Annual Report

Larry Abbott

Misha Ahrens

David Amaral

David Anderson

Dora Angelaki

E. Virginia Armbrust

William Bialek

Donna Blackmond

Tanja Bosak

David Brainard

Dieter Braun

Carlos Brody

Matteo Carandini

David A. Caron

Irene Chen

E. J. Chichilnisky

Penny Chisholm

Matthew Church

Anne Churchland

Marlene Cohen

John Cunningham

Edward DeLong

James DiCarlo

Brent Doiron

Shaul Druckmann

Jason Dworkin

Sonya Dyhrman

Uri Eden

Michael Follows

Loren Frank

Jeremy Freeman

Stefano Fusi

Surya Ganguli

Lisa Giocomo

Mark Goldman

Wayne Goodman

Kenneth Harris

Fritz Henn

Anitra Ingalls

Rudolf Jaenisch

Mehrdad Jazayeri

Seth John

Gerald Joyce

Lisa Kaltenegger

David Karl

Alla Karpova

Roozbeh Kiani

Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

Brian Lau

Andrew Leifer

Debbie Lindell

Michael Long

Zachary Mainen

Sheref Mansy

Valerio Mante

Markus Meister

J. Anthony Movshon

Dianne Newman

William Newsome

Karin Öberg

Svante Pääbo

Liam Paninski

Joseph Paton

Nick Patterson

Fernando Pérez

Bijan Pesaran

Jonathan Pillow

Xaq Pitkow

Alexandre Pouget

Matthew Powner

John Pringle

Stephen Quake

Didier Queloz

David Reich

Daniel Repeta

Fred Rieke

Gene Robinson

Bernardo Sabatini

Nita Sahai

Maneesh Sahani

Dimitar Sasselov

Spencer Smith

Haim Sompolinsky

Michael Stryker

Lisa Stubbs

Roger Summons

John Sutherland

Karel Svoboda

Jack Szostak

David Tank

Doris Tsao

Benjamin Van Mooy

Brian Wandell

Joshua Weitz

Angelicque White

George Whitesides

Jonathan Zehr

Manuel Zimmer

Steven Zucker

Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Postdoctoral Fellows

Elizabeth Bell

Ziwei Liu

Irena Mamajanov

Kartik Temburnikar

Falk Wachowius

Dmitry Zubarev

Simons Fellows of The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

Joseph Castellano

Tina Han

Duncan Leitch

Joshua Modell

Simons Fellows of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Eleanor Clowney

