Yongsoo Kim, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Email: yuk17@psu.edu
Dr. Yongsoo Kim is an Associate Professor who has been conducting research at Penn State University, College of Medicine since 2015. He studied as a postoctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 2010 to 2015. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D in Neuroscience (Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program) in 2010 from Northwestern University, Chicago. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy (College of Pharmacy) in 2000 from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Steffy Manjila

Postdoc

Email: sbm5888@psu.edu
Kim Lab: November/2019 - Present
National Center For Biological Sciences (TIFR), India
Integrated M.S., Ph.D., 2019
University of Kerala, India
Bachelor of Pharmacy, 2013
Josephine Liwang

PhD Candidate

Email: jliwang@psu.edu
Kim Lab: June/2021 - Present
- Ph.D. Neuroscience Student, 2020 - Present
Penn State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, U.S.A.
- Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow, 2020
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.
- B.S. Biology and Music, 2017
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Deniz Parmaksiz

MD/PhD Candidate

Email: dparmaksiz@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
Kim Lab: Jul/2023 - Present
- MD/PhD Student, 2021- Present,
Penn State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
- Simons Fellow in Computational Neuroscience, 2019-2021,
Marcus Autism Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
- B.S. Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, 2015-2019
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Nicholas Blaha

Research Technologist

Email: ntb5201@psu.edu
Kim Lab: Sep/2024 - Present
- MS Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, 2024,
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
- BS Neuroscience, 2019, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Ingvild Elise Bjekea

Postdoc

Email: ikb5178@psu.edu
Kim Lab: Jan/2025 - Present
- PhD Neuroscience, 2021
University of Oslo, Norway
- MSc Neuroscience, 2016
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Bachelor of Psychology, 2014
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Holley Gilmour

PhD Candidate

Email: hmg5507@psu.edu
Kim Lab: March/2025 - Present
- Ph.D. Anatomy Student, 2024 - Present
Penn State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, U.S.A.
- M.S. Human Biology, 2021
University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
- B.S. Biology/Anthropology, 2017
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.