Principal Investigator

Email: yuk17@psu.edu
Dr. Yongsoo Kim is a 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.

Assistant Professor / Computational Scientist

Email: jzp6160@psu.edu
Kim Lab: Sep/2022 - Present
- Postdoc in Neuroscience, 2010 - 2017
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
- Ph.D. in Physics (Quantitative Biology), 2004-2010
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

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

Lab Manager

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

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

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.