NPC Faculty SpotLight Seminar
Register Here Please join us for the BU Neurophotonics Faculty SpotLight, where select Neurophotonics Center (NPC) Faculty will present short talks about the research they conduct in their labs. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about faculty research labs in BU’s neurophotonics research community and to network after the event. This event is […]
Please Submit your Poster for 2024 NPC Symposium Poster Session
We are excited to announce that Neurophotonics (NPC) Symposium is on January 17 and we are collecting the posters for the poster session, please submit this form, if you are interested in being added to the poster session.
Neurophotonics in Medicine, Symposium on October 30
Neurophotonics in Medicine, Symposium Hosted by the Neurophotonics Center and the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston University Monday Oct 30, 3-5 pm, 72 East Concord Street, RM R115 (enter through the Instructional (L) Building). Room: R115 Come participate in the first of what will be an annual symposium highlighting the neurophotonic collaborations happening […]
New Faculty Member Jeffrey Demas and the Path to the ‘Light’ Side
Jeffrey Demas, PhD, is, in his own words, “unapologetically a huge nerd.” One of the newest faculty members in the Neurophotonics Center at Boston University, Demas says he grew up on the Star Wars movies: the “space opera” series with planet-killing space stations, swords made of light, and robots with distinct and occasionally grating personalities. […]
The Latest Buzz: New Faculty Member Meg Younger on Her Work with Mosquitoes
Meg Younger, PhD, is relatively new to Boston University—she joined the school’s faculty at the start of this year—but she is already creating a stir with her work on the surprisingly complex olfactory system of the tropical mosquito Aedes aegypti. Younger has worked with invertebrates since early in her research career. While still in graduate […]
New Faculty Member Mike Wallace Makes a Splash at BU
Neurobiologist Michael Wallace, PhD, joined Boston University about a year and a half ago when the BU community, and indeed the world, were reeling from the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the impacts of the pandemic, especially the lockdowns and the social isolation that came with them, have shaped the growth of his […]
2021 NPC Seed Award Recipients
The Neurophotonics Center solicits proposals for the support of innovative interdisciplinary research among NPC Faculty members and their teams. The purpose of this Seed Program is to foster research that leverages state-of-the-art optical imaging tools and serves as a testbed for novel technological developments in the field of neurophotonics.A goal of this Seed program is […]
Martin Thunemann Takes His Work Home with Him. He Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.
When Martin Thunemann was a kid, he had a chemistry toolkit in his parents’ basement. He would spend hours there in his subterranean lab, learning about acids and bases and exploring different types of reactions with child-size test tubes and beakers. Both of his parents were chemists themselves, but they never pushed him to follow […]
BU NPC Annual Report for 2021
You can find the newest version BU NPC Annual Report for 2020- 2021 here.
Multi-Center NIH BRAIN Inititative U19 Awarded to Anna Devor and colleagues
“Local neuronal drive and neuromodulatory control of activity in the pial neurovascular circuit” NIH U19-NS123717 A fundamental feature of cortical arterioles running on the pial brain surface is the fact that their diameter naturally oscillates at a frequency around 0.1 Hz – due to both the intrinsic properties of the vascular wall and propagation of dilation […]