Previous Travel Award Recipients

2026 Cape Town, South Africa

Postdoctoral Awards
Joeri Bordes, Neurocentre Magendie, France
Lucas da Silva, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Tyler Dexter, University of California San Diego, United States
Hidaayah Jimoh-Abdulghaffaar, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Ashutosh Patel, University of Toronto, Canada
Joseph Picone, University of California Irvine, United States 
Cristina Maria Rios, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
Roger Varela, University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia 

Graduate Awards
Kehinde Adeniji, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Leticia Barilli, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Janhavi Bhalerao, Emory University, United States
Samuel Budniok, KU Leuven, Belgium
Cassandra Hartsgrove, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States
Luke Keevers, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sydney Ku, Georgia State University, United States
Nicolas Landgraf, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany
Kendra Loedige, Western University, Canada
Min Lou, UNSW, Australia
Leticia Morgan, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Fabio Sousa, KU Leuven, Belgium

Undergraduate Awards
Soroush Saberi Kakhki, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

2025 Tromso, Norway

2024 Panama City, Panama

2023 Niagara Falls, Canada

Postdoctoral Awards 
Olamide Adebiyi, Western University, Canada
Rochele Castelo-Branco, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil
Kyna Conn, Monash University, Australia
Lea Decarie-Spain, University of Southern California, United States
Barbara Dotto Fontana, Wayne State University, United States

Graduate Awards
Chantal Aaron, Tufts University, United States
Lauren Bellfy, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Alyson Blount, University of Maryland BC, United States
Chloe Chernoff, University of British Columbia, Canada
Livia Di Crescenzo, KU Leuven, Belgium
Alexandra Ng, Boston College, United States
María Fernanda López-Gutiérrez, Instituto de Neurobiologia UNAM, Mexico
Xavier Maddern, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia
Diána Pejtsik, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary
Joel Raymond, The University of Sydney, Australia
Leah Truckenbrod, The University of Texas at Austin/DMS, United States
Maya Williams, Aix Marseille Université, France
Rebecca Wilson, University of California - Davis, United States
Anna Yotova, Goethe University Hospital, Germany
Mudi Zhao, University of British Columbia, Canada

Undergraduate Awards
Tarannum Yumi Munir, University of California, San Diego, United States
Timothy Philbeck, University of Mary Washington, United States

2022 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 

Postdoctoral Awardees
Lauren DePoy, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Mojdeh Faraji, University of Florida, United States
Olivia Le Moene, Linköping University, Sweden

Graduate Awardees
Arvie Abiero, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 
Maria Carolina Barbosa da Silva, Oswaldo Cruz Institute-IOC-Fiocruz, Brazil
Jordan Carter, Medical University of South Carolina, United States
Alberto Corona, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Laisa De Siqueira Umpierrez, Macquarie University, Australia
Tiffany Dean, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, United States
Archana Durairaja, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
Olivia Ghosh-Swaby, Western University, Canada
Hannah Kline, Indiana University, United States
Christopher Knapp, Rowan University, United States
Amanda Leithead, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Melanie Lysenko-Martin, University of British Columbia, Canada
Taylor McCorkle, Drexel University, United States
Allison McDonald, Amsterdam Universities Medical Center, The Netherlands
Katherine Meckel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Nawshaba Nawreen, University of Cincinnati, United States
Anne Pierce, The University of Colorado Boulder, United States
Gladys Shaw, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Momoe Sukegawa, Kyoto University, Japan
María Zanoni, Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional, Argentina

Undergraduate Awardees
Janhavi Bhalerao, University of Richmond, United States
Alexandra Chapman, Randolph-Macon College, United States 

2021 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 

Postdoctoral Awardees
Ahmed Eltokhi – University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany   
Hayley Fisher, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States 
Ewa Galaj, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research, Bethesda, MD, United States 
Marie Labouesse, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Jordan Marrocco, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States 
David Nguyen – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States 
Suzanne Nolan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States 
Puja Parekh, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Nicholas Race, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Graduate Awardees
Claire Corbett, Rowan University, Vorhees, NJ, United States 
Moises dos Santos Correa, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil 
Eleni Haritomeni Moschonas, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 
Tavleen Kaur, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Taipei, Taiwan   
Sean Monroe, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States 
Ileana Morales, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States 
Kayla Nygaard, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States 
Evelyn Ordoñes Sanchez, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States 
Felicia Reed, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 
Rhianne Scicluna, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 
Michelle Stackmann, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Nicholas Upright, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
Sabrina Zequeira, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

