Michael (mike) S. Bienkowski PhD

Mike received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh (2007) where he developed a love of scientific research while working in the laboratory of Dr. Linda Rinaman. Mike continued in Dr. Rinaman's laboratory as a graduate student in the University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience and Center for Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University.

After graduating with his Ph.D. in 2012, Mike immediately began postdoctoral research working on the Mouse Connectome Project in the laboratory of Dr. Hong-Wei Dong, first at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then at the University of Southern California Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. Mike created the Hippocampus Gene Expression Atlas (HGEA) to drive investigations of Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy as an Assistant Professor of Research Neurology within the Keck School of Medicine of USC.