Fellows

KLINGENSTEIN-SIMONS FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN NEUROSCIENCE

Through its collaboration with the Simons Foundation, the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports early career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The fellowship awards promote high-risk, and potentially high-reward, projects.

Aimed at advancing cutting-edge investigations, the awards are presented to highly promising, early career scientists. At this critical juncture in their careers, funding can be a challenge.

2022 Fellows

Marie Bechler, Ph.D.

Mechanotransduction Signaling that Establishes CNS Myelin

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  • SUNY Upstate Medical University

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Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Ph.D.

Distributed brain dynamics for memory-guided behavior

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  • Cornell University

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Yvette Fisher, Ph.D.

Uncovering the homeostatic mechanisms that support persistent spatial representations

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  • University of California, Berkeley

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Robert Hill, Ph.D.

Mechanisms underlying the removal of diverse cellular debris in the live brain

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  • Dartmouth College

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Xin Jin, Ph.D.

Epigenetic mechanisms of brain aging

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  • Scripps Research Institute

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Justus Kebschull, Ph.D.

Mechanisms of evolutionary circuit expansion

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  • Johns Hopkins University

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Sung Soo Kim, Ph.D.

Integrating multimodal sensory information in navigation

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  • University of California, Santa Barbara

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Aakanksha Singhvi, Ph.D.

Molecular logic of glia-neuron interactions

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  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Hume Stroud, Ph.D.

Understanding non-canonical cytosine methylation in brain development and function

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  • UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Steffen Wolff, Ph.D.

Cortical-subcortical interplay in the execution of multiple motor skills

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  • University of Maryland

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Eviatar Yemini, Ph.D.

Developmental changes in neural dynamics that drive new behaviors: a systems-biology approach

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  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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Meg Younger, Ph.D.

Non-Canonical Olfaction in Blood-Drinking Mosquitoes

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  • Boston University

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Lejla Zubcevic, Ph.D.

The role of Mg2+ transport in Parkinson's disease

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  • University of Kansas Medical Center

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2021 Fellows

Frederick Bennett, M.D.

Targeting Microglia to Treat Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases

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  • University of Pennsylvania

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Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D.

Understanding Regulators of Area-Specific Identity in the Developing Human Cortex

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  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D.

Microglial Regulation of Experience-Dependent Circuit Refinement in Mouse and Human Cortex

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  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Laura DeNardo, Ph.D.

mPFC–thalamic Circuits in the Emergence of Enduring Fearful Memories

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  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Annegret Falkner, Ph.D.

Decoding the Specificity of Social Intent from Subcortical Networks

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  • Princeton University

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Hidehiko Inagaki, Ph.D.

Dissecting a Neuronal Pathway that Coordinates Multiregional Neuronal Dynamics to Initiate Actions

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  • Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

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Isha Jain, Ph.D.

Targeting Electron Transport Chain Instability in Neurodegenerative Disease

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  • Gladstone Institutes

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Matthew Lovett-Barron, Ph.D.

Cellular and Network Mechanisms for Internal State Persistence

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  • University of California, San Diego

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Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D.

Mapping the Development of the Seventh Layer of the Cerebral Cortex

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  • University of California, San Francisco

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Yi-Rong Peng, Ph.D.

Molecular and Evolutionary Mapping of Neural-Circuit Specialization in High-Acuity Vision

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  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Nikhil Sharma, Ph.D.

Cellular Diversity in Primary Nociceptors and Their Role in Pain and Nociception

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  • Columbia University

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Hongying Shen, Ph.D.

Discovering the Unknown Lipid Biochemistry in Neurodegeneration

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  • Yale University

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Ross Williamson, Ph.D.

Brain-Wide Cortical Circuits for Sensory-Guided Behavior

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  • University of Pittsburgh

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2020 Fellows

Amber L. Alhadeff, Ph.D.

Gut signaling effects on homeostatic and reward circuits

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  • Monell Chemical Senses Center

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Ghazaleh Ashrafi, Ph.D.

Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Flexibility in Neurotransmission

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  • Washington University in St. Louis

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Christine Constantinople, Ph.D.

Neural and hormone basis for sex-specific economic decision making

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  • New York University

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Laura B. Duvall, Ph.D.

Neuropeptide control of mosquito host-seeking behavior

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  • Columbia University

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Michael N. Economo, Ph.D.

The descending control of movement initiation by the motor cortex

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  • Boston University

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James Jeanne, Ph.D.

Coordinating multiple layers of synaptic plasticity during deep learning

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  • Yale University

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Liang Liang, Ph.D.

Integration of visual information in the thalamic circuit

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  • Yale University

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Qili Liu, Ph.D.

Cellular and Molecular basis of nutrient specific appetite

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  • University of California, San Francisco

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Derek Southwell, M.D., Ph.D.

Advancing the therapeutic potential of interneuron transplantation

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  • Duke University

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Nicholas Steinmetz, Ph.D.

Brain-wide distributed circuits underlying vision, attention, and action selection

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  • University of Washington

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Summer Thyme, Ph.D.

Targeting rare genetic disorders to treat common neuropsychiatric conditions

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  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Amanda Whipple, Ph.D.

Parental influence on gene regulation in the brain

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  • Harvard University

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Moriel Zelikowsky, Ph.D.

Neural circuits at the intersection of stress and aggression

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  • University of Utah

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