Maria-Tzousi Papavergi is a third-year PhD candidate in the Lemere Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, co-supervised by Cynthia Ann Lemere and Daniel van den Hove. Her research focuses on unraveling the cellular and epigenetic mechanisms linking the complement cascade to aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Papavergi holds a BS in molecular biology and genetics from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and an MS in cognitive and clinical neuroscience from Maastricht University, Netherlands. Papavergi was also a part of the 2025 Neuronline Community Leaders cohort.

Laura Martin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health and the Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr. Beversdorf is a professor at the University of Missouri in the departments of Radiology, Neurology, Psychological Sciences and the Thompson Center.

Mark Mattson is the former Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging and is currently an adjunct professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa and postdoc training at Colorado State University. His research has advanced an understanding of cellular signaling mechanisms that control the formation and plasticity of neuronal networks in the brain, and cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders.

Abigail Bowring currently serves the lab of Rajesh Miranda as a postbaccalaureate behavioral neuroscientist and lab manager at the Texas A&M School of Medicine. Her current project, prenatal alcohol and/or cannabinoid exposure imposes sex-specific differences in RNA expression in adulthood, will lead to her first first-author publication. Abigail graduated from Texas A&M with a BS in psychology and minor in neuroscience and is currently studying at the graduate level in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation Program.