SOUMYA CHATTERJEE - Key Persons
Adrienne Fairhall is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and adjunct in the Departments of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. She obtained her Honors degree in theoretical physics from the Australian National University and a PhD in statistical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. She received her postdoctoral training at NEC Research Institute with Bill Bialek and at Princeton University with Michael J. Berry II. She is the director of the Computational Neuroscience Program at UW and, with Prof. Tom Daniel, co-directs the UW Institute for Neuroengineering. She has directed the MBL course, Methods in Computational Neuroscience. Her work focuses on dynamic neural computation, with a particular interest in the interplay between cellular and circuit dynamics and coding.
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- President
- Founding CEO
- President - Emeritus
Allan Jones is President-Emeritus and founding CEO of the Allen Institute. Jones was one of the Allen Institute's first four employees when the nonprofit launched in 2003, originally as the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and took the helm within the first few years to manage its growth and impact, eventually leading the launch of the Institute's other four scientific divisions. Along with the Allen Institute's founder, the late philanthropist Paul G. Allen, Jones pioneered a unique approach to neuroscience, and later to other areas of bioscience, through the Institute's core principles of big science, team science and open science. Jones has continued to champion the need for open data sharing and the broader importance of open science. After 18 years with the organization, Jones stepped down as President and CEO in January 2022.
Jones' publications have garnered approximately 1,000 highly influential citations on Semantic Scholar. His 2011 TED Talk: "A map of the brain" has been viewed nearly 1.25 million times. He has advised and helped organize many current U.S. and global neuroscience initiatives, including the National Institutes of Health's BRAIN Initiative, the Human Brain Project and the International Brain Initiative. Jones currently serves on several advisory boards and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Board of Trustees, and he is the former Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience and Behavior.
Originally from Wichita, Kansas, Jones received a B.S. in biology from Duke University and a Ph.D. in genetics and developmental biology from Washington University School of Medicine. After a brief period as a post doc at the University of Pennsylvania, Jones joined Avitech Diagnostics, a small start-up company in Philadelphia. He moved to Seattle to work for Rosetta Inpharmatics, which was later acquired by Merck and Co.
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- Brain Atlas Advisory Council
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- Advisory Council
- Connectivity Atlas Advisory Council
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- Professor in the Department of Neurobiology
Anne K. Churchland is a Professor in the department of Neurobiology at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, advised by Dr. Stephen Lisberger. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Michael Shadlen at the University of Washington in the Physiology and Biophysics Department. Her postdoctoral work focused on mechanisms of decision making in nonhuman primates and included both experimental and theoretical work, funded by a Pathways to Independence (K99) Award from the National Eye Institute. In 2010, she started her own laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, before moving to UCLA in 2020. In starting her own laboratory, Professor Churchland began studying decision making using rodent models to take advantage of emerging tools for circuit dissection which are readily available in rodents. Since then, her laboratory has been a major player in bringing behavioral paradigms to rodents that have been successful in elucidating neural mechanisms in primates. These include perceptual decision making and multisensory integration.
Throughout her career, Professor Churchland has been the recipient of awards from the McKnight Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Klingenstein-Simons Foundation, the John Merck Fund, the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, and the Chapman Foundations. In addition to her scientific work, Professor Churchland runs science outreach activities at public schools and co-directs the Undergraduate Research Program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. She is also on the executive committee for the Computational and Systems Neuroscience conference which aims to bring theorists and experimentalists together to discuss new findings in the field.
Aparna Bhaduri is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, in the lab of Dr. Arnold Kriegstein. She previously completed her doctoral degree in cancer biology at Stanford University, where she focused on epithelial tissue differentiation and neoplasms. As a postdoctoral scholar, she has used single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize cell types in the developing cortex across cortical areas, in human and non-human primates, and in glioblastoma. Because experimental manipulations of the developing human cortex will require in vitro models, she has been using similar approaches to compare cells types in organoid models and primary tissues. Her long-term interests are in understanding how stem cells during cortical development give rise to the human brain, and how aspects of these developmental programs can be hijacked in cancers such as glioblastoma. One aspect of normal development and cancer that particularly interests her is the role of metabolism in regulating cell fate and tissue homeostasis. In order to explore these questions, Aparna uses single-cell genomics, informatic analysis, and organoid models.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
Bernardo Sabatini's research examines the mechanisms by which animals choose what to do next. This process of "action selection" uses information from past experiences, current goals, internal needs, and the current state of the environment to choose an action that achieves near- and long-term objectives, such as access to food, water, mates, and safety from predators. An evolutionarily ancient part of the brain, the basal ganglia, is conserved from fish to humans and mediates action selection. Sabatini and his collaborators study the basal ganglia to uncover the circuits that underlie action selection, and that allow an animal to update its action plan dependent on past experiences. To facilitate their studies, the Sabatini group develops novel optical, behavioral, and mathematical methods. Sabatini is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator as well as an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
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- Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University 's Zuckerman Institute
Bianca Jones Marlin is an incoming Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, 2021. She is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University in the laboratory of Richard Axel, where she investigates transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, or how traumatic experiences in parents affect the brain structure of their offspring. She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from New York University, and dual bachelor degrees from St. John's University, in biology and adolescent education. As a graduate student, her research focused on the vital bond between parent and child, and studied the use of neurochemicals, such as the "love drug" oxytocin, as a treatment to strengthen fragile and broken parent-child relationships. Bianca aims to utilize neurobiology and the science of learning to better inform both the scientific and educational community on how positive experiences dictate brain health, social well being.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- Founding Director and Senior Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular
Botond Roska is founding Director and Senior Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He earned his MD in 1995 at the Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. His research interests are in how neurons interact in local neuronal networks to compute behaviorally relevant functions. His lab uses the mammalian retina as a model system because the input, the dynamically changing light pattern, is well defined and can be easily manipulated experimentally. His experimental approach is interdisciplinary, combining physiological, molecular, viral and computational approaches to reveal the structure and function of retinal circuits.
