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Spring 2023

Madeline Lancaster – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Martin Kampmann – UCSF
Debra Bangasser – Georgia State University
Amar Sahay – Harvard
Maria Geffen – University of Pennsylvania
Paul Frankland – University of Toronto

Fall 2022

Nathan Smith – University of Rochester
Celia Shiau – UNC Biology
Nicola Grissom – University of Minnesota

Spring 2022

Adam Hantman – UNC Neuroscience Center
Anastasia Khvorova – UMass
Timothy Yu – Boston Children’s Hospital
Bita Moghaddam – Oregon Health and Science University
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor – University of Pennsylvania
Brad Zuchero – Stanford University
Lennart Mucke – Gladstone Institutes

Fall 2021

Adam Aron – UC San Diego
Samuel S. Wang – Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Katie Baldwin – UNC Cell Biology and Physiology
Nadine Gogolla – Max Planck Institute
Jessica Walsh – UNC Department of Pharmacology

Spring 2021

Mario Penzo – National Institutes of Health
Erin Calipari – Vanderbilt University
Hillel Adesnik – University of California, Berkley
Andreas Tolias – Baylor College of Medicine
Sarah Ross – University of Pittsburgh
Joe Lewcock – Denali Therapeutics
Jeff Holt – Harvard University

Fall 2020

Robert Liu – Emory University
Long-Jun Wu – Mayo Clinic
Marlene Cohen – University of Pittsburgh
Liqun Luo – Stanford University
Nancy Padilla-Coreano – Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Andy Shih – University of Washington

Spring 2020

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD – Northwestern University
Gentry Patrick, PhD – University of California, San Diego
Denise Cai, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School

Fall 2019

Elizabeth Engle, MD – Harvard Medical School
Steve Maier, PhD – University of Colorado Boulder
Gregory Scherrer, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Anthony Zannas, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Staci Bilbo, PhD – Duke University

Spring 2019

Jeffrey Iliff, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
Andrea Giovannuci, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Nicolas Pégard, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Kimberly Huber, PhD – UT Southwestern Medical Center
Erik Roberson, MD, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham
Damon Page, PhD – Scripps Research Institute, Florida 
Stephan Lammel, PhD – UC Berkeley
Matthew Dalva, PhD – Thomas Jefferson University

Fall 2018

Nick Spitzer, PhD – UC San Diego
Hyejung Won, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Aaron Gitler, PhD – Stanford
Alex Kolodkin, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
Michelle Itano, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jeremy Simon, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Travis Ptacek, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Mikhail Shapiro, PhD – Caltech

Spring 2018

Sharad Ramanathan, PhD – Harvard University
Greg Scherrer, PhD – Stanford Medicine
Joshua Dudman, PhD – Janelia Research Campus
Craig Powell, MD, PhD – University of Texas Southwestern
Alex Kolodkin, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
Hongjun Song, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
Beth Stevens, PhD – Harvard University
Larry Zweifel, PhD – University of Washington

Fall 2017

Pablo Ariel, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jason Stein, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Hongkui Zeng, PhD – Allen Institute for Brain Science
Hiroyuki Kato, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Ilana Witten, PhD – Princeton University
Nenad Sestan, PhD – Yale University

Spring 2017

Sheena Josselyn, PhD – SickKids Toronto
Gloria Choi, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bryan Traynor, MD, PhD, MMsc, MRCPI – National Institute of Health
Student Invited Speaker: Loren Frank, PhD- University of California, San Francisco, HHMI
Hau-Tieng Wu, PhD – University of Toronto
Sandeep Datta, MD, PhD – Harvard University
David Ginty, PhD – Harvard University, HHMI
Carlos Brody, PhD – Princeton University, HHMI
Michael Talkowski, PhD – Harvard University

Fall 2016

Lucy Williams, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Flavio Frohlich, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Student Invited Seminar: Scott Huettel, PhD- Duke University
Vijay Namboodiri, PhD & Yiyi Yu, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chris Deppmann, PhD – University of Virginia
Student Invited Seminar: Jun Ding, PhD- Standford University
Jess Cardin, PhD – Yale University
Guoping Feng, PhD – MIT

Spring 2016

Patrick Sullivan, MD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Afonso Silva, PhD – National Institute of Health
Spencer Smith, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Sacha Nelson, PhD – Brandeis
Randy Buckner, PhD – Harvard University
Richard Huganir, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
Nim Tottenham, PhD – Columbia University
Eric Klann, PhD – New York University
Jennifer Raymond, PhD – Stanford University
Thomas Wichmann, MD – Emory University
Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Azad Bonni, MD, PhD – Washington University-St. Louis
Kozo Kaibuchi, MD, PhD and Kenji Kadomatsu, MD, PhD – Nagoya University
Barry William Connors, PhD – Brown University
Jau-Shyong Hong, PhD – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Steve McCarroll, PhD – Harvard Medical School
Bo Li, PhD – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jeffrey Stirman, PhD, and Jason Yi, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Fall 2015

