Ed Boyden
@eboyden3.bsky.social
Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, MIT. Investigator, HHMI. Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, http://synthneuro.org. Scientist, inventor, entrepreneur.
Just posted, by Nina Khera, @clairebookworm.bsky.social, and myself: “Involuntary collaboration: a strategy for decentralized science”! Discussing the "invent-deploy-discover-design" model, and why the Bell Labs of the 21st century might be the whole earth. engineeringx.substack.com/p/involuntar...
July 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just posted, by Nina Khera, @clairebookworm.bsky.social, and myself: “Involuntary collaboration: a strategy for decentralized science”! Discussing the "invent-deploy-discover-design" model, and why the Bell Labs of the 21st century might be the whole earth. engineeringx.substack.com/p/involuntar...
Down to my last few post-it notes, that my group members made for me in 2014, after I got tenure at MIT. Each post-it note contains something that I said often enough, that my group members thought it would save me time, to simply hand out a post-it note, whenever the wisdom was needed :)
June 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Down to my last few post-it notes, that my group members made for me in 2014, after I got tenure at MIT. Each post-it note contains something that I said often enough, that my group members thought it would save me time, to simply hand out a post-it note, whenever the wisdom was needed :)
Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"In Down syndrome mice, 40Hz light and sound improve cognition, neurogenesis, connectivity." MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/in-down... Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
May 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"In Down syndrome mice, 40Hz light and sound improve cognition, neurogenesis, connectivity." MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/in-down... Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Honored to give the 2025 commencement speech for my amazing high school, the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) at the University of North Texas (students skip years of high school, and go straight to college). My topic - how to engineer serendipity: www.youtube.com/live/nVknJwk...
May 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Honored to give the 2025 commencement speech for my amazing high school, the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) at the University of North Texas (students skip years of high school, and go straight to college). My topic - how to engineer serendipity: www.youtube.com/live/nVknJwk...
Expansion microscopy (ExM) of the entire mouse body (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...), developed by the labs of Profs. Jae-Byum Chang and Young-Gyu Yoon (former SynthNeuro postdocs running labs at KAIST), could empower studies of how multiple systems (nervous, immune, etc.) interact across scales.
March 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Expansion microscopy (ExM) of the entire mouse body (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...), developed by the labs of Profs. Jae-Byum Chang and Young-Gyu Yoon (former SynthNeuro postdocs running labs at KAIST), could empower studies of how multiple systems (nervous, immune, etc.) interact across scales.
The MIT McGovern Institute’s story celebrating the 10th birthday of expansion microscopy (ExM). One highlight: ExM is not only easy to do, it’s easy to modify - so lots of people are altering and applying ExM for custom purposes, leading to unexpected innovations: mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/t...
March 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The MIT McGovern Institute’s story celebrating the 10th birthday of expansion microscopy (ExM). One highlight: ExM is not only easy to do, it’s easy to modify - so lots of people are altering and applying ExM for custom purposes, leading to unexpected innovations: mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/t...
Published in final form, Feb 12, 2025: Shin et al., "Dense, continuous membrane labeling and expansion microscopy visualization of ultrastructure in tissues." Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... PDF link: synthneuro.org/publications... News story: mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/02/18/s...
March 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Published in final form, Feb 12, 2025: Shin et al., "Dense, continuous membrane labeling and expansion microscopy visualization of ultrastructure in tissues." Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... PDF link: synthneuro.org/publications... News story: mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/02/18/s...
More catchup :) 2 bioRxiv preprints related to our goals of mapping and modeling entire brains: Dense Continuous Membrane Labeling and Expansion Microscopy..., synthneuro.org/publications... Scaling Properties for Artificial Neural Network Models of Entire C. elegans, synthneuro.org/publications...
November 19, 2024 at 5:15 PM
More catchup :) 2 bioRxiv preprints related to our goals of mapping and modeling entire brains: Dense Continuous Membrane Labeling and Expansion Microscopy..., synthneuro.org/publications... Scaling Properties for Artificial Neural Network Models of Entire C. elegans, synthneuro.org/publications...
Playing catchup :) 2 bioRxiv preprints related to our goal of imaging neural activity across entire brains: In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain, synthneuro.org/publications... Imaging the voltage of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish, synthneuro.org/publications...
November 17, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Playing catchup :) 2 bioRxiv preprints related to our goal of imaging neural activity across entire brains: In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain, synthneuro.org/publications... Imaging the voltage of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish, synthneuro.org/publications...
November 15, 2024 at 12:47 AM