Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. In fact, Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics. Gabriele is a computational neuroscientist, whose goal is to build models of cellular computation, and much of her focus is on neurons.
Dmitri Chklovskii believes all your neurons are smart controller agents, and understanding this will transform neuroscience and how we build artificial intelligence.