Global Brain Members

Katherine Cora Ames was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, working in the labs of Mark Churchland and Larry Abbott and will begin a position as Senior Application Scientist, LifeCanvas Technologies in 2020.

Renan Costa is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. He is a postdoctoral fellow in Lucas Pinto’s lab at Northwestern University. Costa holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Universidade Federal do Paraná and a doctorate in neuroscience from the University…

Michael Coulter is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. He is a postdoctoral fellow in Loren Frank’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. Coulter holds a bachelor’s degree in history of science from Harvard College and an M.D. and…

Joao Couto is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), studying long-range communication between brain areas during decision-making.

John P. Cunningham, Ph.D., studies the seemingly effortless mental capabilities that belie the sophisticated computational machinery at work in our nervous systems, and investigates the computational properties of our neural systems.

Maria Dadarlat was a postdoctoral researcher in the physiology department at the University of California, San Francisco and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.

Yang Dan is Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.