Leah Acker: Engineering the Brain
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Leah Acker is a McGovern Institute Friends Fellow who earned her PhD working in the labs of Bob Desimone and Ed Boyden. Leah’s projects involve the invention and application of new technologies for less-invasive neuromodulation, and the study of optogenetic control of brain circuits.