Welcoming Kıvılcım Kılıç to BU Neurophotonics
Please welcome Kıvılcım Kılıç to BU. She started July 1 as the lab manager for the Neurophotonics Center. She will be interfacing with BU faculty, students and fellows helping them utilize the facilities of the Neurophotonics Center that will be housed on the 2nd floor of the Life Science and Engineering Building at 24 Cummington Mall. She comes to us from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) where she was a postdoctoral fellow working with Anna Devor on studies of neurovascular coupling using two photon microscopy, optogenetics, electrophysiology and awake animal models. Prior to that she received her medical degree and neuroscience PhD from Hacettepe University, Turkey. While at UCSD she established several robust procedures for head fixed microscopy in mice and for multi-modal integration of several devices for investigation of neural networks and neurovascular coupling. She is an excellent communicator and has mentored numerous trainees in the adoption of these complex procedures. Please make sure to introduce yourself when you see her on campus.