Byungkook (BK) Lim
Byungkook Lim, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Division of Biological Sciences,
University of California San Diego
Phone: 858-822-1860
Email: bklim@ucsd.edu
EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Aug, 2009-June, 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Science. Stanford University
(Laboratory of Robert Malenka, Ph. D.)
Aug, 2008-Aug, 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow.
University of California, Berkeley
(Laboratory of Mu-Ming Poo, Ph. D)
Aug, 2003-Aug, 2008 Ph. D. Department of Molecular Cell Biology,
Neuroscience Section
University of California, Berkeley. Mentor: Mu-Ming Poo, Ph. D.
Mar, 1999-Feb, 2001 M. S. Biochemistry. Department of Molecular Biology.
Seoul National University, Korea.
Mar, 1995-Feb, 1999 B. S. Department of Molecular Biology.
Seoul National University, Korea
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2019 NSF EAGER Award
2018 Daniel X Freedman Award for Exceptional Basic Research
2017-2022 BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) awards
2016-2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
2015-2017 KAVLI innovator award
2015-2020 NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS)
2015-2018 Kingenstein-Simmons Fellowship
2015-2018 Searle Scholar Fellowship
2014-2017 Whitehall Foundation Fellowship
2011-2013 Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Eating Disorders Research
1999-2002 BK21 (Brain Korea) scholarship