Mitch Murdock

Mitch earned a BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from Yale University. He received his PhD from MIT working across the groups of Li-Huei Tsai and Ed Boyden, developing and understanding new circuit-level strategies for confronting Alzheimer’s disease.

Publications

Multisensory gamma stimulation enhances adult neurogenesis and improves cognitive function in male mice with Down Syndrome

PLoS ONE | 2025

Islam MR, Jackson B, Naomi MT, Schatz B, Tan N, Murdock M, Park DS, Amorim DR, Jiang X, Pineda SS, Adaikkan C, Fernandez Avalos V, Geigenmuller U, Firenze RM, Kellis M, Boyden ES, Tsai LH (2025) Multisensory gamma stimulation enhances adult neurogenesis and improves cognitive function in male mice with Down Syndrome, PLoS ONE 20(4):e0317428.

Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid

Nature | 2024

Murdock MH, Yang CY, Sun N, Pao PC, Blanco-Duque C, Kahn MC, Kim T, Lavoie NS, Victor MB, Islam MR, Galiana F, Leary N, Wang S, Bubnys A, Ma E, Akay LA, Sneve M, Qian Y, Lai C, McCarthy MM, Kopell N, Kellis M, Piatkevich KD, Boyden ES, Tsai LH (2024) Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid, Nature 627(8002):149-156.

Improved genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent calcium ion indicators for in vivo imaging

PLoS Biology | 2020

Qian Y, Cosio DMO, Piatkevich KD, Aufmkolk S, Su WC, Celiker OT, Schohl A, Murdock MH, Aggarwal A, Chang YF, Wiseman PW, Ruthazer ES, Boyden ES, Campbell RE (2020) Improved genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent calcium ion indicators for in vivo imaging, PLoS Biology 18(11):e3000965.

A genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent calcium ion indicator

Nature Methods | 2019

Qian Y, Piatkevich KD, Mc Larney B, Abdelfattah AS, Mehta S, Murdock MH, Gottschalk S, Molina RS, Zhang W, Chen Y, Wu J, Drobizhev M, Hughes TE, Zhang J, Schreiter ER, Shoham S, Razansky D, Boyden ES, Campbell RE (2018) A genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent calcium ion indicator, Nature Methods 16(2):171-174.