Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom is a professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Emanuela De Falco is a postdoctoral researcher in the Lapish Lab at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Emily Hill Emily Hill is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom.

Erica Tracey Akhter is an instructor at Georgia State University. She obtained her PhD from Emory University, where she worked on the topic of this article and looked for novel mechanisms driving motor axon regeneration.

Jae Lee is an assistant professor at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami School of Medicine.

James Howard is a postdoctoral fellow in the Kahnt Lab in the department of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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.