Dr. Jason Yi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. His laboratory examines the mechanisms of UBE3A regulation and how genetic variants can alter UBE3A function. He completed Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Duke University and his postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of the Bridge-to-Independence Award from the Simons Foundation, the Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, and a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.