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Anne’s list:
Women who would be good speakers at a computational meeting
Assembled by Anne Churchland, with input from Yael Niv and Adrienne Fairhall. Please feel free to contact me to nominate yourself or a colleague
I originally assembled my list to aid in choosing speakers for the Cosyne meeting. Cosyne presenters are therefore indicated as such. More information about me can be found on my lab website and on our blog
Post tenure level
Theoretical emphasis:
1. Adrienne Fairhall (UW). Adaptive coding, sensory processing COSYNE 2010
2. Nancy Kopell (BU) The role of oscillations in neural processing
3. Naama Barkai (Haifa) Genetic regulation in cell populations; network adaptation
4. Sara Solla (Northwestern) Using statistical mechanics to analyze complex systems COSYNE 2011
5. Yiota Poirazi (FORTH) Modeling of neural/dendritic computations for learning & memory
6. Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska) Information processing, rhythm generation and learning in motor systems
Systems with a theory bent:
1. Eve Marder (Brandeis) How intrinsic properties of neurons give rise to circuit function COSYNE 2011
2. Jennifer Raymond (Stanford) Neural circuits for motor learning in the cerebellum COSYNE 2009
3. Daphne Bavalier Understanding how humans learn and adapting to changing sensory environments COSYNE 2010
4. Ione Fine (UW) Using fMRI to understand visual function and plasticity
5. Marisa Carasco (NYU): psychophysics, attention
6. Dora Angelaki (Baylor College of Medicine) Multisensory integration for navigation COSYNE 2006
7. Gay Holstein (Mt Sinai). What happens to rats when they go into space! (vestibular)
8. Lynne Kiorpes (NYU) Neural mechanisms that underlie development of the primate visual system.
9. Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis) Homeostatic mechanisms
10. Kathy Cullen (McGill): Visual-vestibular interactions for self motion
11. Allison Doupe (UCSF) Neural basis of vocal learning in songbirds
12. Annette Werner (Tuebingen) Color vision and adaptation
13. May-Britt Moser (Stockholm) Hippocampus and navigation
14. Cynthia Moss (Hopkins) Bats
15. Preeti Verghese (Smith Kettlewell) Probing vision with signal detection theory and psychophysics
16. Pam Reinagel (UCSD) Vision and rat behavior
17. Yang Dan (Berkeley) How visual information is processed, encoded and shaped by experience COSYNE 2005
18. Marla Feller (Berkeley) Mechanisms that guide assembly of neural circuits during development
18. Michele Basso (UCLA) Vision, sensorimotor integration
19. Judith Hirsch (USC) Thalamocortical circuits for visual processing
20. Sabine Kastner (Princeton) Attention COSYNE 2008
21. Jennifer Linden (University College London) Auditory perception and learning
22. Carol Barnes (University of Arizona) Hippocampus and spatial learning/memory
23. Margaret Livingstone (Harvard University) Structure and function of the visual system.
24. Jennifer Groh (Duke): Spatial processing in vision, hearing, and eye movements
25. Anna Roe (Vanderbilt University) Neural circuits and functional organization underlying visual/tactile behavior.
26. Heather Read (U. Conn) Cortical and brainstem circuits for processing auditory inputs
27. Lena Ting (Georgia Tech) Neural control of movement, balance
28. Anitha Pasupathy (U Washington) Processing of complex visual inputs
29. Sarah Jayne Blakemore (UCL) Using fMRI to understand decisions in adolescence
30. Tania Pasternak (U. of Rochester) Cortical circuitry underlying memory guided sensory decisions
31. Leslie Kay (U. Chicago) Sensory processing in rodents with a focus on olfaction
32. Beth Buffalo (U. Washington) Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
33. Zhaoping Li (University College, London) Vision and psychophysics as well as theory
34. Alla Karpova (Janelia Farm) Neural circuits of reward-dependent behavior
35. Rachel Wilson (Harvard Medical School) COSYNE 2009
36. Francesca Cacucci (UCL) The neural basis of spatial cognition, learning and memory
Outside theoretical neuroscience but of related interest:
- Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller) How chemosensory cues drive complex behavior
- Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller) Sensory processing in c elegans COSYNE 2009
- Marina Picciotto (Yale school of medicine) The role of single molecules in addiction, depression and learning
- Sascha du Lac (Salk) Neuronal mechanisms for learning of the vestibulo-ocular reflex COSYNE 2008
- Lorna Role (Stony Brook) The role of cholinergic circuits in neuropsychiatric disease
- Silvia Arber (Universitat Basel/Friedrich Miescher Institute ) Function and assembly of neural circuits controlling motor behavior
- Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard) Genetics and evolution in wild mice COSYNE 2014
Pre tenure level
Theoretical emphasis:
- Yael Niv (Princeton): Reinforcement learning, decision making, fMRI & modeling
- Sophie Denève (Ecole Normale Superieure) Bayesian mechanisms of decision-making
- Tatyana Sharpee (Salk) Sensory processing from the point of view of information theory COSYNE 2011
- Odelia Schwartz (Salk) Sensory systems from the neural level to perception and behavior
- Sheila Nirenberg (Cornell) Retinal mechanisms
- Peggy Seriès (Edinburgh) Population coding, probabilistic inference
- Angela Yu (UCSD); cognitive processing, Bayesian approach
- Joelle Pineau (McGill): Medical applications of reinforcement learning (such as predicting seizures).
