David E. Olson, Ph.D.​
Principal Investigator
​Assistant Professor
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Department of Chemistry;
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine;
Center for Neuroscience;
Memory and Plasticity Group

Biography
David studied chemistry and biology at Union College under the guidance of Joanne Kehlbeck, and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University working in the lab of Justin Du Bois.  After his graduate work, he completed postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.  David joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2015, where he established a research program at the interface of chemistry and neuroscience.  He also serves as the president and chief scientific officer of Delix Therapeutics, Inc.

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Contact

Chemistry Annex 2463

deolson@ucdavis.edu

(530) 752-2595

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Monica Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Associate

Calvin Ly
Graduate Student
​(6th year Chemistry)

Guoliang Zhang
Graduate Student
(6th year Chemistry)

Lindsay Cameron
Graduate Student
​(5th year Neuroscience)

Lee Dunlap
Graduate Student
​(5th year Chemistry)

RJ Tombari
​Graduate Student
(4th year Chemistry)

Max Vargas
Graduate Student
​(4th year Neuroscience)

Andy Basargin
Graduate Student
​​(3rd Year Chemistry)

Jeremy Tuck
​Graduate Student
​(3rd Year Chemistry)

Rishab Iyer
Graduate Student
(3rd year Chemistry)

​Winston Chow
Graduate Student
​(3rd year Chemistry)

​David Favela
Graduate Student
​(3rd year Chemistry)

​Arabo Avanes
Graduate Student
​(2nd year BMCDB)

​Hannah Saeger
Graduate Student
​(2nd year PTX)

​Hunter Warren
Graduate Student
​(2nd year Chemistry)

Jayashri Viswanathan​Undergraduate
​(Biochem & Mol Biology)

Seona Patel​Undergraduate
(Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior)

Noah Yardeny​Undergraduate
​(Pharmaceutical Chem)

Elya Kandahari​Undergraduate
​(Chemistry)

Amy Cheung
​​Undergraduate
​(Chemistry)