RACHEL KIM

POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST

rachel.kim2@nyulangone.org | @rdkim.bsky.social

Rachel received her Bachelors of Arts in Neuroscience and Behavior from Barnard College. She received departmental distinction for her work in Rae Silver’s lab at Columbia University, where she helped investigate methamphetamine-entrained circadian rhythms. She then worked as a research assistant with Eric Schmidt in Nathaniel Heintz’s lab at the Rockefeller University, using TRAP-seq to characterize vulnerable and non-vulnerable cortical pyramidal cell populations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

As a graduate student in the Neuroscience and Physiology program at NYU Langone Medical Center, Rachel is characterizing the functions of the heterogeneous astrocyte responses to injury and disease.

She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

KEY PUBLICATIONS:

(* = equal contribution)

1. Lopez-Lee C, Kodama L, Fan L, Zhu D, Zhu J, Wong MY, Ye P, Norman K, Foxe NR, Ijaz L, Yu F, Chen H, Carling GK, Torres ER, Kim RD, Dubal DB, Liddelow SA, Sinha SC, Luo W, Gan L (2024) Tlr7 drives sex differences in age- and Alzheimer's disease-related demyelination. Science 386(6725):eadk7844. PMID: 39607927.

2. Guttenplan KA, Maxwell I, Santos E, Borchardt LA, Manzo E, Abalde-Atristain L, Kim RD, Freeman MR. Adrenergic signaling gates astrocyte responsiveness to neurotransmitters and control of neuronal activity. bioRxiv 2024.09.23.614537.

3. Kim RD, Marchildon AE, Frazel PW, Hasel P, Guo AX, Liddelow SA. Temporal and spatial analysis of astrocytes following stroke identifies novel drivers of reactivity. bioRxiv 2023.11.12.566710.

4. Han RT*, Kim RD*, Molofsky AV, Liddelow SA (2021) Astrocyte-immune cell interactions in physiology and pathology. Immunity 54(2):211-224. PMID: 33567261.

5. Hasel P, Rose IVL, Sadick JS, Kim RD, Liddelow SA (2021) Neuroinflammatory astrocyte subtypes in the mouse brain. Nat Neurosci 24:1475-1487. PMID: 34413515.