Undergraduate Awardees
Anjali Kumari, North Carolina Agricultural & Tech. State Univ., Greensboro, NC, United States   
Megan Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States 
Aftyn Trumbo, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, United States 

2020 Online Poster Session 

Plexon Postdoctoral Award 
Holly Hunsberger, Columbia University, USA

Postdoctoral Awards 
Jennifer Fragale, Rutgers University, USA Katherine McMurray, University of Cincinnati, USA
Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jennifer Tuscher, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Graduate Awards 
Alice Abbondanza, FGU - Institute of Physiology CAS, Czech Republic
Debra Bercovici, University of British Columbia, Canada
Elizabeth Berg, University of California Davis, USA
Dionnet Bhatti, Harvard University, USA
Alexandre Guerin, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia
Nicole Jenni, University of British Columbia, Canada
Najmeh Katebi, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
David Keller, Semmelweis University, Hungary
Judith Kreutzmann, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
Stacia Lewandowski, Drexel University, USA
Kamakshi Mehta, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Laura Milton, Monash University, Australia
Rebecca Ravenelle, City University of New York, USA
James Ryan, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Kevin Uribe, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Krista Wahlstrom, University of Iowa, USA

Undergraduate Awards 
Yasmin Padovan-Hernandez, University of Florida, USA 

2019 Cairns, QLD, Australia

Postdoctoral Awardees
Andrew Abela, Centre For Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
Marley Kass, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Millie Rincon-Cortes, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Alexander Smith, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
Karly Turner, University of New South Wales, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Leigh Walker, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Samantha Yohn, Vanderbilt University, Ashland City, TN, United States

Graduate Awardees
Kevin Braunscheidel, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
Briana Chen, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Katherine Drummond, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Mariela Faykoo-Martinez, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Hannah Ihme, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Johnny Kenton, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Saurabh Kokane, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Daphne Ling, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stela Petkova, MIND Institute, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States
Jose Reyes, Universidad Central del Caribe, Arecibo, PR, United States
Omar Sial, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Diana Sketriene, The Florey Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Elysia Sokolenko, University of Melbourne, Armadale, WA, Australia
Maria Willadsen, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Undergraduate Awardee
Jonte Roberts, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, United States

Thorlabs Diversity Travel Awardees
Ana Luisa Moreira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Jaquelinne Pinheiro da-Silva, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

2018 Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Postdoctoral Awardees
Fernando Caravaggio, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Patricia B. de la Tremblaye, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Jessica Deslauriers, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Maria Diehl, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, United States
Anand Gururajan, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Joshua Haight, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Graduate Awardees
Hector Bravo-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, United States
Chelsea Brown, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Caitlin Burgdorf, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Courtney Bryce, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nicholas Everett, Macquarie University, Marsfield, NSW, Australia
Niveen Fulcher, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Lina Fernanda Gonzalez Martinez, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States
Caesar Miguel Hernandez, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Sofiya Hupalo, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
Rukhshona Kayumova, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Brittany Kuhn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Jennifer Martin, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States
Solianne Martinez-Jimenez, Universidad Central del Caribe, Bayamon, PR, United States
Laura Mendez, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, United States
Kelly Moench, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States
Shin Park, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Jacqueline Quigley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Melissa Rivera-Lopez, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, United States
Luan Tonelli, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Margarida Trigo, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Katie E. Yoest, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Sean Shenghua Zhu, University of Manitoba, MB, Canada (2017 Award)

Undergraduate Awardees
Dmitry S. Kovalev, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, United States
Ben Tsang, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada

Presidential Travel Awardee
Amanda Facciol, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

2017 Hiroshima, Japan

Samantha Adler, University of Texas Health at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Tania Aguilar, Instituto de Neurobiologa, Santiago de Quertaro, Mexico
Angela Caruso, Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Rome, Italy
Marangelie Criado-Marrero, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
Aarthi Gobinath, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Evan Hart, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Kelvin Hui, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wakoshi, Saitama, Japan
Song-Mao Liao, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Melissa Malvaez, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Arlene Martinez-Rivera, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Richard Matta, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Rachel Navarra, Rowan University School of Medicine, Stratford, NJ, United States
Steven Neal, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, United States
Christie Pizzimenti, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States
Juan Jair Santillan-Cigales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Abdul-Rahman Suleiman, Wayne State University, Dearborn, MI, United States
Ana Luisa Terzian, FMRP - USP, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
Mumeko Tsuda, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
Leigh Walker, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kira-Elise Wilson, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Cameron Woodard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Shunya Yagi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Shenghua Zhu, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

