Scalable single-cell circuit mapping
E11 BIO is making single-cell brain circuit mapping a routine and accessible part of every neuroscientist’s toolbox.
E11 Bio is a not-for-profit project that operates with a nimble, startup-like culture and pursues blue-skies technology development for neuroscience. We’ve assembled a team of exceptional scientists and engineers to build the future of brain circuit mapping in Alameda, California.
OUR MISSION
We’re building a moonshot for neuroscience.
E11 Bio is building ambitious new technology for full-stack brain architecture mapping. Inspired by the revolution in genomics, we envision an open and extensible technology platform as accessible to every neuroscientist tomorrow as DNA sequencing is to biologists today.
By landing our neuroscience moonshot, we will enable new treatments for brain disorders, new experimental paradigms, new applications in brain-inspired computing—and in the long run, provide foundational technology for brain mapping at the hundred-billion neuron scale (i.e. E11 scale) of human beings.
Meet our team
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Andrew Payne
Co-founder & CEO
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Jun Axup
Chief Operating Officer
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Johan Winnubst
Lead Scientist, Neuroanatomy
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Kathleen Leeper
Lead Scientist, Barcoding
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Sven Truckenbrodt
Lead Scientist, Molecular Connectomics
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Julia Michalska
Optical Connectomics Scientist
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Arlo Sheridan
Machine Learning Scientist
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Stephanie Chan
Research Associate
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Michelle Wu
Molecular Biology Assistant
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Clarence Magno
Lab Manager
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Todd Huffman
Senior Advisor & Co-founder
Scientific Advisors
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Ed Boyden
Professor of Neurotechnology, MIT/HHMI
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George Church
Professor of Genetics
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David A. Markowitz
IARPA
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Hemai Parthasarathy
X, the moonshot factory
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Stephen Smith
Allen Institute
HOW WE WORK
E11 BIO is a not-for-profit Convergent Research Focused Research Organization (FRO) supported by the Schmidt Futures Network.
Read more about FROs and E11 in Nature and Fast Company.
We draw on the very best parts of academia, industry, and government agencies—without the pressure of incremental publication or product release cycles. We empower top talent through a nimble, startup-like culture, connecting them with the resources they need and getting out of their way. The key to our strategy is our post-project transition planning inspired by DARPA, leading to magnified career opportunity for our team.
Public benefit is paramount, and mission success means enabling community-driven transformation in how we do neuroscience, supported by our commitment to open and accessible science.
Get in touch.
We are always looking to talk with ambitious scientists, engineers, developers, technicians, entrepreneurs, hackers, mavericks, thinkers and doers of all stripes.