Giovanni Talei Franzesi
Nic obtained multiple degrees from MIT (B.S., M.Eng, M. S.) and is now working on technologies and scientific approaches for studying neural synchrony, its control, and potential applications of such insights to neuroengineering and psychiatry, as well as on novel neural interfacing devices.
Publications
In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain
bioRxiv | 2024Giovanni Talei Franzesi*, Ishan Gupta*, Ming Hu, Kiryl Piatkveich, Murat Yildirim, Jian-Ping Zhao, Minho Eom, Seungjae Han, Demian Park, Himashi Andaraarachchi, Zhaohan Li, Jesse Greenhagen, Amirul Muhammad Islam, Parth Vashishtha, Zahid Yaqoob, Nikita Pak, Alexander D. Wissner-Gross, Daniel Martin-Alarcon, Jonathan Veinot, Peter T. So, Uwe Kortshagen, Young-Gyu Yoon, Mriganka Sur**, Edward S. Boyden** (2024) In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain, bioRxiv 2024.09.05.611421; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.05.611421 (*, equal contribution; ** co-senior authors)
Evidence for long-timescale patterns of synaptic inputs in CA1 of awake behaving mice
Journal of Neuroscience | 2017Kolb I*, Franzesi GT*, Wang M, Kodandaramaiah SB, Forest CR, Boyden ES+, Singer AC+ (2017) Evidence for long-timescale patterns of synaptic inputs in CA1 of awake behaving mice, Journal of Neuroscience 38(7):1821-1834. (*, co-first authors; +, co-corresponding authors)
Mesoscale-duration activated states gate spiking in response to fast rises in membrane voltage in the awake brain
Journal of Neurophysiology | 2017Annabelle C. Singer*, Giovanni Talei Franzesi*, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, Francisco J. Flores, Jeremy D. Cohen, Albert K. Lee, Christoph Borgers, Craig R. Forest, Nancy J. Kopell, Edward S. Boyden (2017) Mesoscale-duration activated states gate spiking in response to fast rises in membrane voltage in the awake brain, Journal of Neurophysiology 118(2):1270-1291.
Assembly and operation of the autopatcher for automated intracellular neural recording in vivo
Nature Protocols | 2016Kodandaramaiah, S.B., Holst, G.L., Wickersham, I.R., Singer, A.C., Talei Franzesi, G., McKinnon, M.L., Forest, C.R., Boyden, E.S. (2016) Assembly and operation of the autopatcher for automated intracellular neural recording in vivo, Nature Protocols 11:634–654.
Automated whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology of neurons in vivo
Nature Methods | 2012Kodandaramaiah, S., Talei Franzesi, G., Chow, B., Boyden, E. S.*, Forest, C.* (2012) Automated whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology of neurons in vivo, Nature Methods 9:585–587. (* co-corresponding authors)
Minimal Size of Cell Assemblies Coordinated by Gamma Oscillations
PLoS Computational Biology | 2012Börgers C., Talei Franzesi G., LeBeau F. E. N. , Boyden E. S., Kopell N.J. (2012) Minimal Size of Cell Assemblies Coordinated by Gamma Oscillations, PLoS Computational Biology 8(2):e1002362.
New Techniques for Investigating Brain Rhythms: Optical Neural Control and Multielectrode Recording
Society for Neuroscience | 2009Boyden, E. S., Han, X., Talei Franzesi, G., Chan, S., Bernstein, J., Qian, X., Li, M. (2009) "New Techniques for Investigating Brain Rhythms: Optical Neural Control and Multielectrode Recording," In: Rhythms of the Neocortex: Where Do They Come From and What Are They Good For? (Kopell N., ed.) pp. 65-75. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.
Millisecond-Timescale Optical Control of Neural Dynamics in the Nonhuman Primate Brain
Neuron | 2009Han, X.*, Qian, X., Bernstein, J.G., Zhou, H.-H., Talei Franzesi, G., Stern, P., Bronson, R.T., Graybiel, A.M., Desimone, R., and Boyden, E.S.* (2009) Millisecond-Timescale Optical Control of Neural Dynamics in the Nonhuman Primate Brain, Neuron 62(2):191-198. (* co-corresponding authors)