About the Editorial Board

Christophe Bernard is the director of research at INSERM U1106 in the Institute of Systems Neuroscience. Bernard has performed research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, conducted postdoctoral research at Southampton University, and received his PhD from the University of Paris VI in 1990. Bernard is interested in mechanisms underlying the construction of an epileptic brain as well as seizure genesis and propagation, focusing on temporal lobe epilepsy. Bernard's lab is designing and using new tools to help with epileptic research. He was awarded the Michael Prize for epilepsy in 2007, and the Felix Innovation Prize for the development of the organic transistor to record brain activity in 2013, and has received fellowships from NATO, the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation, and the Philippe Foundation. Bernard has been a reviewing editor for The Journal of Neuroscience and Science, and he has served on the Program Committee at SfN and the Program Committee at the Federation of European Neuroscience.

Liset M de la Prida is Research Director at the Instituto Cajal, CSIC, in Madrid. The main goal of her lab is to understand the function of hippocampal and para-hippocampal circuits. She earned the Best Graduated Student and PhD Extraordinary Prizes, as well as prestigious fellowships and grants from EMBO, HFSP and the European Commission under different framework programs. She is a leading international expert in the study of the basic mechanisms of physiological ripples and epileptic fast ripples, with experience in developing novel groundbreaking tools to explore brain function (e.g. integrated fluidic probes for simultaneous recording and drug delivery). Dr. de la Prida has participated in the Scientific Advisory Board and/or Evaluation Committees of several institutions abroad. Apart from eNeuro, she serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Neuroscience Methods, and has commissioning duties in the American Epilepsy Society (Task Force Working Groups on Behavior and Networks), the Spanish Society of Neuroscience (Executive Board, 2011-2015) and FENS (Program Committee 2022).

Jeanne Nerbonne received a B.S. in Chemistry from Framingham State College and a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from Georgetown University. After completing postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the Department of Pharmacology at Washington University. She is presently the Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology in the Departments of Medicine, Developmental Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University. She is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research, Co-Director of the Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases, and Director of a NHLBI-sponsored Training Program in Integrative and Systems Biology of Cardiovascular Disease. Research in the Nerbonne lab explores the molecular, cellular and systemic mechanisms involved in the regulation of voltage-gated K+ (Kv) and Na+ (Nav) channels that shape cardiac and neuronal action potentials, the critical determinants of signaling and cell-cell communication in the cardiovascular and nervous systems. She and her colleagues have provided critical insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms contributing to the diversity of native cardiac and neuronal Kv and Nav channels, the roles of these channels in controlling normal physiology and behavior, and the functional impact of derangements in the expression and/or the biophysical properties associated with inherited and acquired disease.

Dr. Role joined NINDS February 2019 as the Scientific Director and a Senior Investigator. She obtained an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a Ph.D. in physiology from Harvard Medical School (Boston). She did her postdoctoral training in pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) with Gerald Fischbach, who later served as the director of NINDS (1998–2001). After her training, she became an assistant professor at Columbia University in 1985 and rose to the level of professor before moving to SUNY Stony Brook in 2008. Dr. Role was a full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and then a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at SUNY Stony Brook. She was also co-director of SUNY Stony Brook’s Neurosciences Institute. She has earned many awards and honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011 and a Fellow in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2009. She received three separate awards from the McKnight Foundation at different stages of her career and was twice named a Distinguished Investigator by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, now the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. In 2010, she received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, which “supports scientists with outstanding records of creativity pursuing new research directions to develop pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.” She has been the principal investigator on numerous NIH-funded grants, supported continuously since 1982; an early recipient of an NINDS Javits award; and more recently received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. She has published more than 100 scientific articles. Over her career at both Columbia University (New York) and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, New York), Role has mentored nearly 20 undergraduate students and more than 50 postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and medical students..

Yavin Shaham received his BS and MA from the Hebrew U, Jerusalem, and his PhD from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. His postdoctoral training was at Concordia U, Montreal, in the laboratory of Dr. Jane Stewart. Prior to joining the NIDA Intramural Research Program as a tenure-track investigator, he was an investigator at the Addiction Research Center in Toronto. He is currently a tenured Branch Chief and a Senior Investigator. His major awards include the NIDA Director’s Award of Merit (2001), the Society of Neuroscience Jacob Waletzky award for innovative research in drug and alcohol addiction (2006), the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grant Award (2016), and the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society Distinguished Achievement Award (2017). He was a Reviewer and Senior Editor for The Journal of Neuroscience between 2008 and 2018 and currently serves as a Handling (Reviewing) Editor of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also an editorial board member of Biological Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, and Addiction Biology. His group currently investigates mechanisms of relapse to drug use, as assessed in rat models developed in his lab..