Adam Q. Bauer PhD

Adam Q. Bauer, PhD, is an assistant professor of radiology and a principal investigator in the Biophotonics Research Center for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Two major research themes run through Bauer’s work in his lab, the Functional Neuroimaging and Biophotonics Lab: mapping functional brain organization in the setting of neurological disease and examining cell-specific contributions to neurovascular coupling. To answer their questions, Bauer’s lab members design and apply novel optical imaging technology and the latest advances in mouse genetics and optogenetic targeting strategies.

In 2013, Bauer was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to examine functional recovery in mouse models of stroke. In 2014, he received an NIH Mentored Career Development Award (K25) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to investigate the impact of neural network connectivity on stroke recovery. Bauer earned a doctorate in physics in 2009 from Washington University (advisor: James G. Miller), where he studied phase aberrations in ultrasonic measurements of biological tissue. Then he transitioned into the field of biomedical optics and trained in the lab of Joseph Culver, PhD, at Washington University developing optical imaging tools for functional neuroimaging applications in mice.