LarryR.SquireisDistinguishedProfessorofPsy-chiatry,Neurosciences,andPsychologyattheUniver-sityofCaliforniaSchoolofMedicine,SanDiego,andResearchCareerScientistattheVeteransAffairsMedicalCenter,SanDiego.Heinvestigatestheorgani-zationandneurologicalfoundationsofmemory.HeisaformerPresidentoftheSocietyforNeuroscienceandisamemberoftheNationalAcademyofSciencesandtheInstituteofMedicine.
DarwinK.BergisDistinguishedProfessorintheDivisionofBiologicalSciencesattheUniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego.HehasbeenchairmanoftheBiologyDepartmentandcurrentlyservesasCounciloroftheSocietyforNeuroscienceandasaBoardmemberoftheKavliInstituteforBrainandMind.Hisresearchisfocusedontherolesofnicotiniccholinergicsignal-inginthevertebratenervoussystem.
FloydBloomisProfessorEmeritusintheMolecularandIntegrativeNeuroscienceDepartment(MIND)atTheScrippsResearchInstitute.HisrecentawardsincludetheSarnatAwardfromtheInstituteofMedi-cineandtheSalmonMedaloftheNewYorkAcademyofMedicine.HeisaformerPresidentoftheSocietyforNeuroscienceandisamemberoftheNationalAcademyofSciencesandtheInstituteofMedicine.SaschaduLacisanInvestigatoroftheHowardHughesMedicalInstituteandanAssociateProfessorofSystemsNeurobiologyattheSalkInstituteforBio-logicalStudies.Herresearchinterestsareintheneu-robiologyofresilienceandlearning,andherlaboratoryinvestigatesbehavioral,circuit,cellular,andmolecularmechanismsinthesenseofbalance.
AnirvanGhoshisStephenKufflerProfessorintheDivisionofBiologicalSciencesattheUniversityofCalifornia,SanDiegoandDirectorofthegraduateprograminNeurosciences.Hisresearchinterestsincludethedevelopmentofsynapticconnectionsinthecentralnervoussystemandtheroleofactivity-dependentgeneexpressioninthecorticaldevelop-ment.HeisrecipientofthePresidentialEarlyCareerAwardforScientistsandEngineersandtheSocietyforNeuroscienceYoungInvestigatorAward.
NicholasC.SpitzerisDistinguishedProfessorintheDivisionofBiologicalSciencesattheUniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego.Hisresearchisfocusedonneuronaldifferentiationandtheroleofelectricalactivityandcalciumsignalingintheassemblyofthenervoussystem.HehasbeenchairmanoftheBiologyDepartmentandtheNeurobiologySection,atrusteeoftheGrassFoundation,andservedasCounciloroftheSocietyforNeuroscience.HeisamemberoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSci-encesandCo-DirectoroftheKavliInstituteforBrainandMind.