Samuel Chung
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Contact
- s.chung@northeastern.edu
- 206 ISEC
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Research Focus
brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy
Education
- PhD, Harvard University, 2009
Research Overview
brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy
Selected Research Projects
- High-Throughput Microscopy Platform for Accelerating Regeneration Neuroscience
- – Principal Investigator, Northeastern TIER 1
- Transcriptomic, Genetic, and Optogenetic Analysis of a Novel High-Throughput Model for Lesion-Conditioned Regeneration
- – Principal Investigator, Morton Cure Paralysis
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- M.B. Harreguy, V. Marfil, N.W. F. Grooms, C.V. Gabel, S.H. Chung, G. Haspel, Ytterbium-Doped Fibre Femtosecond Laser Offers Robust Operation with Deep and Precise Microsurgery of elegans Neurons, Scientific Reports, 10, 2020 4545
- H. Cai, Y.L. Wang, R.T. Wainner, N.V. Iftimia, C.V. Gabel, S.H. Chung, Wedge Prism Approach for Simultaneous Multichannel Microscopy, Scientific Reports, 9, 2019, 17795
- S.H. Chung, M.R. Awal, J. Shay, M.M. McLoed, E. Mazur, C.V. Gabel, Novel DLK-Independent Neuronal Regeneration in Caenorhabditis Elegans Shares Links with Activity- Dependent Ectopic Outgrowth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 2016, E2852-E2860
Apr 09, 2019
FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.
Oct 25, 2017
Insights into Nerve Regeneration
BioE Assistant Professor Samuel Chung is studying microscopic worms to gain insights into nerve regeneration with hopes to help people with spinal cord injuries. Source: News @ Northeastern Samuel Chung is motivated by the “flash of insight”—that moment when days upon days of research result in a key breakthrough or discovery. He’s already encountered a […]
Sep 01, 2017
New Faculty Spotlight: Samuel Chung
Samuel Chung joins the Bioengineering department in September 2017 as an Assistant Professor.