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.
Andrea Cumpelik, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Andrea received her bachelor’s in neuroscience from New York University and her PhD from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. She enjoys using both biological and artificial neural networks to figure out how information is encoded in brain circuits. Her current research is jointly supervised by the Levenstein lab.
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.
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.
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.
Griffin Henze
Postgrad associate
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.
Ally Williams
INP Rotation student
Alyssa received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science, where she worked on computational cognitive modeling of individual differences in human memory. She is interested in hippocampal subfield dynamics and the interaction of different memory systems during memory updating and consolidation.
Meghan Cum
INP Rotation student
Meghan received her B.S. at MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences before working as a biological scientist at the University of Florida. Her prior work focused on investigating the neural circuits underlying social behavior and social memory. She is looking to do more research on learning and memory and excited to learn neuroimaging techniques.
Alumni – next step
- Bochen Zhao – Brain and Cognitive Sciences PhD program at MIT
- Ji Hoon Jeong, PhD – TBD