About Me
I am currently a postdoctoral associate in Ed Boyden's lab at MIT, working on voltage imaging for cellular- and millisecond-resolution optical recording of brain activity, library transgenesis and direct in vivo screening of molecular tools in the brain, machine learning-guided and evolutionarily-informed methods for protein engineering, and applications of whole-brain voltage imaging for studying neurological conditions in zebrafish.
I recently finished my PhD in Neuroscience, working on developing engineered Toxoplasma gondii as potential biological vectors for delivery of proteins to the central nervous system. I did my PhD in Oded Rechavi's group at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Lilach Sheiner's group at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology at the University of Glasgow. After finishing my PhD, I helped start Epeius Pharma, a biotech startup that will use the technologies from my PhD to develop therapies for neurological diseases.
My main interests are in high-resolution brain imaging and modeling, bioengineering, evolutionary biology, and the ways in which they can be combined.
shaharbra at gmail dot com
