Experience

Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Research Scientist

  • Sep 2020 - Present



UCLA

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Apr 2017 - Sep 2020

  • Mapped sleep and activity-regulating circuits in the Drosophila brain using the fly genetic toolkit, confocal microscopy, high-throughput behavioral measurements, and in vivo patch-clamp electrophysiology.

• Graduate Student Researcher/Doctoral Candidate

  • Sep 2010 - Mar 2017

  • Examined the developmental origins, cellular morphogenesis/neuroanatomy, and functional properties, of different glial and neuronal cell populations in the brain of Drosophila.• Leveraged genetic methodologies and conducted neuroanatomical analyses with confocal microscopy. Probed physiological responses of neuronal ensembles using two-photon calcium imaging.



California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Master's Student and Research Laboratory Assistant

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2010

  • Characterized the structure-function relationships of the gamma-aminobutyric acid transporter (GAT), using the Xenopus laevis oocyte expression system, biochemical probes and two-electrode voltage clamp electrophysiology. • Characterized the structure-function relationships of the gamma-aminobutyric acid transporter (GAT), using the Xenopus laevis oocyte expression system, biochemical probes and two-electrode voltage clamp electrophysiology.