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Principal Investigator

Gooley, Joshua J

PHD Students

Venetia Kok Jing Tong

Jordan Ma

Yichen Zhu

Staff

Tan Mei Yun Merlyn

Marissa Titus

Gooley, Joshua J

Associate Professor

joshua.gooley@duke-nus.edu.sg

PhD Harvard University, USA

 

Dr. Gooley joined Duke-NUS Medical School in 2008 as an Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program. He is Principal Investigator of the Chronobiology and Sleep Laboratory, located in the SingHealth Investigational Medicine Unit at Singapore General Hospital. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he studied neural pathways that mediate entrainment of circadian rhythms. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, USA) and HMS, his research focused on effects of light on circadian rhythms and melatonin secretion. His current research program at Duke-NUS focuses on understanding the role of sleep and circadian rhythms in regulating human performance and physiology.

Venetia Kok Jing Tong

PhD Student

venetia.kok@u.duke.nus.edu

B. Sc. (Hons) Life Sciences
National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

A good night's sleep isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. Yet many of us (myself included) often put sleep on the back burner in the struggle to balance work and family demands. What intrigues me is why we continue to deprive ourselves of sleep when we are fully aware of the consequences. As a student in CSL, I want to understand what pushes us to sleep at the timings we do, how that decision affects us, and how we can help others to recognize the importance of adequate sleep.

Jordan Ma

PhD Student

B. Sc. (Hons) Life Sciences
National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

I am interested in analysing large datasets to gleam for useful information. Here, I am using information collected by the Institute for Applied Learning Sciences and Educational Technology (ALSET) to study how university students' activity patterns relate to their sleep and cognitive outcomes. Oh and I play games in my free time.

Yichen Zhu

PhD Student

e0762303@u.duke.nus.edu

B.A. (Hons) Molecular and Cell Biology
(conc. Neurobiology)
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

 

The brain is a fascinating organ and there is so much unknown about it. Sleep is such an important behavior for wellness yet there are many obstacles to achieving adequate quality and quantity. Combining my interest in neuroscience and health, I would like to investigate how sleep and wellness are closely related and how sleep could be a prophylactic and/or therapeutic medicine, hopefully contributing to the sleep health awareness.

Tan Mei Yun Merlyn

Research Associate

merlyn.tan@duke-nus.edu.sg

B.Sc. (Hons) Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

M.Sc. Biomedical and Health Sciences
Monash University, Australia

 

Sleep is a precious commodity for the living yet there is so much that we have yet to understand about it. Given that I have written my previous thesis in Sleep Science (specifically on a novel clinical treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea), seeing actual patients opened up my eyes and I decided to pivot away from neuroscience to sleep science, making this my main area of interest. Hence, I want to investigate how sleep impacts our daily lives from mood to mental health to learning through research under CSL and Joshua Gooley.

Marissa Titus

Research Assistant

marissa.titus@duke-nus.edu.sg

B.Sc. (Hons) Biological Sciences, Second Major in Psychology
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Who amongst us hasn’t forgone some minutes (or hours) of sleep to spend more time with our favourite people or activities, only to inevitably face the sleep-debt consequences? Sleep is a key physiological need that has an inexplicable link to our behaviours, thoughts and feelings. I am curious about the relationship between sleep and cognitive functions like attention and memory, as well as sleep’s impact on mental health in both the short- and long-term. I hope to learn more so I can improve my own sleep cycle along the way.

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