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Principal Investigator

  • Ed Boyden

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Michael Baratta

  • Yongku Cho

  • Brian Chow

  • Masaaki Ogawa

  • Daniel Schmidt

  • Jorg Scholvin

  • Annabelle Singer

  • Aimei Yang

Graduate and Medical Students

  • Leah Acker

  • Brian Allen

  • Jake Bernstein

  • Amy Chuong

  • Mike Henninger

  • Nathan Klapoetke

  • Emily Ko

  • Albert Kwon

  • Patrick Monahan

  • Giovanni Talei Franzesi

  • Anthony Zorzos

Visiting Scientists and Students

  • Kyungman Kim

  • Jiamin Zhuo

Technical Assistants

  • Alexander Guerra

  • Christian Wentz

Research Affiliates

  • Vinay Gidwaney

  • Nate Greenslit

  • Philip Low

  • Al Strelzoff

UROPs and Other Undergraduate Researchers

  • Claire Ahn

  • Rachel Bandler

  • Allison Dobry

  • Sonya Makhni

  • Tania Morimoto

  • Alex Rodriguez

  • Ashutosh Singhal

  • Jenna Sternberg

  • Victoria Wang

Administrator

  • Lisa Lieberson

Alumni - Senior Lab Members

  • Barbara Barry

  • August Dietrich

  • Xue Han

  • Mingjie Li

  • Xiaofeng Qian

Alumni - M.Eng. and Short Graduate Programs

  • Gilberto Abram

  • Jeremy Chang

  • Azadeh Moini

Alumni - UROPs and Other Undergraduate Researchers

  • Zack Anderson

  • Stephanie Chan

  • Malamo Countouris

  • Gabriel Fouasnon

  • Dhruv Garg

  • Courtney (Drew) Hilliard

  • Jessica Keenan

  • Margaret Kim

  • Eva Klinman

  • Ruben Madrigal

  • Ekavali Mishra

  • Jessica Schirmer

  • Denzil Sikka

  • Jon Spaulding

  • Jerzy Szablowski

  • Augusto Tentori

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Giovanni Talei Franzesi

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

Nic is a (mostly) MIT-bred (B.S., M.Eng, M. S., currently working on his Ph. D.) lab-rat with probably too many scientific interests, currently working on neural synchrony, its modulation, and its potential applications to neuroengineering and psychiatry.

Publications

  • Boyden, E. S., Han, X., Talei Franzesi, G., Chan, S., Bernstein, J., Qian, X., Li, M. (2009) "New Techniques for Investigating Brain Rhythms: Optical Neural Control and Multielectrode Recording," In: Rhythms of the Neocortex: Where Do They Come From and What Are They Good For? (Kopell N., ed.) pp. 65-75. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.

  • Han, X., Qian, X., Bernstein, J.G., Zhou, H.-H., Talei Franzesi, G., Stern, P., Bronson, R.T., Graybiel, A.M., Desimone, R., and Boyden, E.S. (2009) Millisecond-Timescale Optical Control of Neural Dynamics in the Nonhuman Primate Brain, Neuron 62(2): 191-198.

  • Boyden E, Franzesi G T, Qian X, Li M, Han X, Borgers C, Kopell N J, Le Beau F and Whittington M A (2009). Probing mechanisms of gamma rhythmogenesis with cell type-specific optical neural control. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Computational and systems neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.10.2009.03.299

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