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Serge Charpak is the director of the Neurophysiology and New Microscopies Laborator at Ecole des Neuroscience de Paris. His laboratory is trying to understand how a sensory stimulus, like an odor, generates activity in a small cellular network. By using and developing optical tools combined with electrophysiological recordings, Charpak observes the neuron and astrocyte activities in vitro and in vivo.

Dr. Laura Lee Colgin serves as the 2024 SfN Program Committee Chair and is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Learning and Memory at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Drs. Edvard and May-Britt Moser at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. Prior to that, she completed her PhD work in Dr. Gary Lynch’s laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. Her research goal is to understand neuronal and network mechanisms of learning and memory and how these mechanisms are disrupted in memory disorders. Her lab employs multisite neurophysiological recordings in behaving rats to study how coordinated neuronal populations encode, retrieve, and consolidate memories.

Timothy O’Leary is a postdoctoral researcher at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. After training in mathematics, O’Leary received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in experimental and computational neuroscience in 2009, with his research focusing on activity-dependent mechanisms that maintain the electrical properties of single neurons and networks. O’Leary received the 2014 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience and his work has been published in Science, Neuron, and The Journal of Neuroscience.

Subhasree Basu is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Basu received her degree in Neuroscience from Thomas Jefferson University in 2013. Basu is originally from India. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology, followed by a Master of Science degree in Biochemistry at the Calcutta University, India.