Tania Lupoli

Jeremy Rock

Simons Fellows of the Life Sciences Research Foundation

Aakash Basu

Rogier Braakman

Robert Jinkerson

Wei-Ting Liu

James Marshel

Constance Richter

Caroline Runyan

Ophelia Venturelli

Joshua Weinstein

Rayka Yokoo

Igor Aleiner

Rajeev Alur

Sanjeev Arora

Tim Austin

François Baccelli

Manjul Bhargava

Mark Braverman

Michael Brenner

Emmanuel Candès

Garnet Chan

Moses Charikar

Ngô Bao Châu

Jeff Cheeger

Alex Eskin

Tony Ezome

Paul François

Victor Galitski

Antoine Georges

Sharon Glotzer

Shafi Goldwasser

Daniel Gottschling

Alice Guionnet

Emanuel Gull

Larry Guth

Christopher Derek Hacon

Oskar Hallatschek

Patrick Hayden

Christopher Hirata

Terence Hwa

Russell Impagliazzo

Piotr Indyk

Randall Kamien

Marc Kamionkowski

Charles Kane

Brian Keating

Richard Kenyon

Subhash Khot

Jon Kleinberg

Bruce Kleiner

Gabriel Kotliar

Evgeny Kozik

Adrian Lee

Edward Lungu

Pankaj Mehta

Maryam Mirzakhani

Joel Moore

Elchanan Mossel

Assaf Naor

Andrei Okounkov

Hirosi Ooguri

Frans Pretorius

Nikolai Prokofev

Eliot Quataert

Leo Radzihovsky

Ran Raz

Oded Regev

Michael Saks

Diaraf Seck

Paul Seidel

Boris Shraiman

Amit Singer

Rachel Somerville

Dam Thanh Son

Yun S. Song

Kannan Soundararajan

Dan Spielman

Anatoly Spitkovsky

David Steurer

Iain Stewart

Terence Tao

Daniel Tataru

Shang-Hua Teng

Senthil Todadri

Salil Vadhan

Mark van Schilfgaarde

Guifre Vidal

Steven White

Horng-Tzer Yau

Xi Yin

Shiwei Zhang

Olga Zhaxybayeva

Theoretical Physics

Zvi Bern

Eric G. Blackman

Piers Coleman

Keshav Dasgupta

Benjamin Davidovitch

Andrei Derevianko

Charles Doering

Glennys Farrar

Paul Ginsparg

Michael Hermele

Andrea Liu

Liam McAllister

Sonia Paban

Christopher Reynolds

Anders Sandvik

David Vanderbilt

Thomas Weiler

Mathematics

Denis Auroux

Jason Behrstock

Roman Bezrukavnikov

Francis Bonahon

Samuel R. Buss

Daniela Calvetti

Mark Andrea de Cataldo

Guang Cheng

Tim Cochran

Donatella Danielli

Giovanni Forni

Dan Freed

Alexander Furman

William Goldman

Shelly Harvey

Lizhen Ji

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Joel Kamnitzer

Martin Kassabov

Ludmil Katzarkov

Dmitry Kleinbock

Bruce Kleiner

Elena Kosygina

Sándor Kovács

Slava Krushkal

George Lusztig

Ivan Mirkovic

Kartik Prasanna

Firas Rassoul-Agha

Romyar Sharifi

Eric Shea-Brown

Scott Sheffield

Robert Sims

Pham Huu Tiep

Kari Vilonen

Daqing Wan

Mu-Tao Wang

Lauren Williams

Christopher Woodward

Michael Yampolsky

Ted Abel

Ralph Adolphs

John Allman

Dora Angelaki

Manuel Ascano

Naama Barnea-Goraly

Peter Barrett

Michiel Basson

Helen Bateup

Mark Bear

Carrie Bearden

Esther Becker

Marlene Behrmann

Yehezkel Ben-Ari

Raphael Bernier

Randy Blakely

Thomas Bourgeron

Randy L. Buckner

Jessica Cardin

William Catterall

Aravinda Chakravarti

Steven Chance

Chinfei Chen

Anjen Chenn

Benjamin Cheyette

Yun-Beom Choi

Wendy Chung

Edwin H. Cook, Jr.

