, Yale University, USA
• Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Western University, CA
• Jacob Miller, Yale University, USA
• Lyle Muller, Western University, CA
• Isabella Perone, Yale University, USA
• Stacy Uchendu, Yale, USA
• Susheel Vijayraghavan, University of Western Ontario, CA
• Min Wang, Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Integrated Circuit Cracking (ICC) with Linked Tools for Diverse Systems

Inferring interactions between neurons, stimuli, and behavior

• Andreas Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
  

Live Imaging of the C. elegans Connectome

Miniaturized Open Source Devices for Calcium Imaging, Electrophysiology, and Real-time Control of Neural Activity

• Peyman Golshani, UCLA, USA

MINT: New Structure and Function Tools for Circuit Mapping

• Jose Roberto Lopez Ruiz, University of Michigan, USA
• Yi Tian, University of Michigan, USA

A National Resource for Mesoscale and Connectomic Brain Mapping

• Bobby Kasthuri, University of Chicago, USA

Nemonic: Next Generation Multiphoton Neuroimaging Consortium

Odor2Action Network

• George Barnum, Caltech, USA
• Kate Cochran, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
• John Crimaldi, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
• Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Julia Harris, Francis Crick Institute, UK 
• Elizabeth Hong, Caltech, USA  
• Vladimir Itskov, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
• Mona Marie, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
• ShawnMahoney, Arizona State University, USA
• Hiro Matsunami, Duke University, USA
• Tomoko Ohyama, McGill University, CA
• Andreas Schaefer, Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Michael Schmuker, University of Hertfordshire, UK
• Brian Smith, Arizona State University, USA
• Lisa Stowers, Scripps Research Institute, USA
• Justus Vehagen, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, USA
• Jonathan Victor, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
• Matt Wachowiak, University of Utah, USA
• Yuxin Zhang, Francis Crick Institute, UK

Optical Technologies for Large Scale, Noninvasive Recording of Neural Activity

Southwest Magnetogenetics Project (SoMa)

Towards Automatic Analysis of Multi-Terabyte Cleared Brains

• Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University, USA