PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Siew Cheng received her PhD in Cell Biology from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her vision for the lab is to lead the intersection between molecular & systems neuroscience, especially in areas of cognition & learning.

LAB MANAGER

Ning received her MSc in Neuroscience from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Besides managing our lab, she is also our in-house expert in stereotaxic surgeries, histology & behavior experiments.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Arinjay received his MSc in Bioengineering from Imperial College London. He is our computational pro, applying machine learning tools to decode behavioral, anatomical & neural data related to goal-directed learning.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Nidhi received her BSc (Hons) in Medical Microbiology from the University of Leeds. She is leading our gene regulation projects & investigating the role of oncogenic signaling in BLA-mediated anxiety and fear memory.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Ricardo received his BSc in Biotechnology from Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. He will be investigating how neuronal cilia pathways regulate functions including goal-directed learning & circadian rhythm.

GRADUATE INTERN

Sakthi received her BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from University of Dundee. She is investigating molecular pathways associated with anxiety & skilled motor actions.

STUDENT, LIFE SCIENCE

Francesca is a 1st year undergraduate. She is mastering confocal imaging techniques to illuminate the signaling function of dopaminergic axon-cilium contacts.

STUDENT, LIFE SCIENCE/PUBLIC HEALTH

Ethan is a 3rd year undergraduate. He is developing a technical pipeline for cross-modal image registration for correlating neuronal RNA & calcium imaging data at single-cell resolution.

STUDENT, CHEMISTRY/MATH

Benjamin is a 2nd year undergraduate. He is applying ML tools to mine behaviorally meaningful data from ciliopathic mouse models & identifying associated neuronal ensembles.

STUDENT, LIFE SCIENCE

Joanna is a 2nd year undergraduate. She is working towards understanding the signaling function of dopaminergic axon-cilium contacts.

STUDENT, CHEMSITRY/LIFE SCIENCE

Samantha is a 2nd year undergraduate. She is working towards understanding how learning experience influence ciliary gene expression and function.

STUDENT, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING/LIFE SCIENCE

Xing Hwee is a 2nd year undergraduate. He is working towards decoding dorsomedial striatum neural dynamics underlying goal-directed learning.

STUDENT, LIFE SCIENCE

Jerome is a 1st year undergraduate. He is developing molecular actuators to manipulate dopaminergic axon-cilium contacts.