How Ultrafast Lasers Developed in Michelle Sander’s Lab are Speeding Up Biological Research | Faculty Spotlight
By Kat J. McAlpine, Photos by Christopher McIntosh Michelle Sander and her lab group at Boston University are seeking out new ways to build ultrafast lasers – lasers that emit such short-lasting pulses of light that their duration is difficult to fathom. “I’m particularly interested in developing lasers on the femtosecond scale – a fraction […]
How Keith Brown’s lab is hastening materials research using machine learning and autonomous research robots
His team has built a “self-driving lab” to handle the grunt work of experiments, freeing them up to think more creatively about solving today’s biggest challenges By Kat J. McAlpine Keith Brown started out his scientific career by studying physics before pivoting to spend time doing materials research. The experience jumping between those two areas […]
How do decisions made in the brain influence behavior?
Jerry Chen’s lab is engineering new tools to visualize the brain’s processes By Tess Joosse At the crux of Jerry Chen’s research are some of the most elemental questions about the cognitive experience. “How do we perceive the world? How do we use that information to make decisions? We’re interested in understanding the basic functions […]