Silke Nuber and coworkers generated and deeply characterized numerous transgenic rodent models to study PD and related disorders, including the first inducible α-synuclein (αS) transgenic mice, humanized BAC-wildtype human αS tg rat models.

Sridevi Venkatesan is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in India, and is currently a third-year PhD student in the department of physiology at the University of Toronto.

Stephanie Perez is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Stephen Chang is a postdoctoral research fellow in Kyle Smith’s laboratory at Dartmouth College.

Stephen Dewhurst is the associate vice president for health sciences research and vice dean for research at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Susanne Becker is an assistant professor in the department of cognitive and clinical neuroscience at the Central Institute of Mental Health at Heidelberg University.

Warren Darling is a professor and chair of the department of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa.

Weixin Zhong is a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing.

Wenliang Zhou received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in the laboratory of Srdjan Antic and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in Marina Picciotto’s laboratory.

Will Adler is a PhD student at New York University and founder of the Scientist Action and Advocacy Network.