Jessica Chomik-Morales: Mi Ultima Neurona McGovern Institute 2022-05-23 | Jessica Chomik-Morales es una neurocientífica en el Instituto McGovern de MIT y fundadora y presentadora del podcast de neurociencia en español Mi Última Neurona. A Jessica, cuya familia es de Paraguay, le apasiona ofrecer contenido gratuito y valioso a la comunidad hispana mundial, que ha sido históricamente subrepresentada en las ciencias en parte por la barrera del idioma. Al entrevistar a neurocientíficos de diferentes orígenes, espera que su podcast inspire a la próxima generación de científicos hispanos.
McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries; MEG Software Presentation McGovern Institute 2024-03-22 | McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries aims to showcase innovative applications of MEG neuroimaging technology and bring into spotlight the MEG core facility at MIT’s McGovern Institute.MEG Software Presentation (MNE Python – Mainak Jas, Brainstorm – Sylvain Baillet, FIND Neuro – Noam Peled)
McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries; Sylvain Baillet McGovern Institute 2024-03-22 | McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries aims to showcase innovative applications of MEG neuroimaging technology and bring into spotlight the MEG core facility at MIT’s McGovern Institute.Speaker: Professor Sylvain Baillet, PhD, Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences McGill UniversityTalk Title: Systems Neurophysiology of Predictive Mechanisms in Human Perception and Cognition.
McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries; Leyla Isik McGovern Institute 2024-03-22 | McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries aims to showcase innovative applications of MEG neuroimaging technology and bring into spotlight the MEG core facility at MIT’s McGovern Institute.Speaker: Leyla Isik, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and SciencesTalk Title: From neural dynamics to neural computations: recognizing objects, actions, and social interactions
McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries; David Poeppel McGovern Institute 2024-03-22 | McGovern-MEGIN Symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries aims to showcase innovative applications of MEG neuroimaging technology and bring into spotlight the MEG core facility at MIT’s McGovern Institute.Speaker: Professor David Poeppel, PhD. Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, Department of Psychology, New York University Co-Director, Center for Language, Music, and Emotion, New York University Scientific Director and CEO, Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Germany.Talk Title: There can be no neuroscience of language without MEG.
Seasons Greetings from the McGovern Institute! McGovern Institute 2023-12-17 | The McGovern Institute's 2023 holiday video (shown above) was inspired by research conducted in John Gabrieli's lab, which found that practicing mindfulness reduced children's stress levels and negative emotions during the pandemic. These findings contribute to a growing body of evidence that mindfulness can change patterns of brain activity associated with emotions and mental health. Coloring is one form of mindfulness, or focusing awareness on the present. The postcards featured in this video represent the various scales at which McGovern researchers study the brain (from genes to artificial intelligence), and hidden within each postcard are subtle design elements that symbolize McGovern research. To download and color your own McGovern postcards, check out our complete postcard collection at https://mcgovern.mit.edu/postcards. Happy holidays and may the spirit of mindfulness bring you peace in the year ahead!Credits:Joseph Laney (illustration)Jacob Pryor (animation)JR Narrows, Space Lute (sound design)
Decoding the Brain at the 2023 Cambridge Science Festival McGovern Institute 2023-10-04 | More than a dozen McGovern Institute researchers participated in "Decoding the Brain," an interactive exhibit at the MIT Museum as part of the 2023 Cambridge Science Festival. It was a huge success! Huge thanks to Rohan Kundargi of MIT's Office of Government and Community Relations for this fun video.
