Brian Allen

Brian worked in the Boyden lab on a number of projects for neural readout and control. His PhD was on relating the membrane potential of individual neurons in vivo— as measured through whole-cell patch clamp recording— to the spiking activity of large populations of neurons. He’s originally from Chicago and then Buffalo, later moving back to the Chicago area to study physics and cognitive science at Northwestern University. After graduating, he went on to a postdoc at Harvard University.

Publications

Closed-Loop Real-Time Imaging Enables Fully Automated Cell-Targeted Patch-Clamp Neural Recording In Vivo

Neuron | 2017

Ho-Jun Suk, Ingrid van Welie, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, Brian Allen, Craig R. Forest, Edward S. Boyden (2017) Closed-Loop Real-Time Imaging Enables Fully Automated Cell-Targeted Patch-Clamp Neural Recording In Vivo, Neuron 95(5):1037-1047.

Processes for design, construction and utilisation of arrays of light-emitting diodes and light-emitting diode-coupled optical fibres for multi-site brain light delivery

The Journal of Engineering | 2015

Bernstein, J.G., Allen, B. D., Guerra, A.A., Boyden, E.S. (2015) Processes for design, construction and utilisation of arrays of light-emitting diodes and light-emitting diode-coupled optical fibres for multi-site brain light delivery, The Journal of Engineering 5:177-184.

Principles of designing interpretable optogenetic behavior experiments

Learning and Memory | 2015

Allen, B.D.*, Singer, A.C.*, Boyden, E.S. (2015) Principles of designing interpretable optogenetic behavior experiments, Learning and Memory 22:232-238. (*, equal contribution)

Noninvasive optical inhibition with a red-shifted microbial rhodopsin

Nature Neuroscience | 2014

Chuong, A. S., Miri, M. L.*, Busskamp, V.*, Matthews, G.A.C.*, Acker, L.C.*, Soresnsen, A.T., Young, A., Klapoetke, N. C., Henninger, M.A., Kodandaramaiah, S.B., Ogawa, M., Ramanlal, S. B., Bandler, R. C., Allen, B. D., Forest, C.R., Chow, B.Y., Han, X., Lin, Y., Tye, K.M., Roska, B., Cardin, J.A., Boyden, E. S. (2014) Noninvasive optical inhibition with a red-shifted microbial rhodopsin, Nature Neuroscience 17:1123-1129. (*, equal contribution)

Brain Coprocessors

Technology Review | 2010

Boyden, E. S., Allen, B. D., Fritz, D. (2010) "Brain Coprocessors." Column, Technology Review. 9/23/2010.