Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Reid, Clay
R. Clay Reid joined the Allen Institute in 2012 to study how information is encoded and processed in neural networks of the visual system, using behavior, anatomy and physiology. Prior to joining the Allen Institute, Reid served as Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where he had been on the faculty for fifteen years….
January 18, 2021
Rivlin, Patricia
Pat Rivlin received her PhD in Neurobiology from Cornell, where she also conducted postdoctoral work to study the structure and function of neuromuscular synapses in Drosophila. Pat is currently a Scientific Operations Manager at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, where she plays a dual role, managing the Proofreading Team for the FlyEM Project and the EM…
January 27, 2021
Ropelewski, Alexander
Ropelewski cultivated his 30+ year professional career at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center where he directs the Biomedical Applications Group, a group focused on enhancing the use of High-Performance Computing, Networking, and Data Science within the Biomedical Research Community. A computer scientist graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, Ropelewski’s HPC work includes the creation of parallel…
March 1, 2021
Rubin, Gerald
Gerald M. Rubin is a Senior Group Leader at the Janelia Research Campus. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then worked at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, earning his PhD in 1974 from the University of Cambridge. He did postdoctoral work with David S. Hogness at the Stanford University…
January 12, 2021
Ryan, Kerrianne
Dr. Kerrianne Ryan has worked extensively on the connectome of the larval invertebrate brain of Ciona intestinalis. Kerrianne was a member of the Meinertzhagen laboratory at Dalhousie University, studying invertebrate neural anatomy. Using serial section TEM techniques, she led reconstruction and annotation of a larval brain connectome of the invertebrate chordate. Release of the connectome…
March 1, 2021
Saalfed, Stephan
Stephan Saalfeld is a Group Leader at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus since December 2013. Stephan’s current research in image registration and interpretation aims at generating the highest quality reconstructions of biological nervous systems such as that of Drosophila melanogaster, coping with compromised data from complementary imaging modalities. To this end he collaborates, among many others,…
January 18, 2021
Sabatini, Bernardo
Bernardo Sabatini obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Neurobiology and his M.D. degree from the Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology program in Health Sciences and Technology in 1999. Dr. Sabatini chose to not pursue further medical training, and instead began a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Karel Svoboda at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
January 12, 2021
Sanes, Joshua
Dr. Joshua Sanes and his colleagues study the structure, function, molecular architecture and development of the mammalian visual system. To further their aims, they have also pioneered new ways to mark and manipulate neurons and the synapses they form. Their current work focuses on comprehensive classification and characterization on neurons in the vertebrate retina, and…
January 18, 2021
Schnitzer, Mark
Mark Schnitzer is Professor of Biology and Applied Physics and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research concerns the innovation of novel optical imaging technologies and their use in the pursuit of understanding neural circuits. The Schnitzer lab has invented two forms of fiber-optic imaging, one- and two-photon fluorescence microendoscopy, which…
Sejnowski, Terry
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneer in computational neuroscience and his goal is to understand the principles that link brain to behavior. His laboratory uses both experimental and modeling techniques to study the biophysical properties of synapses and neurons and the population dynamics of large networks of neurons. New computational models and new analytical tools have…
April 5, 2021
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