William Mills, PhD, is an assistant professor of biology at Mount St. Mary's University exploring novel roles of microRNAs in regulating post-transcriptional gene regulation using molecular biology and bioinformatics. Mills completed undergraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Virginia and graduate training in biological chemistry in the lab of Mollie Meffert at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has taught undergraduate and graduate STEM courses for seven years.

Yash Kommula, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his BS in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University. Kommula is a public health-minded neuroscientist who has focused on documenting the benefits of exercise on brain health during aging and has extensive experience with functional and resting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis. His current research focus is about the associations between lifestyle/health variables with risk of conversion to Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) for those at genetic risk for this disease.

Sydney Woods is currently pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience at George Washington University. Previously, she received a master’s degree in biomedical sciences from Brody School of Medicine and a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University. Woods is also an Advocacy Scholar for the Association for Women in Science and received the Mandel-Beck Award at George Washington University.

Devashish Pande is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Delaware. His research is focused on the neural encoding of social information. Pande also serves as the professional development co-chair for the SfN DCMA Chapter.

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.