Hadi Nia and Student Rohin Banerji Featured in Laser Focus World
Crystal ribcage opens black box of a functioning lung to optical imaging: A transparent ‘crystal’ ribcage enables first real-time, high-resolution optical imaging of a functioning lung from whole organ down to single-cell scales.
Helen Tager-Flusberg Among Retiring Faculty Recently Honored
Helen Tager-Flusberg for her continuing dedication to her field of research and her many contributions to our department and Boston University over the course of her career. In academia internationally, Helen’s name is pretty much synonymous with early autism research. She is not just a star of the field, she is one of the originators […]
New “nature neuroscience” article from Tim O’Shea et al.
Central nervous system (CNS) lesions become surrounded by neuroprotective borders of newly proliferated reactive astrocytes; however, fundamental features of these cells are poorly understood. Here we show that following spinal cord injury or stroke, 90% and 10% of border-forming astrocytes derive, respectively, from proliferating local astrocytes and oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in adult mice of both […]
Biology Assistant Professor Meg Younger and Postdoc receive Pew Charitable Trusts awards
Assistant Professor of Biology Meg Younger and Biology Postdoctoral Scholar Florencia Fernandez-Chiappe study mosquitoes’ sense of smell and how mosquito-borne diseases impact young children
Florencia Fernández Chiappe Named Pew Latin American Fellow
Chiappe, of Professor Meg Younger’s research group, has been named a Latin American Fellow from the Pew Charitable Trusts
Designing a Better World for the People Sat Beside You – Professor Chen Yang’s Lab Works to Enhance Retinal and Brain Implants
by Danny Giancioppo, Photos by Chris McIntosh Nanomaterials & Interdisciplinary Research For recently promoted Professor Chen Yang (ECE, Chem, MSE), making a societal impact through her work––utilizing nanotechnology to research, understand, and develop retinal and neurostimulative devices––is everything. The interdisciplinary nature of her research, meanwhile, is a natural part of the process. “It’s interdisciplinary because […]
New SPIE Digital Library Article from David Boas, Anna Devor, Martin Thunemann, et al.
Widefield in vivo imaging system with two fluorescence and two reflectance channels, a single sCMOS detector, and shielded illumination
The Cocktail Party Problem – Kamal Sen Featured in American Hearing Research Foundation Article
“Most of what we know about the human brain comes from technologies like F MRI where people are lying in this machine and their brains are being imaged. We don’t know very much at all about how the brain is activated in natural settings – when people are walking around, looking at a scene, moving […]
Dr. Thomas Bifano to Serve as Interim Vice President and Associate Provost for Research
Gloria Waters will be BU’s new provost; a new Office of Strategy & Innovation is being created
Martin Thunemann and Ella Zeldich Winners of GSI 2024 Pilot Grant Competition
Through the 2024 Pilot Grant Competition, the Genome Science Institute supports nine one-year pilot projects; each to enhance genetics and genomics research at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, with the use of kits, reagents, and other services with new genomic technologies. Professors Martin Thunemann and Ella Zeldich were among the winners for their project: 8. “Elucidating […]