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- Founder
- Scientific Advisory Council
Bruce Alberts, a prominent biochemist with a strong commitment to the improvement of science and mathematics education, was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in 2014. Dr. Alberts served as Editor-in-Chief of Science (2008-2013) and as one of President Obama's first three Science Envoys (2009-2011). He is now the Chancellor's Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, to which he returned in 2005 after serving two six-year terms as the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
During his tenure at the NAS, Alberts was instrumental in developing the landmark National Science Education standards. The type of "science as inquiry" teaching we need, says Alberts, emphasizes "logical, hands-on problem solving, and it insists on having evidence for claims that can be confirmed by others. It requires work in cooperative groups, where those with different types of talents can discover them - developing self-confidence and an ability to communicate effectively with others."
Alberts is also noted as one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a preeminent textbook in the field now in its sixth edition. For the period 2000 to 2009, he served as the co-chair of the InterAcademy Council, an organization governed by the presidents of 15 national academies of sciences that was established to provide scientific advice to the world.
Committed in his international work to the promotion of the "creativity, openness and tolerance that are inherent to science," Alberts believes that "scientists all around the world must now band together to help create more rational, scientifically-based societies that find dogmatism intolerable."
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- Associate Director for Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Bruce Hendrickson is Associate Director for Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In this role, he leads an organization of around 1100 computing professional with responsibility for the full breadth of the Laboratory's computational needs including research, platforms, and services. Hendrickson sets strategic directions, is an advocate for computing and information technology (IT) activities at LLNL, and contributes to national strategies and initiative. A major focus for Computing is on the mathematics, algorithms, systems software, and platforms for advanced modeling and simulation. A growing emphasis is on the development and application of data science technologies to address the Laboratory's complex applications. An additional priority is providing world-class information technology support for the Laboratory's diverse mission and business needs.
Hendrickson came to the Laboratory after a long career at Sandia National Laboratories where he led the Center for Computational Research and managed Sandia's Advanced Simulation and Computing program. Hendrickson has degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is a highly published and cited scientist and his research has garnered a number of international awards. His research interests include computational science, parallel algorithms, combinatorial scientific computing, linear algebra, data mining, graph algorithms and computer architecture. Hendrickson is a former Hertz Fellow and is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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- Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes
Bruce R. Conklin is a Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and a Professor in the Medical Genetics and Molecular Pharmacology department at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Conklin's research focuses on the human genetics that cause diseases like cardiomyopathy and blindness. His lab uses induced pluripotent stem cells that are engineered to test the role of specific genetic changes on disease.
Conklin began his research career by working for two years with Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod, Ph.D., at the National Institutes of Health. He then completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Henry Bourne, MD, at UCSF. In 1995, Conklin joined the Gladstone Institutes, where he went on to found the Gladstone Genomics Core, the Gladstone Stem Cell Core, and the Gladstone Stem Cell Training Program. He currently serves as the Gladstone Scientific Officer for Technology and Innovation.
Conklin pioneered the use of designer G protein coupled receptors (RASSLs) for tissue engineering. He is also the founder of several public stem cell and genomics projects, including BayGenomics, GenMAPP, AltAnalyze, and WikiPathways, and he has a leadership role in the Innovative Genomics Initiative headed by Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. Conklin is the principle investigator on multiple research grants from the NIH and serves on multiple advisory boards. He is a member of several honorary societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and he is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
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- Professor and Director of the Infectious
Carl F. Ware, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Center and Member of NCI designated Cancer Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Dr. Ware is a leading immunologist internationally recognized for his scientific discoveries and advances in the study of the immune system that are leading to new therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and cancer. A third generation Southern Californian, Dr. Ware received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of California, Irvine, and was awarded a prestigious National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health to support his postdoctoral training in biochemistry and immunology at the University of Texas and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ware established his research laboratory in Immunology at the University of California, Riverside, in 1981 and relocated in 1996 to San Diego, serving as founding Director of Molecular Immunology at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
In 2010, Dr. Ware joined SBP Discovery to translate his discoveries into new medicines fostered by the research environment at SBP. As Center Director, Dr. Ware helps build scientific collaborations with biotech and pharma companies to promote the translation of fundamental research into new therapeutics to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer. Dr. Ware actively contributes to the discovery-rich environment in the San Diego research community, serving as Professor at UC San Diego, a member of the Clinical and Translational Research Institute, the Center for Precision Immunotherapy at Moores Cancer Center, and the Executive Committee for the Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Ware serves as Director of SAB for the Arthritis National Research Foundation that funds new investigators, serves as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, and advises several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies on innovative approaches to target discovery and drug development.
