Nathan Blanke

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Nathan Blanke (Bigio lab) became involved with research in the area of neurophotonics in Dr. Erin Purcell’s lab as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University. He began by working with light-dependent transcription factors for targeting neural regeneration, at the tissue-device interface, following implantation. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University […]

Eleanor Brown

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Eleanor Brown (Howe Lab) graduated from McGill University in 2019 with a degree in cognitive science and a minor in math. She was introduced to Neurophotonics during the International Program for the Advancement of Neurotechnology, in which she participated in 2018. After getting accepted to the Graduate Program for Neuroscience (GPN), Eleanor became interested in the […]

Spencer Byers

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Spencer Byers (Davison Lab) graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in Neuroscience and Molecular Biology in 2016. Following Kenyon, Spencer pursued full-time research for two years at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he tested the efficacy of pro-cognitive compounds molecularly and behaviorally in rodents. At […]

Daniel Carbonero

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Daniel Carbonero (White Lab) became involved in Neurophotonics mostly through the rotation process. He came in with a strong interest in Biomaterials and wet lab work but found himself much more geared toward data science and neural engineering. Daniel received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Miami. His dissertation will involve using […]

Alanna Carey

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Alanna Carey is a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology in the Biology Program. She is from Acton, Massachusetts, and she received her BS in Biology and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2016. Prior to starting at Boston University, she worked as a Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. Beth Stevens at […]

Shuaibin Chang

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Shuaibin Chang (Boas Lab) searched for internship in research facilities as a sophomore. Back then he had no idea what he was going to do in the future. He got an opportunity in a lab that was doing optical imaging related research. There he was exposed to STORM, one of the super resolution imaging techniques […]