2016 Budapest, Hungary

Sarah Baracz, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Laszlo Biro, Institute of Experimental Medicine Hungary
Zsuzsa Buchwald, Mouse Imaging Center/The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Robert Cole, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Zackary Cope, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Matthew Davenport, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Patricia de la Tremblaye, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Gabor Egervari, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, United States
Amanda Facciol, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Theresa Kisko, Phillips University Marburg Germany
Steven Nieto, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Richard O'Connor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, United States
Timothy Schoenfeld, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
Dominik Seffer, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
Soaleha Shams, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Alexandra Stolyarova, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Ayse Sungur, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
Steven Tran, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2015 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Postdoctoral Awardees
Sarah Jablonski, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Joseph McQuail, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, United States
Jules Panksepp, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, United States

Graduate Awardees
Franklin Back, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
Jacqueline-Marie Ferland, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mouna Haidar, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Joshua Haight, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Daniel Hoops, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Christopher Fitzpatrick, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Kanza Khan, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattisburg, MS, United States
Richard Matta, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Leah Mayo, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Morgane Milienne-Petiot, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
Andrew Murtishaw, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Eric Parise, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Patrick Piantadosi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Esther Remmelink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Steven Tran, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Undergraduate Awardee
Jason Alipio, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, United States

2014 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Postdoctoral Awardees
Adams, University of British Columbia, Canada
Davide Amato, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany
Marci Mitchell, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Caitlin Orsini, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, United States
Tomasz Schneider, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Fiona Zeeb, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

Graduate Awardees
Allison Auchter, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States
Gregory Barord, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Michael Barrus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Blanca Sofia Beas, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainsville, FL, United States
Michael Bowen, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Xi Chu, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Caylen Cloutier, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Paul Cocker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lauren DePoy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Kelsy Ervin, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Julianne Jett, University of Texas Health Science Center, Austin, TX, United States
Samantha Mahabir, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Elizabeth Manning, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Chantelle Terrillion, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Lucas Watterson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

2013 Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland

Postdoctoral Awardees
Michal Arad, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, MD, United States
Lisa Briand, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Stephen Mahler, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
Joanna L. Workman, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Armin Zlomuzica, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Graduate Awardees
Ryan Bastle, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Michael J. Corley, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Alexandre Hoeller, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
Ann N. Hoffman, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Linnet Ramos, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sergey Sotnikov, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Farah Wahida Suhaimi, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
Brandon Lee Warren, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States

2012 Kona, Hawaii, USA

Postdoctoral Awardees
Alaine Keebaugh, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Alexxai Kravitz, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, United States
Erik Oleson, University of Maryland-School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
Tori Schaefer, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Moriel Zelikowsky, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States

Graduate Awardees
Catherine Barrett, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Collin Challis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Nina Donner, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO, United States
Stephanie Groman, University of California-Los Angeles, CA, United States
Anna Phan, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Kartik Ramamoorthi, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Adam Smith, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Brandon Warren, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States

Regional Travel Awardees
Michael Bowen, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Áron Tulogdi, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

2011 Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States

Postdoctoral
Laurence Daniele Coutellier, NIMH, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
Eimeira Padilla, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Lissandra C. Baldan Ramsey, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

Graduate Awardees
Amanda A. Braun, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Andrew Robert Burke, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States
Richard Chu, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Amy E. Clipperton Allen, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Geetha Kannan, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Undergraduate Awardees
Manoela Viar Fogaça, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Fernando Midea Cuccovia Vasconcelos Reis, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Kerisa Lea Shelton, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Kalpana Subedi, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States

2010 Villisimius, Sardinia, Italy

Postdoctoral Awardees
Michael Vincent Baratta, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Jodi L. Pawluski, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Kate Marie Wassum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Ingo Willuhn, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Graduate Awardees
Cindy Kaur Barha, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Elizabeth Thomas Cox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Lauren Kristen Dobbs, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States
Catherine Anne Marcinkiewcz, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Noam Miller, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Brandon Lance Pearson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Robert Raymond Rozeske, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO, United States
Sandy Richard Shultz, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Jessica Anne Siegel, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States

