It was great to see both Emily Liu and Narayan Sankaran on stage at the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference.

Emily was one of eight Scholar Spotlight awardees selected to give a Lightning Talk of her abstract to the full meeting, immediately after NIH BRAIN Director John Ngai’s welcome. Then in the afternoon, Narayan spoke as part of a panel on music in the brain (and its potential therapeutic applications), presenting cutting-edge work on neural representations of melody in the brain.

Emily and Narayan will both be going on to faculty roles; Emily at the University of Colorado Department of Neurology, and Narayan helping to establish a new Neuroscience department close to home at the University of San Francisco, and aiming also to set up a neuroethics program within that department. Great work by both of them – so happy to see it recognized!