Postdoc Scholars Program Cohorts
2024 - 2025 Postdoctoral Scholar Award Recipients
The 2024-2025 KIBM Postdoctoral Scholars: Damion Demeter (Deanna Greene Lab, UC San Diego Cognitive Science Department), Yvonne Hu (Takaki Komiyama Lab, UC San Diego Department of Neurobiology) and Seahyung Park (Sung Han Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies).
Damion Demeter
Lab: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab of Deanna Green
Affiliation: UC San Diego, Cognitive Science Department
Yvonne Hu
Lab: Laboratory of Takaki Komiyama
Affiliation: UC San Diego, Department of Neurobiology
Seahyung Park
Lab: Laboratory of Sung Han
Affiliation: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Scholar Award Recipients
The 2023-2024 KIBM Postdoctoral Scholars: Jingwen Li (Cory Miller Lab, UC San Diego Department of Psychology), Mengni Wang (Jill Leutgeb Lab, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences) and Junxiang Zhou (Yishi Jin Lab, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences).
Jingwen Li
Lab: Cortical Systems & Behavior Laboratory of Cory Miller
Affiliation: UC San Diego, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: neurophysiology of natural behavior, active vision, natural communication, excitation/inhibition balance, brain states
Mengni Wang
Lab: Laboratory of Jill Leutgeb
Affiliation: UC San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences
Research Areas: learning and memory of hippocampus, system neuroscience
Junxiang Zhou
Lab: Laboratory of Yishi Jin
Affiliation: UC San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences
Research Areas: neural development, microtubule organization, mitochondrial metabolism and dynamics
2022 - 2023 Postdoctoral Scholar Award Recipients
The 2022-2023 inaugural KIBM Postdoctoral Scholars: Christopher Lee (Rangamani Lab, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering), Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana (Sejnowski Lab, Salk and UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences), Jeffrey Jones (Gage Lab, Salk), Donovan Ventimiglia (Asahina Lab, Salk) and Lisanne Schulze (Lovett-Barron Lab, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences).
Jeffrey Jones
Lab: Laboratory of Rusty Gage
Affiliation: Salk Institute, Laboratory of Genetics (LOG-G)
Research Areas: stem cell culture, human cognitive aging, genetic engineering, bioinformatics, neural development and cellular metabolism
Christopher Lee
Lab: Laboratory for computational cellular mechanobiology of Padmini Rangamani
Affiliation: UC San Diego, The Institute for Neural Computation (INC)
Research Areas: actin cytoskeletal dynamics, membrane mechanics, multiscale modeling, cellular shape and signaling
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
Lab: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory of Terry Sejnowski
Affiliation: UC San Diego, The Institute for Neural Computation (INC)
Research Areas: computational neuroscience, decision-making, learning and memory, cognitive modeling
Lisanne Schulze
Lab: Neurobiology Laboratory of Matthew Lovett-Barron
Affiliation: UC San Diego, Neurobiology
Research Areas: brain-spanning circuits, behavioral adjustment coding, virtual reality systems, genetic engineering
Donovan Ventimiglia
Lab: Kenta Asahina, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Affiliation: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Research Areas: neural circuits and quantitative behavior