Your brain mediates everything that you sense, feel, think, and do. The brain is incredibly complex - each cubic millimeter of your brain contains perhaps a hundred thousand cells, connected by a billion synapses, each operating with millisecond precision. We develop tools that enable the mapping of the molecules and wiring of the brain, the recording and control of its neural dynamics, and the repair of its dysfunction. We distribute our tools as freely as possible to the scientific community, and also apply them to the systematic analysis of brain computations, aiming to reveal the fundamental mechanisms of brain function, and yielding new, ground-truth therapeutic strategies for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
News
- Science: cortical column and whole-brain imaging with nanoscale resolution (1/18/2019)
- Nature Methods: review on expansion microscopy technology and its applications (12/20/2018)
- CNN: feature on implosion fabrication, a way to make nanoscale objects by shrinking patterned hydrogels (12/18/2018)
- Science: nanofabrication by shrinking patterned hydrogels (12/14/2018)
- Nature: technology feature on expansion microscopy and other tools (12/4/2018)
- Synbiobeta interview with Ed Boyden on the future of neuroscience (11/19/2018)
- Congrats to Fei Chen, who was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list. (Forbes, 11/13/2018)
- Congrats to Erica Jung, Deblina Sarkar, Limor Freifeld, and Young Gyu Yoon, who accepted tenure-track faculty jobs (10/18/2018)
- Boyden selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (5/23/2018)
- Congrats to Nikita Pak, Young Gyu Yoon, and David Rolnick for passing their PhD defenses. (5/15/2018)
- Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award (MIT News, 3/27/2018)
- Nature Chemical Biology: In vivo fluorescent voltage imaging of neural activity (2/26/2018)
- A Neurobiologist Thinks Big — and Small (Quanta Magazine, 1/18/2018)
- New Electrical Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise in Mice (New York Times, 6/1/2017)