
Takaki Komiyama (PI)

An Wu (Postdoc)

Assaf Ramot (Postdoc)

Enida Gjoni (Postdoc)

Jake Wright (Postdoc)
Jake grew up in South Carolina. After receiving his B.S. in Biology from Wofford College, he went on to receive his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied the synaptic mechanisms underlying the reconsolidation of drug-associated memories in the lab of Yan Dong. In his free time, Jake enjoys cycling and working on his bikes, spending time out in nature, or reading a good book.
email: wjwright@ucsd.edu

Yvonne Hu (Postdoc)
Yvonne was born and raised in southern Taiwan. After obtaining her PhD in Photonics from National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, she joined the Komiyama lab to expand her scientific journey from the realm of microscopy to the mysteries of neuroscience. When she’s not immersed in research, you may find her indulging in singing and rearranging melodies to create something unique, though heavy metal doesn’t quite resonate with her taste.
email: yyhu@ucsd.edu

Jennifer Li (Postdoc)
Jenny grew up on Long Island, NY. She attended Northwestern University and obtained a B.A. in Integrated Science and Biology. Following a brief stint as a lab technician, she went on to receive her PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University, where she studied synaptic mechanisms of feature coding in visual cortex. Outside of the lab, she loves cooking, creating pottery, and hanging out with her cat, Kevin.
email: jel147@ucsd.edu

Shingo Hiroki (Postdoc)
Shingo was born in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D from the University of Tokyo, where he studied how a tiny worm, C.elegans, navigates to the “past-good” place. After a year and half of studying of aging and circadian clock in TMIMS, he decided jump into the field of complex mammalian neural circuit. He left C.elegans, but he still loves and sometimes misses them.
Outside the lab, he often watches MMA fights. If he seems to be in a bad mood on Monday, it is probably his favorite fighter lost the fight in UFC last weekend.

Bin Yu (Graduate Student)

Shuqi Chen (Graduate Student)

Eva Zhang (Graduate Student)

Qiyu Chen (Graduate Student)
Qiyu grew up in Yichang and Wuhan, China, along the Yangtze River. She graduated from UCSD with a B.S. in Biology. She was introduced to systems neuroscience when working in Komiyama Lab as an undergrad. She continued to work in the lab as a Research Assistant for two years before joining UCSD Biology PhD Program in 2020. Outside of the lab, she enjoys watching TV shows and vlogs, playing video games and sports.

Jeremy Chung-Yueh Lin (Graduate Student)

Zijing Tan (Graduate Student)

Bobbie Morales (Research Assistant)

David Arakelyan (Research Assistant)

Ashley Medina (Research Assistant)

Rui Yun (Research Assistant)
Rui enjoys cooking, walking, and using a projector to watch anime and films with friends during her free time.

Elanore (Research Assistant)
Undergraduate and Masters Students
Jenny Yue
Celeste Yang
Kevin Tan
Chelsea Shao
Emma Chen
Hannah Kim
John Ratliff
May Wang
Cindy Wang
Sophia Zhou
Kazune Fei
Alumni
Itaru Imayoshi (Visiting Scholar, now Assistant Professor at Kyoto Univ.)
Jun Lee (Postdoc, now Analyst at UCSD Cancer Center)
Simon Chen (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Ottawa Univ.)
Andy Peters (Graduate Student, now Postdoc at UCL)
Hiroshi Makino (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Nanyang Univ.)
Madan Makundan (Masters Student, now Lab Manager at UCSF)
Monica Chu (Graduate Student, now Lecturer at UCSD)
Jeff Dahlen (Graduate Student, now Analyst at MKO Global Partners)
Anna Kim (Research Assistant, now Research Assistant at Columbia University)
Shan Lu (Undergraduate Student, now PhD candidate at Columbia University)
Wankun Li (Graduate student, now at Ernst & Young)
Tara Loveland (Research assistant, now Doctor of Physical Therapy Candidate at UC-Denver)
Sara Emami (Masters Student, now MD Candidate at UCLA)
Jungwon Seo (Associate Professor, Wonkwang Univ.)
Akinori Mitani (Graduate Student, now at Google Brain)
Trevor Link (Masters Student, now an EMT at PRN Ambulance)
Haixin Liu (Postdoc, now Postdoc at NYU)
Keelin O’Neil (Research Assistant, now PhD candidate at NYU)
Xinlei Lin (Daisy) (Masters Student, now PhD candidate at NYU)
Zhongmin Lu (Postdoc, now Postdoc at Salk Institute)
Zeljana Babic (Masters student, now PhD candidate at UCSD)
Oscar Arroyo (Research Assistant, now PhD candidate at UNC)
Sun Woo Hong (Masters Student, now Research Assistant at MapLight Therapeutics )
Yuxin Hu (Masters Student, now PhD candidate at Columbia University)
Yessenia Magaña (Research Assistant)
Chi Ren (Postdoc)
Sayyed Jilani (Research Assistant, now Master’s student at UC Berkeley)
Shudi Xu (Visiting Scholar)
Brian Fang (Research Assistant)
Sonja Blumenstock (Visiting scholar, now Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Munich, Germany)
Bethanny Danksin (Postdoc, now Scientist at the Allen Institute, Seattle)
Ryoma Hattori (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology)