Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Brown, Emery
Emery N. Brown received his B.A. (magna cum laude) in applied mathematics from Harvard College, his M.A. in statistics from Harvard University, his M.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his residency…
April 5, 2021
Buchanan, JoAnn
JoAnn Buchanan is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Allen Institute and a member of the Neural Coding-EM Connectomics team and the IARPA MICrONS project. Since becoming engaged in EM Connectomics, her focus has been on sample prep and designing protocols for heavy metal en bloc staining. She has performed electron microscopy on a…
January 21, 2021
Buffalo, Elizabeth
Beth Buffalo is Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. She also serves as the Interim Associate Director for Research of the Washington National Primate Research Center. She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, and an M.A. (Philosophy) and Ph.D. (Neuroscience) from the University of California, San Diego….
April 5, 2021
Buhmann, Julia
Julia Buhmann is currently a PostDoc at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. She did her PhD both in the Lab of Jan Funke at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus and in the lab of Matthew Cook (ETH Zurich). During her PhD, she developed AI-based algorithms for the detection of microtubules…
January 12, 2021
Bushong, Eric
Dr. Eric Bushong is Director of Specimen Development. In this role, he is responsible for the development of new specimen preparative methods to propel resource capabilities for correlated multi scale, multimodal imaging. He is a talented and very accomplished microscopist and neuroscientist, whose early contributions were instrumental in redefining our understanding of astrocyte morphology and…
January 24, 2021
Card, Gwyneth
Gwyneth received her B.S. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard and her PhD. in Bioengineering from Caltech. She has been a Group Leader at Janelia since 2010. Her lab is interested in simple perceptual decision-making and uses the Drosophila escape response as a model system. Her lab combines high-throughput, high-resolution behavioral quantification with genetic, electrophysiological, and…
January 12, 2021
Cardona, Albert
Albert Cardona studied Biology at the University of Barcelona (1996-2000), where he also completed a PhD in Developmental Biology (2000-2005). After a short stint as a software engineer at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich (2005) and a postdoc in neurobiology of Drosophila at UCLA (2005-2008), which led to the founding of the Fiji image…
March 1, 2021
Chance, Frances
Frances Chance is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Data-Driven and Neural Computing department at Sandia National Laboratories. Her primary research interests lie in understanding how biological neural networks represent, transform, and transmit information in the brain. Her current projects utilize computational modeling and mathematical analysis of neurons and neural networks to…
March 17, 2021
Chen, Si
Si is a beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source. During her career at Argonne, Si has made a notable impact to the nano-imaging and microscopy. She has lead several strategic efforts including the development of the Bionanoprobe, which is a hard X-ray scanning nanoprobe with cryogenic capabilities and the first instrument of its kind in the…
January 12, 2021
Chung, Kwanghun
Kwanghun Chung is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, as well as a Core Member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). He is also a Core Member of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. He received his B.S. in Chemical…
January 21, 2021
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