Dr. Ware is noted for his patented discoveries of TNF-related cytokines and regulatory proteins of the immune system and therapeutics targeting these cytokines. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recognizes Dr. Ware as an expert on the subject of the "TNF Superfamily". Being awarded the prestigious MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health allowed him to develop new approaches to drug development. Dr. Ware's discoveries in immunology have led to the development of two protein-based drugs currently in clinical trials for the treatment of autoimmune diseases-a human monoclonal antibody (AGM002) to the cytokine LIGHT now in a clinical trial (NCT03169894) for Crohn's Disease and Colitis, and a receptor-Fc biologic (baminercept) in rheumatoid arthritis. Currently at SBP Discovery Dr. Ware has additional projects with pharma developing novel protein-based therapeutics for autoimmune diseases. In addition, his team is developing treatments for cancer using the power of immunotherapy.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
Carla DewBerry is a Partner at K&L Gates, where she practices in the areas of health care law; mergers and acquisitions; and federal, state and local tax. Ms. DewBerry represents health care clients in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement matters, including related audits and litigation. In addition, she is an experienced tax and business counselor and represents clients in corporate restructurings, joint venture operations, licensing, and federal and state taxation matters. She provides counsel for clients outside the health care industry as well.
Ms. DewBerry's experience includes working as a practicing CPA at a large accounting firm where she was part of a firmwide health care group. She brings to her law practice a practical, in-depth understanding of how financial information is generated, stored and retrieved in the health care industry. This understanding is especially helpful in Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement matters.
Most recently, Ms. DewBerry was an owner of the private law practice Garvey Schubert Barer. The primary areas of focus included general corporate law, tax law, and health care law with an emphasis in regulatory compliance (federal and local) and reimbursement issues. Previous to that, she was a shareholder in Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S., a law firm specializing in health care services. Ms. DewBerry was also a tax manager of a large multi-national accounting firm where her primary areas of focus included hospital reorganizations, federal and state tax law, and health care reimbursement.
Ms. DewBerry earned a B.S. from University of San Francisco and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.
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- Associate Director, Data Management
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Murry received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of North Dakota, followed by M.D./Ph.D. training at Duke University, where he studied myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. He did residency training in Pathology at the University of Washington, followed by fellowship training in vascular biology and diagnostic cardiovascular pathology. He is currently a professor in the departments of Pathology, Bioengineering, and Medicine/Cardiology at the University of Washington.
Dr. Murry's research focuses on stem cell biology, with an emphasis on understanding differentiation of the human cardiovascular system and using these cells to study diseases and to regenerate damaged tissues. His group is a world leader in heart regeneration and is working toward a clinical trial using cardiomyocyte therapy.
Dr. Murry directs the UW Center for Cardiovascular Biology, the UW Medicine Heart Regeneration Program, and is interim director of the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. He has served on many local, national and international committees, and he has received numerous awards for teaching and scientific achievement. He is married to Rene Murry and has two children and one dog.
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- Scientific Project and Alliance Manager
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- Leadership Chair, and Director of the Tianqiao
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- Assistant Professor at the University of California
Christina Kim is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. Her interests lie in developing and applying new technologies to link transcriptional identity with fast neural activity dynamics on the cellular level. Christina received her undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology with a concentration in Quantitative and Computational Neuroscience at Princeton University in 2011. As a graduate student with Karl Deisseroth at Stanford, she developed new optical imaging platforms to simultaneously record and manipulate neural activity during behavior. She used these methodologies to study how brain-wide dynamics and molecularly distinct circuit pathways regulate reward-related behaviors in mice. One of her key discoveries was that a subtype of prefrontal cortex-to-nucleus accumbens neurons can suppress reward-seeking behaviors in order to avoid threats. In her current research, she is developing new molecular logic gates to gain genetic access to these specific nucleus accumbens neurons that mediate this suppression of reward-seeking. By coupling these molecular tools with single-cell RNA sequencing, she is discovering their transcriptional profiles and cell-types. Christina will continue her research as a 2019 recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
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- Champalimaud Research
- Researcher at Champalimaud Research
Cindy Poo is a postdoctoral researcher at Champalimaud Research in Lisbon, Portugal, in the lab of Dr. Zachary Mainen. Cindy grew up in Taipei, Taiwan and has lived and worked across multiple continents. She received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Brown University. She completed her doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffry Isaacson at the University of California, San Diego, where she used in vitro and in vivo patch-clamp recordings to understand synaptic mechanisms contributing to odor-evoked activity in olfactory cortex. As a postdoctoral researcher, Cindy was supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation and Human Frontiers Science Programme. Her current research uses freely-moving and head-fixed rodent behavioral paradigms combined with contemporary electrophysiological recording, perturbation, and data analysis methods to further understand the olfactory system in the context of spatial navigation. Cindy's long-term research goal is to understand the neural dynamics and mechanisms for olfactory perception, cognition, and behavior in distributed circuits across the brain.
