Awards

Huttenlocher Award

Dr-Peter-Huttenlocher The Flux community honors Dr. Peter Huttenlocher’s distinguished and pioneering contributions to the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience by establishing the Huttenlocher Lecture, which is awarded to an outstanding researcher in the field each year. Dr. Huttenlocher was a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who is considered one of the fathers of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

His prolific body of work using histological approaches began in the 1970’s culminating with groundbreaking publications in the 90’s describing the protracted and hierarchical nature of synaptic pruning in the human brain occurring earliest in the occipital lobe and latest in the frontal lobe. These findings, suggesting a mechanism for ongoing neural plasticity through adolescence into young adulthood, has had great impact not only in developmental science and clinical medicine, but also in the realms of education and law.

In addition to his extraordinary impact on the world of developmental cognitive neuroscience, Dr. Huttenlocher made remarkable contributions to his clinical discipline – pediatric neurology – as a physician, teacher, scientist, and mentor.

Huttenlocher Lecturer – 2019 Congress

BJ Casey

Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain (FAB) Lab, Yale University - The Rockefeller University

Dr. BJ Casey is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain (FAB) Lab at Yale University and Visiting Scientist at The Rockefeller University. Casey pioneered the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine typical and atypical human brain development in the early 1990s and is a world leader in the field of developmental neuroscience. She has received international acclaim for her empirical and theoretical work on the adolescent brain. Her discoveries have provided new insights as to why young people respond to the world in unique ways that have important implications for justice reform.

Past Huttenlocher Lecturers

2018 Congress: Uta Frith, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London

2017 Congress: Linda Spear Ph.D. University of Florida
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2016 Congress: Michael Posner Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Oregon, USA Adjunct Professor at Weill Medical College

2015 Congress: Mark H Johnson
Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, UK

2014 Congress: Terry L. Jernigan
Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Director, University of California, San Diego Center for Human Development, USA
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2013 Congress: David A. Lewis
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
UPMC Endowed Professor in Translational Neuroscience
Medical Director and Director of Research
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Director Translational Neuroscience Program
Director NIMH Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Young Investigator Award

The Young Investigator Award in Cognitive Neuroscience, supported by Kennedy Krieger Institute, recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers. Award recipients have been working in the area of cognitive neuroscience for no more than 10 years involved in active independent research.

The FLUX Society is pleased to announce the winner of the Young Investigator Award in Cognitive Neuroscience for the 2019 year.

2019 Young Investigator Winner

Eva Telzer

UNC Chapel Hill

Eva Telzer is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from UCLA in 2012. Her research examines how social and cultural processes shape adolescent brain development, with a focus on both prosocial and risk-taking behaviors, family and peer relationships, and long-term psychological well-being. She has authored over 100 publications, and has received numerous awards for her work, including a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship, an Early Career Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Boyd McCandless Award for Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association Division 7, and was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, National Institute of Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Mental Health. In her free time she enjoys drawing biological illustrations, hiking with her dog, and reading.

Past Young Investigator Winners

2018 Winner: Leah Somerville, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University

2017 Winner: Dr. Damien Fair, Oregon Health & Science University

Flux Dissertation Award sponsored by the Bezos Family Foundation

The Flux Congress is committed to investing in the scientific and professional development of its trainees. To this end, we are pleased to announce the establishment of the Flux Student Dissertation Award, sponsored by the Bezos Family Foundation. The purpose of this honor to recognize an exceptional, rigorous, and meticulous dissertation by one of the Congress’ trainee members. The awardee will receive a 3 minute spotlight talk at the 2019 meeting in New York and a conference registration fee waiver. Please note, you can only be nominated once for this award.

Flux 2019 Dissertation Award Winner

Katie Insel

Columbia University Zuckerman Institute

Katie received her PhD in Psychology from Harvard University’s Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program. During graduate school, she worked in Professor Leah Somerville’s Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab in the Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science. Katie’s research examines how adolescent neurodevelopment shapes goal-directed behavior. To answer these questions, her research employs a combination of behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. She is particularly interested in identifying how individuals use incentives to motivate behavior and adjust cognitive effort, and how this ability changes with age during adolescence. Specifically, she investigates how maturing functional brain systems support the integration of motivation and cognition during learning and cognitive control. While most of her work focuses on normative development, she also examines whether adolescents with depression exhibit unique brain and behavioral profiles. This fall, Katie will begin a postdoctoral fellowship working with Professor Daphna Shohamy at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. During her postdoctoral training, she plans to study how the multiple brain systems that support learning and memory functionally mature during adolescence. In addition to conducting research, Katie is committed to scientific outreach, and she has worked with educators, legal scholars, and clinicians to help translate basic science to inform real world applications.

