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Prof. Alison Barth, Professor in Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University Jun 08, 2021

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Progressive Circuit Changes during Learning and Disease

Prof. Alison Barth is Professor in Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is focused on understanding how experience assembles and alters the properties of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, in both normal and disease states.

Prof. Shelly Flagel, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Jun 06, 2021

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A selective role for dopamine in stimulus–reward learning, Mapping sign-tracking and goal-tracking onto human behaviors, and The paraventricular thalamus is a critical mediator of top-down control of cue motivated behavior in rats.

Prof. Shelly Flagel is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Interim Co-Director of Michigan Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan. Her laboratory studies individual differences in vulnerability to mental illness, with a focus on addiction.

Prof. Petra Schmid, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at ETH Zurich Jun 04, 2021

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Power Effects on Cognitive Control: Turning Conflict into Action, Power effects on implicit prejudice and stereotyping: The role of intergroup face processing, Power Effects on Instrumental Learning: Evidence From the Brain and Behavior, Less Power, Greater Conflict, Power reduces the goal gradient effect, and Psychological power alters cognitive efficiency.

Prof. Petra Schmid is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at ETH Zurich. Her research examines the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in the effect of social power on behavior.

Prof. Henry Yin, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University Jun 02, 2021

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Restoring Purpose in Behavior and Achieving natural behavior in a robot using neurally inspired hierarchical control.

Prof. Henry Yin is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. His lab studies neural mechanisms underlying goal-directed actions.

Prof. Sheena Josselyn, Professor of Psychology and Physiology at the University of Toronto May 31, 2021

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The neurobiological foundation of memory retrieval and neuronal competition: microcircuit mechanisms define the sparsity of the engram

Prof. Sheena Josselyn is a Senior Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of Psychology and Physiology at the University of Toronto. She is a Canada Research Chair in Brain Mechanisms underlying Memory, is a Senior Fellow in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Prof. Beatriz Luna, Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh May 29, 2021

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An Integrative Model of the Maturation of Cognitive Control, Adolescent Brain Development: Implications for the Juvenile Criminal Justice System, and Maturation of the human striatal dopamine system revealed by PET and quantitative MRI

Prof. Beatriz Luna is professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the founder and Director of the Laboratory for Neurocognitive Development, The Editor in Chief of the journal of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and the founder and president of the Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Prof. Robert Finger, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the ETH Zurich May 27, 2021

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Economic benefits from plant species diversity in intensively managed grasslands, Insuring crops from space: the potential of satellite-retrieved soil moisture to reduce farmers’ drought risk exposure, and Are pesticides risk decreasing? The relevance of pesticide indicator choice in empirical analysis.

Prof. Robert Finger is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the ETH Zurich. His research is focused at the interface of agricultural sciences and economics.

Prof. Christine Aidala, Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. May 25, 2021

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Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter

Prof. Christine Aidala is Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. She works in experimental high-energy nuclear physics, on the border between nuclear and particle physics. Her research is focused on nucleon structure and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong force.

Prof. Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland May 23, 2021

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The Economic Case For Global Vaccinations: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks, COVID-19 and Emerging Markets: A SIR Model, Demand Shocks and Capital Flows, Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from Loans to SMEs and Large Firms, and COVID-19 and SME Failures

Prof. Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her current research focuses on real and financial linkages in the global economy and the implications of such linkages on economic fluctuations and growth.

Prof. Gregory Tarle, Professor of Experimental Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan May 21, 2021

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Dark Energy Survey, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment, and a new idea to correct Doppler Broadening.

Prof. Gregory Tarle is Professor of Experimental Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the nature of dark energy and dark matter and the acceleration and sources of cosmic rays.

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