Presidential Travel Awardees
Leonie de Visser, Utrecht University, Urecht, The Netherlands
Melanie A. Paquette, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, United States

2009 Nassau, Bahamas

Postdoctoral Awardees
Jonathan Lael Brigman, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD, United States
Susanne Brummelte, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nicholas Gilpin, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States
Adam Lee Halberstadt, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Daniela Schulz, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Alicia A. Walf, University at Albany, Albany, NY, United States

Graduate Awardees
Ethan Hayes Beckley, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States
Jennifer Michelle Brielmaier, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
Amy Elizabeth Clipperton, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Mickael Degoulet, Université de Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France
Daniel Eskenazi, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Darby F. Hawley, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Leigh Ann Miles, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Eimeira Padilla, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Mariana Schroeder, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Calvin Kai Young, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Undergraduate Awardee
Paul Brito-Vargas, Universidad del Este, Carolina, Puerto Rico

2008 St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Segev Barak, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Isreal
Corina Bondi, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX, United States
Evelyn Field, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Katherine Gililland, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States
Jodi Gresack, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Thomas Jarrett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Amod Kulkarni, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Carolina
Jodi Lukkes, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States
Matthew McMurray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Tori Schaefer, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Matthew Skelton, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Markus Wöhr, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
Jared Young, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Michal Arad, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Catalina Cervantes, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, United States
Kelly L. Conrad, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL, United States
James Doherty, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Jermaine D. Jones, American University, Washington, DC, United States
Amanda C. Kentner, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Noam Y. Miller, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Rupshi Mitra, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Christian P. Müller, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Nupur Nag, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States
Jeffrey Parrilla, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico
Susanna Pietropaolo, ETH, Switzerland
Holger Russig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2006 Whistler, BC, Canada

Postdoctoral Awardees
Melissa Glenn, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Todd Gould, National Institute of Mental Health/NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
Florence Roullet, The Brain Body Institute and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Ajai Vyas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Graduate Awardees
Karen Alsene, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
Nurith Amitai, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
David Ballok, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Lisa Briand, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Neil Fournier, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada
Sarah A. Johnson, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Amanda C. Kentner, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Stephen Mahler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Melissa Perreault, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

2005 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Postdoctoral Awardees
Angela Grippo, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Sreenivasulu Naidu Pattipati, University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, India

Graduate Awardees
Sarah Boudreau, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Andrea Kudwa, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Denise Leblanc-Duchin, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada
Lauren Levy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Vicente Martinez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Melanie Paquette, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Marisa J. Rubinow, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States
Masafumi Takatsuna, Toyama University, Japan
Kandy Velazquez, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Amy Zmarowski, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

2004 Key West, Florida, USA

Postdoctoral Awardees
Sheila Fleming, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, United States
Miriam Hickey, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, United States

Graduate Awardees
Ashley Acheson, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
Nicole Avena, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Paul Lee, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States
Lauren Levy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Catherine Lowry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Chris Markham, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Tammy Moscrip, Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States
Victoria Risbrough, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
Mu Yang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States

Undergraduate Awardees
Catherine McNutt, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, United States
Tori Schaefer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, United States

2003 San Juan, Puerto Rico

Postdoctoral Awardees
Elissa J. Chesler, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN, United States
Haim Einat, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
Susan Powell, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States

Graduate Awardees
Suzanne A. Henry, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Anna Lee, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Yann S. Mineur, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
Tammy Moscrip, Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States
Christopher Nelson, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Itzel Orduna, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Wendy Portillo, Centro De Neurobiología, Mexico
Lianne Stanford, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Martin Woodlee, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States

Undergraduate Awardees
Tori Schaefer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, United States

2002 Capri, Italy

Walter Adriani, Istituto Superiore Di Sanita, Italy
Nicole Cameron, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Elissa J. Chesler, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States
Elena Choleris, The Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, United States
Suzanne A. Henry, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Lisa Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Anna Lee, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Miranda Lim, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Sara Morley-Fletcher, University De Lille 1, France
Jennifer J. Quinn, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Victoria Risbrough, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Daniela Ruedi-Bettschen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Holger Russig, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland