Kaitlyn Dorst

Kaitlyn Dorst (Ramirez lab) became aware of BU Neurophotonics through the Society for Neuroscience Conference in 2016. At the time, she was involved in research using optogenetic techniques to study the neural underpinnings of breathing behavior. She received a B.S. in Biology from the College of William & Mary. She does not have a solid […]

Natalie Gilmore

Natalie Gilmore (Aphasia Research Laboratory) is a doctoral candidate working with Dr. Swathi Kiran in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Sargent College. She achicved her BA in communication sciences & disorders from the University of Pittsburgh and an MS in medical speech-language pathology from the University of Washington. Before returning for her doctorate in […]

Jaimie Girnis

Jaimie Girnis is a PhD candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences. Originally from Binghamton, New York, Jaimie received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Binghamton University and her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Jaimie also completed the one-year Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency Program at Boston University. […]

Carlos Gomez

Carlos Gomez (Roblyer Lab) graduated from Boston University in 2016 with B.S in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Nanotechnology. He was first introduced to neurophotonics during his senior capstone project where he worked on a miniature fluorescent microscope for awake animal studies with Professor Timothy Gardner’s group. After graduation, Carlos worked as a research […]

Alex Gray

Alex Gray is a PhD student in the Biomedical Optics Laboratory (BMO) (https://www.bu.edu/bmo/) at Boston University. He received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 2019 before joining Boston University, where he developed techniques for rapid imaging of oral cancer margin assessment using elastic scattering spectroscopy. In January 2021, he earned his M.S. in […]

Joseph Greene

Joseph Greene (Tian Lab) received his B.S in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Nanotechnology from Boston University in 2018 and received his M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Boston University in 2019. He was first exposed to Neurphotonics during his Master’s program, when he decided to pursue a growing interest in computational imaging […]

Munib Hasnain

Munib Hasnain (Economo Lab) graduated from the University of Houston in 2017 with a B.S in Mechanical Engineering. He became casually interested in neuroscience after graduation and then became involved in neurophotonics at Boston University while rotating in various labs where he used various computational techniques to analyze calcium imaging data, among other projects. He […]

Havva Begum Kabagoz

Havva Begum Kabagoz (Ramachandran lab) received her BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (specialized in Analog Electronics) and her BSc in Physics (specialized in Optoelectronics) from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2017,  and started her PhD in Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. She works in Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran’s Nanostructure Fibers and Nonlinear […]

Scott Knudstrup

Scott Knudstrup (Gavornik lab) received his BFA in Music in 2008 from the California Institute of the Arts and later earned a BS in Mathematical Biology in 2015 from the University of Michigan. He became involved in neurophotonics after joining the Gavornik lab in 2017 as a PhD student in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience (GPN) where he […]