Professional Development

JNeurosci Town Hall

August 27, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

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Questions about submitting to JNeurosci, getting more involved with peer review, or scientific publishing as a whole? This town hall is your opportunity to have them answered directly by Editor-in-Chief Sabine Kastner and other members of the JNeurosci Editorial Board. The editors also will cover new journal initiatives, including open peer review, opportunities for early career researchers, and supplementary material. Join live to make sure your specific questions are heard.

Speakers

Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD

Sabine Kastner is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University and serves as the scientific director of Princeton’s neuroimaging facility. Kastner is the editor-in-chief of  JNeurosci. Her research focuses on the neural basis of visual perception, attention, and awareness in the healthy, adult primate brain, in patients with brain lesions and during development. Kastner earned an MD degree from the University of Dusseldorf and a PhD degree in neurophysiology from the University of Göttingen.

Artur Kania, PhD

Artur Kania, PhD, has served on the JNeurosci editorial board as senior editor since 2023 and reviewing editor from 2015 to 2022. He earned his PhD in human and molecular genetics from Baylor College of Medicine, followed by postdoctoral training at Columbia University. Since 2005, he has been the director of the Neural Circuit Development Laboratory at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) where he holds the academic position of IRCM research professor. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor in the department of medicine at University of Montreal and in the department of anatomy and cell biology at McGill University. Kania’s laboratory studies the molecular and genetic mechanisms of neural circuit wiring.

Kate Wassum, PhD

Kate Wassum is a professor of psychology at the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Wassum’s research focuses on the neural signals and circuits that underlie reward learning, motivation, and decision making to understand and treat the maladaptive motivation and decision making that characterizes substance use disorder and psychiatric diseases. She received her BS in psychology from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her PhD in neuroscience from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Wassum continued at UCLA for her postdoctoral work focusing on the role of dopamine in reward seeking and cue-induced motivation before joining the psychology faculty.

Swati Gupta, PhD

Swati Gupta, PhD, is an inaugural member of JNeurosci’s Early Career Researcher Advisory Board. Currently she is an instructor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She earned her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, followed by postdoctoral research at the University College London.  Her research primarily focuses on unraveling the neurobiological foundations of neurodegenerative diseases, and exploring their causes, mechanisms, and trajectories. 

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