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 Department of Neuroscience and is the Florence and Irving Rubinstein Chair in Neuroscience.
Nick Frost is an adjunct clinical instructor at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. There, his thesis work in the laboratory of Thomas Blanpied focused on the regulation of actin polymerization within dendritic spines, utilizing super-resolution microscopy to track single molecules of polymerized actin moving within living neurons. He subsequently completed residency in adult neurology at the University California, San Francisco. His postdoctoral work with Vikaas Sohal has focused on the development of analytical techniques for identifying multineuron patterns of activity that encode information during social behaviors and on understanding how the generation of these multineuron patterns is altered in mouse models of autism.
Peri Kurshan is an assistant professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University and obtained her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University, under the mentorship of Thomas Schwarz, studying synaptogenesis in Drosophila. She performed her postdoctoral work at Stanford University in the lab of Kang Shen before joining the faculty at Albert Einstein College in 2019.
Anthony Sharkey Ricciardulli graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 with a B.S. in microbial biology. As an undergraduate, he investigated mechanisms of neurodevelopment during embryogenesis and developed expertise in cellular and molecular techniques. After graduation, he worked as a cellular engineer and tissue culture specialist in the laboratory of Fred Gage at the Salk Institute. There he generated patient-derived neurons to investigate how DNA repair processes and bioenergetics contribute to known neurodegenerative phenotypes using iPSC-derived human neurons. Prior to joining the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program at the University of Utah, he next worked at Sangamo Therapeutics, where his work focused on making AAV-delivered medicines targeting Parkinson’s disease, again using human iPSC-derived neurons to model this complex disease. Anthony joined the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program at the University of Utah where he has embarked on a joint project mentored by Nick Frost and Alex Shcheglovitov using three-dimensional human organoids to model circuit dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Richard Huganir is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Professor and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.