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Jin Wang, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor
School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Moore Hall, Room 3321
2043 Portola Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

Jin Wang joins the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies as an assistant professor of education. Her research employs a combination of behavioral assessments and neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MRI, and DTI), using both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, to examine individual differences in the development of the linguistic brain and its influence on academic achievement. Her research goal is to construct a neurocognitive model that interprets the underlying mechanisms of language (i.e., phonological, semantic, and syntactic) development during children’s first ten years of life and how these various linguistic processes are associated with reading and math skills.

Sung Jae Lee, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Lee’s research, training, and community engagement work have been strongly shaped by his pursuit of addressing health disparities affecting HIV prevention and care among vulnerable communities impacted by HIV/AIDS. His methods expertise includes conjoint analysis to assess consumer preferences in behavioral and biomedical strategies (e.g. HIV vaccines, pre-exposure prophylaxis acceptability, HIV testing,  dual testing for syphilis and HIV, and long acting injectables for HIV treatment/prevention).  Dr. Lee loves teaching and mentoring. He serves as an advisor to many masters and doctoral students in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Lee serves as the Director of the Methods Core for the Center for HIV Identification Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS). He is the UCLA site PI for the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) GloCal Fellowship Training Program.

Felix E. Schweizer, Ph.D.

Felix Schweizer, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Professor & Interim Director of the Brain Research Institute
Chair, Graduate Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience
Department of Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Office
Center for Health Sciences 63-323
650 Charles E Young Dr S,
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

Felix E. Schweizer was born in Basel, Switzerland and conducted his graduate research in the laboratory of Prof. Max M. Burger under the direction of Dr. Theo Schafer. He received his PhD degree in biochemistry summa cum laude from the University of Basel in 1989. From 1990 to 1994, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University in the laboratory of Prof. Richard W. Tsien. From 1994 to 1998, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Duke University in the laboratory of Professor George J. Augustine. Dr. Schweizer joined the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 1998 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010. Dr. Schweizer’s research interests concern the molecular mechanisms by which neurons communicate, the regulation of communication by neurons and how alterations in neuronal communication might contribute to neuronal diseases. The Schweizer laboratory uses electrophysiological and optical tools to investigate the dynamic molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of neurotransmitter release. We are particularly interested in the role of protein ubiquitination in regulating neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission. In collaboration with Dr. James Wohlschlegel, we used multiplexed SILAC and identified synaptic proteins that are dynamically regulated. More recently, in collaboration with Dr. David Krantz, we are using pesticides linked to neuro-degenerative disorders as unbiased tools identify novel pathways that might be involved in early signs of degeneration. In addition, we are characterizing transmission at the first synapse of the vestibular system, i.e. between utricular sensory hair cells and primary afferent neurons. In collaboration with Dr. Larry Hoffman we are finding that changing the gravitational load alters synaptic structures. We are now using serial EM and EM tomography in addition to physiology and cell biology to define in more detail the transfer function between head-movement input and afferent nerve-firing output.

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