Adam Cohen
@AdamEzraCohen
from biophysics to computation
Alternate working title: 2P or not 2P? That is the question.
Just published: Optical constraints on two-photon voltage imaging. tl;dr: it's really hard to get enough photons via 2P excitation to overcome shot noise, while keeping below thermal and photochemical damage limits. spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro…
I wrote an Op-Ed about the government's attacks on Harvard. Please share with anybody who thinks these attacks help anybody. prosyn.org/PhWi74r?h=KyJ1…
Moved to bluer skies. Last one out, please turn off the lights.
Harry (@h4rrymcnamara) is thoughtful, creative, and kind. His lab will be a great place to do exciting science at the interface of physics and biology.
a personal update: in January, I'm moving to Yale to join @MCDB_Yale and to open my lab in the @WuTsaiYale Institute! We will investigate multicellular self-organization using synbio tools to read and write developmental signals in stem cell models. syndevbio.org
Our study decoding gastruloid symmetry breaking is now live @NatureCellBio! rdcu.be/dVMLG Thank you to the NCB edititorial team and to our reviewers for a constructive review process which helped improve our study. A thread on updates (1/n):
Come be my colleague! @HarvardCCB is hiring. Our department takes a broad view of Chemistry, so please apply even if you are just lightly chemist-flavored. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13906…
Exciting job opportunity! 🚀 My team at @czbiohub SF is hiring a motivated and ambitious Research Assistant! (Bachelor or Master level) Join us to work at the intersection of developmental biology🥚, cutting-edge imaging🔬, and molecular biology & genomics🧬. You will learn a…
Hear from Adam Cohen of @Harvard about #optogenetics, his work in the field, and what potential he sees for its future. bit.ly/3WzDhgv #bioeng #biologicalengineering #optogenetics2024
Congratulations Linlin Fan, Ph.D., recipient of a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience for the project "All-optical interrogation of endocannabinoid-mediated inhibitory synaptic plasticity during learning." fanlab.mit.edu @LinlinZFan @SimonsFdn
Really fun to play a small part on this effort from @AdamEzraCohen, @PojeongP, @jdwong_campos and team! Shameless plug: I'll be talking about the 3D reconstruction method at @OptoGRC next week. Come hang!
Here are some neural fireworks for 4th of July! A 3D reconstruction of a pair of optogenetically triggered spikes in a CA1 pyramidal cell, acute slice. Stim to blue branch. With Liam Paninski's lab, supported by @cziscience. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This is beautiful work, from an amazing team!
Meet MagLOV: an engineered protein that responds STRONGLY to magnetic fields. This is a fluorescence timelapse of MagLOV in E. coli. We're waving a (small) magnet under the plate. Can you tell where the magnet is? Want some? It's on Addgene now! addgene.org/219957/