Miranda Dawson: Imaging Addiction McGovern Institute 2023-08-31 | Miranda Dawson wants to understand what happens in the brain during the cycle of addiction. Using novel sensors developed in the Jasanoff lab, Dawson is illuminating the circuits involved in fentanyl craving and withdrawal. Learn more: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2023/08/29/engineering-nature/
A Journey Through the Mouse Brain McGovern Institute 2023-07-11 | As part of an effort supported by the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center, Fan Wang’s lab at the McGovern Institute has developed a technique that makes the mouse head transparent and visualizes the nervous system in unprecedented detail. The team used a new “clearing” protocol, developed in collaboration with Life Canvas using the Smart SPIM microscope, to visualize all of the cholinergic neurons in the mouse’s head and neck. Cholinergic neurons use the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to send messages in the brain and body. In the peripheral nervous system, the cholinergic system encompasses somatic motor neurons (which originate in the central nervous system and project to the muscles) and autonomic neurons (a network of nerves throughout the body that control unconscious processes). The cholinergic autonomic neurons include all parasympathetic neurons (which carry signals that relax the body), a small number of sympathetic neurons (which regulate sweating responses), and subsets of neurons in the gut. Together these autonomic neurons regulate involuntary physiologic processes including heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual arousal. Despite its importance, the details of cholinergic innervation in the head remain poorly understood. In this video, Wang’s team visualized all cholinergic neurons and their innervations using the choline acetyltransferase-Cre; Cre-dependent tdTomato reporter mouse (ChAT-Cre;Ai14). Cholinergic neurons here express a red fluorescent protein tdTomato. This video reveals an intricate pattern of innervation in the parasympathetic nervous system, which has never been seen in such detail before. In the head, the parasympathetic system extensively innervates the vascular system. This vascular innervation by the parasympathetic system is not observed in the rest of the body, suggesting that the parasympathetic system plays a unique role in controlling blood flow. Video courtesy of Jun Takatoh and Fan Wang.
Magnetically actuated fiber-based soft robots McGovern Institute 2023-06-20 | Scientists in Polina Anikeeva's lab at MIT’s McGovern Institute have developed tiny, soft-bodied robots that can be controlled with a weak magnet. The robots, formed from rubbery magnetic spirals, can be programmed to walk, crawl, swim—all in response to a simple, easy-to-apply magnetic field. The above video shows cargo transport by a crawler under a unidirectional magnetic field. Video: Bioelectronics Group, MIT
What Makes Us Human? McGovern Institute 2023-05-17 | Meet twelve McGovern researchers whose work is revealing a remarkable picture of the human experience.FABIO CATANIA (Computational Neuroscientist, Ghosh + Breazeal Labs)designs computational models and adaptive technologies to help minimally verbal autistic individuals communicate with the world.MIRANDA DAWSON (Bioengineer, Jasanoff Lab)develops molecular tools to image the brain and study how it changes during the cycle of addictionNICKI DRISCOLL (Biomedical Engineer, Anikeeva Lab)builds soft, flexible probes to interface with the brain and understand the dynamics that give rise to addiction.MICHAEL FERNANDEZ (Mechanical Engineer, Herr Lab)develops prosthetic devices that translate thoughts into intentional, biologically-inspired movement.ANNA IVANOVA (Cognitive Scientist, Fedorenko Lab)uses computational models and brain imaging to study the relationship between language and thought.JOSEPH KREITZ (Bioengineer, Zhang Lab)engineers molecular syringes to deliver therapeutic cargo into human cells.EVA LENDARO (Neuroscientist, Wang Lab)investigates the neural circuits underlying chronic pain, including phantom limb pain.ERIC MARTINEZ (Lawyer, Saxe + GIbson Labs)studies how the human brain understands and interprets the law.BRYAN MEDINA (Computational Neuroscientist, Fiete + McDermott Labs)uses computational models to study how people remember the sounds they hear.SETAYESH RADKANI (Cognitive Neuroscientist, Jazayeri +uses Saxe Labs)uses the tools of cognitive neuroscience and machine learning to study the social and moral mind.QUIQUE TOLOZA (Physicist, Harnett Lab)studies the properties of individual neurons and how their complex computations give rise to the mind.NANCY TSAI (Cognitive Scientist, Gabrieli Lab)studies how stress influences brain function and develops technologies to promote mental well-being.Credits: Julie Pryor (producer) + Giro Studio (video) Jake Pryor (animation) + JR Narrows (sound)
Being Mindful about Mental Health McGovern Institute 2023-03-30 | Mindfulness meditation, in which practitioners focus their awareness on the present moment, can modulate activity within the brain’s default mode network, which is so named because it is most active when a person is not focused on any particular task. Two hubs within the default mode network, the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex, are of particular interest to McGovern Institute research affiliate Whitfield-Gabrieli and her colleagues, due to a potential role in the symptoms of depression and anxiety.“These two core hubs are very engaged when we're thinking about the past or the future and we're not really engaged in the present moment,” she explains. “If we're in a healthy state of mind, we may be reminiscing about the past or planning for the future. But if we're depressed, that reminiscing may turn into rumination or obsessively rehashing the past. If we're particularly anxious, we may be obsessively worrying about the future.”Whitfield-Gabrieli explains that these key hubs are often hyperconnected in people with anxiety and depression. The more tightly correlated the activity of the two regions are, the worse a person’s symptoms are likely to be. Mindfulness, she says, can help interrupt that hyperconnectivity.