Oliver Smithies, MA, DPhil – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Bryan Roth, MD, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Andreas Burkhalter, PhD – Washington University-St. Louis
Andrew Zimmerman, MD- University of Massachusetts
Stephanie Gupton, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Michael McConnell, PhD – University of Virginia
Shawn Hingtgen, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Vance Lemmon, PhD – University of Miami
Gabe Murphy, PhD – Janelia Farms
Todd Cohen, PhD – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Spring 2015

Mike Ehlers, PhD- Pfizer, Inc
Chris Cowan, PhD-Harvard University
Jeff Magee, PhD-Janelia
Ronald Swanstrom, PhD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Ian Shih, PhD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
John Gilmore, MD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Yasmine Hurd, PhD-Mount Sinai
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD-University of Virginia
Charles Schroeder, PhD-Columbia University
Kay Tye, PhD-MIT
Mike Jarstfer, PhD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Carol Mason, PhD-Columbia University
Gordon Fischell, PhD-NYU
Bettina Winckler, PhD-University of Virginia
Vladimir Ghukasyan, PhD/Jeremy Simon, PhD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Fall 2014

Tom Kash, PhD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Seth Blackshaw, PhD-Johns Hopkins University
Frank Costantini, PhD-Columbia University
Peter Penzes, PhD-Northwestern University
Massimo Scanzianni, PhD-University of California, San Diego
Tzumin Lee, PhD-Janelia Farm
Peter McKinnon, PhD-St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Coby Schal, PhD-North Carolina State University
Jeremy Kay, PhD-Duke University

Spring 2014

Ru-Rong Ji, PhD – Duke University
Michela Fagiolini, PhD – Harvard University
Benjamin Deneen, PhD – Baylor University
Student Invited Seminar: Eric Nestler, MD, PhD – Mount Sinai Hospital
Michael Bruchas, PhD – Washington University
Philipp Keller, PhD – Janelia Farm
Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital
Stephan Sanders, PhD – Yale University
Angelique Bordey, PhD – Yale University
Maria Lehtinen, PhD – Harvard Unversity
Lindsey Glickfeld, PhD – Duke University
Matt Dalva, PhD – Jefferson University
Vivian Gama, PhD and Dennis Sparta, PhD – UNC- Chapel Hill
Jeffrey Rothstein, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2013

Garret Stuber, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bryan Roth, MD, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Student Invited Seminar: Nancy Kanwisher, PhD – MIT
Michael Kilgard, University of Texas, Dallas
Mark Zylka, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Durga P. Mohapatra, PhD – University of Iowa
Student Invited Seminar: Timothy Kennedy, PhD – McGill University
Student Invited Seminar: Timothy Ryan, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College

Spring 2013

Mark Peifer, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Solecki, PhD – St. Jude Children’s Hospital
Scott Sternson, PhD – Janelia Farm Research Campus
Nirao Shah, MD, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Jorg Grandl, PhD – Duke University
Venod Menon, PhD – Standford University
Elizabeth Jonas, MD – Yale University
Adam Hantman, PhD – Janelia Farm Research Campus
Songhai Shi, PhD – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Howard Eichenbaum, PhD – Boston University
Connie Cepko, PhD – Harvard Medical School
Michael Stryker, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
David Fitzpatrick, PhD – Max Planck Florida Institute

Fall 2012

William Snider, MD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aysenil Belger, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tim Gershon, MD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Nelson Spruston, PhD – Northwestern University & Janelia Farm Research Campus
Paola Arlotta, PhD – Harvard Medical School
Greg Matera, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fulton Crews, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ben Philpot, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Joshua Trachtenberg, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles
Naoshige Uchida, PhD – Harvard University

Spring 2012

Jerrel Yakel, PhD – NIH
Piali Sengupta, PhD – Brandeis University
Garrett Stanley, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University
Stormy Chamberlain, PhD – University of Connecticut
Daniel Felderman, PhD – University of California, Berkeley & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Chay Kuo, MD, PhD – Duke University
Larysa Pevny, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James Surmeier, PhD – Northwestern University
Stephen Lisberger, PhD – Duke University
Dieter Jaeger, PhD – Emory University
Elly Nedivi, PhD – MIT
Stephanie Gupton, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Patricia Jensen, PhD – NIEHS
Eva Anton, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill