Tristan Geiller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; Wu Tsai Investigator
Tristan obtained a Master's of Science and Engineering in Materials from France before moving to Seoul, South Korea to complete a graduate degree in Neuroscience / Psychology at Korea University. During his PhD, Tristan learned extracellular electrophysiology and optogenetic techniques as well as animal behavior. He then moved to Columbia University as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017 where he developed and used new multiphoton imaging approaches to uncover the organization and function of hippocampal circuits. Tristan is a faculty in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, a Wu Tsai Institute Investigator, and is affiliated with the Kavli Neuroscience Institute at Yale. Since moving to Yale, Tristan has been awarded the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience, the Whitehall Foundation Research Award, and the Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience.
Griffin Henze
Postgraduate researcher
Griffin received his B.S. in Neuroscience from New York University, where he developed an interest in neural development. His research focuses on how manipulations of hippocampal neural networks during development can provide insight into the formation of these networks and inform treatments for diseases involving connectivity imbalances.
BokEum Kang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
BokEum received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University and his PhD from Korea Institute of Science and Technology. He studies the mechanisms by which memories are consolidated in the brain.
Katie Stachowicz
INP Graduate Student
Katie received her B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University, where she became interested in understanding how dendritic spine dynamics relate to learning and memory processes.
Shou Qiu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Shou received his graduate degree in Neurobiology from the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. He studies how dendritic processes contribute to the transformation of neural codes across brain areas.
Alumni – next step
- Bochen Zhao – Brain and Cognitive Sciences PhD program at MIT
- Ji Hoon Jeong, PhD – TBD