Steve Ramirez
Professor Ramirez’s research focuses on revealing the neural circuit mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval, and artificially modulating memories to combat maladaptive states. Using optogenetics, Ramirez has located memory traces in the mouse brain and has explored how to reactivate these traces, and implant false ones as well. His work could have profound treatment implications […]
Anna Devor
Dr. Devor centralizes her research interests in the field of cellular and systems-level neuroscience, specifically with regards to the imaging process. She aims to utilize microscopy and physiological underpinning of noninvasive imaging in order to better understand how the brain works, as well as how and why it is affected by disease. The overarching goal […]
Masha Kamenetska
The Kamenetska research group develops and uses novel single molecule nano-manipulation, detection and spectroscopy techniques to understand and control how the structure of the intermolecular interface affects function in biological and man-made devices.
Miloš Popović
Professor Popović and team focus their research around projects concerning theory, design and experimental demonstration of integrated photonic and optoelectronic devices; silicon photonics, CMOS electronics-photonics integration; integrated electronic-photonic systems-on-chip, nonlinear integrated photonics, quantum integrated photonic circuits, phononic, acousto-optic, optomechanical and light-force based nanoscale devices.
David Boas
As the director of Boston University’s Neurophotonics Center, as well as a professor of biomedical engineering, Dr. Boas has developed many new, high-impact, biomedical optical technologies in the neuroscience field, in addition to plentiful research on the subject. Further topics of interest include functional near-infrared spectroscopy, biomedical optics, oxygen delivery and consumption, neuro-vascular coupling, and […]
John White
Professor White’s laboratory uses engineering approaches to understand how information is processed in the brain, with the goal of exploiting these findings to improve the human condition.
Roberto Paiella
Professor Paiella’s research interests include plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metasurface-enhanced optoelectronics, terahertz photonics, and device physics and applications of semiconductor quantum structures and 2D materials.
Xue Han
Brain disorders represent the biggest unmet medical need, with many disorders being untreatable, and most treatments presenting serious side effects. Accordingly, we are discovering design principles for novel neuromodulation therapies. We invent and apply a variety of genetic, molecular, pharmacological, optical, and electrical tools to correct neural circuits that go awry within the brain. As […]
Lee Goldstein
Dr. Goldstein’s work is focused on understanding the role of abnormal protein aggregation in chronic degenerative disorders of aging. The work in his laboratory concentrates on Alzheimer’s disease, age-related cataracts, and other common diseases of aging that involve pathogenic protein aggregation. His team recently discovered the first evidence of Alzheimer’s disease-associated amyloid pathology outside the […]
Christopher Gabel
Professor Gabel’s research program is focused on the development and application of femtosecond laser surgery and optical neurophysiology to the study of the nervous system of the nematode worm C. elegans. Using tightly focused pulses from an ultrafast laser, we can ablate regions of biological tissue with submicron precision, making it possible to snip individual […]