Programme Committee

Programme Committee

Programme Committee

Co-Chairs

Prof. Paola Bovolenta
Head of Program
Tissue and Organ Homeostasis Program. Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Spanish National Research Council – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Spain

Dr. Gordon Fishell
Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
USA

Dr. Mu-ming Poo
Director
Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai and director of the CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology
China/US 

Africa

Dr. Noeline Nakasujja
Chair for the Department of Psychiatry
College of Health Sciences, Makerere University
Uganda 

Prof. Njideka Okubadejo
Professor and Consultant Neurologist
College of Medicine, University of Lagos
Nigeria 

Nouria Lakhdar-Ghazal
Director
IBRO UM5 Africa Center For Advanced Training In Neuroscience
Mohammed V University
Morocco

Prof. Paul Manger
Research Professor

School of Anatomical Sciences, University of The Witwatersrand
South Africa

Asia-Pacific

Prof. Tadafumi Kato
Professor

Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Juntendo University
Japan

Prof. Jana Vokuvic
Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellow

University of Queensland
Australia

Prof. Xiang Yu
Professor

School of Life Sciences, Peking University
China

Prof. Vidia Vaidya
Neuroscientist and Professor
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India 

Latin America

Dr. Christian González-Billault
Full Professor

Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile
Chile

Dr. Bernardo Rudy
Professor of Neuroscience & Physiology
New York University Neuroscience Institute
Mexico/USA

Dr. Newton Sabino Canteras
Full Professor
University of São Paulo

Brazil

Dr. Jesica Raingo
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Argentina 

Pan-Europe

Prof. Timmusk Tonis
Professor of Molecular Biology

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology
Estonia

Prof. Matteo Carandini
University College London
United Kingdom

Prof. Marie Carlen
Neuroscience Karolinska, Institutet
Sweden

Dr. Vincent Prevot
Inserm
France

USA-Canada

Dr. Amita Sehgal
Vice Chair
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
USA

Chris McBain
Senior Investigator
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – National Institutes of Health (NICHD-NIH)
USA

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin
Assistant Professor

Psychology and Neuroscience, Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute
USA

Dr. Andrea Tolias
Professor
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
USA