Professor of Neurotechnology at MIT Ed Boyden visited the University of Iowa campus October 15, 2018 to deliver a lecture in the Creative Matters series. Below are stories, text, photos, and other materials chronicling and related to the visit.

Ed Boyden is a Professor of Neurotechnology at MIT, and associate professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT’s Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain. His TED talks have been viewed over 2 million times.

A video of the remarks is also available at https://youtu.be/zyt3b7Wjef4

Photos by Miranda Meyer.

Creative Matters is an initiative of the UI Arts Advancement Committee and is sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research.

All events are free and open to the public.

The Office of the Vice President for Research provides resources and support to researchers and scholars at the University of Iowa and to businesses across Iowa with the goal of forging new frontiers of discovery and innovation and promoting a culture of creativity that benefits the campus, the state, and the world.

More at https://research.uiowa.edu, and on Twitter: @DaretoDiscover.