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Ed Boyden, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

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Principal Investigator

  • Ed Boyden

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Scott Arfin

  • Steve Bates

  • Tim Buschman

  • Yongku Cho

  • Justin Kinney

  • Masaaki Ogawa

  • Daniel Schmidt

  • Jorg Scholvin

  • Annabelle Singer

  • Aimei Yang

  • Fumi Yoshida

Graduate and Medical Students

  • Leah Acker

  • Brian Allen

  • Jake Bernstein

  • Fei Chen

  • Amy Chuong

  • Mike Henninger

  • Nathan Klapoetke

  • Suhasa Kodandaramaiah

  • Daniel Martin-Alarcon

  • Patrick Monahan

  • Caroline Moore-Kochlacs

  • Giovanni Talei Franzesi

  • Paul Tillberg

  • Anthony Zorzos

Technical Assistants

  • Ash Turza

Research Affiliates

  • Gary Brenner

  • Brian Chow

  • David Dalrymple

  • Philip Low

  • Mehran Taherian

  • Christian Wentz

  • Alex Wissner-Gross

UROPs and Other Undergraduate Researchers

  • Claire Ahn

  • Rachel Bandler

  • Huayu Ding

  • Allison Dobry

  • Michelle Fung

  • Pei-Ann Lin

  • Tania Morimoto

  • Sunanda Sharma

Administrator

  • Lisa Lieberson

Alumni - Postdocs Grad Students and Technical Assistants

  • Gilberto Abram

  • Michael Baratta

  • Barbara Barry

  • Jeremy Chang

  • Alexander Guerra

  • Xue Han

  • Byron Hsu

  • Mingjie Li

  • Azadeh Moini

  • Xiaofeng Qian

Alumni - Visiting Scientists and Students and Research Affiliates

  • August Dietrich

  • Vinay Gidwaney

  • Nate Greenslit

  • Kyungman Kim

  • Albert Kwon

  • Al Strelzoff

  • Masahiro Yamaguchi

  • Jiamin Zhuo

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

  • Emily Ko

  • Ruben Madrigal

  • Sonya Makhni

  • Ekavali Mishra

  • Cinjon Resnick

  • Alex Rodriguez

  • Jessica Schirmer

  • Denzil Sikka

  • Ashutosh Singhal

  • Jon Spaulding

  • Jenna Sternberg

  • Eli Stickgold

  • Jerzy Szablowski

  • Augusto Tentori

  • Victoria Wang

Home » People » UROPs and Other Undergraduate Researchers » Allison Dobry

Allison Dobry

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

Allison grew up in San Diego, California before coming out to MIT for college.  She is working on creating novel optical control molecules in the Synthetic Neurobiology group.

Projects

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

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. (* co-first authors)

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