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Ed Boyden, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

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Principal Investigator

  • Ed Boyden

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Michael Baratta

  • Yongku Cho

  • Brian Chow

  • Masaaki Ogawa

  • Daniel Schmidt

  • Jorg Scholvin

  • Annabelle Singer

  • Aimei Yang

Graduate and Medical Students

  • Leah Acker

  • Brian Allen

  • Jake Bernstein

  • Amy Chuong

  • Mike Henninger

  • Nathan Klapoetke

  • Emily Ko

  • Albert Kwon

  • Patrick Monahan

  • Giovanni Talei Franzesi

  • Anthony Zorzos

Technical Assistants

  • Ash Turza

  • Christian Wentz

Research Affiliates

  • Vinay Gidwaney

  • Nate Greenslit

  • Philip Low

UROPs and Other Undergraduate Researchers

  • Claire Ahn

  • Rachel Bandler

  • Allison Dobry

  • Sonya Makhni

  • Tania Morimoto

  • Alex Rodriguez

  • Jenna Sternberg

  • Victoria Wang

Administrator

  • Lisa Lieberson

Alumni - Postdocs, Grad Students, and Technical Assistants

  • Barbara Barry

  • Alexander Guerra

  • Xue Han

  • Mingjie Li

  • Xiaofeng Qian

Alumni - M.Eng. and Short Graduate Programs

  • Gilberto Abram

  • Jeremy Chang

  • Azadeh Moini

Alumni - Visiting Scientists and Students, and Research Affiliates

  • August Dietrich

  • Jiamin Zhuo

  • Kyungman Kim

  • Al Strelzoff

Alumni - UROPs and Other Undergraduate Researchers

  • Zack Anderson

  • Stephanie Chan

  • Malamo Countouris

  • Gabriel Fouasnon

  • Dhruv Garg

  • Courtney (Drew) Hilliard

  • Jessica Keenan

  • Margaret Kim

  • Eva Klinman

  • Ruben Madrigal

  • Ekavali Mishra

  • Jessica Schirmer

  • Denzil Sikka

  • Ashutosh Singhal

  • Jon Spaulding

  • Jerzy Szablowski

  • Augusto Tentori

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Brian Chow

[Web: http://syntheticneurobiology.org/]  [Email: bchow, followed by @media.mit.edu]  [Phone: N/A]

Brian Chow is currently developing new molecular and physical tools to control excitable cells, currently focusing on genetically targetable, light-activated neural activity silencers.  He received his Ph.D. from MIT, inventing a platform for optically synthesizing DNA microarrays by leveraging semiconductor photoelectrochemistry.  Prior to MIT, Brian received his B.S. Chemistry from Stanford University and worked as an engineer at IBM Storage Systems Division.

Publications

  • Chow, B. Y.*, Han, X.*, Dobry, A. S., Qian, X., Chuong, A. S., Li, M., Henninger, M. A., Belfort, G. M., Lin, Y., Monahan, P. E., Boyden, E. S. (2010) High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light-driven proton pumps, Nature 463:98-102.

  • Chow B, Han X, Qian X and Boyden E (2009). High-performance halorhodopsin variants for improved genetically-targetable optical neural silencing. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Computational and systems neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.10.2009.03.347

Copyright 1995-2010, Ed Boyden esb@media.mit.edu