Affiliation: Northeastern University, Department of Bioengineering

Prof. Samuel Chung obtained his BS in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2000. In Prof. Eric Mazur’s group at Harvard, he pioneered a femtosecond laser surgery technique in the roundworm C. elegans and obtained a PhD in Applied Physics in 2009. He then joined Prof. Christopher Gabel’s group at the Boston University School of Medicine, where he developed devices for fluorescence microscopy and established a novel neuroregeneration model in C. elegans. Prof. Chung joined the Bioengineering Department at Northeastern University in the fall of 2017 and established a multidisciplinary group to develop accessible optical tools for improving imaging and investigating single neurons in the worm. A recent invention from his laboratory is Copli, a cooling stage to immobilize the entire C. elegans populations for microscopy with minimal effort. The goal of his technology development is to fully automate microscopy in a vertically-integrated platform. His laboratory also leverages laser surgery and roundworm genetics to dissect the cellular and molecular mechanisms of lesion conditioning, which allows regeneration in the mammalian central nervous system.