Advisory Board and Editors Neuroscience
Catherine E Myers
Dr. Myers joined the Neurobehavioral Research Lab at VA NJHCS in 2009 and joined NJMS as a Professor in 2011. Her research interests focus on understanding the brain substrates of learning and memory, using techniques including computational neuroscience and human experimental neuropsychology.
She has authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and several books including the undergraduate-level textbook “Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior.”
Mario Negrello
Mario Negrello obtained a mechanical engineering degree in Brazil (1997), and later after a period in the industry (VW 1999-2004) including RD and Prototypes, obtained his Masters degree (2006) and PhD (summa cum laude) in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück in Germany in 2009. At that time, in the Fraunhofer Institute in Sankt Augustin (Germany) for Intelligent Dynamics and Autonomous Systems, he researched artificial evolution of neural network controllers for autonomous robots (2007/08). This work was awarded a scholarship by the International Society of Neural Networks (INNS) to sponsor an eight-month period (2008/09) as a visiting researcher at the Computational Synthesis Lab at the Aerospace Engineering department of the Cornell University in USA (with Hod Lipson). In his first post doctoral period he acted a group leader at the Computational Neuroscience laboratory at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (with Erik De Schutter). He now heads a neuroscience lab that combines empirical research and computational methods (with Chris De Zeeuw). He has published in the fields of Machine Learning and Cognitive Robotics, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Neuroethology and Neuroscience, as well as a monograph published by Springer US in the Series Cognitive and Neural systems entitled Invariants of Behavior (2012).
Cristina W Nogueira
Associate professor at Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. My current research interests center around the pharmacology and toxicology of organochalcogen compounds. Scopus researcher award/2010.
Sonia MR Oliveira
Doctor Sonia Oliveira holds a Licenciatura in Biology (pre-Bologna) and a Master in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Aveiro, where she also specialized in medicinal plants, toxicology, murine models, and spermatogenesis. In 2011 she moved to Australia to work in Reproductive Biological Sciences. She later explored the nerve-cancer connection in Cancer, namely in female cancers, and completed her Ph.D. in Human Physiology ( with a significant component in Medical Biochemistry and Neurophysiology) from the University of Newcastle (Australia) in 2018. She then worked with biomimetic systems and nanotechnology in diabetes and stem cells. She explored multiple methods for primary and secondary cell culture, always with a keen interest in histopathology, cell biology, and rare disorders. Participated in >40 event(s). (Co-)Supervised MSc dissertation(s) and final projects for course completion of LSc/BSc. And works mostly in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Neurosciences, Cancer, Reproduction, Toxicology, Biotechnology, and Stem cells. Also has collaborations in Microbiology, Biomaterials, and Communication and Information technologies.
Pierpaolo Pani
Dr. Pierpaolo Pani is a Associate Professor within the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SAPIENZA, University of Rome. He received a MSc in Experimental Psychology and PhD in Neurophysiolgy (Behavioral and Integrative) at Sapienza University (Rome), and was a post-doc in KULeuven (Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology).
Dr. Pani's main topics of investigation include Cognitive control, executive functions, goal-oriented behavior and decision making. These topics include behavioral and psychophysiological investigations in humans; behavioral and neuronal dynamics investigations in mammals; characterization of executive functions control in psychiatric conditions.
Anurag N Paranjape
Passionate about understanding the mechanisms governing cancer metastasis with a hope of finding new targetable pathways. Have worked on breast cancer stem cells, EMT, prostate cancer stem cells, breast cancer brain metastasis, and blood-brain barriers.
Matthew O Parker
Dr. Matt Parker is a Associate Professor in Neuroscience and Translational Psychiatry at the University of Surrey. His research is focussed on understanding the biology of neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders, primarily in the context of stress.
