Ed Boyden, PhD, will deliver the 34th John S. Latta Lecture on April 21. The lecture will be delivered from noon to 1 p.m. (CDT) in a hybrid format, via Zoom and with in-person attendance (socially distanced).
Dr. Boyden is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; professor in the departments of brain and cognitive sciences, media arts and sciences and biological engineering at the McGovern Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain and applies them systematically to reveal ground truth principles of biological function as well as to repair these systems.
His lecture, "Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Complex Biological Systems," will explain the principles underlying the technology and uses of:
- Expansion microscopy (ExM), which enables ordinary microscopes to do nanoimaging.
- Optogenetics, which enables the electrical activities of neurons to be precisely driven or silenced in response to pulses of light.
- Voltage imaging and spatially multiplexed live imaging.
An advance RSVP is required by April 11. Lunch is available for the first 80 registrants. For those participating only via Zoom, lunches may be taken to go. An email will be sent the day before the event with further details.