Janice Naegele, Alan M Dachs Professor of Science (emerita), was Professor of Biology and Professor in the Program in Neuroscience and Behavior at Wesleyan University until her retirement in 2023. She is currently serving her final year as the Chair of SFN's Professional Development Committee. She previously served on the Program Committee and Awards Selection Committee for SfN. At Wesleyan she held numerous leadership roles, including the Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (2020-2023), the Chair of Biology (2006-2009), and the Director of the Center for Faculty Career Development (2013-2016). A graduate of Mount Holyoke College (B.A. 1978, Magna Cum Laude), she earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, and completed her postdoctoral training with Colin Barnstable and Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel at Rockefeller University, where she studied the cellular and molecular mechanisms of mammalian visual cortex development. Dr. Naegele was an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Yale University School of Medicine for several years before joining the faculty of Wesleyan University in 1991. Dr. Naegele has received numerous scientific awards in including: a Klingenstein Fellowship, a McKnight Brain Disorders Award, and the Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award from the Society for Neuroscience (2015). Research in the Naegele laboratory focused on GABAergic interneuron circuitry and development of neural stem cell transplantation for brain repair and seizure suppression using human and murine embryonic stem cells and fetal stem cells. In addition, her group investigates novel anti-convulsant compounds and neuroprotection. Research in the Naegele lab was supported by grants from CURE Epilepsy, Connecticut's Regenerative Medicine Research Fund, and the National Institutes of Health.