[BWH Pathology Grand Rounds] Feb 6, 2017
BWH PATHOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS
Monday, February 6, 2017; 1 – 2 p.m.
Towards Comprehensive Biological Analysis of Intact Cells and Tissues: Expansion Microscopy, Optogenetics, and Other Tools
Edward Boyden, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute,
Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brigham & Women’s Hospital; The Ramzi Cotran Conference Center, 3rd Floor,
Amory Building, Room AL 360F.1; 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
Edward Boyden leads the Media Lab’s Synthetic Neurobiology group, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems, such as the brain, and applies them systematically both to reveal ground truth principles of biological function and to repair these systems.
These technologies, often created in interdisciplinary collaborations, include expansion microscopy (which enables complex biological systems to be imaged with nanoscale precision) optogenetic tools (which enable the activation and silencing of neural activity with light,) and optical, nanofabricated, and robotic interfaces (which enable recording and control of neural dynamics).
Amongst other recognitions, Boyden has received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015), the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award (2015), the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences (2015), the Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award (2013), the Grete Lundbeck Brain Prize (2013), the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2013), the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (twice, 2012 and 2013), and the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize (2011). He was also named to the World Economic Forum Young Scientist list (2013), MIT Technology Review’s international “Top 35 Innovators under Age 35” list (2006), and his work was included in Nature Methods “Method of the Year” in 2010.