Photonics Spectra: brain mapping This is the syndication feed for Photonics Spectra: brain mapping. https://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?Tag=brain+mapping Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:55:17 GMT Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:00:00 GMT 1800 Scientists Gather for Largest Global Neuroscience Event
The Society for Neuroscience will hold its 47th annual meeting — Neuroscience 2017 — in just a couple of weeks. To be held Nov. 11-15 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., this the world’s largest neuroscience conference dedicated to understanding the brain and nervous system. More than 30,000 scientists and physicians from over 80 countries attend the event, which is also touted the world’s largest marketplace of ideas and tools for global neuroscience.

Neuroscience 2017 will feature numerous lectures by some of the industry’s top physicians and neuroscientists. Among them: Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D., of Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute —...]]>
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Industry Group Pledges $30M for Neuroimaging Research
The National Photonics Initiative on Tuesday launched its Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group. The industry consortium includes representatives of Accumetra LLC, Agilent, Applied Scientific Instrumentation, Coherent, Hamamatsu, Inscopix Inc., Spectra-Physics and Thorlabs.

The group’s objectives include:

• Developing imaging optics, laser sources, automated scanning technology and high-resolution cameras to provide up to a 100-fold increase in the capability for imaging groups of thousands of active neurons.

• Developing miniature, affordable, portable...]]>
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Optogenetic Tool Has Potential for Brain Mapping
Previously, methods to deliver optogenetic beams into the brain involved bulky microscopes or complex scanning beams. But the new two-photon, optogenetic stimulator developed by Samarendra Mohanty at the University of Texas at Arlington uses fiber optics to introduce the gene for channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a protein that responds to light, into a sample of excitable cells. Fiber optic infrared light beams can then be used to precisely excite the neurons in a tissue circuit...]]>
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Boas Blog: Brain Mapping
Gary at Large
San Francisco, June 23, 2009

The concierge didn't think I could do it. Or would do it, anyway. "Walk from Union Square to the Presidio?" he asked. (Did he just suppress a chortle?) "There are a lot of hills here, you know."

"Why not?" I replied. "I'm relatively young. Somewhat sturdy. I can do it." I fixed him with an icy stare, which I'm sure came across as anything but intimidating. And with that I gathered my belongings, stepped out into the San Francisco morning and began my long trek.

I had a destination in mind. While I'd mapped out a route that would take me to the "Crookedest Street" and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and eventually to the northern tip of the Presidio, with its hazy,...]]>
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UCLA's Chan Named an Assistant Director at NSF
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Tony F. Chan, dean of physical sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, as its assistant director for mathematics and physical sciences. Beginning Oct. 1, Chan will guide and manage NSF research funding totaling approximately $1 billion a year to support astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, materials science and multidisciplinary activities. Since becoming a UCLA dean in 2001, Chan has overseen six departments and several research institutes comprising more than 200 faculty, 1700 undergraduates and 700 graduate students. The division receives over $60 million annually in research awards. Chan's current chief research interests involve interdisciplinary mathematics in...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/UCLAs_Chan_Named_an_Assistant_Director_at_NSF/p5/a25847 A25847 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT