Allison Dobry

Allison grew up in San Diego, California before coming out to MIT for college. She contributed to the development of new optogenetic tools, and also studied metabolism using optogenetic tools, while in the lab. Then she went on to medical school at Harvard.

Publications

High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light-driven proton pumps

Nature | 2010

Chow, B. Y.*, Han, X.*, Dobry, A. S., Qian, X., Chuong, A. S., Li, M., Henninger, M. A., Belfort, G. M., Lin, Y., Monahan, P. E., Boyden, E. S. (2010) High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light- driven proton pumps, Nature 463:98-102. (* co-first authors)