Harvard Biocontrols Laboratory

Here are the people who do all the work!

 

 
   

Current Lab Members

     
 

Dr. Gaelle Desbordes, Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: gdesbordes@seas.harvard.edu

  Research:
Population coding, natural vision, eye movement
 

Dr. Qi Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: qiwang@seas.harvard.edu

 

Research:
Thalamocortical transformations, neural prosthetics
 

Ming C. Ding, PhD Candidate
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences and
Harvard/MIT Division of HST

Email: mding@fas.harvard.edu

 

 

Research:
Thalamocortical processing, trauma, rehabilitation, behavior, somatosensory

 

 
               

Homesick Former Lab Members

 

Dr. Ali-reza Boloori, PhD 2007 in DEAS
University of Michigan Law School

Email: seyed@fas.harvard.edu


   

Research:
Spatiotemporal coding, population coding, estimation, somatosensory

 
   

Dr. Robert A. Jenks, PhD 2007 in Physics
McKenzie Consulting

Email: rjenks@gmail.com

 

Research:
Thalamocortical processing, texture encoding, perception, psychophysics, somatosensory

 
   

Dr. Daniel A. Butts, Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Faculty, Cornell Medical College

Email: dab2024@med.cornell.edu

 

 

Research:
Information theory, coding, estimation, vision

 
 

Dr. Roxanna M. Webber, PhD 2006 in DEAS
Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard Medical School

Email: roxanna_webber@hms.harvard.edu

  Research:
Cortical coding, thalamocortical transformations, somatosensory, adaptation
 
 

Dr. Nicholas A. Lesica, PhD 2005 in DEAS
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Munich

Email: lesica@zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de

 

Research:
Adaptation, estimation, detection, natural scenes, vision

 
 

Dr. Loren M. Frank, Former Postoc Fellow

Assistant Prof., Keck Center for Neurobiology, UCSF

Email: loren@phy.ucsf.edu

  Research:
Spatial navigation and learning, plasticity, hippocampal axis
 
 

Dr. Ehab Goldstein, PhD 2003 in DEAS

Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Email: Goldstein.Ehab@bcg.com

  Research:
Prosthetics, voice control, signal processing
 
 

Kathy Miu, Undergraduate Student
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Email: miu@fas.harvard.edu

 

Research:
Adaptation, cortical processing, somatosensory

 
 

Victoria Chang, Undergraduate
Chemistry & Physics

Email: vchang@fas.harvard.edu

  Research:
Vibrissa mechanics, behavior, high speed videography
 
 

Luc Estebanez, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
Ecole Normale Superieure, France

Email: luc.estebanez@ens.fr

  Research:
Histology, behavior training, operant conditioning
 
 

Dr. Matt Johnson, PhD Univ. of Michigan
Postdoctoral Researcher at Cleveland Clinc Foundation

Email: johnsom11@ccf.org

  Research:
Hardware design, signal processing, wireless neuronal recording
 
 

Tim Warren, PhD Candidate
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University

Email: twarren@stanford.edu

  Research:
Behavioral training, operant conditioning
 
 

Kyoko Kaneda, whereabouts unknown


Email: kaneda@post.harvard.edu

  Research:
Hardware design, electrical stimulation of brain tissue
 
 

Tim Mariano, MD/PhD Candidate
Case Western Reserve

Email: mariano@post.harvard.edu

  Research:
Whiskers as sensors, robotic whisking
 
 

Dr. Grant Garrigues, MD/PhD
General surgery intern, Duke Medical School

Email: garrigues@post.harvard.edu

  Research:
Electrode design
 
   

Dr. Tara Keck, postdoctoral researcher
Max-Planck-Institut of Neurobiology

Email: keck@neuro.mpg.de

  Research:
Electrophysiology, somatosensory