Greg Gage is an NIH-award winning neuroscientist and cofounder of Backyard Brains—an organization that develops open source tools that allow amateurs and students to participate in neural discovery. Greg is adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan and has given nine popular TED Talks on neuroscience and dozens of peer-reviewed publications. Greg received the White House Champion of Change award from Barack Obama for his commitment to citizen science and is a Senior Fellow at TED.

Timothy Marzullo received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. He worked for a year in industry designing advanced neural electrodes before cofounding Backyard Brains. Building scientific devices to share with the world is his passion.