Interesting Lab Websites

Alexander-Katz group: lipid bilayer physics, biopolymer physics, self-assembly http://web.mit.edu/soft-materials/

Anikeeva lab: bioelectronics, flexible neural probes, optoelectronics, magnetic devices http://www.rle.mit.edu/bioelectronics/

Baker lab: computational protein engineering, de novo protein design, the protein folding problem, homology modeling, ab initio modeling, crowdsourcing methods for protein folding https://www.bakerlab.org/index.php/2016/09/16/the-coming-of-age-of-de-novo-protein-design/

Barron group: using the bee brain as a basis for understanding cognition, biomimetic artificial intelligence, insect neurobiology http://andrewbarron.org/

Berger group: hippocampal prosthesis, brain-brain interfacing, signal processing, implantable neuroelectronics https://cne.usc.edu/

Boyden lab: synthetic neurobiology, expansion microscopy, optogenetic tools, connectomics, directed evolution, protein engineering, optical tools for neuroscience http://syntheticneurobiology.org/

Bruns lab: nanomechanical devices, supramolecular chemistry, rotaxanes https://www.emergentnanomaterials.com/

Chittka lab: honeybee neurobiology and ecology, sensory neurobiology of honeybees, computational neuroscience http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/index.html

Chung lab: CLARITY, related tools for connectomics http://www.chunglab.org/

Church lab: synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology, tools for systems biology, evolutionary biology, genome engineering, CRISPR, aging research, tissue engineering, nanopore sequencing http://arep.med.harvard.edu/

Cohen lab: computational approaches to neural oscillations, experimental approaches to neural oscillations http://mikexcohen.com/#books

Covert lab: computational systems biology, whole-cell simulation, reporters for live-cell imaging, computational image analysis for live-cell imaging https://www.covert.stanford.edu/

Cronin group: molecular computing, information theory in chemistry, automated synthetic chemistry, understanding the origin of life by exploring chemical processes http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/research/

Dionne group: biophotonics, nanophotonics, upconversion nanoparticles, tools for visualizing chemical processes, surface plasmon resonance, nanoparticle-based reporters for mechanobiology and electrophysiology http://dionne.stanford.edu/index.html

Douglas lab: DNA nanotechnology, protein engineering, nanorobotics https://bionano.ucsf.edu/

Doyle group: microparticles for biomedicine, microfluidics, DNA polymer physics https://doylegroup.mit.edu/

Frangakis group: structural biology, cryo-electron tomography for imaging cellular organization, integrating data from atomic resolution reconstruction techniques with cryo-electron tomography, pattern recognition methods to find spatial locations of biomolecules in 3D cryo-electron tomograms http://www.biophys.eu/frangakis/index.php/research

Franklin group: novel nanomaterials for electronics, methods for fabricating nanoelectronics, nanoelectronic biosensors. https://franklin.pratt.duke.edu/research 

Häusser group: neural computations in the cerebellum and neocortex, recording neural activity with Neuropixels, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy for connectomics, simultaneous two-photon imaging and optogenetic manipulation, patch-clamp tools http://www.dendrites.org/about/

Holten group: bio-inspired interfaces, materials science, polymers https://sites.google.com/site/holtengroup/

Horiuchi group: computational sensorimotor neuroscience, neuromorphic VSLI design, neural computation in bats, mobile robotics inspired by neural computations in bats https://isr.umd.edu/Labs/CSSL/horiuchilab/horiuchilab.html

Jeong lab: flexible electronics, brain-machine interfaces, biophotonics, wearable electronic “tattoos” https://www.jeongresearch.org/

Ji lab: optical microscopy tools for neuroscience, neural circuits, computation in visual pathways https://www.jilab.net/research/

Johnson group: branched polymer nanomaterials, hydrogel networks, semiconducting organometallic polymers http://web.mit.edu/johnsongroup/#

Kleinfeld lab: brain microcirculation, imaging with two-photon microscopy and adaptive optics, orofacial motor actions and sensory processing, engineered cell-based reporters for detecting neurotransmitters. https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/index.php

Lee lab: connectomics, electron microscopy of brain tissue, two-photon calcium imaging, neurobiology of motor circuits and association cortex, correlative microscopy, x-ray holographic nanotomography. https://lee.hms.harvard.edu/research

Leifer lab: C. elegans neurobiology, optogenetics, calcium indicators, whole-organism optical neurophysiology, computational neuroscience. http://leiferlab.princeton.edu/index.php

Lieber lab: injectable electronics, biomaterials, brain-machine interfaces, flexible electronics, immunological responses to implanted electronics http://cml.harvard.edu/

Lipson group: robotics, autonomous self-replication, self-aware machines, food printing, computational evolution of soft robots, robots which show creativity, biomimetic machines, particle robotics. https://www.creativemachineslab.com/ 

Lytton group: computational neuroscience, multiscale modeling of neurobiological systems, software development for biophysical modeling, dendritic processing models, network models, molecular models http://neurosimlab.com/content/research

Maharbiz lab: neural dust, implantable microelectronics, brain-computer interfaces, bioelectronics, electrical engineering https://maharbizgroup.wordpress.com/

Metscher lab: x-ray microscopy for developmental morphology, x-ray microscopy of arthropod specimens, contrast agents for x-ray microscopy, dual energy x-ray microscopy, molecular probes for x-ray microscopy https://homepage.univie.ac.at/brian.metscher/index.html

Olsen lab: polymers, protein engineering, network chemistry, nanotechnology http://olsenlab.mit.edu/

Oron lab: far-field super-resolution imaging techniques, optics of biogenic crystals, nanoparticle optics, multiphoton microscopy https://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/DOron/

Pessoa lab: emotion and cognition, computational neuroscience, affective brain networks http://www.lce.umd.edu/

Ramirez group: neurobiology of learning and memory, engineering memories using optogenetics and other techniques in order to treat psychiatric disorders http://theramirezgroup.org/research/

Rodriguez group: micro-electron diffraction for solving molecular structures, new methods for x-ray crystallography, protein engineering, imaging cells using lens-less x-ray diffraction techniques http://rodriguez.chem.ucla.edu/

Schiller lab: cortical computation, single neuron computation, plasticity mechanisms in cortex, sensorimotor learning mechanisms https://schillerj.net.technion.ac.il/projects/

Sestan lab: spatial transcriptomics in the brain, computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, RNA sequencing https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/sestan/resources/

Stavrinidou group: electronic plants, organic electronics, bioelectronics https://liu.se/en/research/electronic-plants#

Wang lab: nanobioelectronics, nanorobotics, nanobiosensors, flexible materials http://joewang.ucsd.edu/

 

Cover image source: Chung lab