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. During his postdoc, Tristan used multiphoton imaging to uncover the organization and function of hippocampal microcircuits responsible for our ability to learn and remember. A large portion of his research was also devoted to developing experimental methods that offered new vistas into the anatomical and physiological integration of individual neurons into large networks. Tristan joined the faculty of the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine in 2024, and is a Wu Tsai Institute Investigator.

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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.

JiHoon Jeong, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral researcher

Ji Hoon majored in Biotechnology and Psychology and obtained a PhD in Biopsychology/Neuroscience from Korea University. He is currently looking into the circuit motifs underlying memory storage in the hippocampus.