Jaime Grutzendler MD, PhD

Yale University, New Haven

Building the Nervous System

“understanding cell-cell interactions

between neuronal and non-neuronal

cells”

Amita Sehgal, PhD

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Metabolism, cell and molecular

neurobiology

“cellular networks that drive

 rhythmic behaviors such as sleep”

Alejandro F. Schinder, PhD

Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires

Neurodegeneration

“ mechanisms of plasticity of the adult

mammalian brain”

Nicola Allen, PhD

Salk Institute, San Diego

Glia

“discovering the proteins astrocyte

secrete in young, adult, and aging brain

that impact synaptic function

differentially in physiological and

disease states”