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- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Middlebury College
Clinton Cave is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Middlebury College. Clinton holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, and he completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in the laboratory of Shanthini Sockanathan. Clinton's doctoral work expanded the known roles of a small family of cell surface enzymes-the 6-transmembrane GDE proteins. These proteins are unique in their ability to enzymatically sever the lipid anchor of GPI-anchored proteins on the cell surface. During embryonic neurogenesis, this signaling axis is critical for the successful differentiation of spinal and cortical neurons. Using functional genetic approaches in mice, Clinton's work demonstrated that GDE2 also plays a crucial role for neuronal survival in the postnatal nervous system. These efforts heralded a new line of research investigating how GDE2 dysfunction integrates into neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Clinton began his professorship at Middlebury in the fall of 2018. He teaches courses on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Neurodevelopment, and the History of Neuroscience. He runs a research laboratory with undergraduate students examining the molecular mechanisms regulating progenitor patterning, neurogenesis, and cell fate decisions in the vertebrate neural tube through the lens of GDE-GPI signaling. As a Next Generation Leader, Clinton is interested in developing tools and approaches at the intersection of neuroscience research and education.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Daniel Geschwind is the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of neurology, psychiatry and human genetics at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is director of the Neurogenetics Program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) and co-director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics in the Semel Institute at UCLA. His laboratory aims to develop a mechanistic understanding of neuropsychiatric diseases, such as autism and neurodegenerative diseases, and their relationship to the range of normal human higher cognitive function and behavior. The lab's approach relies heavily on computational and bioinformatic methods in addition to wet laboratory experimentation. The ultimate goal is to use these integrative approaches to help develop effective therapeutics for neurologic and psychiatric disorders, focusing on autism and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Geschwind is also a strong advocate for data and biomaterial sharing, having provided scientific oversight for the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE). He has served on numerous scientific advisory boards, including the Faculty of 1000 Medicine, the Executive Committee of the American Neurological Association, the NIMH Advisory Council and the NIH Council of Councils. He has published over 300 papers and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Biological Psychiatry, Cell, Human Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology of Disease, Neuron and Science. He received the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association in 2004, the Scientific Service Award from Autism Speaks in 2007, the Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research from the Brain and Behavior foundation in 2012, the Taking on Tomorrow Innovation Award (Research/Scientific Breakthrough in Autism) - Boston Children's Hospital in 2013 and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the Allen Institute Scientific Advisory Board
- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine
David McCormick is the Dorys McConnel Duberg Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, where he has been a faculty member since his appointment in 1987 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. McCormick received a Bachelor's of Science degree in mathematics and a Bachelor's of Art degree in experimental psychology from Purdue University in 1979. He then received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University in 1983. His graduate work demonstrated that the cerebellum is essential for acquisition of Pavlovian (Classical) conditioned responses and mapped out a likely circuit that mediates this form of simple learning. Dr. McCormick performed his postdoctoral work at Stanford University with David Prince, where he contributed to understanding the mechanisms by which neuromodulatory neurotransmitters control the state of cortical and thalamic neurons and networks. Dr. McCormick has been honored with awards ranging from the Donald B. Lindsley Prize to the Yngve Zotterman Prize, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- the California Institute of Technology
Research in the Tsao laboratory focuses on the mechanisms underlying visual perception in primates. The lab seeks to understands the series of transformations in the visual cortex responsible for our ability to perceive, remember, and act upon visual objects in three-dimensional space. Questions the lab is particularly interested in include: What is the neural code for the surface structure and location of 3D objects? What is the neural code for dynamic events involving interactions between multiple objects? Does the brain possess a generative model capable of converting a high-level concept into a detailed picture, and if so, what is the detailed circuit implementing this generative model? What is the mechanism underlying generation of a conscious visual percept?
In their quest to understand brain mechanisms for visual perception, Dr. Tsao and her team use a wide variety of techniques including fMRI, electrophysiology, electrical stimulation, optogenetics and pharmacological perturbation, anatomical tracing, functional ultrasound, wide-field and two photon calcium imaging, and computational modeling. In particular, the lab has pioneered the use of fMRI-guided electrophysiology to dissect the organization and code of the macaque face patch system, a network of six regions in the temporal lobe and multiple additional satellite regions that are dedicated to processing faces. The remarkable specialization of these regions for processing one specific class of complex objects has opened up many previously intractable questions about high-level perception and cognition.
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- Director of AI
- Distinguished AI Researcher, Technologist
Dr. Ashwin Ram is Director of AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud. He focuses on bringing Google AI to the world through deep personalized engagement with the leadership of top companies to reimagine their businesses by leveraging the power of AI. He also works with Google's AI teams to drive new technologies and capabilities that address customer needs.
Ashwin is a distinguished AI researcher, technologist, and entrepreneur. Prior to Google, Ashwin was Senior Manager of AI Science for Amazon Alexa. He led cross-functional R&D initiatives to create advanced Conversational AI technologies for intelligent agents, including the university-facing Alexa Prize competition.
Before that, Ashwin managed the Interactive Intelligence research area at Xerox PARC, creating PARC's Digital Health program and leading a team to invent new behavior change technologies to help people adopt healthier lifestyles. He was a professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and director of the Cognitive Computing Lab, and is now an adjunct professor there. He has co-founded multiple startups, including OpenStudy (acquired by Brainly), an online social learning network, and Enkia (acquired by Sentiment360), which developed AI software for social media applications.
