Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Jayaraman, Vivek
Vivek began his career in aerospace engineering and numerical modeling, spending a few years working at MathWorks. Neuroscience courses at Brandeis convinced him to switch fields and get his PhD in Computation & Neural Systems at Caltech, after which he started his own lab at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. At Janelia, his lab has developed methods to record…
January 18, 2021
Jefferis, Gregory
Greg read Natural Sciences at Cambridge before moving to Stanford for his PhD in neuroscience. His thesis research with Liqun Luo introduced the Drosophila olfactory system as a model for studying the development of wiring specificity in the brain. Since 2008 he is an MRC Investigator at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (where the…
February 24, 2021
Kasthuri, Bobby
Dr. Kasthuri is the first Neuroscience Researcher at Argonne National Labs and an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Chicago. He has an MD from Washington University School of Medicine and a D.Phil. from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Kasthuri developed an automated…
January 21, 2021
Kim, Keun-young
Dr. Kim is a project scientist at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) and her primary focus is in applying innovative techniques of correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) adapted to solve biological projects. Her research explores the development of methodologies and techniques to retrieve information from biological specimens using a wide…
January 12, 2021
Kornfeld, Joergen
Jörgen is a postdoctoral associate at MIT and has more than 10 years of experience in the area of EM based connectomics. He has worked on all steps of the connectomics pipeline, ranging from sample preparation in the wet lab to machine learning based automatic tracing and synapse detection. Jörgen received a Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship…
Kung, Harriet
Dr. Harriet Kung is the Deputy Director for Science Programs in the Office of Science (SC) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The SC mission is to deliver the scientific discoveries and major scientific tools that transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States. SC…
February 6, 2021
Lee, Wei-Chung Allen
Wei-Chung Allen Lee is an Assistant Professor in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Wei received his Ph.D. from MIT for his work with Elly Nedivi and was a postdoctoral fellow with Clay Reid at Harvard. Since starting his lab in 2016, his group works to understand how…
January 12, 2021
Lein, Ed
Ed Lein is Senior Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. He received a B.S. in biochemistry from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from UC Berkeley, and performed postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies….
March 22, 2021
Lichtman, Jeff
Jeff Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. He received an AB from Bowdoin (1973), and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University (1980) where he worked for 30 years before moving to Cambridge in 2004. He is a member of the Center for Brain Science. Lichtman’s research interest…
January 18, 2021
Lin, Albert
Albert received his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 2015, with a certificate in Biophysics. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate with Dr. Aravinthan Samuel at Harvard University. Albert studies the compact nervous system of the nematode worm C. elegans, pursuing biological and technological approaches which will help bridge single-cell and network scales of…
February 1, 2021
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