Expanding the bag of optical tricks for neuroscience

Seeing is believing and thus, optical imaging techniques are extremely useful to study brain structure and function. I will present three projects aimed at providing the neuroscience community with better imaging instrumentation: These range from open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue ( http://mesospim.org/ ); novel multi-immersion microscope objectives that take takes inspiration from scallops and astronomical telescopes; and establishing event-based vision as an imaging modality that allows high-speed recordings of physiology and behavior over long time periods without generating overly large datasets.