K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center Symposium - Bartlett Mel, University of Southern California McGovern Institute 2023-01-20 | From April 6, 2022, hosted at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center Symposium - Xiao Jing Wang, New York University McGovern Institute 2023-01-19 | From April 6, 2022, hosted at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center Symposium - Abigail Person, University of Colorado School of Medicine McGovern Institute 2023-01-19 | From April 6, 2022, hosted at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center Symposium - Bob Datta, Harvard Medical School McGovern Institute 2023-01-19 | From April 6, 2022, hosted at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center Symposium - Jeff Magee, Baylor College of Medicine McGovern Institute 2023-01-19 | From April 6, 2022, hosted at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Brains on Conlangs McGovern Institute 2022-12-13 | November 11, 2022How do human brains create and process constructed languages (conlangs), like Esperanto, Klingon, Dothraki, or Na’vi?A network of regions in the left hemisphere of our brain responds robustly when we read or listen to language, but not when we solve arithmetic or logic problems, listen to music, or observe others’ facial expressions or gestures. But what precise features of language drive this network remains debated. One way to tackle this question is to test the “limits” of the language network by examining how it responds to artificially created languages—conlangs. Like natural languages, conlangs can express any idea. However, although these languages are typically modeled on natural languages, they have not undergone thousands of years of evolution and have not been optimized by communicative pressures and learning constraints. So, does listening to Esperanto, Klingon, or Dothraki activate the brain network that processes natural languages?To explore this question, McGovern Investigator Ev Fedorenko with her graduate student Saima Malik-Moraleda will scan the brains of proficient speakers of five conlangs (Esperanto, Klingon, Dothraki, High Valyrian, and Na’vi) while they listen to sentences spoken in the language of interest. Four conlang creators — Marc Okrand (Klingon), David Peterson and Jessie Sams (Dothraki and High Valyrian), and Paul Frommer (Na’vi) — will discuss the process of language creation. Linguists Damián Blasi and Arika Okrent will talk about their research relevant to conlangs, linguistic creativity, and linguistic diversity. And Fedorenko and Malik-Moraleda will present some preliminary findings from their research. There will also be language games organized by Duolingo.
Seasons Greetings from the McGovern Institute! McGovern Institute 2022-12-12 | This year's holiday greeting was inspired by Ev Fedorenko's July 2022 Nature Neuroscience paper, which found similar patterns of brain activation and language selectivity across speakers of 45 different languages. Learn more: http://mcgovern.science/language
Omar Rutledge: From the Battlefield to the Lab McGovern Institute 2022-06-23 | As a teenager, Omar Rutledge was a US infantry soldier in Iraq. When he got out of the Army and returned home to the US, everything seemed different. The war had changed him. Now, as a neuroscientist at the McGovern Institute, Omar wants to understand how trauma changes the brain, and more importantly, he hopes to develop better treatments for people struggling with mental health.
Paul Reginato: Making Maps of Cells McGovern Institute 2022-06-16 | Each cell in our body contains six feet of DNA. All of this genetic material is bundled into a tiny package one-tenth the width of a human hair. Paul Reginato, a biological engineer at the McGovern Institute, has developed a technology that allows researchers to untangle this bundle and read the letters of DNA inside the cell. These DNA “maps” are providing scientists with new clues about how neurons work in the brain.
Malik and Miles George: TikTok Twins Take on Neuroscience McGovern Institute 2022-06-16 | As Black students in the STEM community, Malik and Miles George are on a mission to spread science advocacy and diversity to students of all ages. Their TikTok account, which has amassed more than one million likes, features dozens of science videos on topics ranging from physics to COVID-19 vaccines. The fraternal twins and MIT undergrads bring their signature style and infectious humor to this McGovern Minute, where they list the top five reasons to study the brain.
