Dr. Danielle Bassett will present her work on gender disparities in citation networks, in her talk titled "(In)Citing Action to Realize an Equitable Future".
Dr. Yi Zuo is an Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Her lab focuses on experience-dependent plasticity using in vivo spine and calcium imaging in awake, behaving animals.
Dr. Steve Ramirez is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. His work focuses on memory storage, consolidation and retrieval - infamously, he implanted a false memory into a mouse.
Dr. Saul Villeda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at UCSF. His work investigates the aging processes, how that makes us susceptible to various pathological states, and how this can be mitigated.
Dr. Jennifer Kubota directs the Impression Formation Social Neuroscience Lab at the University of Chicago, where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Center for the Study Of Race, Politics, and Culture.
Dr. Wallis is a Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley. She runs a lab focused on the functional organization of the frontal cortex. Her recent work has focused on decision-making and working memory and the differential roles and computations of orbitofrontal and prefrontal cortex.