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