Film Subjects
Professors/Neuroscientists
Dr. Robin Nusslock
Associate Professor, Psychology
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Associate Professor, Neurology
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD Program (NUIN)
Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research (IPR)
Dr. Marcia Grabowecky
Research Associate Professor; Director of Brain, Behavior, & Cognition
Dr. Ken Paller
Professor of Psychology and James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences
Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program
and the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition
Fellow of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Fellow of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology
Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD
Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Science and
Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University, formerly the Emory-Tibet
Partnership. Prof. Negi is also a Teaching Professor in Emory University's
Department of Religion and the founder and spiritual director of Drepung Loseling
Monastery, Inc., in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. S. Gabriella Torres-Platas
Dr. Karen Konkly
Daniel Morris and PhD candidate and in Ken Paller Lab
Primary Monastic Scientist Subjects
Geshe Ladoe Sangpo of Gaden Jangtse Monastery Mundgod, India
First Cohort of Scholars at Emory University, first cohort of Research Internship
Scholars and Northwestern University
Science Translator
Geshe Thabkhe of Sera Jey Monastery, Mysore, India
First Cohort of Scholars at Emory University, first cohort of Research Internship
Scholars and Northwestern University. Current Head of Science Center at Sera-Jey
Ani Choyang, of Jangchup Choeling Nunnery, Mungod India
Fifth Cohort of Scholars at Emory University, first cohort of Research Internship
Scholars and Northwestern University, currently working to establish a Library and
Learning Center at her nunnery
Science Translator and Former head of Science program at the Nunnery
Geshe Legden of Drepung Loseling Monastery, Mundgod, India, Lead in Lucid
Dream Lab Set up at Drepung
Tenzin Pasang Former Director of Drepung Loseling Science Center
Geshe Gaelek Drepung Loseling Monastery, Mundgod, India
First Cohort of Scholars at Emory University
Tenzin Kalden Third Cohort of Scholars at Emory
Geshe Norbu Namgyl of Sera Jey Monastery, Mysore, India
Outgoing Director of Science Center at Sera Jey and head of translation
First Cohort of Scholars at Emory University
Ani Tashi,
Nun at Domaling Nunnery in Dharamsala, India
Tashi Lhamo
Tibetan lay science teacher at Drepung Loseling Science Center and
for ETSI program for nuns