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 […]
De’Ja Rogers
De’Ja Rogers (Boas Lab) received her Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree at Norfolk State University. During her time there, she took an intro to optics and a bioelectronics course. She became interested in both topics and couldn’t decide on which one she wanted to pursue. Her mentor notified her of a program at Boston University that could combine […]
Fartash Samie Yousefi
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Sanaya Shroff
Sanaya Shroff (Han lab) graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in 2016. After attending an invited talk about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, she became interested in using engineering principles to solve the problems of brain disease, particularly cancers like glioblastoma. At Boston University, Sanaya is completing her […]
Naomi Shvedov
Naomi Shvedov (Scott Lab) graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S in Cell Biology and Neuroscience Honors. At Rutgers, she became fascinated with neurophotonics in the Margolis Lab while using two-photon microscopy in awake, behaving mice to study calcium activities of distinct cell populations in the striatum. Now, at Boston University’s Graduate Program for Neuroscience, […]
Sudiksha Sridhar
Sudiksha Sridhar (Han Lab) graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar with a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, followed by an M.S.E from University of Pennsylvania in Chemical Engineering. She became interested in neurophotonics while working at the Penn Center of Innovation and in the Penn I corps where she was exposed to commercializing or […]
Ashley St. John
Ashley St. John (Davison Lab) graduated from Lafayette College in 2018 with a B.S. in neuroscience. She became interested in neurophotonics at the end of her first year in graduate school within Ian Davison’s lab where she learned how to use two-photon microscopy to conduct in vivo calcium imaging of neurons during sensory processing in mice. […]
Jenny (Jingyi) Sun
Jenny (Jingyi) Sun (Mertz lab) appreciates the beauty of optics, and engineers optics to image the mysteries of the brain. She graduated with a B.S.E degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2016, with a research background in optical signal processing. In her graduate studies at Boston University, Jenny gravitated towards neurophotonics through seminars, classes, and conversations, and […]
Smrithi Sunil
Smrithi Sunil (Boas lab) Smrithi Sunil is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Boston University. She received her BS in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in May 2015. She is a PhD candidate in the BOAS Lab, where she will be applying various optical techniques […]