Brendan is a Santa Monica native who has long been fascinated by how the brain supports our complex life experiences. He has pursued this interest for twenty years in the University of California, as a high school lab assistant with Jeff Bronstein at UCLA, an undergraduate research assistant and lab manager with Art Shimamura at UC Berkeley, a staff researcher with Gil Rabinovici at UCSF, an MD/PhD student with Charan Ranganath at UC Davis, and now a resident physician at UCLA Neurology. His PhD work with Charan Ranganath employed behavioral and fMRI experiments to investigate how the ability to form coherent narratives shapes the organization of episodic memory and its basis in the hippocampus. He was recently awarded an NINDS UE5 fellowship which will hopefully enable him to investigate how narrative memories and their neurophysiological basis might change in aging and early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Toward this end, he looks forward to working with Dave, the ACME lab, and his clinical mentor Keith Vossel, while devoting part of his time continuing to see neurology patients.