The neuroscience program is thrilled to welcome two new part-time faculty members to the Introductory Neuroscience team. Dr. Jacqueline Lo joins us as a lab instructor, and Dr. Maryam Bijanzadeh joins us as a lecturer. Both professors bring a wealth of research expertise and teaching skills. Check out their faculty profiles below to learn more about their backgrounds and get to know them.
Jacqueline Lo is a neuroscientist and geroscientist. She earned her PhD at USC, where she studied cellular stress pathways and other genetic pathways that influence the biology of aging. As a graduate student, she used genetic tools in C. elegans and biochemical techniques in human cell cultures to explore how different genes and pathways affect health-span and lifespan. As a post-doctoral researcher, she combined her previous expertise with neuroscience training to investigate how the brain…
Education: University of Southern California, PhD in Molecular Biology, 2016, UC Berkeley, BA in Molecular and Cell Biology, 2010
Expertise: Neurobiology, Geroscience, Molecular biology
Maryam Bijanzadeh is an Assistant Professional Researcher at UCSF’s Neuroscape Center, where she examines how emotional behavior is encoded in the brain and body. She previously worked as a Machine Learning Scientist at iRhythm Technologies, developing ML models to detect cardiac arrhythmias. During her postdoctoral training at UCSF, she analyzed large neurophysiological datasets from patients with intracranial electrodes, using advanced signal processing to identify brain networks underlying…
Education: University of Utah, PhD in Neuroscience, 2016, University of Sheffield, MSc in Automatic Systems and Control Engineering, 2010, University of Tehran, BSc in Electrical Engineering, 2008
Expertise: Data analysis, Biosignals, Research methods, Computational neuroscience, Programming