UC Berkeley

Dr. Abdeladim works in Hillel Adesnik’s lab at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on combining novel optical read/write platforms with computational models of vision to dissect inter-areal codes of perception and  build ultraprecise cortical prostheses for natural percept recreation.

UCSF

Dr. Anderson works in Anna Molofsky’s lab at UCSF. She is interested in how the elimination of whole neurons by immune cells refines and shapes the developing brain. Her work focuses in part on whether a subset of microglia engulf neurons undergoing a novel form of cell death during experience-dependent cortical remodeling.

UCSF

Dr. Deng works in Nadav Ahituv’s lab at UCSF. Her work focuses on the functional role of DNA methylation in Alzheimer’s disease. Employing advanced methods including CRISPR-enabled epigenome screening in human neurons, her work is aimed at opening new avenues for Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics and therapeutics.

UCSF

Dr. Dong works in Eric Huang’s lab at UCSF. Her work focuses on the gene-regulatory networks underlying the disease mechanisms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). These investigations include examination of how genetic deficiencies lead to disease by inducing brain-region and cell-type-specific vulnerabilities.

UC Berkeley

Dr. Elleman works in Richard Kramer’s lab at UC Berkeley. Her work investigates novel and fundamental aspects of action potential signaling in the myelinated axons of the optic nerve, including the role of mechanosensitive two-pore domain potassium channels. This research has implications for the study neuronal signaling, as a field, as well as for diseases of the node of Ranvier like multiple sclerosis and glaucoma.

University of Washington

Dr. Eltokhi works in Bill Catterall’s lab at University of Washington. His work is focused on investigating the potential role of gating pore currents, resulting from mutations in voltage-gated ion channels, as a novel pathophysiological mechanism underlying autism spectrum disorders.

UCSF

Dr. Heimbuch works in Karunesh Ganguly’s lab at UCSF. His research interests center on the mechanisms of motor recovery following stroke, including the interplay between somatosensory and motor neurons as they dynamically reorganize to re-establish robust communication during stroke recovery.

UC Berkeley

Dr. Lee works in Rikky Muller’s lab at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the development of next-generation implantable medical devices, including the design and implementation of fully implantable ASICs that can support miniaturized, wirelessly communicated, and closed-loop neural interfaces with extremely low power.

University of Washington

Dr. Pavlou works in T.A. Reh’s lab at University of Washington. Her work aims to reinstate developmental plasticity in glia to regenerate neurons in the adult primate retina. With an objective to open new frontiers for retinal therapeutics, her work builds upon our knowledge of regeneration mechanisms employed by other species as they recover lost neurons following retinal injury.

University of Washington

Dr. Scholl works in Amy Orsborn’s lab at University of Washington. His focus is on revealing the dynamic connectivity changes that underlie the learning of new skills. Using optogenetics and the read-out capability of brain-computer interfaces, his research tests when and how learning changes connectivity involving neurons in the motor cortex.

UC Berkeley

Dr. Somaiya works in Marla Feller’s lab at UC Berkeley. Following her interest in unraveling the formation of complex neural circuits during development, her work focuses on investigating the relationship between genes and neural activity, and their influence on the formation of retinal circuits, to explore how these circuits contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders.

University of Washington

Dr. Tenedini works in Jay Parrish’s lab at the University of Washington. His interest lies in understanding the specific vulnerability of neurons with axons that span long distances, especially given how such neurons, including motor neurons and somatosensory neurons, are impacted by inflammatory signaling in neurodegenerative diseases.

University of Washington

Dr. Toddes works in Sam Golden’’s lab at the University of Washington. Her research interest lies in the mechanisms that guide the transformation of peripheral nociceptive detection of pain to affective pain states, including those that characterize chronic pain. With an innovative approach, she is focusing on interacting mechanisms of pain processing and social reward that potentially impact this transformation.

UCSF

Dr. Zamecnik works in Michael Willson’s lab at UCSF. His work focuses on discovery platforms to pair antigen binding with antibody identity and cellular phenotype for precision medicine approaches to better treat and study Multiple Sclerosis and other neuroinflammatory diseases.