Education
 
1994: AB, University of California, Berkeley
2000: PhD, Rockefeller University
2002: MD, Cornell University Medical College
 
Selected Professional Memberships and Appointments
 
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1990: National Merit scholarship
1990-1994: University of California Regent's scholarship
1993: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, undergraduate fellow
1993-present: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter
1994: Yanaba-Jung Memorial Research Award (for undergraduate thesis), UC Berkeley
1994-present: National Institutes of Heath, Medical Scientist Training Grant
1999-2002: President, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Millennium Kids Foundation
2005-2006: Young Investigator Award, University of California Berkeley
2006: Edwin Boldrey Award, San Francisco Neurological Society
 
Contact
 
Daniel A. Lim MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Lim DA, Cha S, Mayo MC, Chen MH, Keles E, Vandenberg S, Berger MS. Relationship of glioblastoma multiforme to neural stem cell regions predicts invasive and multifocal tumor phenotype. Neuro Oncol 2007;[Epub ahead of print].
 
Lim DA, Khandhar SM, Heath S, Ostrem JL, Ringel N, Starr P. Multiple Target Deep Brain Stimulation for Multiple Sclerosis Related and Poststroke Holmes' Tremor. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2007;85(4):144-149.
 
Lim DA, Huang YC, Alvarez-Buylla A. The adult neural stem cell niche: lessons for future neural cell replacement strategies. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2007;18(1):81-92.
 
Lim DA, Suarez-Farinas M, Naef F, Hacker CR, Menn B, Takebayashi H, Magnasco M, Patil N, Alvarez-Buylla A. In vivo transcriptional profile analysis reveals RNA splicing and chromatin remodeling as prominent processes for adult neurogenesis. Mol Cell Neurosci 2006;31(1):131-48.
 
Palma V, Lim DA, Dahmane N, Sanchez P, Brionne TC, Herzberg CD, Gitton Y, Carleton A, Alvarez-Buylla A, Ruiz i Altaba A. Sonic hedgehog controls stem cell behavior in the postnatal and adult brain. Development 2005;132(2):335-44.
 
Alvarez-Buylla A, Lim DA. For the long run: maintaining germinal niches in the adult brain. Neuron 2004;41(5):683-6.
 
Caporaso GL, Lim DA, Alvarez-Buylla A, Chao MV. Telomerase activity in the subventricular zone of adult mice. Mol Cell Neurosci 2003;23(4):693-702.
 
Tramontin AD, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Lim DA, Alvarez-Buylla A. Postnatal development of radial glia and the ventricular zone (VZ): a continuum of the neural stem cell compartment. Cereb Cortex 2003;13(6):580-7.
 
Gritti A, Bonfanti L, Doetsch F, Caille I, Alvarez-Buylla A, Lim DA, Galli R, Verdugo JM, Herrera DG, Vescovi AL. Multipotent neural stem cells reside into the rostral extension and olfactory bulb of adult rodents. J Neurosci 2002;22(2):437-45.
 
Lim DA, Flames N, Collado L, Herrera DG. Investigating the use of primary adult subventricular zone neural precursor cells for neuronal replacement therapies. Brain Res Bull 2002;57(6):759-64.
 
Naef F, Lim DA, Patil N, Magnasco M. DNA hybridization to mismatched templates: a chip study. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2002;65(4 Pt 1):040902.
 
Li XC, Jarvis ED, Alvarez-Borda B, Lim DA, Nottebohm F. A relationship between behavior, neurotrophin expression, and new neuron survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000;97(15):8584-9.
 
Lim DA, Tramontin AD, Trevejo JM, Herrera DG, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A. Noggin antagonizes BMP signaling to create a niche for adult neurogenesis. Neuron 2000;28(3):713-26.
 
Doetsch F, Caille I, Lim DA, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A. Subventricular zone astrocytes are neural stem cells in the adult mammalian brain. Cell 1999;97(6):703-16.
 
Lim DA, Alvarez-Buylla A. Interaction between astrocytes and adult subventricular zone precursors stimulates neurogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999;96(13):7526-31.