Ishan Gupta

Ishan received his B.Tech in Biotechnology from IIT-Guwahati (India) and completed a PhD in Biological Engineering at MIT. His research interests are in synthetic biology, molecular biophysics and engineering. After pioneering new methods to facilitate brain imaging in vivo, while at MIT, he went on to become a scientist at Novartis.

Publications

In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain

bioRxiv | 2024

Giovanni 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)

Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator

Neuron | 2020

Shemesh OA*, Linghu C*, Piatkevich KD*, Goodwin D, Celiker OT, Gritton HJ, Romano MF, Gao R, Yu CJ, Tseng HA, Bensussen S, Narayan S, Yang CT, Freifeld L, Siciliano CA, Gupta I, Wang J, Pak N, Yoon YG, Ullmann JFP, Guner-Ataman B, Noamany H, Sheinkopf ZR, Park WM, Asano S, Keating AE, Trimmer JS, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Bear MF, Tye KM, Han X, Ahrens MB, Boyden ES (2020) Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator, Neuron 107(3):470-486. (*, equal contribution)

Sonofragmentation of Ultrathin 1D Nanomaterials

Particle and Particle Systems Characterization | 2016

Gao, R.*, Gupta, I.*, Boyden, E. S. (2017) Sonofragmentation of ultra-thin 1D nanomaterials, Particle and Particle Systems Characterization 34.1. (*, co-first authors)