Author: Julie Pryor

Yinqing Li is a graduate student in Feng Zhang’s lab and a McGovern Institute Friends Fellow. His career goal is to “solve the connectome.”

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.

McGovern Institute Spring Symposium 2014
May 2, 2014
Alex Shalek, Harvard University
“Using single cell transcriptomics to explore cellular identity and uncover drivers of cellular behaviors”

McGovern Institute Spring Symposium 2014
May 2, 2014
Je Hyuk Lee, Harvard Medical School
“Highly multiplexed subcellular RNA sequencing in situ”

McGovern Institute Spring Symposium 2014
May 2, 2014
Connie Cepko, Harvard University
“GFP as a regulator of biological activities”

McGovern Institute Spring Symposium 2014
May 2, 2014
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
“Connectomics”

McGovern Institute Spring Symposium 2014
May 2, 2014
Michael Lin, Stanford University
“GFP as an optogenetic Swiss Army knife: New applications in voltage sensing, memory visualization, and optical control of protein activity”

This video shows white matter tracts, the long-range connections of the human brain. The tracts are revealed here through a MRI-based method known as ‘diffusion tensor imaging’ or DTI. The video is based on data produced by Dr Satrajit Ghosh at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.