Leading by Example: Insight Into Successful Funding and Program Strategies

Jim Geddes is the vice dean for research at the College of Medicine, director of the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, and professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Kentucky. His research interests focus on mechanisms of neurodegeneration following acute central nervous system injury and neurodegenerative disorders, and his specialties are cell biology, neurochemistry, and systems neuroscience. Previously, Geddes was an assistant professor in residence, neurosurgery at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan.

Haung Yu is an assistant professor at Taub Institute and in the department of pathology and cell biology at Columbia University. Yu's work focuses on protein quality control in aging and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. He is also the co-president of the Greater New York City SfN Chapter (@ComeBeBraiNY). The chapter brings together like-minded neuroscience organizations to better neuroscience education and outreach. In 2013, the chapter received SfN's International Chapter of the Year award for their efforts. In addition to his academic and outreach work, Yu is an adviser to the Weston Brain Institute and serves on the scientific review board for the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Fund (ADDF).

Kelley Remole is the Managing Director of the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University and serves on the Editorial Board of BrainFacts. She previously worked at Columbia University as the Director of Neuroscience Outreach at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. She received her doctoral degree in Neurobiology and Behavior in 2012 and her Master of Science in Nonprofit Management in 2020, both from Columbia University.

Regina Faulkner is a research associate at the Scripps Research Institute. One goal of her research is to understand the molecular mechanisms of synapse formation. Specifically, she is investigating the role of visual experience on synapse formation within the Xenopus optic tectum in vivo.

Christina Mo is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. Working in neurobiology, she works in a lab studying issues of thalamic and cortical functional organization and thalamocortical relationships using interdisciplinary approaches including neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and behavioral methods.

Peter Crack is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne.