Gary Aston-Jones is the Murray and Charlotte Strongwater Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Health and the inaugural director of the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology with James Olds and Floyd Bloom, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Bloom at the Salk Institute.

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.

Georgia Alexander completed her PhD in Neuroscience from Wake Forest, postdoctoral training in Neurobiology at Duke University, and is currently a Staff Scientist in Serena M. Dudek's laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Ilya Rybak is a professor at the department of neurobiology and anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Inge Volman is a Marie Curie fellow at the Institute of Neurology, University College London.

Heather Rhodes is an associate professor of biology and a program director for neuroscience at Denison University.

Henry Hallock is a postdoctoral research associate at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus.

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

Hosni Cherif is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lady Davis Institute at McGill University.

Daniel Chandler is an assistant professor in the department of cell biology and neuroscience at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.