Jerry Chen
Dr. Chen’s interest include studying the relationship between local circuits and long-range networks in the mammalian neocortex. By taking an integrative approach through combining large-scale in vivo imaging technology with molecular and genetic tools in the awake-behaving animal, he focuses on both long-range neocortical networks, and long-range cortical circuits during development.
Ji-Xin Cheng
Dr. Cheng’s research interests include neurophotonics, medical photonics, molecular spectroscopic imaging technologies, label-free microscopy, cancer metabolism, and photonics for infectious diseases. With a focus on the medical application of photonics, Dr. Cheng hopes to advance the field with his research and innovative technologies.
John Connor
Dr. Connor focuses his research on the study of viruses and how they dominate cellular hosts. He aims to develop a greater understanding of how viruses overwhelm or disarm the host defenses in order to develop new antiviral molecules and vaccines which will can augment a human beings’ antiviral defenses. This is approached by applying […]
Luca Dal Negro
Dr. Negro’s research interests include nano-optics and metamaterials, as well as advanced imaging and multifunctional optical devices and the nonlinear and quantum optics of photonic nanostructures. He furthermore studies light scattering and anomalous photon transport in complex media, and the localization and novel wave phenomena in aperiodic structures.
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.
Anna Devor
Dr. Devor centralizes her research interests in the field of cellular and systems-level neuroscience, specifically with regards to the imaging process. She aims to utilize microscopy and physiological underpinning of noninvasive imaging in order to better understand how the brain works, as well as how and why it is affected by disease. The overarching goal […]
Mary Dunlop
Mary Dunlop’s research spans across synthetic biology, microbial systems, feedback control, single cell methods, antiobiotic resistance, metabolic engineering, deep learning, and optogenetics. As the Vice Chair for the BME department, Professor Dunlop is constantly uplifting faculty and student research to new heights.
Michael Economo
Dr. Economo’s laboratory studies the structure and function of the neural circuits distributed across the brain that control movement. His research leverages cutting edge optical, electrophysiological, and genetic tools for recording and manipulating neural activity during behavior and for illuminating the structure of neural circuits.
Kamil Ekinci
Professor Kamil Ekinci’s research focuses on physical and biological phenomena at the nanometer length scales. His group uses state-of-the-art nanofabrication techniques to create functional micro and nanostructures. They use these small structures along with highly sensitive electrical and optical measurement techniques to study diverse fundamental phenomena in solid mechanics, fluid dynamics and biological physics. They […]
Shyamsunder Erramilli
Professor Erramilli works on developing high-resolution infrared microscopy for studying biological systems. Images with spatial and temporal information add to our understanding of these systems. Vibrational spectroscopy is an exquisitely sensitive tool for studying the many biomolecular systems that exhibit characteristic “fingerprint” absorption bands. Combining this sensitivity with microscopy allows the imaging of living systems […]