Giovanni Coppola

Joseph Corbo

Rui Costa

Eric Courchesne

Christopher Cowan

Gerald Crabtree

Michael Crair

Jacqueline Crawley

Joseph Cubells

Mark Daly

Robert Darnell

Sandeep Datta

Karl Deisseroth

Orrin Devinsky

Scott Dindot

Catherine Dulac

Robert Edwards

Evan Eichler

Ype Elgersma

Mayada Elsabbagh

Michela Fagiolini

Jin Fan

W. Andrew Faucett

Daniel Feldman

Guoping Feng

Andre Fenton

Gordon Fishell

Loren Frank

William Gaetz

Daniel Geschwind

Charles Gilbert

Cecilia Giulivi

Joseph Gleeson

Robin Goin-Kochel

Mitchell Goldfarb

Matthew Goodwin

Alessandro Gozzi

Ann Graybiel

Christopher Gregg

Adam Guastella

Abha Gupta

James F. Gusella

Joachim Hallmayer

Christian Hansel

Ellen Hanson

Christopher Harvey

David Heeger

Michael Higley

Mady Hornig

Z. Josh Huang

Kimberly Huber

Richard L. Huganir

Rudolf Jaenisch

Daoyun Ji

Peng Jin

Zsuzsanna Kaldy

Joshua Kaplan

Nicholas Katsanis

Raymond Kelleher

Tal Kenet

Jonathan Kipnis

Eric Klann

Abba Krieger

Kenneth Kwan

Anthony Lamantia

Gary Landreth

David Ledbetter

Charles Lee

Christa Lese Martin

Pat Levitt

Ellen Li

Paul Lipkin

W. Ian Lipkin

Dan Littman

Catherine Lord

Liqun Luo

Robert C. Malenka

Dara Manoach

Oscar Marin

Sarkis Mazmanian

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Steven McCarroll

Mollie Meffert

Sunil Mehta

Vinod Menon

Carolyn Mervis

Daniel Messinger

Judith Miles

Alea Mills

Partha Mitra

Eric Morrow

Scott Murray

Mor Nahum

James Noonan

Brian O'Roak

Lucy Osborne

Sally Ozonoff

Theo Palmer

Alex Parker

Karen Parker

Elior Peles

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Bradley Peterson

Deirdre Phillips

Ben Philpot

Joseph Piven

Michael Platt

Carlos Portera-Cailliau

Ning Qian

Indira Raman

Irving Reti

Alexandre Reymond

Timothy Roberts

Kathryn Roeder

J. Amiel Rosenkranz

John Rubenstein

Uwe Rudolph

Shasta Sabo

Mustafa Sahin

Stephan Sanders

Celine Saulnier

Elad Schneidman

Robert Schultz

Ethan Scott

Marco Seandel

Jonathan Sebat

Nenad Sestan

Carla Shatz

Stephen Shea

Elliott Sherr

Songhai Shi

Sagiv Shifman

Lawrence Shriberg

Matthew Siegel

Steven Siegel

James Sikela

Alison Singer

Jeffrey Singer

Pawan Sinha

Jesse Snedeker

Vikaas Sohal

Hongjun Song

Sarah Spence

Matthew State

Beth Stevens

Thomas Südhof

David Sulzer

Mriganka Sur

James Sutcliffe

Francis Szele

Michael Talkowski

Nien-Pei Tsai

Thomas Tuschl

Nathan Urban

Roger Vaughan

Dennis Vitkup

Dennis Wall

Mark Wallace

Christopher Walsh

Fan Wang

James Waschek

Rachel Wevrick

Michael Wigler

Mark Wu

Ofer Yizhar

Xiaobing Yuan

Konstantinos Zarbalis

Mark Zervas

Chaolin Zhang

Larry Zipursky

Huda Zoghbi

Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

100kin10

BioBus & Base Harlem

Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University

Charlie Rose Brain Series, Thirteen WNET

Joe’s Big Idea, NPR

Mathematical Association of America

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

MIT Science Museum, Science Festival Alliance

National Academy of Sciences

NautilusThink, Inc.

Posse Foundation, Inc.

Science Friday Inc.

STEM Summit Junior Achievement

STEM Teachers NYC

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Two Turtle Productions, Inc.

WNYC Health Project

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Columbia University

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

Institute for Advanced Study

Marine Biological Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Museum of Mathematics

New York Genome Center

New York Structural Biology Center

New York University School of Medicine

Rockefeller University

Science Festival Foundation

Stony Brook University

University of California, Berkeley

Gérard Ben Arous, Ph.D. (New York University)

Susan Coppersmith, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Charles L. Epstein, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)

Igor Klebanov, Ph.D. (Princeton University)

Barry Mazur, Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Dusa McDuff, Ph.D. (Barnard College)

Michael Sipser, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Éva Tardos, Ph.D. (Cornell University)

Scott Tremaine, Ph.D. (Institute for Advanced Study)

Avi Wigderson, Ph.D. (Institute for Advanced Study)

Cori Bargmann, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University)

Tobias Bonhoeffer, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology)

David Lewis, M.D. (University of Pittsburgh)

Richard P. Lifton, M.D. (Yale University School of Medicine)

J. Anthony Movshon, Ph.D. (New York University)

Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D. (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

