Nicola Allen, Ph.D., assistant professor, molecular neurobiology laboratory, Hearst Foundation Development Chair, Salk Institute

Samantha Butler, Ph.D., associate professor, Brain Research Institute Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles

Frederic Charron, Ph.D., associate professor, department of medicine, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), McGill University

Claude Desplan, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, director, Center for Developmental Genetics, New York University

Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology, Duke University

Marc Freeman, Ph.D., director and senior scientist, Vollum Institute

Mary Beth Hatten, Ph.D., Frederick P. Rose Professor, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University

Arnold Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Francisco