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.

Kelly Wong is a fourth-year neuroscience PhD student from Singapore interested in uncovering the mysterious function of the claustrum. Wong is currently untangling how the neurotransmitter serotonin modulates the claustrum mainly by using whole-cell patch clamp techniques.

Kristin Anderson is a PhD candidate in the neuroscience program at Lehigh University.

John Douglas (Doug) Crawford earned his PhD in physiology at Western University in London, Ontario, and completed a postdoc at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

Joshua A. Goldberg is an assistant professor in the department of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jerusha Mather is a PhD student in medical and biological sciences at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.

Jun-Ming Zhang is a professor and vice chair for research in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Jeremy Borniger is a PhD candidate in the neuroscience program at The Ohio State University.

Alonso-Nanclares is an assistant researcher in the Cajal Laboratory of Cortical Circuits in the Center for Biomedical Technology, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in Spain, and the Cajal Institute (CSIC).

Logan Brown completed his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the laboratory of Serena M. Dudek.