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Kyunghee Koh serves as Professor and Co-Director of the Neuroscience PhD Program within the Department of Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University's College of Life Sciences. She is affiliated with the Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Her research elucidates the molecular and cellular basis of sleep and circadian rhythms using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. Her laboratory discovered critical genes including jetlag (Science, 2006) and sleepless (Science, 2008), employing genetic tools to map sleep circuits and investigate phenomena like sleep plasticity, sex-based behavioral differences, and age-related sleep disorders.
Dr. Koh leads an active research team at the Vickie and Jack Farber Institute, focusing on mechanosensory-induced sleep benefits, circadian transcriptional mechanisms (TARANIS/VRILLE/PDP1 interactions), and metabotropic glutamate receptor pathways in aging-related sleep problems.
