Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Abbott, Larry
Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience, professor of physiology and cellular biophysics, and principal investigator at Columbia’ Zuckerman Institute. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Research Campus. Abbott uses computational modeling and mathematical analysis to study neurons and neural networks. His work draws on analytical techniques and computer…
April 8, 2021
Adams, Stephen
Stephen Adams is a Project Scientist and PI in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego. He is a chemical biologist who collaborated with Roger Tsien for over 30 years devising novel fluorescent and photoactive sensors, and labeling strategies for correlated light and electron microscopy (CLEM). His current research includes developing…
January 21, 2021
Ananthakrishnan, Rachana
Rachana Ananthakrishnan is Executive Director & Head of Products at the University of Chicago, and has a Joint Staff Appointment at Argonne National Laboratory. In her role at the university, she leads Globus (www.globus.org) department, which delivers research data management services and platform to national and international research institutions. She also serves on the WestGrid…
January 20, 2021
Arroyo, Jesus
Jesús Arroyo is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on statistical inference for networks, high-dimensional data analysis, machine learning, and applications to connectomics. He completed…
March 17, 2021
Baker, Christa
Dr. Christa Baker is a Jane Coffin Childs postdoc fellow in the lab of Dr. Mala Murthy at Princeton University, where she studies neural circuits underlying acoustic communication in Drosophila. During her PhD at Washington University in St. Louis in the lab of Dr. Bruce Carlson, she investigated central and peripheral mechanisms of temporal coding…
March 1, 2021
Barbas, Helen
Helen Barbas is Professor at Boston University and School of Medicine. She studied neuroscience at McGill University (PhD) and Harvard Medical School (postdoctoral). She established and directs the Neural Systems Laboratory at Boston University, funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIMH and NINDS), the National Science Foundation and Autism Speaks. Her research…
January 12, 2021
Bargmann, Cori
Cori Bargmann, a neurobiologist and geneticist, leads the Science program at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and is also the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at The Rockefeller University. Her research on the relationships between genes, motivational states, and behavior has been recognized by membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the Breakthrough Prize in Life…
March 22, 2021
Boassa, Daniela
Dr. Boassa is Director of Core efforts in Probe Development and Refinement at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at the University of California San Diego. She has expertise in neuroscience, cell and molecular biology and sophisticated microscopy and analysis. She leads activities related to the development, characterization, enhancement and application of…
January 12, 2021
Bock, Davi
Davi Bock studies how the activity of neuronal circuits relates to the anatomical “wiring” diagram of the neurons comprising the circuitry. Following physiological characterization of a set of neurons, multi-terabyte electron microscopy image volumes containing the characterized neurons are generated using high-throughput electron microscopy of serial thin sections. Connectivity between neurons is established by tracing…
April 8, 2021
Bremer, Timo
Timo holds a shared appointment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC), focusing on large-scale data analysis and visualization, and at the University of Utah, serving as Associate Director for Research of the Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization (CEDMAV). His research interests include large-scale machine learning, data…
January 30, 2021
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