University of Virginia Health System

Ye-Hyun Kim

Neuroscience Graduate Student
Department of Neuroscience

Education
B.A. College of Wooster, 2007

I received my BA in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience from The College of Wooster in 2007, where I encountered the excitement for neuroscience and had the opportunity to study brain disorders. For my senior thesis, I studied the effects of endogenous estrogen on fear memory consolidation in female rats as a possible model system for studying post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  During my undergraduate years, I also studied the neuropathogenesis and virulence genes responsible for food borne pathogen, Enterobacter sakazakii, which causes fatal neurological disorders, such as meningitis and sepsis, in neonates and infants. I joined the University of Virginia Neuroscience Graduate Program in fall 2008 to further pursue my interest in studying neurophathophysiology of neurological disorders.  As a rotation student in the Holt/Géléoc lab, I am excited to learn about electrophysiology and neurophysiologcial function of inner hair cells.