Ashwin specializes in connecting science, technology, product and business. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1989, his MS from University of Illinois in 1984, and his BTech from IIT Delhi in 1982. He has published 2 books and over 100 scientific articles in international forums. He is an experienced public speaker and has given several keynotes, distinguished lectures, and a TED talk.
He is a closet anthropologist and loves travel, people and culture.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Professor
Ed Callaway is Professor and Vincent J. Coates Chair in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where he has been on the faculty since his appointment as Assistant Professor in 1995. He received his Bachelors degree from Stanford University in 1984 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1988, both in biology. Following graduate work studying neuromuscular development in the laboratory of David Van Essen, he conducted postdoctoral studies on the development of visual cortical circuitry with Larry Katz, first at Rockefeller University and then Duke University. Amongst other honors and awards, Dr. Callaway was elected as a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Studies in Dr. Callaway's lab have revealed important insights into the organization and function of the visual system and principles of the specificity of connections and contributions of specific cell types in the cerebral cortex. His lab has also pioneered novel molecular, genetic and viral tools for revealing the detailed structure and function of neural circuits, most notably systems for monosynaptic circuit tracing with G-deleted rabies virus. Present studies capitalize on these and related tools to understand the neural circuit mechanisms that underlie the function of the cerebral cortex.
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- Scientific Project and Alliance Manager
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- Fellow in Gord Fishell 's Laboratory at Harvard Medical School
Emilia Favuzzi is a postdoctoral fellow in Gord Fishell's laboratory at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute. She grew up in Italy and received a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in Neurobiology from Sapienza University of Rome. She did her doctoral training in the lab of Beatriz Rico at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante (Spain) and at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London. Her graduate research focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of inhibitory circuit development and plasticity in the cerebral cortex. In her postdoctoral work, Emilia focused on microglia-inhibitory synapse interactions during development and discovered that specialized microglia differentially engage with specific synapse types. In particular, she found that GABA-receptive microglia selectively sculpt cortical inhibitory - but not excitatory - circuits during development. Over the years, Emilia was awarded numerous prizes such as the Beddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology and the Krieg Cortical Kudos Scholar Award from the Cajal Club. In the future as an independent investigator, she will study how the selective communication between neuronal and glial cell types influences brain wiring.
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- Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Yttri has been an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University since Fall 2017. His lab applies 3D nanoprinted electrodes to understand the large-scale circuit dynamics underlying motor performance and decision making. He learned many of the behavioral techniques he now implements in mice during his graduate studies of non-human primates with Larry Snyder at Washington University in St. Louis. After helping to establish the parietal areas responsible for saccades, reaches, and attention, he moved to the lab of Josh Dudman at Janelia Research Campus. As a postdoctoral fellow, he adapted the primate reaching task to the mouse model, while applying closed loop stimulation to reveal how different basal ganglia components modulate reach performance.
The next time you hear the melodious sound of a songbird, think of what these birds may one day tell us about the origins of human language and how our brain learns behavior. Such is the research focus of neurobiologist Erich Jarvis.
His work thus far has resulted in some compelling hypotheses, including: establishing a close anatomical similarity in the brain mechanisms that control vocal communication in songbirds and humans. "What birds and humans seem to have in common is a connection between the front part of the brain, and nerves in the brainstem, that control movement-namely, muscles for producing songs in birds and speech in humans," Erich says.
Erich (who, before deciding on a career in science, was invited to audition for the prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre in Harlem) graduated from Hunter College in New York City with a bachelor's degree in Biology and Mathematics and later earned his Ph.D. Neurobiology and Animal Behavior from Rockefeller University.
Erich is the recipient of key awards and honors for his achievements, including: One of the highest awards given by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, and one of the highest given by the National Science Foundation (NSF) -- the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award. He is also a research investigator of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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- Executive Founder of Wellville
Esther Dyson (@edyson) is executive founder of Wellville (@WaytoWellville), a 10-year project to improve health care. A longtime tech analyst and investor, Esther is now exploring the etiology of addiction and the path to both individual and institutional behavior change.
Separately, she is an active investor in health-related startups, including in 23andMe (formerly a director), 4D Healthware, Basil Health, Big Health, Boundless.ai, CareMESH, Clover Health, Devoted Health, Doppel, Eligible, Enso Relief, Epistemic.ai, Ezra.com, Hawthorne Effect, HealthCelerate, HealthTap, i2Dx, MealShare, Medesk, MedicaSafe, mEquilibrium, Nanowear, NeuroGeneCES, Nuna, Omada Health, PatientsLikeMe/iCarbonX, PatientsKnowBest, Prognos.ai, Proofpilot, Resilient, Sapiens DS, Solera (also an advisor), StartupHealth, Supportiv, Syllable.ai, Tega Pharmaceutical, Tocagen, Trusty.care, Turbine.ai, Valkee, Virgo, X-VAX and Zipongo.
She also trained as a backup cosmonaut in Star City outside Moscow Russia. While there she had the pleasure of spending time not only with the cosmonauts, but also with some of the US's finest astronauts. Dyson began her career as a fact-checker for Forbes Magazine, and spent five years on Wall Street as a securities analyst. From 1983 to 2006, at EDventure Holdings, she produced the newsletter Release 1.0 and ran PC Forum, the computer industry's leading annual conference. She sold EDventure to CNET in 2005, and left in 2007. In 1997 she published her first book, Release 2.0, about the impact of the internet on individuals' lives. She speaks English and Russian and a little French and German, and has a degree in economics from Harvard.
