IBNS Committees
IBNS is committed to furthering all fields of research related to Behavioral Neuroscience. With the help of our members, we are impacting scientific endeavors all over the world! However, we could not be successful without the efforts of our committee members who help to carry out the work of the society. Are you interested in committee membership opportunities? Would you like to serve as a leader in IBNS? Visit IBNS Committee Member Opportunities to let us know more about your interests.
Education & Training Committee
Sharon Furtak, Chair, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, USA 2025
Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, Co-Chair, UNSW Sydney, Haymarket, Australia, 2026
Matthew McMurray, (Past Chair), Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA 2025
Kyle Ploense, Cayuga Biotech Inc., Mount Vernon, NY, USA 2025
Fiona Hollis, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA 2025
Stacey Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2025
Jeremy McIntyre, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2025
Stefano Sandrone, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2026
Arturo Zavala, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA 2027
Haven Predale, Rowen University, Woodbury, NJ, USA 2027
Ethics and Diversity Committee
Nicole Ferrara (Chair), Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, N Chicago, IL, USA 2025 Karly Turner (Co-Chair), University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia 2025 Robyn Brown, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Elizabeth Byrnes, Tufts University, North Grafton, MA, USA Cheryl Conrad, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Claire Foldi, Monash University, Clayton, Australia Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Janine Kwapis, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA Deryn LeDuke, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA Talia Lerner, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA Elizabeth Manning, (E&T Liaison), University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia Jill McGaughy, (Membership & Communication Liaison), University of New Hampshire, USA Guillermo Aquino-Miranda, McGovern Medical School, UTHSC Houston, TX, USA Nawshaba Nawreen, (E&T Liaison), University of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, IN, USA Joel Raymond, Rutgers University, Sydney, South Carolina, Australia Millie Rincón-Cortés, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA Cristina María Ríos, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, USA Sade Spencer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Karen Szumlinski, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Sydney Trask, (Program Liaison), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA Leigh Walker, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia
Finance & Fundraising Committee
Jared Young, Chair, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA 2026 Stan Floresco, Co-Chair, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2027 Carlos Bolanos, Treasurer/Council Liaison, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA 2025 Gregory Carr, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2026 Jess Nithianantharajah, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, , Australia 2027 Michelle Hook, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, USA 2027 Rachel Navarra, Rowan University, Stratford, New Jersey, USA 2026 Stacey Sukoff Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2026 Molly Kent, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, USA 2026
Local Organizing Committee, Tromsø, Norway 2025
Eelke Snoeren, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Shona Wood, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway John Oyem, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Samuel Geisler, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Ole Christian Sylte, University of Freiburg, Germany
Membership & Communications Committee
Jill McGaughy, Chair, Past-President, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA 2026 Joseph McQuail, Co-Chair, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, 2027
Communications/Social Media Team:Jill McGaughy, Chair, Past-President, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA 2026
Lori Newman, Co-Chair, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY USA, 2027
Susanne Schmid, University of Western Ontario, Canada 2025
Levi Flom, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 2027
Mudi Zhao, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2027
Nominations & Awards Committee
Jill Silverman, Chair, MIND Institute, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA 2025 Scott Hall, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA 2024 Jared Young, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA 2024 Robert Gerlai, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada 2025 Mikhail Pletnikov, Univ. at Buffalo Sch. of Medicine and Bio. Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USA 2025 Anthony Kline, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2025 Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA 2025 Jill McGaughy, Past-President, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA 2026 Byron Jones, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA 2025 Elena Choleris, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 2025
Program Committee
Eelke Snoeren, Chair, University of Tromsø, Norway 2026
Alexa Veenema, Co-Chair, Michigan State University, USA 2027
Kumar Narayanan, Iowa City, IA, USA 2025 Randy Bruno, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2025 Farida Sohrabji, Texas A&M University, TX, USA 2026 Jess Nithianantharajah, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2026 Tara Moore, Boston University, MA, USA 2026 Anna Yotova, University of Frankfurt, Germany 2026 Mao Kobayashi-Sakashita, University of Tokyo, Japan 2027 Francisco Guimaraes, University of São Paulo, Brazil 2027 Alexies Dagnino-Subiabre, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile 2027 Millie Rincón-Cortés, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA 2027 Sydney Trask, E&D liaison, Purdue University, USA 2027 Claudio da Cunha, Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil 2027 Giulia Chiacchierini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy 2027 Susanne Schmid, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada 2027
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