Alanna Carey of the Chen Lab Granted NIH D-SPAN Award

Alanna’s current work utilizes a genetically diverse mouse model in an automated home-cage performing a goal-directed learning task to observe how genetic diversity influences learning capacity. Her dissertation aims to demonstrate that genetic variation related to learning can converge on specific neuronal cell types and investigate how molecular, anatomical, or functional properties of neuronal cell […]

BU’s Core Organoid Research Spans CRC & MED Campuses to Restore Organ Function

Organoids are a growing trend in biomedical research fields internationally––but what are they? As the name suggests, it’s a simplified model of an organ made up of cells, studied both in vitro (outside a living organism) and in vivo (inside a living organism) to enhance the understanding and treatment of organ-related diseases and disorders. Their pathology, phenotype, and––in the future––repair, […]

Ian Davison

Dr. Davison focuses on neural circuits’ underlying perception of and behavior in olfaction, with the overarching goal establishing the circuit architecture and neural computations that map chemical cues onto both stereotyped and learned, flexible behaviors.