Boards and Committees

Governing Board

Community Engagement and Support Committee 2026 Meeting

Rising Stars Committee 2026 Meeting

Outreach and Training Committee 2026 Meeting

Program Committee 2026 Meeting

Poster Committee 2026 Meeting

Symposium Committee 2026 Meeting

Young Investigator Awards Committee 2026

Founding Committee (1994)

CNS Trainee Association (CNSTA)

Administrative Staff

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Governing Board

• Marie Banich, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
• Roberto Cabeza, Ph.D., Duke University
• George R. Mangun, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Patti Reuter-Lorenz, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Daniel Schacter, Ph.D., Harvard University

Community Engagement and Support Committee 2026 Meeting

• Audrey Duarte, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin (Co-Chair)
• Taraz Lee, Ph.D., University of Michigan (Co-Chair)
• Dania Javaid, Graduate Student., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Shahin Nasr, Ph.D., Harvard University
• Amy Proskovec, Ph.D., UT Southwestern
• Preston Thakral, Ph.D., Smith College

Rising Stars Committee 2026

• Vishnu Murty, Ph.D., University of Oregon (Chair)
• Megan Boudewyn, Ph.D.,  UCSC
• Xiaoqing Hu- University of Hong Kong
• Dongwei Li , Ph.D., Beijing Normal University
• Maureen Ritchey, Ph.D., Boston College

Outreach and Training Committee 2026 Meeting

• Bradley Voytek, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Chair)

Program Committee 2026 Meeting

• Sabine Kastner, Ph.D., Princeton University (Chair)
• David Badre, Ph.D., Brown University
• Marian Berryhill, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno
• Christian Doeller, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute
• Ole Jensen, Ph.D., University of Oxford
• Micah Murray, Ph.D., Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Alison Preston, Ph.D., UT Austin
• Tamara Swaab, Ph.D., UC Davis

Poster Committee 2026 Meeting

• James Antony, Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University (Chair)
• Ian Ballard, Ph.D., UC Berkley
• Hossein Karimi, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
• Yuta Katsumi, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Anastasia Kiyonaga, Ph.D., UCSD
• Aaron Kucyi, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Simon Lacey, Ph.D, Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State University
• Ian M. McDonough, Ph.D., Binghampton University
• Carmen Westerberg, Ph.D., Texas State University

Symposium Committee 2026 Meeting

• Lucia Melloni, Ph.D., Ruhr University (Chair)
• Olivier Collignon, Ph.D., UCLouvain
• Amy Overman, Ph.D., Xavier University
• Marcela Pena Garay, Ph.D., Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
• Sepideh Sadaghiani, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Juha Silvanto, Ph.D., University of Surrey
• Mark Wallace, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Young Investigator Awards Committee 2026

• Catherine Hartley, Ph.D., New York University (Chair)
• Ella Striem-Amit, Ph.D., Georgetown University Medical Center
• Freek Van Ede, Ph.D., VU University Amsterdam
• Joel Voss, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Tor Wager, Ph.D., Dartmouth College

Founding Committee (1994)

• Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
• George R. Mangun, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Steve Pinker, Ph.D., Harvard University
• Patti Reuter-Lorenz, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Daniel Schacter, Ph.D., Harvard University
• Art Shimamura, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

CNS Trainee Association (CNSTA) 2026

• Lauren Homann, Graduate Student, University of Toronto (President)
• Dr. Frederik Bergmann , Postdoctoral Fellow University of Colorado Boulder
• Patrick Bloniasz, Graduate Student  Boston University
• Taryn Green, Graduate Student,  Louisiana State University
• Ava Momeni, Graduate Student,  University of British Columbia

Administrative Staff

• Kate Tretheway, Executive Director
• Sangay Wangmo, Administrative Assistant

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