Advisors

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.

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…