Kevin Boergens
Assistant Professor
Physics
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About
Professor Boergens' research pioneers electron microscopy approaches to map neural circuits and understand brain connectivity at large scales. His lab operates at the intersection of Physics, Neuroscience, and Engineering, developing imaging technologies for next-generation connectomics.
Selected Publications
- Boergens KM*, Berning M*, Bocklisch T, Br¨aunlein D, Drawitsch F, Frohnhofen J, Herold T, Otto P, Rzepka N, Werkmeister T, Werner D, Wiese G, Wissler H, Helmstaedter M (2017) webKnossos: efficient online 3D data annotation for connectomics. Nature Methods 14, 691–694
- Motta A*, Berning M*, Boergens KM*, Staffler B*, Beining M, Looba S Hennig P, Wissler H, Helmstaedter M (2019) Dense connectomic reconstruction in layer 4 of the somatosensory cortex. Science 366 (6469)
- Boergens, Kevin M and Wildenberg, Gregg and Li, Ruiyu and Lambert, Lola and Moradi, Amin and Stam, Guido and Tromp, Rudolf and van der Molen, Sense Jan and King, Sarah B and Kasthuri, Narayanan (2023) Photoemission electron microscopy for connectomics. bioRxiv, 2023--09
Education
PhD, Biology (2018), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany