Shen Ning
Shen Ning (Boas Lab) graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biology and Society and a minor in Cognitive Science in 2015. She first ventured into the field of neuroscience during her junior year abroad at Oxford University, where she worked on research projects aimed at understanding the basis of working memory. She was drawn to […]
Jacob Norman
Jacob Norman (White Lab) found the brain fascinating from a very young age, and the use of photonics allows for the collection of unique and informative data. He became involved in Neurophotonics through the recommendation of my senior lab members, Bahar and Jad. They mentioned how beneficial the program is and highly recommended he join. […]
Jad Noueihed
Jad Noueihed (White lab) graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.E. in electrical and computer engineering and an M.S. from the Technical University of Munich in Communication systems engineering. He became involved in neurophotonics in Dr. John White’s lab while conducting visually-guided patch-clamping experiments to study theta rhythm generation. For his dissertation, Jad is […]
Walker O’Brien
Walker O’Brien ( lab)
Antonio Ortega
Antonio Ortega (Boas lab) is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student. He is an Electrical Engineer from the Universidad of Guadalajara (Mexico) and has a Masters in Optics from the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (Mexico). While there, he worked for several years in industrial applications of light and infrared technology, mainly in quality control through […]
El Ottman
Dr. El Ottman (Neuromotor Recovery Lab) is a research physical therapist and current second year Rehabilitation Sciences PhD student at Boston University in the Neuromotor Recovery Laboratory, co-mentored by Dr. Lou Awad and Dr. Terry Ellis. She received her B.S. in Kinesiology with a Neuroscience minor from the University of San Francisco in 2015, and her […]
Meredith Pecukonis
Meredith Pecukonis (CARE lab) is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and is conducting her research at the Center for Autism Research Excellence under the mentorship of Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg. Currently, she is interested in using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to identify the neural underpinnings of social communication differences in […]
Byron Price
Byron Price (Gavornik lab) became interested in neurophotonics through its usefulness in neuroscience. He is intrigued by the prospects of recording thousands of neurons simultaneously and leveraging genetic tools in mice to target individual cell types for imaging or optogenetic manipulation, and hopes to eventually use neurophotonic tools for real-time neural control experiments. He received a […]
Bahar Rahsepar
Bahar Rahsepar (White lab) first became involved in neurophotonics as an undergraduate working in Robert Gross’s lab at Emory University, on a project using optogenetics in rats to investigate mechanisms underlying treatment of epileptic seizures by DBS. She graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014 with B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. For her dissertation, she is investigating mechanisms underlying […]
Fartash Samie Yousefi
Fartash Samie Yousefi ( lab)