Eve Marder is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield University Professor at Brandeis University. She obtained a B.A degree from Brandeis University in 1969, a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1974, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Oregon and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France before assuming her faculty position in 1978. Marder was President of the Society for Neuroscience (2008), and on the NINDS Council, National Academy of Sciences Council, numerous Study Sections, and Advisory Boards for institutions in the USA and abroad. Marder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Biophysical Society, the American Physiological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received the Miriam Salpeter Memorial Award for Women in Neuroscience, the W.F. Gerard Prize from the Society for Neuroscience, the George A. Miller Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Karl Spencer Lashley Prize from the American Philosophical Society, Honorary Doctorates from Bowdoin College and Tel Aviv University, the Gruber Award in Neuroscience, the Education Award from the Society for Neuroscience, the Kavli Award in Neuroscience. and the National Academy of Sciences Award in Neuroscience. Marder served on the NIH working group for the Obama BRAIN Initiative, and is now on the BRAIN advisory Council. Marder has served on many journal editorial boards. She was Editor-in Chief of Journal of Neurophysiology, and was a Senior and then Deputy Editor at eLife for its first 6 years.
Marder studies the dynamics of small neuronal networks, and her work was instrumental in demonstrating that neuronal circuits are not "hard-wired" but can be reconfigured by neuromodulatory neurons and substances to produce a variety of outputs. She combines experimental work with insights from modeling and theoretical studies. With Larry Abbott, her lab developed the programmable dynamic clamp. Her lab pioneered studies of homeostatic regulation of intrinsic membrane properties, and stimulated work on the mechanisms by which brains remain stable while allowing for change during development and learning. Marder now studies how similar network performance can arise from different sets of underlying network parameters, with its relevance for differential resilience in the population.
In addition to her original research papers, Marder has published numerous extremely influential review articles which are heavily cited. Additionally, she has published more than 20 short essays relevant to the life of scientists, senior and junior. She has long been an advocate for women, diversity and international representation. Her life was highlighted in a recent book by Charlotte Nassim, MIT Press, 2018 Lessons from the Lobster, Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience.
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- Fellow in Steve McCarroll
Fenna Krienen is a postdoctoral fellow in Steve McCarroll's lab in the department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. She received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from University of California, Berkeley, and did her doctoral work at Harvard University with Randy Buckner using noninvasive neuroimaging in large human cohorts to infer functional connectivity in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum. She was a Brain-Mind Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at The George Washington University with Chet Sherwood, where she developed an analytic approach for jointly analyzing human neuroimaging and microarray data to reveal transcriptional correlates of large-scale connectivity, before joining the McCarroll lab. Fenna uses single nucleus DNA and RNA sequencing across species (focusing on primates) to understand how brain cell types have evolved, and as a way to build better links between human genetics and animal models. She is a recipient of a Simons Foundation for Autism Research (SFARI) Bridge to Independence Award.
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- Interim President of Bellevue College
Gary Locke previously served as the 21st Governor of Washington State and was U.S. Secretary of Commerce and then U.S. Ambassador to China under the Obama Administration. He also served as a senior advisor and consultant to the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine with an emphasis on trade, regulatory, and investment policy issues and providing guidance on doing business in China.
Governor Locke currently serves as the Interim President at Bellevue College, which is the third largest higher education institution in Washington State, serving nearly 30,000 students annually.
Governor Locke currently serves on the boards of AMC Theaters, nLight, Port Blakely Tree Farm, and the Seattle Art Museum and is a past board member of PATH and Fortinet. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale University and a law degree from Boston University.
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- Chairman of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics
Gaudenz Danuser is the inaugural chairman of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics au UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in Dallas. He also holds the Patrick E. Haggerty Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Science and is a Scholar of the Cancer Prevention Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Before moving to UTSW, Danuser directed research laboratories at ETH Zurich (2002 - 2003), at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla (2003 - 2009), and at Harvard Medical School (2009 - 2014).
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- Co - Founder
- Founder of the SCREEN
Gene is a co-founder of biotech companies which includes Locana, Eclipse Bioinnovations, Enzerna and Proteona. Gene played a critical role in the successful raising of $55M for Locana at series A (2019). Gene serves or had served on the scientific advisory boards of the Allen Institute of Immunology, Locana, Eclipse Bioinnovations, Proteona, Aquinnah, Cell Applications, Nugen (now Tecan), Sardona Therapeutics and Ribometrix. Gene is a senior advisor to Accelerator Life Sciences Partners.
