Giovanni Talei Franzesi

Email: geggio, followed by @media.mit.edu

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

Evidence for long-timescale patterns of synaptic inputs in CA1 of awake behaving mice

Journal of Neuroscience | 2017

Kolb 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 | 2017

Annabelle 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 | 2016

Kodandaramaiah, 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 | 2012

Kodandaramaiah, 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 | 2012

Börgers 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 | 2009

Boyden, 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 | 2009

Han, 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)