Katerina Akassoglou is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, and a professor in the department of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She has pioneered studies in the investigation of vascular and immune mechanisms in neurologic diseases and, in particular, the role of the blood clotting factors in CNS autoimmunity, trauma, and neurodegeneration.

Maria J. Donoghue is the senior associate dean for faculty affairs and strategic planning at Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences. Donoghue co-founded and directed a major in neurobiology and directed Georgetown's long-standing Howard Hughes Medical Institute University program.

Audrey Chen was a postdoctoral fellow in David Prober’s lab and is now a visiting assistant professor of biology at Claremont McKenna College.

Nicholas Bannon is a postdoctoral fellow in the neurobiology department at Northwestern University.

Maxim Volgushev is a professor in the behavioral neuroscience division of the department of psychological sciences at University of Connecticut Storrs.

Gary Lynch is a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Lynch’s work played a key role in forming the modern theory of how synapses encode memory.