Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Columbia University Dr. Tomer’s lab develops and applies molecular, optical and data analytic methods for multi-scale understanding of complex biological systems. Personal Website
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Ozgur Sahin
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Physics Columbia University The Sahin Laboratory investigates biological systems that function under physical extremes like short timescales, confinement to nanoscale regions of space, and high mechanical forces. Quite often we encounter interesting phenomena in these biological systems that we enjoy applying to medical, environmental, and energy related problems. Personal Website
Elizabeth Hillman
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University Dr. Hillman’s research focuses on capturing functional information about living tissues using optical techniques. A major theme of her laboratory is in-vivo neuroimaging, and, in particular the examination of the relationship between blood flow changes in the brain and underlying neuronal activity. This work has led to the development of a range of […]
Barclay Morrison
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University In the Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory, Dr. Morrison is studying (1) the biomechanics of traumatic brain injury (Kang and Morrison III 2014, Kang and Morrison III 2015) and (2) why brain cells die after a traumatic brain injury (Kang and Morrison III 2014, Kang and Morrison III 2015) and testing novel therapeutics to prevent […]
Randy Bruno
Associate Professor of Neuroscience Columbia University Randy Bruno asks the question How do real neural networks–composed of numerous different types of neurons, interconnected by complex arrangements of synapses–process information? We have been pursuing this question in the rodent whisker-barrel system, where anatomically and functionally distinct networks (barrels and barrel columns) are clearly identifiable and the sensory transducers that provide input […]
Rafael Yuste
Research Area I: Optical Methods for Neuroscience Leader Columbia University Rafael Yuste is a Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, CoDirector of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science and Director of the NeuroTechnology Center (NTC) at Columbia University. He has scientific expertise in the fields of the anatomy, physiology, and computation in cortical microcircuits with an extensive track record in […]
Darcy Peterka
Director of Technologies Columbia University Darcy Peterka is a Senior Scientist and Director of Cellular Imaging in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Director of Technologies for the NeuroTechnology Center (NTC) at Columbia University. Email: dp2403@columbia.edu Personal Website Publications: Peterka DS, Takahashi H, Yuste R. Imaging Voltage in Neurons. Neuron. 2011 Jan 13; 69(1):921. [PubMed] Nikolenko V, Watson BO, Araya […]