NPC Podcast Episode #8 | “The First Year Experience”
In this episode, we sit down to talk about our first-year experience at Boston University, specifically as a Biomedical Engineering PhD student. We talk about everything from the classes to rotating through different labs to the qualification exam, and qualitatively describe the experience for the Graduate Program for Neuroscience as told to us by friends […]
Building Mini-Brains, Advancing Big Ideas: How Kate Herrema Uses Organoids to Model Neurodevelopment
by Jack Osmond Whether in her home state of Michigan, during her high school years in Virginia, or in the city of Boston, Kate Herrema has always had an aptitude for science and math. But it wasn’t until she took a psychology class in high school that she discovered her interest in neuroscience. “I remember […]
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Recent ENG PhD Helps Develop Highly Sensitive Imaging Technique to Detect Myelin Damage
In a new study from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and BU’s College of Engineering, researchers used a special microscope called birefringence microscopy (BRM) paired with an automated deep learning algorithm to reliably count and map myelin damage across whole sections of the brain—something not feasible with other techniques. The ability to […]
NPC Podcast Episode #7 | “How Did We Get Here?”
How Did We Get Here? With the NPC Podcast Team
Tyler Hill of the Younger Lab Receives LSRF Award
The Life Sciences Research Foundation today announced funding awards for 22 early-career postdoctoral researchers in all areas of life sciences. These researchers will receive funding over the next three years as they investigate questions surrounding the remarkable and unexplained mysteries of biology and critical questions in human health. Their funding begins August 1, 2025.
A Light Breakfast, Episode #1 | Sharayu Shrinivas
“A Light Breakfast” is a limited summer series in which Boston University Photonics and Neurophotonics Center graduate students who previously attended the Photonics Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program are interviewed over breakfast at a food stop in or around BU’s campus.
Neurophotonics Center Elects Three New T32 Fellows
The Neurophotonics Center recently appointed three new trainees to its group of T32 fellows, funding specified research projects under NPC faculty members. As a T32 fellow, each trainee is expected to continue to complete all the requirements of the NPC Research Training Program, including taking a leadership role in an NPC Committee and/or assisting with […]
NPC Podcast Epsiode #4 | The Neuroethics Group
Neuroethics with Nicholas Cicero and Leo Steiner | Ethical Problems in Neuroscience Research
Florencia Fernandez Chiappe Named a Leading Edge Fellow
Fernandez Chiappe, a Post-Doc in Meg Younger’s lab, was named a Leading Edge fellow for her research on the neural basis of mosquito host-seeking.