David Lyon is vice chair of the department of anatomy and neurobiology in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Woolley is the William Deering Chair in Biological Sciences and Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology at Northwestern University. She specializes in neural plasticity, neurobiology of stress, social determinants of health, estrogen actions in the brain, sex differences in the brain, and the study of seizures and epilepsy. Dr. Woolley received her PhD in Neuroscience from Rockefeller University in the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology with Dr. Bruce S. McEwen and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington under Dr. Philip A. Schwartzkroin. She has published many outstanding papers on topics within the field of neuroendocrinology and has been featured various times in SfN’s own Journal of Neuroscience.

Rachel Mak-McCully recently completed her PhD in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego.

Leonard Maler is a distinguished professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

Fabien Naneix is a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Etienne Coutureau and Guillaume Ferreira at Bordeaux University in France.

Eric Schnell is a clinician/scientist in the Virginia Portland Health Care System and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Oregon Health and Science University.

Pablo S. Villar is currently doing his PhD thesis at the University of Maryland.