Seung Wook Oh, Ph.D.

Program Manager

Seung Wook Oh joined the Allen Institute in 2008 and currently serves as the Program Manager for the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas. Previously, as a postdoctoral fellow and analyst at the Allen Institute, he developed and used an array of recombinant virus to explore neural circuits in the mouse brain. Oh has extensive experience in diverse areas of biomedical science, including biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and neurobiology. His current research interests focus on combining advanced molecular and genetic techniques with high-throughput technology to decipher the overwhelming complexity of the mammalian brain and eventually to understand the underlying mechanisms of various nervous system disorders. Oh holds a B.S. in chemistry and an M.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he studied the molecular mechanism of aging using C. elegans as a model system. Oh’s postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center used conditional knock-out mice to investigate the role of the central nervous system in feeding and energy homeostasis.