Dr Seung Jae Kim

Dr Seung Jae Kim is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Biomedical Sciences at UQ. Dr Kim completed his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Sydney in 2019, where he used in vivo electrophysiology to study neuronal pathways driving cardiorespiratory complications (Kim et al. 2018, J Physiol; Kim et al. 2016, J Pharmacol Ther). In 2020, he joined the Monash University Discovery Program where he revealed that hypothalamic AgRP neurons regulate meal size to improve insulin sensitivity (Dodd et al. 2021, Sci Adv *co-first). Since joining the Vukovic laboratory in 2022, he is investigating how the brain communicates with the immune system during steady-state or dyshomeostasis. Specifically, he leads two independent lines of research that aim to (1) identify the anatomical region and physiological processes involved in peripheral immune cell migration into the central nervous system, and (2) understand the benefits of cytokine signalling in preventing ischemia-reperfusion injury following stroke.