This year’s JNeurosci Town Hall is an opportunity talk to Editor-in-Chief Sabine Kastner and other members of the Editorial Board. The editors will discuss new and ongoing journal initiatives including open peer review, supplementary material, and upcoming special collections. Join the live discussion 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.
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.
Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, PhD
Linda Overstreet-Wadiche is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her main research interests lie in cellular and synaptic neurophysiology, and the dentate gyrus. Overstreet-Wadiche received her BS in biology from North Park University and her PhD in physiology from Northwestern University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University.
Peter Kok, PhD
Peter Kok is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London. Kok’s main research interests lie in the neural mechanisms of visual perception, particularly how it’s influenced by prior knowledge and expectations. He received his BS in psychology and MS in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Groningen and his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Radboud University, both in the Netherlands. He completed his postdoctoral training at Princeton University and Yale University.
Tatiana Engel, PhD
Tatiana Engel is an associate professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. She uses computational and theoretical approaches to investigate how coordinated activity arises from distributed neural circuitry to drive behavioral and cognitive functions. Her lab develops theory, models, and data analysis methods that leverage newly available large-scale activity recordings from behaving animals to uncover mechanisms of brain function. She also participates in a large-scale collaboration of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, the International Brain Laboratory.
Andrew Westbrook, PhD
Andrew Westbrook is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research at Rutgers University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he was a postdoc with Roshan Cools at the Donders Institute and Michael Frank at Brown University, and he received his PhD in psychology from Washington University in Saint Louis. Westbrook’s research focuses on brain dynamics supporting higher-order cognition–especially working memory and cognitive control – and the effects of neuromodulation.
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