Corey Webster, Ph.D.

Corey brings experience that spans a broad range of scientific areas, ranging from neurodegeneration and drug discovery to circuit assembly during development, electrophysiology, and chemical biology tool development. Corey completed his undergraduate degree at UCLA in Neuroscience, then pursued a Master’s degree at SFSU while conducting research in a cerebral ischemia lab at UCSF. He then spent a couple of years at Genentech and in the operating room working with neurosurgeons as an intraoperative neurophysiologist. Corey completed his PhD at UC Berkeley in Molecular, Cell Biology, focusing on the physiological characterization of the master steroid hormone receptor, TrpM3, during circuit assembly in development. He became increasingly interested in the opposite end of the aging spectrum, so he decided to pursue a postdoc in the lab of Judy Campisi at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, working on cellular senescence in iPSC astrocytes and neurodegeneration. Corey is extremely happy to be a member of the IPN and hopes to contribute through tool generation, in vitro and in vivo characterization of psychedelics and psychoplastogens, and generally using his expertise.

 

In his spare time, Corey can be found running, biking or swimming to train for Ironman triathlon events, or playing with his dog, Ramón y Cajal.