Gene is the founder of the SCREEN (San Diego Covid-19 Research Enterprise Network, 2020) and founding member of the SEARCH (San Diego Epidemiology and Research for Covid Health, 2020) alliances in San Diego. SCREEN has 1000 scientist members in San Diego focusing on grassroots research coordination and community outreach. SEARCH is focused on epidemiology studies of the prevalence of the virus completing a 12000-person study of viral spread. Gene is on the Return to Work task force in Biocom. Gene is the faculty founder of DASL (Diversity and Science Lecture Series, 2020) providing a voice for scientists to discuss diversity, equity and inclusion challenges and celebrating their scientific achievements. Gene was a Sword of Honor recipient (the highest honor) in Officer Cadet School in 1999 and has served in the Singapore Navy as a Naval officer. Gene has completed 2 full Ironman-distance and multiple half-ironman-, olympic-, sprint-distance triathlons, full marathons and half-marathons, but now spends time rock climbing.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Interim President at Bellevue College
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota Medical School
- Fellow at HHMI
Arif Hamid is a Hannah Gray Fellow at HHMI and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His research program is focused on deeply understanding brain substrates for flexible behavioral control and reinforcement learning (RL). With extensive training in behavioral, systems, and computational neuroscience, Arif's research group will combine interdisciplinary approaches to study (i) the functional properties of key brain decision-circuits and, (ii) link identified circuit mechanisms to specific computational operations within normative theoretical frameworks, (iii) to ultimately understand how these circuit and computational specialization become leveraged during various behavioral demands. To this end, Arif's previous scientific contributions have reported novel empirical findings (including dopamine midbrain-forebrain dissociation, and striatal dopamine waves) that have significantly (re)shaped formalizations of dopamine's role in RL. The lab seeks to build on this trajectory to make deep contributions that integrate experimental findings into multilevel neurocomputational models for tandem and cyclical advances in the simulated and empirical understanding of brain mechanisms for valuation, selection, planning, and execution of behavioral goals.
Harinder Singh obtained his Ph.D. at Northwestern University mentored by Dr. Lawrence Dumas (1979-84) and was a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral fellow at MIT mentored by Drs. Phillip Sharp and David Baltimore (1984-88). He was a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1989-2009, becoming a Louis Block Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In January 2019, Harinder accepted a position as the Director at the Center for Systems Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh. He previously served as Senior Director of Discovery Immunology and as a Staff Scientist at Genentech from 2009-2013. From 2013-2018, he was on the faculty of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as Director of the Division of Immunobiology and the Center for Systems Immunology. He has served as an Editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Biology and as a Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors (Basic Research) of the National Cancer Institute.
He has had a longstanding interest in the analysis of transcription factors and gene regulatory networks that regulate the development and functioning of innate and adaptive cells of the immune system. His lab discovered that the Ets family member PU.1 is required for the development of multiple lineages of the innate and adaptive immune system and that graded levels of PU.1 are used to orchestrate innate versus adaptive immune cell fates. The Singh lab has been particularly interested in gene regulatory networks that orchestrate B cell fate specification, pre-B cell differentiation, B cell activation and plasma cell generation. Molecular biology and genomic approaches along with mathematical modeling have been used to assemble and analyze such networks. This conceptual and experimental framework is being extended to enable analysis of antigen-specific B as well as T cell responses in the context of vaccination, infection or autoimmune diseases in humans.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
- Scripps Research Institute
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- Member of the Allen Institute Scientific Advisory Board
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- Immunology Scientific Advisory Council
- Is Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Dr. Crowe is Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and the Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. His laboratory studies the human immune response to infection for a variety of major human pathogens, including many emerging infections. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors, and other major professional organizations. The work has been recognized by a number of international awards, including the Judson Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society, the Oswald Avery Award of the IDSA, and the Korsmeyer Award of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, her M.S. in Biology from Stanford University, and her Ph.D in Biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University. She did post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Klausner and served as Chief of the Section on Organelle Biology in the Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH until 2016. She is currently group leader at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.
Lippincott-Schwartz's research uses live cell imaging approaches to analyze the spatio-temporal behavior and dynamic interactions of molecules and organelles in cells. Her group has pioneered the use of green fluorescent protein (GFP) technology for quantitative analysis and modeling of intracellular protein traffic and organelle biogenesis in live cells and embryos, providing novel insights into cell compartmentalization, protein trafficking and organelle inheritance. Most recently, her research has focused on the development and use of photoactivatable fluorescent proteins, which ‘switch on' in response to light. One application of these proteins she has put to use is photoactivated localization microscopy, (i.e., PALM), a superresolution imaging technique that enables visualization of molecule distributions at high density at the nano-scale.
Her work has been recognized with election to the National Academy of Sciences (2008) and the National Institute of Medicine (2009), and with the Royal Microscopy Society Pearse Prize (2010) and the Society of Histochemistry Feulgen Prize (2001). Dr. Lippincott-Schwartz is currently Editor for Current Protocols in Cell Biology and The Journal of Cell Science and is on the editorial boards of Cell, Physiology and Integrative Biology. She is President-elect of the American Society of Cell Biology and has had leadership roles in the Biophysical Society. She serves on the advisory board for the Searle Scholar Program and scientific review board of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is a non-resident Faculty Fellow of the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.
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- Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Cardin is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine, where her lab studies the flexible function of cortical circuits in health and developmental disease. Her lab at Yale uses a multilevel electrophysiological and optical approach to explore the dynamic interactions between inhibitory and excitatory neurons that underlie the flexible encoding of visual information in cortical circuits, and how cortical circuit function varies with behavioral state and learning. The Cardin lab also studies how developmental dysregulation of cortical circuits leads to compromised perceptual and cognitive function in models of autism and schizophrenia.
