People

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
We develop innovative computational analytical methodologies for studying brain health and neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. The lab employs AI and multimodal neuroimaging — including PET, MRI/fMRI, and EEG — as well as behavioral, clinical and genetic approaches for designing predictive models, identifying disease heterogeneity dimensions and facilitating precision medicine

Key words
Neuroimaging, neurophysics, neuroinformatics, computational neuroscience, clinical research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, big data, neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, neuroimaging-genetics, neuroimaging-behavior

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanisms and Design Principles of Ion Channel Function and Gating

Key words

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Regulation of Proliferation, Differentiation, and Death in the Intestine of Normal and Transgenic Mice

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon

Thesis Title: The Natural Variants of the Streptococcus NAD+-glycohydrolase SPN Modulate Divergent Host Cell Signaling Pathways and Death

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
My research focuses on investigating system biological immune responses in neurodegenerative disease. Using various PET radiotracers, the lab works to detect brain and whole-body inflammation and links these imaging biomarkers to underlying blood and tissue cellular and molecular readouts using appropriate techniques.

Key words
Molecular imaging, neuroimmune interactions, translational research, myeloid cell responses, neurological and neurodegenerative diseases

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Steven J. Mennerick

Thesis Title: Changes in activity-dependent and static properties of synaptic transmission by second messenger modulators

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: ShiNung Ching, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Rochester, 2025

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Timothy M. Miller, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Hanyang University, 2020

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Kendall J. Blumer

Thesis Title: The Mechanism and Regulatoin of the Yeast WASp homolog Las17 in Endosome Motility

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Characterizing the relationship between gut microbiota development and healthy growth