The Innovation Ecosystem: Don’t Go It Alone | May 1, 2023 | 3-5:00 p.m.
RSVP for a discussion between past winners of BU’s Ignition Award in celebration of Innovator of the Year, Ji-Xin Cheng.
NPC Faculty SpotLight Event
Join us for exciting rapid research talks by BU faculty involved in Neurophotonics! Thursday, November 9, 12:00PM In Person: BU Photonics Room 906 (Lunch provided following talk) Or via Zoom 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 […]
NIH R01 awarded to advance a “Computational Miniature Mesoscope”
Congratulations to Professor Lei Tian and his co-investigators Ian Davison and David Boas for being awarded a 5-year NIH R01 titled “Computational Miniature Mesoscope for Cortex-wide, Cellular resolution Ca2+ Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice.” This award evolved from the early days of the BU miniature microscope designed to measure brain function in freely moving and […]
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 […]
Devor Awarded a New NIH BRAIN Initiative grant to study cell-type-specific mechanisms of Patterned Sensory Stimulation (PSS)
Congratulations to NPC Professor Anna Devor and her collaborators Anton Arkhipov at the Allen Brain Institute and Li-Huei Tsai at MIT for receiving an NIH BRAIN Initiative award R01NS122742 to study cell-type-specific mechanisms of Patterned Sensory Stimulation (PSS)! PSS is a non-invasive technique for manipulating brain activity and states, employing, for example, periodic visual or […]
NPC Projects Summary 2021
Here is a preview of the NPC supported projects for 2020-2021 that will appear in the upcoming annual report. Structural Microscopy Serial Sectioning OCT Functional Microscopy Large Scale Fiber Photometry Multimodal Approaches iPSC-Derived Brain Organoids Applications Beyond Neuroscience Ex vivo Lung Imaging Proof-of-principle Optical Imaging Technology Imaging Neuronal Dynamics across Multiple Brain Areas with […]
Lei Tian: Augmenting Optics with Algorithms
When Lei Tian, PhD, joined Boston University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department in 2016, he never imagined his work would take him into the neurosciences. But when the Neurophotonics Center at BU launched the following year, bringing together a multidisciplinary team from all four corners of the university, he couldn’t help but get involved. “When […]
Professor Abdoulaye Ndao Joins the NPC
Professor Ndao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the Photonics center at Boston University. His research interests span wide-ranging topics in photonics, material sciences, and physics where his key contributions lie in the areas of topological light sources (top ten physics world 2017), non-Hermitian systems, metamaterials (broadest bandwidth […]
Steve Ramirez and the Malleability of Memory
If you ask Steve Ramirez, PhD, what he likes most about working in the Neurophotonics Center at Boston University, he won’t hesitate to tell you it’s the camaraderie and the sense of shared support that pervade the place. “I really enjoy that the community embraces this kind of collegial and team-oriented approach to science which […]