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Amy Chuong

[Web: http://syntheticneurobiology.org/] [Email: ellipsis, followed by @media.mit.edu] [Phone: N/A]

Amy is currently a graduate student in the Synthetic Neurobiology lab, in the department of Media Arts and Sciences, and has been working in the Boyden lab since 2008 on novel molecular engineering projects for sensitizing specific cellular functions to optical control. Her undergraduate degrees from MIT are in biology, chemistry, and writing. She likes dystopic literature.

Publications

Chow, B. Y.*, Han, X.*, Dobry, A. S., Qian, X., Chuong, A. S., Li, M., Henninger, M. A., Belfort, G. M., Lin, Y., Monahan, P. E., Boyden, E. S. (2010) High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light-driven proton pumps, Nature 463:98-102.
Han X, Qian X, Stern P, Chuong A and Boyden ES (2009) Informational Lesions: Optical Perturbation of Spike Timing and Neural Synchrony Via Microbial Opsin Gene Fusions, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2:12. doi:10.3389/neuro.02.012.2009

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