Tingting Zhou - Solving Schizophrenia McGovern Institute 2022-06-16 | An estimated 24 million people in the world suffer from schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder that affects a person’s ability to think clearly. Although some treatments can help, there is currently no cure. McGovern neuroscientist Tingting Zhou hopes to change that. She is repairing the abnormal genes and brain circuits linked to schizophrenia, with hopes of one day solving the mystery of this devastating disorder.
Fernanda de la Torre: Imagining a Better Future McGovern Institute 2022-06-16 | As a young child growing up in Mexico, Fernanda de la Torre crossed the border with her family because they imagined a better future for themselves in America. As a teenager, she escaped an abusive home because she imagined a safer place somewhere else. Now, as a computational neuroscientist at the McGovern Institute, Fernanda uses math to understand how the brain distinguishes imagination from reality.
Quique Toloza: From Video Games to Brain Science McGovern Institute 2022-06-16 | Quique Toloza was obsessed with video games as a kid — so obsessed, he built a computer and programmed video games based on his own wild imagination. Quique is now a physicist at the McGovern Institute, where he builds computer models of the brain to try to understand how and why the brain works the way it does. And just like his early video games, the only limit to what Quique builds, is his own imagination.
Ashley Thomas: What Puppets Can Teach Us About Babies Brains McGovern Institute 2022-06-07 | Before babies learn to talk, it is almost impossible to know what they’re thinking. Ashley Thomas, a cognitive scientist at the McGovern Institute, has begun to unlock the mystery of babies’ brains using a very unusual tool: puppets. By observing how babies respond to puppets in various situations, Ashley shows us that babies understand a surprising amount about the social world around them.
Kian Caplan - Living with OCD, ADHD, and Tourette Syndrome McGovern Institute 2022-06-07 | Kian Caplan was bullied as a child. He couldn’t control the sounds or movements he made, and his peers ridiculed him for being different. As a teenager, Kian was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, and Tourette syndrome. Today, he is a McGovern neuroscientist on a quest to understand what makes his brain different — and to recruit other neurodiverse students to study the brain.
Dana Boebinger - The Science of Illusions McGovern Institute 2022-06-07 | Optical illusions like #TheDress have baffled and amazed people for centuries, but they also reveal a lot about the inner workings of the human brain. Dana Boebinger, a McGovern neuroscientist who studies perception, explains why our brains sometimes perceive color — and sound — differently.
Jessica Chomik-Morales: A Voice for Change McGovern Institute 2022-05-23 | Jessica Chomik-Morales is a McGovern brain scientist and host of the Spanish neuroscience podcast Mi Ultima Neurona. Jessica, whose family is from Paraguay, is passionate about delivering free and engaging content to the global Hispanic community, which has historically been underrepresented in the sciences. By interviewing neuroscientists of different Hispanic origins, she hopes her podcast will inspire the next generation of Spanish-speaking scientists.en español: youtube.com/watch?v=QKxZlaPq39k
McGovern Institute Holiday Greeting McGovern Institute 2021-12-13 | Happy holidays and best wishes for a healthy and productive new year - from your friends at the McGovern Institute.Pinball animation created by Andy Potts Illustration + Motion
K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics McGovern Institute 2021-09-23 | The K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics was founded at the McGovern Institute in 2021 through a $24M gift from Lisa Yang, a former investment banker committed to advocacy for individuals with visible and invisible disabilities. The center unites scientists, clinicians, and engineers across MIT to create, test, and disseminate bionic technologies that marry human physiology with electromechanics. Learn more at http://mcgovern.mit.edu/bionics Video: Jimmy Day, MIT Media LabImages: STAT, McGovern Institute, MIT Media Lab
SEND: Harnessing human proteins to deliver molecular medicines to cells McGovern Institute 2021-08-19 | Researchers from MIT, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new way to deliver molecular therapies to cells. This animation shows how the system, called SEND, can be programmed to encapsulate and deliver different RNA cargoes. SEND harnesses natural proteins in the body that form virus-like particles and bind RNA, and it may provoke less of an immune response than other delivery approaches. [This video does not contain sound.]Produced by the McGovern Institute and Opus Design in collaboration with Feng Zhang, Rhiannon Macrae, and the Broad Institute.Read the full story: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2021/08/19/scientists-harness-human-protein-to-deliver-molecular-medicines-to-cells/
