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.
email: k.ut.sh2013@gmail.com
Sonja Blumenstock (Postdoc)
Sonja grew up in historic Regensburg, Germany, where she studied Biochemistry and Neuroscience. Her PhD work at the LMU Munich focused on synaptic pathology in neurodegeneration. As a Postdoc at the MPI of Biological Intelligence (Dudanova Lab) and in the Komiyama Lab, she investigates the key components of network dysfunction in neurodegenerative movement disorders. A trained classical singer, Sonja enjoys music of all sorts, but also biking, climbing and baking bread.
email: sblumenstock@ucsd.edu
Soyoung Chae (Postdoc)
Soyoung was born and raised in Masan, a small but historic city in South Korea. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. During her PhD, she focused on the remarkable capabilities of the motor cortex, particularly how it computes various solutions for movements. Outside the lab, she enjoys swimming, watching Korean baseball games and mystery TV shows, and cooking.
email: sochae@ucsd.edu
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)
Carter Rowell (Graduate Student)
email: crowell@ucsd.edu
Ashley Medina (Research Assistant)
Bobbie Morales (Research Assistant)
David Arakelyan (Research Assistant)
Elanore (Research Assistant)
Undergraduate and Masters Students
Eeshi Uppalapati
Maxwell Zhou
Kevin Tan
Sophia Zhou
Amy Nguyen
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 Assistant Professor at Oxford University)
Hiroshi Makino (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Nanyang Univ.)
Madan Makundan (Masters Student, now PhD candidate at Basel)
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 Postdoc at Harvard)
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, Senior Scientific Programmer at Baylor College of Medicine)
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 (Undergraduate intern)
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)
John Ratliff (Undergraduate Intern)
Hannah Kim (Undergraduate Intern)
Eunjung Hwang (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Rosalind Franklin University)
Shao Yufeng (Chelsea) (Undergraduate Intern, now PhD candidate at Singapore)
Yun Young (Celeste) (Masters Student, now Research Assistant at NYU)
Ruize Yang (Undergraduate intern, now PhD candidate at Northwestern University)
Jenny Yue (Undergraduate intern/Master’s student, now PhD candidate at Yale)
Chen Lu (Undergraduate intern, now PhD candidate at UCL)