Within Oxford University:

• Dr Antonio Velayos-Baeza and Professor Anthony P. Monaco (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics)
• Dr Jeremy Taylor (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on development of cortical efferent connections
• Prof. Kay Davies (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on molecular and genetic aspects of cortical neuronal fate determination
• Prof. Chris Ponting (MRC Functional Genomics Unit) on evolutionary developmental biology
• Prof. Paul Harrison (Warneford Hospital, Univeristy of Oxford) on schizophrenia susceptibility genes
• Prof. Colin Blakemore (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on human brain development

External Collaborators:

• Professor Ole Paulsen (Cambridge University) on the development of the physiological properties of cortical neurons
• Prof. Michael Wilson (Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA)
• Prof. Leah Krubitzer (Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, USA) on early cerebral cortical specialisation
• Professor Mary Rutherford and Professor David Edwards (Division of Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London).

Members of the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) Consortium on cellular and molecular aspects of the development of layer 5 projection neurons.

• Prof Etienne Audinat (Neurophysiology and New Microscopy Lab Inserm U603, Universtié René, Descartes Paris)
• Prof Nobuhiko Yamamoto (University of Osaka, Japan)
• Dr Daniel Lavery (Chromocell Corporation, North Brunswick, NJ, USA

Members of the EU Consortium on Cortical Development (CONCORDE) on cerebral cortical development:

• Prof. André Goffinet (Université Catholoque de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium)
• Prof. Egbert Welker (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Prof. Anastassia Stoykova (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Dept of Molecular Cell Biology, Gottingen, Germany)
• Prof. David Price (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Prof. John Parnavelas (University College London, UK).
• Prof. Henry Kennedy and Colette Dehay (INSERM U371, Lyon, France)
• Prof. Antonello Mallamaci (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy)
• Prof. Michael Frotscher (Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany)
• Prof. Gundela Meyer (University of La Laguna, Spain)
• Dr Christine Métin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Hôpital de la Salpêtriere, Paris, France)
• Prof. Jamel Chelly (Institut Cochin, Paris, France)