Hydrogel hybrid probe matches mechanical properties of the brain McGovern Institute 2021-07-07 | New implantable devices developed in Polina Anikeeva's lab at MIT transform and soften to match the mechanical properties of the brain, enabling long-term studies of neural circuits. This video shows Anikeeva's new device (bottom right) causes less stress on brain tissue compared to other probes. Lower stress means less damage and better recording and stimulation performance for a longer period of time. Video: Anikeeva Lab
Squishy, Stealthy Probes McGovern Institute 2021-07-07 | New implantable devices developed in Polina Anikeeva's lab at MIT transform and soften to match the mechanical properties of the brain, enabling long-term studies of neural circuits. In this video, the swollen probe has the same mechanics as the brain so it cannot penetrate the hydrogel. The dried probe acts as a "dried paintbrush" and easily penetrates the hydrogel. When the dried probe is inserted into the target brain region, it hydrates, swells, and softens (assuming the mechanics of the brain). Video: Anikeeva Lab
McGovern Story Slam: Mahdi Ramadan McGovern Institute 2021-04-08 | At 11 years old, Mahdi Ramadan was evacuated from Lebanon during political unrest on a US aircraft carrier. As an immigrant child living in Seattle with his family, Ramadan dreamt of attending college to become a neuroscientist like his hero, Oliver Sacks, but didn’t think college was possible for a kid like him. Now, Ramadan is a graduate student in the Jazayeri lab at MIT. So what changed?
2021 Scolnick Prize Lecture | Joshua Sanes McGovern Institute 2021-04-06 | Cell Types as Building Blocks of Neural CircuitsJoshua Sanes, Harvard University Abstract: Classification of neurons was a major preoccupation of Cajal, but later came to be viewed as a fairly boring enterprise. Over the past few decades, however, inability to define neuronal types emerged as a major bottleneck in analysis of neural circuits and brain disorders. The introduction of high throughput single cell RNAseq in 2015 provided a new way to approach this problem. I will describe its use to generate an atlas of 130 cell types from mouse retina, a particularly accessible part of the brain, and then show how the atlas can be used to probe development, function and dysfunction in new ways: (1) Profiling embryonic retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) to learn how they diversify into ~45 types. (2) Analyzing RGC types following damage to demonstrate dramatic differences in their resilience to injury and identify genes that contribute to resilience. (3) Generating primate retinal atlases and using them to assess expression of genes implicated in blinding diseases. (4) Probing the evolution of cell types by profiling cells from many vertebrate species.
2021 Sharp Prize Lecture: Eve Marder, Differential Resilience of Neurons & Networks to Perturbation McGovern Institute 2021-04-02 | 2021 Phillip A. Sharp Lecture in Neural CircuitsEve Marder, Brandeis UniversityDifferential Resilience of Neurons and Networks to PerturbationAbstract: Both computational and experimental results in single neurons and small networks demonstrate that very similar network function can result from quite disparate sets of neuronal and network parameters. Using the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system, we now study the influence of these differences in underlying structure on differential resilience of individuals to a variety of environmental perturbations, including changes in temperature, pH, potassium concentration and neuromodulation. We show that neurons with many different kinds of ion channels can smoothly move through different mechanisms in generating their activity patterns, thus extending their dynamic range.
McGovern Story Slam: Dipon Ghosh McGovern Institute 2021-03-05 | Can worms without eyes "see" color? This is the question Dipon Ghosh, a postdoctoral fellow in the Horvitz lab, posed to his mentor a few years ago. In this story slam, Ghosh describes the challenges -- and rewards -- of pursuing this question. And the answer may surprise you.
Solving the Brain: Pioneering Tomorrows Neurotechnologies McGovern Institute 2021-03-02 | McGovern Investigator Ed Boyden gives a (virtual) talk to the MIT Club of Great Britain on February 25, 2021Summary: To truly understand the healthy and diseased brain, we need technologies that map and control the brain with great precision. In the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT’s McGovern Institute, our lab combines neurobiology, chemistry, engineering, and computer science to invent novel tools that push the boundaries of brain analysis and repair. In recent years, our group has pioneered a technique to physically expand brains through a chemical process that enables ultrahigh-resolution brain mapping. We discovered that molecules called opsins, when genetically expressed in neurons, can be used to control electrical activity in neurons with pulses of light. This technology, called optogenetics, is paving the way to repairing dysfunctional brain computations. Our group is also inventing new ways of imaging brain activity, revealing how signals within and between neurons work together to implement brain computations. This talk will explain how our lab creates and uses these tools in interdisciplinary and international collaborations to discover new principles of brain computation and new therapeutic strategies for detecting and treating brain disorders, including mental illnesses, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and beyond.
