Advisors

Anne Churchland is an associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Using behavioral assessments in both rodents and humans, physiological measurements and manipulations in rodents and mathematical analyses, Churchland’s laboratory investigates the neural circuits underlying decision-making.

Laura Colgin is an assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. Colgin’s work aims to uncover the mechanisms and neural circuits controlling different types of synchronized rhythms within the brain and to understand the functional significance of these…

Jun Ding is an assistant professor of neurosurgery and neurology at Stanford University. The scientific goal of the laboratory is to understand the circuits and neural computations involved in generating voluntary movement, with a particular focus on cortico-thalamo-basal ganglia networks. Using electrophysiology,…

Gerald Fischbach joined the Simons Foundation in early 2006 to oversee the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. Formerly, he was dean of the faculty of health sciences and of medicine at Columbia University, and director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders…

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,…

Richard Gibbs is the founder and director of the Baylor College of Medicine – Human Genome Sequencing Center (BCM-HGSC), as well as a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics and the programs in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences and…

Kamran Khodakhah is the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience Professor, as well as a professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology. He is also the chair of the Dominick P. Purpura…