Optical Biology

Optical Biology 2022 Seminar Series

30 March | Rafael Yuste, PhD, Professor of Biology, Columbia University, New York

Playing the piano with the cortex: Holographic manipulation of neural circuits

6 April | Silvio Rizzoli, PhD, Director, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen

Quantitative Synaptology

13 April | Jerome Lecoq, PhD, Koch Lab, Allen Institute, Seattle

Removing independent noise in systems neuroscience data using DeepInterpolation and some updates on the OpenScope platform.

20 April | David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Florida

Functional Synaptic Architecture of Visual Cortex

27 April | Karl Deisseroth, PhD, D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Inner workings of channelrhodopsins and brains

4 May | Alexander Jesacher, Dr. rer. nat. PhD, Associate Professor Medical University Innsbruck, Section for Biomedical Physics

Sensorless scatter compensation in 2-photon fluorescence microscopy

11 May | Ernst Stelzer, PhD, Professor in the Life Sciences Goethe-University Frankfurt-Main

Light sheet microscopy for systematic image data acquisition

18 May | Kaspar Podgorski, PhD, Senior Scientist, Allen Institute, Seattle

Glutamate indictors for imaging synaptic transmission

25 May | Carl Petersen, PhD, Director, Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne

Neural circuits for goal-directed sensorimotor learning

1 June | Jennifer Li, PhD, Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen

DASHER: a high-speed tracking system for multiscale behavioral and neural imaging of freely moving animals

8 June | Sam Rodriques, Group leader, Francis Crick Institute, London

Mapping the brain with light: optical connectomics with expansion microscopy as a next-generation connectomics technology

15 June | Herwig Baier, Director, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried near Munich, Germany

Neural circuit interrogation in zebrafish – themes and technologies

29 June | Ryan Field, PhD, CTO at Kernel

Bringing human brain imaging to the mainstream

6 July | Loren Looger, PhD, professor of neuroscience at University of California, San Diego

An update on tools for visualizing neural circuit structure and function

13 July | Michael Lin, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering at Stanford University

Imaging of fast electrical activity in the brain with genetically encoded voltage indicators