Rotating Zygote McGovern Institute 2020-12-31 | By bringing DNA sequencing out of the sequencer and directly to cells, MIT scientists have revealed an entirely new view of the genome. With a new method for in situ genome sequencing reported December 31, 2020, in the journal Science, researchers can, for the first time, see exactly how DNA sequences are organized and packed inside cells. Learn more: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/12/31/sequencing-inside-cellsThis video shows in situ sequenced DNA loci in a mouse zygote colored by chromosome of origin. Video: Andrew Payne, Zack Chiang, Paul Reginato
Joe Kreitz McGovern Institute 2020-12-23 | In this McGovern Minute, Joe Kreitz, the 2020-2021 Tan-Yang Center Graduate Fellow in Feng Zhang's lab, describes how he is developing a new genetic delivery technique inspired by viruses that attack bacteria.
Changyang Linghu McGovern Institute 2020-12-18 | In this McGovern Minute, Changyang Linghu, a 2020-2021 J. Douglas Tan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Boyden lab, describes a new fluorescent imaging technique that simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell. To learn more about this technology, visit our website: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/11/23/imaging-method-reveals-a-symphony-of-cellular-activities/[Note: Face covering was temporarily removed for a few minutes to make this video, in a room with closed doors and with no other individuals present. The room was disinfected after taking the video.]
Happy Holidays from the McGovern Institute McGovern Institute 2020-12-16 | The McGovern Institute wishes you a safe and healthy 2020 holiday season. Animation courtesy of Jacob Pryor.
McGovern Story Slam: RESILIENCE McGovern Institute 2020-12-02 | The 2020 McGovern Institute story slam was held on November 12 as part of the institute’s 20th anniversary celebration. This video contains a selection of stories from this event.In moving from Russia to Israel, Gabrieli lab postdoc Ola Ozernov-Palchik loses her ability to read, a moment that shapes her work as a researcher. McGovern Institute Scientific Director Jill Crittenden describes turning one rejection letter into two publications. Kristy Johnson, a McGovern and Media Lab grad student, describes her complete career change to develop technology to help her son. Jazayeri lab graduate student Mahdi Ramadan overcomes incredible odds and self-doubt to pursue his dream of coding. Heather Kosakowski, a graduate student in the Saxe and Kanwisher labs, finds a new lease on life after the birth of her daughter.
Introducing the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience McGovern Institute 2020-10-14 | A conversation with researchers at the newly established Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics about how molecular tools are reshaping the future of brain disorder treatments. Featuring McGovern Investigators Polina Anikeeva, Ed Boyden, Guoping Feng and Feng Zhang.Moderated by WBUR’s Carey Goldberg.
20 Years of Discovery McGovern Institute 2019-12-20 | In this video, we look back on key discoveries made by McGovern scientists since our founding in 2000. Learn more about our history on our website: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/about/our-history-and-major-accomplishments/
McGovern Institute 2019 Holiday Greeting McGovern Institute 2019-12-11 | Wishing you a happy and healthy new year filled with adventure and discovery! Artwork: Joe LaneyAnimation: Sputnik AnimationVideo: McGovern Institute
Robert Desimone, Unraveling the Mystery of Brain Disorders: MIT Reunion McGovern Institute 2019-06-19 | ...
Inflated Brain McGovern Institute 2019-04-24 | Animation depicting what the human brain would look like if the cerebral cortex, with its stereotyped pattern of gyri (folds and convolutions) and sulci (fissures and depressions), were inflated.
Yanchao Bi, The Science of Learning at Beijing Normal University: McGovern Institute Symposium McGovern Institute 2019-03-29 | "The Science of Learning at Beijing Normal University"Yanchao Bi, IDG/McGovern Institute, Beijing Normal University
