Dong-Wook Kim, Ph.D.
Scientist I
dongwook.kim@alleninstitute.org
Dong-Wook joined the Allen Institute in 2020 after finishing his doctoral studies in David Anderson’s lab at California Institute of Technology. For his PhD research, he primarily focused on multimodal cell type characterizations (in order to link transcriptomic diversity to projection specificity and behavioral function) in the ventrolateral subdivision of ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvl), which mediates innate social behaviors in mice. At the Institute, Dong-Wook is currently investigating the identification and characterization of cell types and neural circuits that are engaged during different stages of drug addiction in mice.
Selected Publications View Publications
Connectional architecture of a mouse hypothalamic circuit node controlling social behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
March 21, 2019
Lo L, Kim D, Yao S, Cetin A, Harris JA, Zeng H, Anderson DJ, Weissbourd B
Multimodal Analysis of Cell Types in a Hypothalamic Node Controlling Social Behavior
Cell
October 17, 2019
Kim DW, Yao Z, Graybuck LT, Kim TK, Nguyen TN, Smith KA, Fong O, Yi L, Koulena N, Pierson N, Shah S, Lo L, Pool AH, Oka Y, Pachter L, Cai L, Tasic B, Zeng H, Anderson DJ
Characterization of Topographically Specific Sleep Spindles in Mice
Sleep
January 1, 2015
Kim DW, Hwang E, Lee M, Sung H, Choi JH
Cell
September 11, 2014
Hong W, Kim DW, Anderson DJ
Scalable control of mounting and attack by Esr1+ neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus
Nature
April 16, 2014
Lee H, Kim DW, Remedios R, Anthony TE, Chang A, Madisen L, Zeng H, Anderson DJ