more 'bout me...

hmm...but what is there to say?

...or perhaps, more importantly, what of significance to say...hmm

...i view life along the following lines...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded -Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through common. This is to be my symphony. -William Henry Channing

luckily, i have extraordinary friends amongst the living.

from the delightfully rambunctious days of high school, my friends Dave and Tyler.

at bowdoin college i met neat folks like Mikeepoo, Brent, JonJon, Czuba, Cart, Mark, Pat , Cassie, Nahyon, Sue, Susan, and the incredible Jenfa.

when i lived in dabney house and attended caltech, i was fortunate enough to meet Lori, Rory, Juancarlos, James, Rafed, Charless, Gabe, Wesley, Niniane , Jenny, Eric, Brigitte, Miles, and Anil.

since, i believe one's friends can say more about a person than one could write oneself, i'll leave the rest to you

Mikeepoo made me start paddling. Mark and Pat forced me to develop an interest in mountain biking. and since high school i fool around playing tennis, hiking, skiing, and rock climbing.

this 'n that happend, and i became a nationally registered emergency medical technician trained in wilderness medicine. amidst summers, i 'worked' as a maine guide for the now-defunct unicorn expeditions

i enjoy teaching. the classes i designed in chemistry, microgravity, and mechanical engineering design at the exploration jr. program were fun.

other things? well, i'm neuroscientist - a systems neuroscientist derived from a molecular neurobiologist.

currently, i'm a postdoctoral fellow with Clay Reid in harvard medical school's department of neurboiology. formerly, i was a grad student in Elly Nedivi's lab in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at mit.

if i've failed to avert your attention, below is the beginning of a hopefully nice list of publications

Lee WCA and Nedivi E. (2002). Extended plasticity of visual cortex in dark-reared animals may result from prolonged expression of cpg15-like genes. J. Neurosci. 22(5): 1807-1815. (pdf)

Fujino T, Lee WCA, and Nedivi E. (2003). Regulation of cpg15 by signaling pathways that mediate synaptic plasticity. Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 24(3): 538-554. (pdf)

Lee WCA, Huang H, Feng G, Sanes JR, Brown EN, So PT, Nedivi E. (2006). Dynamic Remodeling of Dendritic Arbors in GABAergic Interneurons of Adult Visual Cortex. PLoS Biol. 4(2):e29. (pdf)

Kim KH, Buehler C, Bahlmann K, Ragan T, Lee WCA, Nedivi E, Heffer EL, Fantini S, So PTC (2007). Multifocal multiphoton microscopy based on multianode photomultiplier tubes. Optics Express, 15, 11658-11678. (pdf)

Lee WCA, Chen JL, Huang H, Leslie JH, Amitai Y, So PT, Nedivi E. (2008). A dynamic zone defines interneurn remodeling in the adult neocortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105(50), 19968-19973. (pdf)

Holtmaat A, Bonhoeffer T, Chow D, Chuckowree J, De Paola V, Hofer S, Hubener M, Keck T, Lee WCA, Knott G, Mrsic-Flogel T, Mostany R, Nedivi E, Portera-Cailliau C, Svoboda K, Trachtenberg J, Wilbrecht L. Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through an imaging window. Nat. Protoc. In press.