Expanding the bag of optical tricks for neuroscience
- Date: May 23, 2024
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Fabian Voigt
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Location: MPI BI Martinsried
- Room: MPIBI, Seminar room NQ 105
- Host: Winfried Denk
- Contact: winfried.denk@bi.mpg.de
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.