Chuljung Kwak

This study identifies growth hormone as essential for hippocampal engram cell maturation by facilitating synaptic strengthening during memory formation.

This study investigates the role of NPTX2 loss of function in sleep and circadian rhythm disruption, showing that NPTX2 KO mice exhibit disrupted circadian rhythms and sleep fragmentation.

This paper introduces ST-Cal-Light, a method to tag active neurons by converting somatic calcium signals into gene expression, enabling precise functional circuit analysis.