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- Chairman of the Board
- Chairman of Vulcan
- Trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust
As Chair of Vulcan and Trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust, Jody Allen has responsibility for preserving and implementing Paul Allen's vision for generations to come.
Jody and her brother Paul Allen worked side-by-side in both business and philanthropic ventures. For more than two decades, Jody served as CEO of Vulcan, which she co-founded with Paul. She also co-founded and currently serves on the board of The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. In addition, Jody is the President of the Board of MoPOP - Seattle's critically acclaimed museum of popular culture - and the Chair of the Allen Institute's Board of Directors.
As a philanthropist with a passion for conservation, she has dedicated herself to protecting marine life, fighting wildlife trafficking, and saving Africa's elephants from extinction. She launched Wild Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to wildlife conservation and other philanthropic initiatives. In addition, Jody serves as a board member of Sealife Response, Rehabilitation and Research, an organization dedicated to improving the health and welfare of marine wildlife in the Pacific Northwest.
Jody has a deep love for education and the arts. She is currently a board member of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, and previously served on the boards of ArtsFund, the Theatre Communications Group, the University of Washington Foundation, the Museum of Glass, the Los Angeles International Film Festival and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Jody is a member of the board of the Seattle Seahawks. Recognizing the team's role as a powerful catalyst for civic pride as well as an economic engine, she led the development of CenturyLink Field and Event Center. Jody also led the development of Moda Center, home of the Portland Trail Blazers.
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- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- the Rockefeller University ( Board Chair )
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- Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Managing Director With Deloitte Consulting LLS
Margaret is a Managing Director with Deloitte Consulting LLS where she is focused on bringing forward her experience with trends in biomedical research innovation and patient engagement to help strengthen nonprofit organizations, as well as federal health and commercial life sciences programs. She joined Deloitte from FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute where she was Executive Director. While at FasterCures, she oversaw programs advancing the science of patient input, examining the metrics for collaborative research models, and policy related to federal research. She has also worked on public health issues at the American Public Health Association and in a consulting and policy capacity for HIV/AIDS programs in the early years of the epidemic. She began her career at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment looking at the impact of biotechnology and genetics on the economy and society.
Margaret currently serves on the Boards of Act for NIH, FasterCures, Friends of Cancer Research, and the Melanoma Research Alliance. Margaret has a Bachelor's from University of Maryland in Government and Politics and a Master's from George Washington in Science, Technology and Public Policy.
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- California Institute of Technology
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- William Francis Ganong Professor
Michael Stryker is William Francis Ganong Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he has been a faculty member since his appointment as Assistant Professor in 1978 and where he served as Department Chair from 1994-2005. In 1987-1988 he was Visiting Professor in the Department of Human Anatomy at the University of Oxford in England. Dr. Stryker earned his B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. degree in Psychology and Brain Sciences (Neurophysiology) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1976-1978 he was Research Fellow in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where he worked with Nobel Laureates Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel. Dr. Stryker has received several awards and honors for his research, including election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, appointment as the Galileo Galilei Professor of Science at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy (1993), the Pepose Vision Sciences Award from Brandeis University, and the Stein Innovator Award from Research to Prevent Blindness.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
Buster Brown is the Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer for Rain City Capital, LLC. Rain City Capital provides bridge financing solutions to real estate investors and professionals.
Buster has been the Chief Financial Officer for an eclectic industry mix. He was the Senior Vice President of Finance for the Seattle Times Company and has served as Chief Financial Officer for several Paul G. Allen companies, including Vulcan, Mr. Allen's multi-billion-dollar asset management company; the Seattle Seahawks; and First and Goal, the company that built and manages CenturyLink Field.
Buster serves two for-profit boards (GemaTEG and Fortune Management Inc) and several nonprofit boards including the Allen Institute, MoPOP and the Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation. Buster is a member of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants as well as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Buster is a CPA and earned a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Puget Sound.
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
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- Chairman of the Pacific Northwest Region for JPM
Phyllis Campbell is Chairman of the Pacific Northwest Region for JPMorgan Chase. She is the firm's senior executive in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. From 2003 to 2009, Ms. Campbell served as president and CEO of The Seattle Foundation, one of the nation's largest community philanthropic foundations. She was president of U.S. Bank of Washington from 1993 until 2001 and served as chair of the bank's Community Board.
She has received several awards for her corporate and community involvement, including Women Who Make A Difference and Director of the Year from the Northwest Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Ms. Campbell currently serves on the boards of Alaska Air Group and Toyota's Diversity Advisory Board. She is also the chair of the US-Japan Council, as well as a member of the global advisory board of Women Corporate Directors (WCD).
She holds a bachelor's degree from Washington State University and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the Cell Types and Connections Advisory Council Team
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- French National Institute of Health and Medical Research ( Inserm )
Steve Hall has been a venture capital investor for over 20 years, including his current tenure at Vulcan Capital where he managed investments in over 50 companies totaling more than $1.0B in combined value. He currently sits on the boards of Zola Electric and High Fidelity and has been a board member for both the Allen Institute and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence since inception.
Steve began his career as a corporate attorney with White & Case in New York, where he focused on M&A and securities transactions. Steve graduated from Furman University and received his JD from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Member of the Allen Institute Scientific Advisory Board
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Chairman in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies