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People

The following groups of people participate in KIBM

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Directors

Yishi Jin
UCSD Neurobiology
Co-Director, KIBM

Edward Callaway
The Salk Institute
Co-Director, KIBM

Ralph J. Greenspan
UCSD Neurobiology & Cognitive Science
Associate Director, KIBM

Gabriel Silva
UCSD Bioengineering & Neurosciences
Associate Director, KIBM

Advisory Board

Nicola Allen
The Salk Institute

Brenda Bloodgood
UCSD Neurobiology

Sreekanth Chalasani
The Salk Institute

Karen Christman
UCSD Bioengineering

Shadi Dayeh
UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Timothy Gentner
UCSD Psychology

Vikash Gilja
UCSD ECE

Christina Gremel
UCSD Psychology

Eric Halgren
UCSD Radiology

Terry Jernigan
UCSD Cognitive Science, UCSD Psychiatry, UCSD Radiology

William Mobley
UCSD Neurosciences

Eran Mukamel
UCSD Cognitive Science

Gentry Patrick
UCSD Neurobiology

Lara Rangel
UCSD Cognitive Science

John H. Reynolds
The Salk Institute

Katerina Semendeferi
UCSD Anthropology

Bradley Voytek
UCSD Cognitive Science

Research Faculty

Dhruv Grover
UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind

Endowed Chairs & Faculty Fellows

Seana Coulson
Jeff Elman Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Cognitive Science

Ester Kwon
Joan and Irwin Jacobs-Kavli Foundation Chancellor’s Endowed Faculty Fellowships in Brain and Mind I

Yishi Jin
​Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Chair in Traumatic Brain Injury

Duygu Kuzum
Joan and Irwin Jacobs-Kavli Foundation Chancellor’s Endowed Faculty Fellowships in Brain and Mind II

Gentry Patrick
Kavli and Dr. William and Marisa Rastetter Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Neurobiology

Tim Brown
Kavli and Sandstrom - Timmons Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Human Brain Development

Affiliated Faculty Members

KIBM membership is open to all faculty investigators affiliated with UC San Diego or The Salk Institute. Anyone wishing to become a member and be listed on the page below should contact kibm@ucsd.edu.

 

Farrell Ackerman
Linguistics

Morana Alač
Communication

Stephan Anagnostaras
Psychology

Greg Appelbaum
Psychiatry

Adam Aron
Psychology

Kenta Asahina
The Salk Institute

Eiman Azim
The Salk Institute

Ethan Bier
Cell & Developmental Biology

Timothy Brown
Neurosciences

Andrea Chiba
Cognitive Science

Robert E. Clark
Neurobiology

Seana Coulson
Cognitive Science

Sarah Creel
Cognitive Science

Eric Courchesne
Neurosciences

Anders Dale
Radiology

Gedeon Deak
Cognitive Science

Colin Depp
Psychiatry

Karen Dobkins
Psychology

Mark Ellisman
Neurosciences

Lisa T. Eyler
Psychiatry

Theodore Friedmann
Pediatrics

Rusty Gage
The Salk Institute

Deanna J. Greene
Cognitive Science

Dilip Jeste
Psychiatry

David Kleinfeld
​Physics, Neurobiology

Takaki Komiyama
Neurosciences

Anastasia Kiyonaga
Cognitive Science

Jill Leutgeb
Neurobiology

Mark Mayford
Psychiatry

Cory Miller
Psychology

Jyoti Mishra​
Psychiatry

Eric Mooshagian
Cognitive Science

Douglas Nitz
Cognitive Science

Rafael Nunez
Cognitive Science

Barton Palmer
Psychiatry

Samuel Pfaff
The Salk Institute

David Pedersen
Anthropology

V.S. Ramachandran
Psychology

Dhakshin Ramanathan​
Psychiatry

Terrence Sejnowski
The Salk Institute

John Serences
Psychology

Tatyana Sharpee
The Salk Institute

Nick Spitzer
Neurobiology

Jose Ricardo Suarez
Public Health

Wesley Thompson
Public Health

Jeanne Townsend
Neurosciences

Doris Trauner
Neurosciences

Mark H. Tuszynski
Neurosciences

John Wixted
Psychology

IRG Funded Faculty

All members listed below are current Innovative Research Grant (IRG) faculty members.

 

Nicola Allen
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

Nicholas Antipa
Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego

Kenta Asahina
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

Vineet Augustine
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku
Psychology, UC San Diego

Matthew Banghart
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Sharona Ben-Haim
Neurosurgery, UC San Diego

Brenda Bloodgood
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Marc Garellek
Linguistics, UC San Diego

Timothy Gentner
Psychology, UC San Diego

Stacey Glasgow
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Zeinab Jahed
Chemical and Nano Engineering, UC San Diego

Kevin King
Bioengineering, UC San Diego

Takaki Komiyama
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Mingxiong Huang
Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego

Stefan Leutgeb
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Byungkook Lim
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Matthew Lovett-Barron
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Julio Martinez-Trujillo
Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University

Gal Mishne
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego

Eran Mukamel
Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

Axel Nimmerjahn
Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute

Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Michael Perry
Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego

Padmini Rangamani
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego

John Reynolds
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

Cory Root
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Douglas Sheffler
Cancer Genome and Epigenetics, Sanford Burnham Prebys

Monique Smith
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Nicholas Spitzer
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Will Styler
Linguistics, UC San Diego

Bradley Voytek
Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

Allen Wang
Center for Epigenomics, UC San Diego

Jing Wang
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

Staff

Kristen Michener
Fund Manager

Selena Chiang
Program/Events Coordinator

Janet Shin
Business Officer

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