- Elizabeth Bonawitz: Bridging cognitive development and computational modeling
- Ila Fiete (UT Austin) Hippocampal circuits
- Susanne Schreiber (Humboldt Universitat) Cortical computations in mammals and insects
- Claudia Clopath (Imperial College, London) Computational approaches to learning and memory
- Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Max Planck) Mathematical analysis of single neurons, neuronal populations and recurrent networks
- Stephanie Palmer (U Chicago) Predictive and combinatorial coding
Systems with a theory bent:
- Marlene Cohen (Pittsburgh) Multi-neuron recording to connect neural activity with behavior
- Megan Carey (Champalimaud, Portugal) Cerebellar circuits: from synapses to behavior
- Jenny Read (Univ. Newcastle) Human psychophysics and modeling to probe stereopsis
- Ladan Shams (UCLA) Human psychophysics and modeling to probe multisensory integration
- Kay Tye (MIT) Neural circuits for motivated behaviors.
- Andrea Hasenstaub (UCSF) Circuits and functional organization of auditory cortex
- Nicole Rust (U. Penn) Visual processing at the nexus of visual perception and cognition
- Linda Wilbrecht (Berkeley) Synapses, circuits and behavior in adolescent brains
- Astrid Prinz (Emory) Homeostatic regulation
- Lisa Boulanger (Princeton) Immune proteins in the formation and function of neuronal connectivity.
- Maria Geffen (U. Penn) A neural coding approach to audition
- Andrea Green (University of Montreal) Motor control, sensory processing
- Ilana Witten (Princeton) Circuit level analysis of reward and motivation
- Jessica Cardin (Yale) The role of interneurons in shaping cortical activity
- Laura Colgin (UT Austin) Brain rhythms in complex cognitive functions
- Leslie Osborne (U Chicago) Linking neural variability to behavior
- Anne Churchland (CSHL): Neural circuits for sensory integration and decision-making
- Arianna Maffei (Stony Brook) homeostatic mechanisms in the visual system
- Vanessa Ruta (Rockefeller) Neural circuits for sensory processing and learning
- Mala Murthy (Princeton) Sensory processing and behavior in drosophila
- Hendrikje Nienborg (Tuebingen) Mechanisms of visual perception at the network level
- Laura Busse (Tuebingen) Modulation of neural circuits by cognitive factors
- Julia Trommershäuser (NYU) Using fMRI, computation and behavior to study human decision-making
- Jamie Roitman (Univ. Illinois) Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making
- Anna Ma-Wyatt (University of Adelaide) Visual perception, eye movements, hand movements
- Farran Briggs (Dartmouth) Neural circuits of the early visual system
- Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins) Neural circuits underlying object recognition
- Long Ding (U. Penn) Subcortical circuits for perceptual decision-making
- Eva Pastalkova (Janelia Farm) Hippocampal ensemble coding.
- Gwyneth Card (Janelia Farm) Drosophila sensorimotor integration
- Na Ji (Janelia Farm) Neural circuits for vision in rodents
- Wako Yoshida (ATR, Japan) Studying human decision-making with brain imaging
- Claire Wyart (ICM, Paris) Understanding how specific spinal cord circuits are recruited to produce movements
- Beverley Clark (UCL) Neuronal integration and axonal signalling
- Ilka Diester (Ernst Stungmann Institute) Sensorimotor integration for advancing protheses
- Doris Tsao (Caltech) Brain mechanisms for object recognition and spatial vision
- Viviana Gradinaru (Caltech) Axonal stimulation and DBS-targeted disorders