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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Meryem Yücel for her promotion to Research Associate Professor. Meryem is the Technical Director of fNIRS efforts within the BU Neurophotonics Center and supports more than 8 different faculty and their teams in the adoption and utilization of fNIRS in their applications. Meryem was an Instructor at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical […]
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 […]
You can find the newest version BU NPC Annual Report for 2020- 2021 here.
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]