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Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
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Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / RSS For this special retrospective episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to discuss the past year in conversations and more, including who was most challenging guest to prep for, the most popular — and the most underrated — conversation, a test of Tyler’s knowledge called “Name That Production Function,” listener questions from Twitter, how Tyler has boosted his productivity in the past year, and whether his book and movie picks from 2009...
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Dr. Ed Boyden Optogenetics Neuro- engineer —Neuroscientist at MIT. Associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. BioVideo Dr. George Church Genomics Pioneer Molecular geneticist, pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology. BioVideo Ray Kurzweil Singularitarian Immortalist Director of Engineering at Google, famous inventor, author of How to Create a Mind. BioVideo Dr. Martine Rothblatt Visionary IT & Bio-entrepreneur — American lawyer, author, and life sciences entrepreneur.
A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets
Neuroengineer Ed Boyden wants to know how the tiny biomolecules in our brains generate emotions, thoughts and feelings — and he wants to find the molecular changes that lead to disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer's. Rather than magnify these invisible structures with a microscope, he wondered: What if we physically enlarge them and make them easier to see? Learn how the same polymers used to make baby diapers swell could be a key to better understanding our brains.
Webinar | What automation can do for you: The benefits and pitfalls of automating your microscopy research
In the life sciences, experimental reproducibility and repeatability are essential for ensuring that the results obtained are real and trustworthy. This often involves running an experiment multiple times under identical conditions. When repeating experiments, variation introduced through human error, environmental changes, or technical fluctuations can negatively impact the data and cause the generation of spurious results.
Brain Coprocessors
Ed Boyden, an Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering, and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, will give a presentation on using light to study and treat brain disorders at 3.30pm on Wednesday at EmTech 2010. Watch a live feed of the session here. The last few decades have seen a surge of invention of technologies that enable the observation or perturbation of information in the brain.
MIT Technology Review
When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teaching statement. One of the things I proposed was to teach a class called “How to Think,” which would focus on how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure. In the process of thinking about this, I composed 10 rules, which I sometimes share with students.
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