Martin Raff, M.D. (University College London)

Arnon Rosenthal, Ph.D. (Alector LLC)

Elizabeth Spelke, Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Huntington F. Willard, Ph.D. (Marine Biological Laboratory)

Monica Coenraads, M.B.A. (Rett Syndrome Research Trust)

Michael E. Goldberg, M.D. (Columbia University)

Laura Helmuth, Ph.D. (Slate)

Robin Marantz Henig, M.S. (The New York Times Magazine)

Gary Marcus, Ph.D. (New York University)

Ivan Oransky, M.D. (MedPage Today)

Isabelle Rapin, M.D. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

David Sassoon, M.S. (InsideClimate News)

Will Talbot, Ph.D. (Stanford University)

Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Laura Chang (The New York Times)

Benedict H. Gross, Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Hopi E. Hoekstra, Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D. (Columbia University)

Howard Schneider, M.S. (Stony Brook University School of Journalism)

Steven Strogatz, Ph.D. (Cornell University)

Michael S. Turner, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University)

Maria Adler

Leyla Ahari

Alpha Amatya

Kate Augenblick

Agnes Barszcz

Marta Benedetti

Lawrence Bianco

Aaron Biscombe

Alexandra Bolter

Richard Bonneau

Greg Boustead

Alexandra Bowe

Elizabeth Brooks

Martin Butler

Jacob Cappell

Marian Carlson

Nick Carriero

Mani Cavalieri

Ahmad Chatha

Dmitri “Mitya” Chklovskii

Andrew Choi

Salim Chowdhury

Wendy Chung

Justin Creveling

Amy Daniels

Donna DeJesus-Ortiz

Lisa Dicce

Meghan Fazzi

Pamela Feliciano

Gerald Fischbach

Ian Fisk

Chris Fleisch

Neil Flood

Patrick Flood

Steven Ford

Calissia Franklyn

Annaliese Gaeta

Laura Geggel

Daniel Goodwin

Katie Goodwin

Lee Anne Green Snyder

Adrienne Greenberg

Anastasia Greenebaum

Leslie Greengard

Marion Greenup

Fang Han

Rebecca Hawkins

Jessica Holthouser

Marian Jakubiak

Rachel Jansen

Lydia Jung

Rachel Jurd

Timothy Kane

Deborah Kenyon

Patricia Kim

Jack Kimura

Timothy Kissane

Boyana Konforti

Abraham Lackman

Alex Lash

Monika Lenard

David Leyden

Thomas Lin

Alice Luo Clayton

Apoorva Mandavilli

Julie Manoharan

Richard Marini

Richard McFarland

Andrew Millis

Emily Miraldi

Katie Moisse

Michael Moyer

Tanja Mrdjen

Elizabeth Mrozinska

Christian L. Müller

Layla Naficy

Jessa Netting

Camille Norrell

Debra Olchick

Joette Orsini

Joanna Pacholarz

Alan Packer

Mary PaliourasAndras Pataki

Danielle Patch

Cengiz Pehlevan

Alyssa Picchini Schaffer

Eftychios Pnevmatikakis

Louis Reichardt

P. Douglas Renfrew

Alexander Rives

Mariah Roda

Elizabeth Roy

Kathleen Savarese

Kim Scobie

Krista Selasky

Alexandra Shaheen

Olena Shmahalo

Emily Singer

Kori Smith

Julia Sommer

John Spiro

Marina SpivakJennifer Tjernagel

John Tracey

MaryKate Trawinski

Olga Troyanskaya

Yuri Tschinkel

M. Amedeo Tumolillo

Evan Tziazas

Hope Vanderberg

Benjamin VanderSluis

Kathryn VanderWoude

Jan Varghese

Natalia Volfovsky

Karen Walton-Bowen

Patricia Weisenfeld

James Whalley

Casey White Lehman

John Whitfield

Ingrid Wickelgren

Natalie Wolchover

Aaron Wong

Jessica Wright

Shirley Ying

Nicholette Zeliadt

Stephen R. Zukin