Benjamin Schmid Wuerzburg, Germany A bioinformatician interested in all fields that bring together mathematics, computers, and biology, Schmid currently focuses on three-dimensional visualization and alignment of Drosophila neuroanatomy.
		Albert Cardona University of California Los Angeles Cardona is a biologist studying how the brain works. Most recently, he is focused on the microarchitecture of the Drosophila brain.
		Yuriy Mishchenko Janelia Farm Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia Mishchenko is a computation biologist with an interest in image processing. He is an associate in the lab of Janelia group leader Dmitri Chklovskii, where the goal is to understand brain function at the level of neuronal circuits.

Participants not pictured: Julie Simpson, Janelia Farm; Wayne Rasband, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda; Greg Jefferis, Cambridge University, England; Torsten Rohlfing, Stanford University; Hanchuan Peng, Janelia Farm; Johannes Schindelin, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Photos: Paul Fetters

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