Yiming Chen

Yiming received his B.S in biology from UW-Madison in 2013 before completing a PhD in neuroscience at UCSF in 2018. During his graduate work in Zachary Knight's lab, Yiming studied how the hypothalamus drives feeding. As a postdoc in the Deisseroth lab, Yiming wants to apply novel molecular and optical tools to investigate the neurobiology of motivated behaviors.