Programs
LINC camp – a summer program for high-school students interested in coding and neuroscience
LINC fellows – a program for undergraduate students or postdocs to gain remote research experience with our team
The LINC center
The center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC) is a multi-institutional consortium funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative CONNECTS program to collect and analyze imaging data that will allow us to probe connections in the human and non-human primate brain at unprecedented resolutions.
As an NIH BRAIN Initiative funded project, the LINC center is implementing a Plan to Enhance Diverse Perspectives, with the goal of engaging promising junior researchers from diverse backgrounds and/or under-resourced institutions in our cutting-edge imaging and neuroscience research.
About
Many brain-related disorders are now understood to originate not in a single brain area, but in how different brain areas are connected and communicate with each other. Remarkably, to date we do not have a complete picture of brain connections in their full complexity. The LINC center aims to develop cutting-edge image acquisition and analysis techniques that will allow us to map the wiring of the brain at much higher resolutions than ever before. We will then use these maps to advance our understanding of brain circuits that are implicated in motor and psychiatric disorders, and that are targeted by deep-brain stimulation to treat these disorders. In particular, we are aiming to reconstruct highly detailed maps of the cortico-subcortical pathways that connect the motor, premotor, and prefrontal cortex to the subthalamic nucleus.
The LINC center is among the only 1.8% of multi-PI projects funded by the BRAIN Initiative that have an all-female multi-PI team (source: BRAIN Initiative demographics FY14-FY22). We strive to enhance the diversity of our investigative team along all axes.