Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Littlewood, Peter
Littlewood holds a BA and PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He was member of technical staff, and later head, of the theoretical physics research group at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. He moved to Cambridge in 1997 as head of the Theory of Condensed Matter group, and later became head of the…
April 8, 2021
Lu, Xiaotang
Xiaotang Lu is a Postdoctoral Fellow from Prof. Jeff Lichtman’s group in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interest revolves around the development…
January 12, 2021
Macrina, Thomas
Thomas Macrina is a PhD candidate in Sebastian Seung’s lab at Princeton University, working on reconstructing and analyzing neural circuits from electron microscopy images. He is also the CEO of Zetta AI, which provides neural circuit reconstruction as a service for other researchers.
February 17, 2021
Mahalingam, Gayathri
Gayathri Mahalingam joined the Allen Institute in 2017 as a Scientist in the Neural Coding department. She works with the Network Anatomy group in its efforts to generate peta scale datasets with a goal of mapping the wiring diagram of the mouse neocortex and its functional connectivity. Gayathri graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science…
January 12, 2021
Mao, Tianyi
Dr. Mao earned her B.S. degree in Biological Science and Biotechnology from Tsinghua University in 1997, and Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2005. She carried out her postdoctoral training with Karel Svoboda, first at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and then at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus….
January 18, 2021
Marblestone, Adam
Adam Marblestone is a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow and a Senior Fellow with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Previously, he was a research scientist at Google DeepMind studying connections between AI and neuroscience, Chief Strategy Officer of the brain-computer interface company Kernel, a research scientist in Ed Boyden’s Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT working…
January 26, 2021
Marder, Eve
Eve Marder is he Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield University Professor in Neuroscience/Biology. Marder was President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2008. Marder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Biophysical Society and a Fellow of the American…
April 8, 2021
Mendenhall, John
John Mendenhall is a research scientist in the Neuroscience Department and Center for Learning and Memory at the University of Texas at Austin, where he specializes in 3D electron microscopy to investigate synaptic, neuronal and glial ultrastructure at the nanoscale. His current work concentrates on developing cost-effective and accessible techniques for serial section tomography using transmission…
January 20, 2021
Miller, Lisa
Lisa Miller’s research group focuses on the study of the chemical makeup of cells and tissues using synchrotron-based infrared and x-ray imaging. Her work has three primary research areas: (1) understanding how the nanostructure and chemical composition of bone affect its mechanical properties in osteoarthritis and osteoporosis, (2) elucidating the role of metal ions in…
January 18, 2021
Montojo, Caroline
Caroline Montojo, Ph.D., is the President and CEO of the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization in New York City dedicated to advancing understanding about the brain. Dr. Montojo leads the Foundation into its next chapter which focuses on the intersection of neuroscience and society, expanding its impact in areas such as neuroethics, and neuroscience…
April 12, 2021
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