Harris Lab
Lab Members
Tim Harris, PhD
Principle Investigator, Research Professor
Tim Harris received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1978. He spent the following 18 years at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. While at Bell, his work included high-sensitivity fluorescence and Raman scattering instrumentation, the characterization of quantum dots in collaboration with Lou Brus, the tapered fiber probe for Near-Field Microscopy, a collaboration with Eric Betzig, and many follow on applications of near field including the first reports of single molecule images and single quantum dot imaging and spectroscopy.
Alexandra Cheng
PhD Student, BME
Alexandra is developing 3d printed fixtures to implant many chronic Neuropixels probes, as well as enabling wireless Neuropixels recording
Sai Koukuntla
PhD Student, BME
Sai is working on interpretable nonlinear models of brain-wide dynamics. He has also developed methods for automatic spike sorting and error correction. He is co-advised by Adam Charles and Carlos Brody.
Ferrion Li
MSE Student, BME
Ferrion studies computational models of neural responses to electrical stimulation, focusing on current steering and selective neural recruitment.
Noel Jones
Undergrad, Peabody & Neuroscience
Noel Jones is working on developing aquatic Neuropixels for weakly electric fish. Her research focuses on adapting Neuropixels for recording neural activity from fish moving freely in aquatic environments.
Tate DeWeese
PhD Student, XDBio
Tate studies how exposure to psychedelics manifests as altered neural activity and social behavior, using multiple chronic Neuropixels probes throughout the brain.
Tianshu Tan
PhD Student, BME
Tianshu is a rotation student in the lab examining neuron tracking across days.
Victor Lu
MSE Student, BME
Victor is a master's student in the lab interested in doing robot assisted probe-insertion surgery as well as adapting Neuropixels for recordings in aquatic animals.