New Article from Jerome Mertz & Mike Economo
Professors Mertz, Economo, et al. were recently published in Nature Neuroscience for “High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations”
Xiaojun Cheng Wins $2.7 million 5-year NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant
Assistant Professor Xiaojun Cheng was the lead PI in this project on “A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy,” with co-PI David Boas. Abstract: Advances in non-invasive monitoring of human brain function under normal and pathological conditions will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain in health and […]
A Giant Leap in Detecting Brain Activity
BU researchers developed a new method and microscope allowing them to see electrical activity between brain cells in exquisite detail
Lei Tian’s Team Granted Scialog Award for Advanced Bioimaging
Professor Lei Tian’s team was among nine teams recently awarded a collective $1 million in funding as an initiative aiming to catalyze advances in imaging technologies.
NPC Fellow Sudan Duwadi Wins CAN DO Award to Decode Attended Location Using fNIRS
Congratulations to 2023 CAN DO awardee Sudan Duwadi! Thanks to funding from the CAN DO award, Neurophotonics Center fellow and graduate student Sudan Duwadi will be working in collaboration with Professor Kamal Sen, as well as the fNIRS core of the NPC, on “Decoding Attended Location using fNIRS.” The project aims to use fNIRS measurements […]
Kamal Sen Receives $2.96M NSF Award
Professor Kamal Sen, Associate BME professor and Director of the Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Laboratory, was recently granted an NSF Award of $2.96 million for the Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) funding opportunity. Sen, serving as principal investigator, has advanced the study of complex scene analysis (CSA) in the hopes […]
New Article from David Boas, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Meryem Yücel
Professors Boas, Tager-Flusberg, and Yücel were recently published in MDPI discussing “The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in the Production and Comprehension of Phonologically and Semantically Related Words”
New “Scientist Profile” on Chantal Stern
Professor Chantal Stern’s research focuses on mapping the human brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with the primary goal of studying how the human brain encodes, stores, and subsequently recognizes visual, spatial, and verbal information.
New Article from Michael Wallace
Michael Wallace and coauthor Bernardo Sabatini were recently published in “Neuron” on synaptic and circuit functions of multitransmitter neurons in the mammalian brain.
New “Nature” Article from Xue Han and Kamal Sen
Professors Xue Han and Kamal Sen were recently published in “Nature” discussing Parvalbumin neurons enhance temporal coding and reduce cortical noise in complex auditory scenes