Dr. Parker leads the Brain and Behaviour Lab. His group primarily use zebrafish as a model species to study interactions between molecular (genetic/epigenetic) and environmental (e.g., alcohol, stress) factors, and the associated neural circuits, that underlie several neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. They then translate these findings to humans, and have an active clinical research programme. Their approach is theoretically guided by the principles of precision medicine: specifically, understanding the biology of conditions will help develop individualised treatments for patients. They employ a broad range of research methodologies, spanning psychopharmacology, behavioural neuroscience, genetics, and experimental psychology (including animal behaviour).
Godfrey D Pearlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and founding Director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living, Hartford, CT. Medical school, University of Newcastle/Tyne, UK. Graduate degree in philosophy, Columbia University, NY. Psychiatry chief residency & postdoctoral training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Founding Director & Professor, Division of Psychiatry Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins SOM.
Gustavo R Pedrino
Dr. Gustavo Pedrino is currently, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Goiás (ICB/UFG), where he coordinates the Center for Research in Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Physiology.
His research focuses on the influence of central inflammatory processes on neuronal and sympathetic hyperactivity in cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and heart failure; neural pathways and mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular improvement observed with physical training; polymorphisms of ACE and ACE II enzymes and susceptibility to the development of cardiovascular diseases; synthesis of prototypes for drugs that act on the cardiovascular system; metabolic programming during pregnancy, lactation, and puberty; and physiopharmacology of natural and synthetic products.
Dr. Pedrino graduated in Biological Sciences (Medical Modality) from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). He obtained the titles of Master and Doctor in Science from the Graduate Program in Pharmacology at UNIFESP. During the doctorate, he spent one year as a Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed postdoctoral studies at UNIFESP.
He served as the Coordinator of the Multicenter Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences (2012-2013) and the Undergraduate Course in Biomedicine at ICB/UFG (2014-2018). Acted as Secretary (2017-2018) of the Deliberative Council and Treasurer (2019-2020) of the Brazilian Society of Physiology (SBFis).
Currently, he is the Director of ICB/UFG (2018-2022/2022-2026), President of the Deliberative Council of SBFis, and Treasurer of the Federation of Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE 2022-2023/2024-2025). Recognized as a Productivity Research Fellow 1C by the Committee on Biophysics, Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurosciences of CNPq (2020-2024).
Francesca Peressotti
FP is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione (DPSS), University of Padova, Italy. She was Director of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences, at the University of Padova from 2013 to 2017. From 2010 to 2013 she was Coordinator of the PhD program in Cognitive Sciences of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences. From 2018 to 2020 she has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). She was elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (2013-2016), and elected member of the Executive Committee of the Experimental Psychology Section of AIP (2008-2013). She acted as a PI in several research projects funded by the University of Padua, the Italian Ministry for the Scientific Research and the National Science Fundation (US).
FP’s research is aimed at investigating the functional architecture of the language system and it is primarily based on data coming from behavioral and electrophysiological measures, comparing the performance of different individuals, such as, e.g., adults, children, bilinguals, deaf people, signers. In a general sense, the approach used is to look at the language system taking into account experimental data coming from different domains focusing on the interactions between the language system and other cognitive functions, such as spatial attention, visual short memory, executive functions, emotions.
Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga
I grew up in the south Brazil, alternating times between Montevideo (Uruguay) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Crossing the Pampas several times made me deeply interested in nature and biology. After, I joined my passion for sports and movement to the area of biology. Last year, after 17 years as Assistent and Associate Professor in the UFRGS (Brazil), I moved to Pavia, and currently I am Professor UniPV, Italy. I am interested in minima, maxima and others optima in terrestrial locomotion & Sports Sciences. The pathological gait is a very interesting area to apply basic concepts of human locomotion. I am very proud to study and principally, to change life in the Parkinson projects. Also, and most important, the study on mechanical determinants of locomotion performance and economy is my passion.
Ilse S Pienaar
Senior Lecturer in Cellular Pathology at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Honorary Lecturer in Neuroscience at Imperial College London in London, with both positions held in the United Kingdom. Dr. Pienaar's has held Research Fellowships from the International Brain Research Organisation and Imperial College London.