Joseph Bergan is an assistant professor in the psychological and Brain Sciences Department and is part of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program and the Center for Neuroendocrine Studies at UMass Amherst.

Joyce J. Fernandes is a professor of biology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she has taught since completing her postdoctoral training at Yale University. Her research examines neural plasticity during the reorganization of motor systems in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and she teaches courses in cell biology, developmental biology, and neurobiology.

Juan Carlos Díaz-Patiño holds a PhD in mathematics from the Universidad National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Judith A. Strong is a research associate professor in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Kenichi Miyazaki is a postdoctoral fellow at New York Medical College.

Jason P. Weick is an assistant professor in the department of neurosciences at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine, where research in the Weick Lab centers on understanding multiple aspects of the development of functional neural circuits.

Judy A. Prasad is KickStart Venture Services’ operations & program manager at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a BSc from the University of Toronto and a PhD from McGill University.

Edith Brignoni Pérez is a PhD candidate in the interdisciplinary program in neuroscience at Georgetown University.

Egor Ananyev is a research fellow in the department of psychology at Nanyang Technological University. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore.

Elana Zion Golumbic directs the Human Brain Dynamics Lab at the Gonda Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University, where she is a Senior Lecturer in the Neuroscience Department.