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Amy Chuong

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

Amy has worked in the Boyden lab since 2008 on novel molecular engineering projects for sensitizing specific cellular functions to optical control. Her undergraduate degrees from MIT are in biology, chemistry, and writing. She is currently a graduate student in the Synthetic Neurobiology lab, in the department of Media Arts and Sciences, where she continues to engineer novel molecules for cellular control.

Projects

Optogenetic molecular reagents enabling control of the activity of targeted neurons and biological functions with light

Publications

Chow, B. Y., Chuong, A. S., Klapoetke, N. C., Boyden, E. S. (2011) Synthetic Physiology: Strategies for Adapting Tools from Nature for Genetically-Targeted Control of Fast Biological Processes, Chapter 18, Methods in Enzymology: Synthetic Biology, Part A: Methods for Part/Device Characterization and Chassis Engineering, edited by Christopher Voigt, Volume 497, Elsevier.
Han, X.*, Chow, B. Y.*, Zhou, H., Klapoetke, N. C., Chuong, A., Rajimehr, R., Yang, A., Baratta, M. V., Winkle, J., Desimone, R., Boyden, E. S. (2011) A high-light sensitivity optical neural silencer: development and application to optogenetic control of non-human primate cortex. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 5:18. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00018 (* co-first authors)
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. (* co-first authors)
Han X, Qian X, Stern P, Chuong A and Boyden ES (2009) Informational Lesions: Optical Perturbation of Spike Timing and Neural Synchrony Via Microbial Opsin Gene Fusions, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2:12. doi:10.3389/neuro.02.012.2009

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