Sanghun Jee

Biography

Sanghun Jee graduated from Korea University with a duo BS degree in Life Science & Brain and Cognitive Sciences. His undergraduate thesis was computational modeling of the granular layer in the cerebellar cortex and transcriptome classification for the primary visual cortex. Additionally, to broaden his research experience, he did several research internships at UCLA, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and Institute of Basic Science in Korea. During his research internships, he had the opportunity to study Striatum plasticity, CA1 place cell activity, Cerebellum modeling and simulation, and protein-protein interactions in Alzheimer's disease. His research experience led him to discover his interest to combine diverse experimental and theoretical methods in Neuroscience to study neural network dynamics.

Research

Sanghun is now a graduate student in the DYNS Ph.D. program at UCSB. He is currently investigating how the Drosophila fly's central brain integrates different types of sensory information to direct navigation in Dr. Sungsoo Kim's Lab. His future goal is to be able to elucidate intelligible whole-brain dynamics through combined experimental and theoretical frameworks.