Advisors

Ted Abel is the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience, director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and professor of molecular physiology and biophysics in the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. 

Dan Arking is an associate professor at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Helen Bateup graduated from the Rockefeller University in 2008 where she completed a thesis with Paul Greengard using genetic mouse models to determine the cell type-specific consequences of dopamine signaling on striatum-dependent behaviors.

Christian Beckmann is a professor at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior and Radboud University.

Federico Bolognani obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. He has worked as a research fellow at the University of Manchester School of Medicine Molecular Medicine Unit, a research assistant professor at the University of…

Randy Buckner is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Harvard University and the director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is affiliated with the Center for Brain Science . Buckner’s work centers around the use…

Jessica Cardin is an associate professor in the department of neurobiology at Yale University. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and conducted her postdoctoral work at both the University of Pennsylvania and the McGovern Institute at the…

Aravinda Chakravarti is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Systems Genetics, the Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology and the director of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics at New York…

Jennifer Darnell is a retired associate research professor at the Rockefeller University and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. During the course of her scientific career, Darnell focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in fragile X syndrome, the most…

Ilan Dinstein is an associate professor in the departments of Psychology and of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Neural Science at New York University in 2010 and then completed postdoctoral…

Ype Elgersma is a professor at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, and the scientific director of the ENCORE Expertise Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

André Fenton is a professor of neural science at New York University. His research focuses on molecular, neural, behavioral and computational aspects of memory. He studies how brains store experiences as memories and how the expression of knowledge activates information that is…

Loren Frank is a professor in the Department of Physiology and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Marc Freeman is the director of the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health and Science University. Freeman’s laboratory is exploring fundamental aspects of glial cell biology and glial-neuronal interactions in health and neurological disorders. Using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system,…

Emily Jones obtained her B.A., M.A. (natural sciences) and M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Sheffield. After an Autism Speaks Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington Autism Center, Jones moved to…

Genevieve Konopka is an associate professor of neuroscience and the Jon Heighten Scholar in Autism Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Konopka completed her Ph.D. in neurobiology at Harvard University and received dual B.S. degrees in…

Kasper Lage is director of bioinformatics of the Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He is also a group leader and member of the leadership group of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.

Rebecca Landa is the founder and director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) and the Research and Education for Autism in Children (REACH) research program at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences…

David Lewis, M.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Translational Neuroscience Program within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh,…

Dayu Lin is an associate professor at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Her research is focused on understanding the neural mechanisms of social behaviors in mice. Using genetic engineering, tracing, functional manipulation, in vivo electrophysiological recording and computational tools, her…

Guo-li Ming is a professor of neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Her research is focused on understanding molecular mechanisms underlying normal neurodevelopment and how its dysregulation may contribute to developmental neurological disorders.

Eric Morrow is a physician-scientist with extensive experience in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. He trained as a neurodevelopmental biologist, geneticist and psychiatrist with a focus in developmental disorders. Since moving to Brown University in 2009, Morrow has taken an active role…

Mucida received his undergraduate degree in biology, with an emphasis on biochemistry and immunology, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil in 2000. He received his Ph.D. jointly from the University of São Paulo and New York University in 2005.…

Brian O’Roak’s career has focused on developing a “gene-first” approach by implementing new research paradigms and technologies that challenge the genetic intractability of neurodevelopmental conditions, especially ASD.

Carlos Portera-Cailliau was born and raised in Madrid, Spain, where he attended the Lycée Français. He obtained a B.A. in biochemistry and cell biology from University of California, San Diego, in 1990 and then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where…

Giorgia Quadrato’s laboratory focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular basis of human brain development and disease.

Gabriela Rosenblau is an assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at George Washington University (GWU) and is also affiliated with the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at GWU.

Neville Sanjana is a core faculty member at the New York Genome Center and an assistant professor of Biology, Neuroscience and Physiology at New York University. He has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted his postdoctoral work at the…

Scott Soderling serves as the chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University and is the scientific director of the Duke Mouse Transgenic Facility. He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Washington, and as a Howard Hughes…

Sara Jane Webb is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on the functional neurobiology and development of information processing in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disorders, as well as in individuals with typical development.

Marius Wernig is an associate professor of pathology at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University. He graduated with an M.D./Ph.D. from the Technische Universität München, where he trained in developmental genetics in the lab of Rudi…

Anne E. West is a professor of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine. She is a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, the Duke Cancer Institute, and the Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies. She also serves as the…

Lonnie Zwaigenbaum is a professor and the director of autism research in the division of Developmental Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta. Zwaigenbaum completed his pediatric training at Queen’s University and his clinical fellowship in…