Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor of Developmental Genetics, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University of Cambridge

Genomic imprinting in development and disease; the epigenetic control of genome function in a wider context

Michael Greenberg

Department Chair and Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Activity-dependent processes in neurons, and how their dysfunction can lead to the development of cognitive disorders

Steven Hyman

Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Director of Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute

Using emerging genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders to develop models that facilitate drug discovery

Thomas Sudhof

Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

How synapses form and function, and how their formation and function is impaired in psychiatric disorders

Rafael Yuste

Professor of Biological Sciences and Co-Director of Kavli Institute for Brain Science
Columbia University

Understanding the function of the cortical microcircuit and dendritic spines, using novel optical methods