Established in 1947 to celebrate neuroanatomy and now promotes all of neuroscience.



OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS





Carol Mason



President (Nucleolus)



Carol Mason is Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology and a member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute (ZMBBI), at Columbia University. She investigates the development of the pathway from eye to brain, in mice. She is Chair of Interschool Planning at ZMBBI, fostering cross-campus faculty recruitment, mentoring, and scientific interchange. Carol is a member of the National Academies of Medicine and Science, was President of the Society for Neuroscience 2013-2014, and is a current Simons Foundation Fellow.



Columbia University


Email: Cam4@columbia.edu



Mason Dodd Lab

Leah Krubitzer



President Elect (Nissl Body)



Leah Krubitzer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Her graduate work focused on the evolution of visual cortex in primates, and she extended her research in Australia to include monotremes and marsupials. She has worked on the brains of over 45 different mammals. Her current research focuses on the impact of early experience and how culture impacts brain development. She also examines the evolution of sensory motor networks involved in manual dexterity, reaching and grasping in mammals. She received a MacArthur award for her work on evolution.



UCDavis


Email: lakrubitzer@gmail.com


Krubitzer Lab

Oscar Marin



Past President (Liposfuscin Granule)



Oscar Marin received his PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and later his PhD. He pursued his postdoc training at the Instituto Cajal and the University of California in San Francisco. In 2014 Marín received the Roger de Spoelberch Award for his work on the neurobiology of schizophrenia. In 2017 Marín received the Ramón y Cajal Medal from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, and the Remedios Caro Almela Award in 2019. He is a Professor of Neuroscience at King’s College London.


Centre for Developmental Neurobiology & MRC Centre for

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

King’s College London


Email: oscar.marin@kcl.ac.uk


Marín Lab



PAOLA ARLOTTA



Board Member



The Arlotta lab seeks to define the molecular rules that shape and retain neuronal diversity in the cerebral cortex, and to model complex human cortical pathology, focusing on the development of new high-throughput in vitro models of human cortical development and neurodevelopmental disease using 3D cerebral organoids.


Chair, Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Harvard University


Email: paola_arlotta@harvard.edu


Arlotta Lab

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla



Board Member



Alvarez-Buylla's lab studies the mechanism of adult neurogenesis: neural stem cells, migration and integration. The team is interested in the extent to which new neurons continue to be recruited in the postnatal human brain. They are also investigating how local circuit inhibitory neurons adjust their numbers once they arrive in cortex.


Department of Neurological Surgery

The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research

University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine


Email. abuylla@stemcell.ucsf.edu


Alvarez-Buylla Lab

Sonia Garel



Board Member



Sonia Garel is a neurobiologist. She currently heads a team at the Institut of Biology of the Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS) in Paris and is a Professor at the College de France. The general goal of the Garel Lab is to understand how functional forebrain circuits, which enable sensory perception, motor responses and cognition, wired up during development.



Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure

College de France


Email: garel@biologie.ens.fr


Garel Lab



PaTrick HoF



Board Member



Dr. Hof graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and is the Regenstreif Research Professor of Neuroscience of the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hof has established an international reputation in quantitative approaches to systems neuroscience and brain evolution. His laboratory has extensive expertise in the pathology of neuropsychiatric disorders and uses quantitative, high-resolution, multi-scale microscopy methods to analyze the cellular and molecular events that make the human brain uniquely vulnerable and to identify targets for interventions at the level of specific neuronal populations.


Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


Email: patrick.hof@mssm.edu



Hof Lab

Dawn Hunter



Website Manager (Golgi Apparatus)



Dawn received her MFA from the University of California, Davis. She has received many awards and grants for her artwork, markedly a Starr Foundation Fellowship to the Royal Academy of Art, London and a Fulbright España Senior Research Fellowship to the Instituto Cajal, Madrid. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.





School of Visual Art and Deign, University of South Carolina


Email: dmhunter@email.sc.edu



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Brett Larson



Board Member



Brett Larson received a B.S. in Finance with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Iowa, and holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification*. Brett’s licenses include the FINRA Series 6, 7, 63 and 65.





Manager of the Foundations Endowment

Romano Wealth Management


Email: larsonbrett8@gmail.com



romanowealth.com



PASKO RAKIC



Board Member



Pasko Rakic, MD, PhD, is Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist who works at Yale University. Rakic’s research interests are in developmental neurobiology, particularly cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, migration and synaptogenesis during development of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex.





Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.

Duberg Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CT 06520-8001


Email: pasko.rakic@yale.edu



Rakic Lab

Charles Ribak



Secretary - Treasurer (Apical Dendrite)



Dr. Ribak is currently Professor Emeritus from the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at UC Irvine where he conducted neuroanatomical research and taught for over 33 years. His research showed the neuronal types in different brain regions that utilize GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter and he was the first to demonstrate the loss of GABAergic neurons at sites of Focal Epilepsy in brain sections. His research was awarded with a Klingenstein Fellowship, the Michael Prize for Epilepsy Research, a Jacob Javits NIH Award and was elected a Fellow in the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). He was elected President of the Cajal Club in 2000 and served for two years before he was appointed Secretary/Treasurer in 2005, a position he still holds. He has been called the glue that keeps the Club together.


University of California, Irvine



Email: ribak@uci.edu


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John Rubenstein



Photographer (Cone Outer Segment)



John Rubenstein has been at UCSF since 1991 where he has worked on the genetic control of cortex and basal ganglia development.






John L.R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D.

Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry

Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology

Department of Psychiatry UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences



Email: john.rubenstein@ucsf.edu



Rubenstein Lab



Lee A. Shapiro



Board Member (Founding Golgi Apparatus)



Dr. Shapiro received his PhD in neuroscience from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. The Shapiro Lab at Texas A&M University is pursuing research studies involving epilepsy, trauma and other neurodegenerative disorders.



Texas A&M University


Email: lshapiro@tamu.edu


Texas A&M University Profile

DebbY Silver



Board Member



Debby Silver earned her PhD in biological chemistry from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her lab aims to elucidate fundamental principles governing cerebral cortex development and contributing to neurodevelopmental pathologies and cortical evolution.


Duke University School of Medicine


Email: debra.silver@duke.edu


The Silver Lab

Larry Swanson



Archivist/Historian (Alpha Helix)



Larry got his PhD in Neurobiology from the Washington University School of Medicine and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a former Pesident of the Cajal Club and Society for Neuroscience, and Secretary General of the International Brain Research Organization.



University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences


Email: lswanson@usc.edu


larrywswanson.com

Hongkui Zeng



Board Member



Hongkui Zeng is Executive Vice President and Director of Allen Institute for Brain Science. Her research interests are in understanding cell type diversity and connectivity in the mouse brain-wide circuits and how cell types contribute to circuit function, using large-scale, big and open science approaches.



Allen Institute for Brain Science


Email: HongkuiZ@alleninstitute.org



Allen Institute Profile

www.cajalclub.org



ribak@uci.edu

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