Shinjae Chung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Shinjae received her B.S. from Korea University in Seoul and her Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine. During her graduate work with Dr. Olivier Civelli, she studied the functional roles of neuropeptides and GPCRs. In particular, she characterized the function of the melanin-concentrating hormone system on reward and psychiatric disorders. Then she moved to UC Berkeley to work with Dr. Yang Dan to study neural circuits underlying sleep control using cutting-edge systems neuroscience techniques. She is now an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. In her new lab, she plans to study neural circuits underlying sleep control and how they are inter-connected with circuits involved in emotional regulation in health and disease.
Bowon Kim
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Science and Technology, Korea, 2019
Lara Boyle
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry Fellow
M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University
John Maurer
Graduate Student
Pharmacology Graduate Group
F31 NRSA fellow
Alyssa Wiest
Graduate Student
Pharmacology Graduate Group
F31 NRSA fellow
Joseph Stucynski
Graduate Student, co-mentored by Dr. Franz Weber
Neuroscience Graduate Group
T32 Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Training Grant
Ashley Choi
Research Specialist
B.S. Duke University
Isabella An
Undergraduate Student
Hannah Kim
Undergraduate Student
Alumni
Justin Baik (2017-2019, Research Specialist); Current: Inscopix
Chuljung Kwak (2017-2018, Postdoctoral fellow); Current: Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University
Iris Kwak (2017-2020, UPenn undergraduate, Postbac student, Research specialist); Current: MD student, NYMC
Ivan Covarrubias (2018-2020, UPenn undergraduate, CURF scholar, Research specialist); Current: MD student, Penn Medical School
Angela Yang (2018-2020, UPenn undergraduate student)
Minkyung Kim (2018, Amherst college Schupf Scholar)
Rebecca Rothhaas (2020-2021, UPenn graduate student)
Alexa Pisciotti (2019-2021, UPenn undergraduate student); Current: MD student, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University
Sarah Pham (2021, UPenn undergraduate student)
Syraj Uddin (2022, UPenn undergraduate student)
Hanna Antila (2018-2022, Postdoctoral fellow); Current: Group leader at the University of Helsinki
Ali Mahdavi (2022-2023, Postdoctoral fellow)
Nicholas Sathi (2022, UPenn undergraduate student)
Alexandria Lin (2020-2023, UPenn undergraduate student)
Adam Honig-Frand (2021-2023, UPenn undergraduate student)
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