Junchul Kim
Assistant Professor
Campus
St. George (downtown)
CSB Appointment
Cross
Research Areas
Animal Biology, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology
Education
Bsc, Yonsei University, Korea
Ph.D. Simon Fraser University, Canada
Primary Undergraduate Department
Psychology
Graduate Programs
Cell & Systems Biology
Neuroscience;Psychology
Research Description
Neural circuits underlying approach and avoidance behaviours.
Contact Information
Office Phone: 416-978-4260
Office: SS4028
Lab: RW306
Lab Phone: 416-978-3403
Email
Mailing Address
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Canada
Recent News
December 20, 2022
Congratulations to CSB’s Graduate Student Award Recipients!
Congratulations to our Graduate Students who earned recognition for their accomplishments at our Graduate Student Awards on December 19th, 2022!…
April 20, 2020
Researchers delay onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in laboratory models
Learn more about recent research from the laboratories of Prof Junchul Kim and Dean Melanie Woodin, "Cortical interneuron-mediated inhibition delays…
Publications
2020
Cholecystokinin-Expressing Interneurons of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Working Memory Retrieval
Nguyen R, Venkatesan S, Binko M, Bang JY, Cajanding JD, Briggs C, Sargin D, Imayoshi I, Lambe EK, Kim JC
2020, The Journal of Neuroscience, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1919-19.2020
Olfactory memory representations are stored in the anterior olfactory nucleus
Aqrabawi AJ, Kim JC
2020, Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-020-15032-2
Cortical interneuron-mediated inhibition delays the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Woodin MA, Kim JC, Robertson J, Zinman L, Keith J, De Koninck Y, Côté D, Gasecka A, Keramidis I, Garand D, Yang JW, Bedard S, Pressey JC, Liang X, Dargaei Z, Place KM, Aqrabawi AJ, Khademullah CS
2020, Brain, 10.1093/brain/awaa034
2019
Selective Activation of Cholecystokinin-Expressing GABA (CCK-GABA) Neurons Enhances Memory and Cognition
Whissell PD, Bang JY, Khan I, Xie Y, Parfitt GM, Grenon M, Plummer NW, Jensen P, Bonin RP, Kim JC
2019, eneuro, 10.1523/ENEURO.0360-18.2019
2018
Restoring GABAergic inhibition rescues memory deficits in a Huntington’s disease mouse model
Dargaei Z, Bang JY, Mahadevan V, Khademullah CS, Bedard S, Parfitt GM, Kim JC, Woodin MA
2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.1716871115
Topographic Organization of Hippocampal Inputs to the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus
Aqrabawi AJ, Kim JC
2018, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 10.3389/fnana.2018.00012
Activation of Entorhinal Cortical Projections to the Dentate Gyrus Underlies Social Memory Retrieval
Leung C, Cao F, Nguyen R, Joshi K, Aqrabawi AJ, Xia S, Cortez MA, Snead OC, Kim JC, Jia Z
2018, Cell Reports, 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.073
Hippocampal projections to the anterior olfactory nucleus differentially convey spatiotemporal information during episodic odour memory
Aqrabawi AJ, Kim JC
2018, Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-018-05131-6
2017
Bidirectional Control of Anxiety-Related Behaviors in Mice: Role of Inputs Arising from the Ventral Hippocampus to the Lateral Septum and Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Parfitt GM, Nguyen R, Bang JY, Aqrabawi AJ, Tran MM, Seo DK, Richards BA, Kim JC
2017, Neuropsychopharmacology, 10.1038/npp.2017.56
2016
Muscarinic control of rostromedial tegmental nucleus GABA neurons and morphine-induced locomotion
Wasserman DI, Tan JMJ, Kim JC, Yeomans JS, Barrot M
2016, European Journal of Neuroscience, 10.1111/ejn.13237
Partial Raphe Dysfunction in Neurotransmission Is Sufficient to Increase Mortality after Anoxic Exposures in Mice at a Critical Period in Postnatal Development
Barrett KT, Dosumu-Johnson RT, Daubenspeck JA, Brust RD, Kreouzis V, Kim JC, Li A, Dymecki SM, Nattie EE
2016, The Journal of Neuroscience, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1796-15.2016
A Novel Multisensory Integration Task Reveals Robust Deficits in Rodent Models of Schizophrenia: Converging Evidence for Remediation via Nicotinic Receptor Stimulation of Inhibitory Transmission in the Prefrontal Cortex
Cloke JM, Nguyen R, Chung BY, Wasserman DI, De Lisio S, Kim JC, Bailey CD, Winters BD
2016, The Journal of Neuroscience, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1628-16.2016
Top-down modulation of olfactory-guided behaviours by the anterior olfactory nucleus pars medialis and ventral hippocampus
Aqrabawi AJ, Browne CJ, Dargaei Z, Garand D, Khademullah CS, Woodin MA, Kim JC
2016, Nature Communications, 10.1038/ncomms13721
2015
Comparative density of CCK- and PV-GABA cells within the cortex and hippocampus
Whissell PD, Cajanding JD, Fogel N, Kim JC
2015, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 10.3389/fnana.2015.00124
Multi-Scale Molecular Deconstruction of the Serotonin Neuron System
Okaty B, Freret M, Rood B, Brust R, Hennessy M, deBairos D, Kim J, Cook M, Dymecki S
2015, Neuron, 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.007
2014
Parvalbumin and GAD65 Interneuron Inhibition in the Ventral Hippocampus Induces Distinct Behavioral Deficits Relevant to Schizophrenia
Nguyen R, Morrissey MD, Mahadevan V, Cajanding JD, Woodin MA, Yeomans JS, Takehara-Nishiuchi K, Kim JC
2014, Journal of Neuroscience, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2204-14.2014
2010
Mapping cell fate and function using recombinase-based intersectional strategies
Dymecki SM, Ray RS, Kim JC
2010, Methods in enzymology, 477, 183-213, 20699143
2009
Linking genetically defined neurons to behavior through a broadly applicable silencing allele
Kim JC, Cook MN, Carey MR, Shen C, Regehr WG, Dymecki SM
2009, Neuron, 63, 305-15, 19679071
Genetic fate-mapping approaches: new means to explore the embryonic origins of the cochlear nucleus
Kim JC, Dymecki SM
2009, Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 493, 65-85, 18839342