Edward Boyden is an American neuroscientist and entrepreneur at MIT. He is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, and a full member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is recognized for his work on optogenetics and expansion microscopy. Boyden joined the MIT faculty in 2007, and continues to develop new optogenetic tools as well as other technologies for the manipulation and analysis of brain structure and activity. He received the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology group at MIT.

The talk will cover modelling the brain, longevity, and what's next in biotech.

Although part of the RIT Summer School program, it is open to everyone.