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2Nd Annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting Participant List (Registrants as of 12/1/15) Prof. Behnaam Aazhang Dr. Srdjan Antic J.S. Abercrombie Professor Associate Professor of Neuroscience Rice University Health Center, University of Connecticut [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Hillel Adesnik Dr. James Antony Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Postdoctoral Fellow Adesnik Lab, University of California, Berkeley Princeton Computational Memory Lab, [email protected] Princeton University [email protected] Dr. Daniel Aharoni Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Giorgio Ascoli Golshani Lab, David Geffen School of Medicine, Professor of Molecular Science and Founding University of California, Los Angeles Director [email protected] Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, & Plasticity, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Dr. Dinu Florin Albeanu Study, George Mason University Assistant Professor [email protected] Albeanu Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory [email protected] Dr. Shelli Avenevoli Branch Chief Dr. Jose Miguel Algarin Guisado Developmental Trajectories of Mental Disorders Postdoctoral Associate Branch, National Institute of Mental Health Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied [email protected] Physics, University of Maryland [email protected] Dr. Peter Bandettini Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods Dr. Richard Andersen Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience Institute of Mental Health California Institute of Technology [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Peter Bandettini Prof. Dora Angelaki Chief Professor and Chair, Department of Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Neuroscience Laboratory of Brain and Cognition of the Baylor College of Medicine Intramural Research Program, National Institute [email protected] of Mental Health [email protected] Dr. Jacopo Annese Director Brain Observatory [email protected] Prof. Aron Barbey Dr. William Benzing Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Scientific Review Officer Psychology, and Speech and Hearing Science Scientific Review Branch, National Institute of and Director Neurological Disorders and Stroke Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, Beckman [email protected] Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Prof. Yevgeny Berdichevsky [email protected] Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Peter Basser Lehigh University Associate Scientific Director and Senior [email protected] Investigator Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Dr. Luca Berdondini Child Health and Human Development Senior Researcher [email protected] Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia [email protected] Sarah Bates Public Affairs Specialist Prof. Josh Berke Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Science Foundation Biomedical Engineering [email protected] College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan Dr. Helen Bateup [email protected] Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Principal Investigator Dr. Philipp Bethge Bateup Lab, University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Researcher [email protected] Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich [email protected] Prof. Mark Bathe Associate Professor of Biological Engineering Prof. Rohit Bhargava Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Bioengineering [email protected] Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Dr. Aaron Batista Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Associate Professor of Bioengineering Champaign Swanson School of Engineering, University of [email protected] Pittsburgh [email protected] Prof. Seth Blackshaw Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Margarita Behrens School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Staff Scientist [email protected] Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Charles Blaha [email protected] Professor of Neurosurgery Mayo Clinic [email protected] Dr. Gunnar Blohm Dr. Dario Bressan Assistant Professor for Computational Research Associate Neuroscience Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Laboratory for Computational Sensorimotor University of Cambridge Neuroscience, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, [email protected] Queen's University [email protected] Dr. Carlos Brody Professor of Molecular Biology and Investigator Dr. Brenda Bloodgood Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton Assistant Professor of Neurobiology University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, San Diego [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Claudette Brooks Dr. Anthony Boemio Medical Officer Scientist Office of Research on Women's Health Intelligence Advanced Research Projects [email protected] Activity [email protected] Mr. Morgan Brown Ph.D. Student Dr. Stephen Boppart College of Engineering, Oregon State University Professor of Electrical and Computer [email protected] Engineering Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Prof. Jeff Bulte Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of Cellular Imaging [email protected] Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Mr. Peter Borden [email protected] Ph.D. Student Stanley Lab – Neural Coding Laboratory, Dr. Gully Burns Georgia Institute of Technology Project Leader, Intelligent Systems [email protected] Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California Dr. Ed Boyden [email protected] Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Massachusetts Dr. Nicholas Carnevale Institute of Technology Senior Research Scientist in Neuroscience [email protected] Shepherd Lab, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University Dr. Julie Brefczynski-Lewis [email protected] Research Assistant Professor Centers for Neuroscience, West Virginia Dr. Charles Caskey University Assistant Professor of Radiology [email protected] Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University [email protected] Ms. Frances Chance Dr. Vladimir Cherkassky Technical Staff Member, Data-Driven and Senior Research Programmer and Systems Neural Computing Manager Sandia National Laboratories Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie [email protected] Mellon University [email protected] Mr. Kai-min Kevin Chang Research Associate Prof. Cynthia Chestek Language Technologies Institute, School of Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Medical School, University of Michigan [email protected] [email protected] Prof. Steven Chase Dr. Mark Chevillet Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Program Manager, Applied Neuroscience Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Portfolio Carnegie Mellon University Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins [email protected] University [email protected] Dr. Supin Chen Postdoctoral Researcher Prof. Andrea Chiba Center for Micro and Nano Technology, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory University of California, San Diego [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Wen Chen Prof. Andrea Chiba Program Director, Basic and Mechanistic Associate Professor Research in Complementary and Integrative University of California, San Diego Health [email protected] Division of Extramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Dr. Miyoung Chun Health Executive Vice President of Science Programs [email protected] Kavli Foundation [email protected] Dr. Wei Chen Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Prof. George Church Engineering Professor Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Harvard Medical School School of Physics and Astronomy, College of [email protected] Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Dr. Jay Churchill [email protected] Health Science Administrator National Institute of Mental Health Dr. Jerry Chen [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich Dr. Thomas Clandinin [email protected] Associate Professor of Neurobiology School of Medicine, Stanford University [email protected] Prof. Itai Cohen Dr. Changhai Cui Associate Professor of Physics Program Director Cornell University Division of Neuroscience and Behavior, National [email protected] Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [email protected] Dr. Richard Conroy Director Prof. Meng Cui Division of Applied Science & Technology, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering and Biology Bioengineering School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, [email protected] Purdue University [email protected] Dr. Todd Constable Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Prof. D. Kacy Cullen and of Neurosurgery and Director of MRI Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Research Cullen Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University University of Pennsylvania [email protected] [email protected] Dr. James Coulombe Dr. Bruce Cuthbert Program Director Acting Deputy Director Developmental Biology and Structural Variation National Institute of Mental Health Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National [email protected] Institute of Child Health and Human Development Dr. Janet Cyr [email protected] Program Officer, Hearing and Balance Division of
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