Guoping Feng is the James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.
Yufeng Shen is an assistant professor of systems biology and biomedical informatics at Columbia University. He received his B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Peking University and his Ph.D. in computational biology from Baylor College of Medicine. At Baylor, Shen led the analysis of the first human genome sequenced by next-generation technologies.
Neville Sanjana is a core faculty member at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and an assistant professor of biology, and neuroscience and physiology at New York University (NYU) and NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Broad Institute with Feng Zhang, joining NYGC and NYU as a faculty member in 2016.
Michael Segel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in human developmental and regenerative biology and his Ph.D. in clinical neuroscience from the University of Cambridge. For his doctoral thesis in the lab of Robin Franklin, he explored the molecular mechanisms underpinning the aging of glia in the central nervous system.
Menglong Zeng received his doctoral training in Mingjie Zhang’s lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he applied biochemistry and structural biology to investigate how synaptic proteins interact to regulate synapse function.