Xue Han

Xue Han, Ph.D.

MIT Media lab and the McGovern Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E15-427, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02319

Email: xuehan (at) mit dot edu;

(CV/Resume: PDF)

****** Xue will start a neuroengineering lab at Boston University, Biomedical Engineering Department, Summer 2010. Postdoc, graduate and technical assistant positions are available. If you are interested in a position in her lab, please contact her directly. ******

Xue is developing radical new genetic, molecular, and optical neurotechnologies and application protocols to treat neurological and psychiatric diseases. Here are some papers Xue wrote:

Chow, B. Y.*, Han, X.*, Dobry, A. S., Qian, X., Chuong, A. S., Li, M., Henninger, M. A., Belfort, G. M., Lin, Y., Monahan, P. E., Boyden, E. S. High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light-driven proton pumps, Nature 463:98-102. (2010) (* equal contributions)

Xue Han, Sherry X. Xian, and Tirin Moore, “Dynamic sensitivity of area V4 neurons during saccade preparation”, PNAS 106(31):13046-51 (2009)

Xue Han, Xiaofeng Qian, Jacob G. Bernstein, Hui-hui Zhou, Giovanni Talei Franzesi, Patrick Stern, Roderick T. Bronson, Ann M. Graybiel, Robert Desimone and Edward S. Boyden, “Millisecond-Timescale Optical Control of Neural Dynamics in the Nonhuman Primate Brain,” Neuron 62(2):191-8 (2009)

Xue Han, Xiaofeng Qian, Patrick Stern, Amy Chuong and Edward S. Boyden, “Informational lesions: optical perturbation of spike timing and neural synchrony via microbial opsin gene fusions”, Front. Mol. Neurosci 2, 12, (2009)

Xue Han and Edward S. Boyden. "Multiple-Color Optical Activation, Silencing, and Desynchronization of Neural Activity, with Single-Spike Temporal Resolution." PLoS ONE, 2(3):e299. (2007)

Xue Han and Meyer B. Jackson. “Structural Transitions in the Synaptic SNARE Complex during Calcium triggered exocytosis.”J Cell Biol. 172(2): 281-93 (2006)

Xue Han and Meyer B. Jackson. “Electrostatic interactions between the syntaxin membrane anchor and neurotransmitter passing through the fusion pore.” Biophys J. 88 (3): L20-2 (2005)

Xue Han, Chih-Tien Wang, Jihong Bai, Edwin R. Chapman and Meyer B. Jackson. “Transmembrane segments of syntaxin line the fusion pore of Ca2+-triggered exocytosis.” Science 304 (5668): 289-92 (2004)