Global Brain Members

Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University.

Anne Churchland is a professor of neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Marlene Cohen is an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh.

Adrienne Fairhall is an associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington, director of the university’s computational neuroscience program, and co-director of its Institute for Neuroengineering.

Gerald Fischbach joined the Simons Foundation in 2006 to oversee the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI). He then became the foundation’s first chief scientist and fellow and currently holds the title of Distinguished Scientist and Fellow. 

J. Anthony Movshon studies vision and visual perception, using a multidisciplinary approach that combines biology, behavior and theory.

Mala Murthy is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University and leads a lab in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. The lab’s work focuses on the neural mechanisms that underlie social communication, using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system.