Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Wilson, Rachel
Rachel Wilson earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCSF and did postdoctoral training at Caltech before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2004, where she is now the Joseph B. Martin Professor of Basic Research in the Field of Neurobiology. The mission of her laboratory is to understand the neural basis of navigation…
February 24, 2021
Witten, Ilana
Ilana Witten graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in physics in 2002, and received her Ph.D. in neurosciences from Eric Knudsen’s lab at Stanford University in 2008. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Karl Deisseroth’s lab in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford. Since 2012, she has been an assistant professor in the…
January 12, 2021
Wong, Rachel
Dr. Rachel Wong is a Professor in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in Vision Neuroscience from Australian National University. Afterward she served as a Research Associate at the National Vision Research Institute of Australia. Rachel then conducted postdoctoral research as a CJ Martin Fellow at Stanford…
Woolley, Sarah
Sarah Woolley is Professor and former Chair in the Department of Psychology and Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University. She is also a faculty member in the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and Center or Integrative Animal Behavior. Dr. Woolley’s laboratory studies the neuroscience of social communication, using songbirds to decipher the neural and behavioral mechanisms…
Wyart, Claire
Dr. Wyart is an Independent Group Leader at the Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), France, where her team focuses on the presence of multiple signaling molecules in the cerebrospinal fluid that regulate complex behavior. Her work aims to understand how the central nervous system can perceive and respond to internal state changes in both body…
Xu, Ting
Dr. Xu is a research scientist in the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute. She received her B.A. in mathematics from the Renmin University of China in 2008 and her Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. Her research focuses on investigating the…
February 3, 2021
Yang, X. William
Dr. X. William Yang obtained combined B.S./M.S. degrees from the Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University in 1991. He then completed M.D./Ph.D. training at Rockefeller University (Ph.D., 1998) and Weill Medical College of Cornell University (M.D., 2000). He co-invented with Nathaniel Heintz a powerful mouse genetic technology to engineer Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes…
February 15, 2021
Zeng, Hongkui
Hongkui Zeng is Executive Vice President and Director of Allen Institute for Brain Science. Since joining the Allen Institute in 2006, she has led several efforts to develop and operate high-throughput pipelines to generate large-scale, open-access datasets and tools to accelerate neuroscience discovery. Her current research interests are in understanding neuronal diversity and connectivity in…
January 18, 2021
Zhen, Mei
Dr. Mei Zhen is the Canada Research Chair in Brain and Behavior, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, a Senior Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, and a Visiting Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Her work combines electron microscopy, genetics, optogenetics, and electrophysiology to explore how the C. elegans nervous system…
February 10, 2021
Zlatic, Marta
Marta Zlatic is a Group Leader and MRC Investigator in the Neurobiology Division at the LMB. She studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, followed by a Masters in Chemistry. She then completed her PhD in Developmental Neuroscience at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, with Professor Michael Bate. In October 2009, she started…
January 30, 2021
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