Past Dissertation Winners

Student Travel Awards

During the abstract submission process, we invite post-doc and graduate students to apply for Flux Travel Awards. These awards will be reviewed by the Scientific Program Committee and will be allocated based on scientific merit and an evaluation of a written application.

Winners of the 2019 Flux Travel Awards

MICHELLE ACHTERBERG, Leiden University
MARJOLEIN BARENDSE, University of Melbourne / University of Oregon
LAURA DE LA FUENTE, LPEN
KATHY DO, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SAMUEL FORBES, University of East Anglia
ARIANNA GARD, University of Michigan
KATIE INSEL,, Harvard University
BART LARSEN, University of Pennsylvania
ASHLEY NIELSEN, Washington University in St. Louis
MATTHEW PEVERILL, University of Pittsburgh
GIORGIA PICCI, Pennsylvania State University
LAURA QUINONES-CAMACHO, University of Pittsburgh
KRISTINA RAPUANO, Yale University
CHIARA SACCHI, University of Padova
ELINA THOMAS, Oregon Health & Science University
JIN WANG, Vanderbilt University

Winners of the 2018 Flux Travel Awards

ELOISE CAMERON MURDOCH, Childrens Research Institute/University of Melbourne
LIA FERSCHMANN, University of Oslo
DELIA FUHRMANN, University of Cambridge
JOAO GUASSI MOREIRA, University of California, Los Angeles
TERESA IUCULANO, Universite’ Paris Descartes – Sorbonne Paris
EDUARD KLAPWIJK, Leiden University
KATHERINE LOPEZ, Washington University in St Louis
SCOTT MAREK, Washington University in St. Louis
ROSEMARIE PERRY, New York University
CHRISTINA ROGERS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NOELIA SÁNCHEZ PÉREZ, University of Murcia
MARION VAN DEN HEUVEL, Tilburg University
QIJING YU, Wayne State University

Winners of the 2017 Flux Travel Awards

LM WIERENGA, Leiden University
JONATHAN HOLM-SKJOLD, University of Copenhagen
KATE NUSSENBAUM, University of Oxford
AMALIE EKSTRAND, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance
ANITA MONTAGNA, King’s College London
BARBARA BRAAMS, Harvard University
SCOTT MAREK, University of Pittsburgh
SYLVIA RUSNAK, Georgetown University
JULIET DAVIDOW, Harvard University
CHARLOTTE HELENIAK, University of Washington
KRISTEN TUMMELTSHAMMER, Brown University
DAVID PIEKARSKI, University of California Berkeley
WAN CHEN LIN, University of California Berkeley
SUNG JUN JOO, University of Washington
CHELSEA HARMON, Columbia University

Winners of the 2016 Flux Travel Awards

MICHELLE ACHTERBERG Leiden University

LAUREN DEMERS University of Minnesota

SILA GENC Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

MARIA JALBRZIKOWSKI University of California, Los Angeles

BART LARSEN University of Pittsburgh

CORINNA LAUBE Max Planck Institute for Human Development

LUCIA MAGIS-WEINBERG University College London

CHARLES MALPAS Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

JANESSA MANNING Wayne State University

LILLIAN MATTHEWS Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

DUSTIN MORACZEWSKI University of Maryland, College Park

JASON NOMI University of Miami

ZDENA OP DE MACKS UC Berkeley

DAVID PAGLIACCIO Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience

JEROD RASMUSSEN Univ. of California, Irvine

Science of Learning Symposium

The Science of Learning Symposium, sponsored by the Jacobs Foundation, highlights early career scientists who are identified based on merit and overall fit with the Flux mission.

2019 Science of Learning Symposium presenters

STEPHANIE DECROSS, Harvard University
JULIA MOSER, University of Tübingen
RACHEL ROMEO, MIT & Boston Children’s Hospital

2018 Science of Learning Symposium presenters

TERESA IUCULANO, Université Paris – Sorbonne
DUNCAN ASTLE, University of Cambridge
TORKEL KLINGSBERG, Karolinska Institutet

2017 Science of Learning Symposium presenters

GREGOIRE BORST, Paris Descartes University
JASON YEATMAN, University of Washington
CAROLYN JOHNSON, Harvard University
OLA OZERNOV-PALCHIK, Tufts University

2016 Science of Learning Symposium presenters

SAMANTHA DEPASQUE UCLA

ALYSSA KERSEY University of Rochester

WOUTER VAN DEN BOS Max Planck Institute for Human Development