
Expanding the bag of optical tricks for neuroscience
Fabian Voigt, PhD; Engert Laboratory, Harvard University, USA
Leuchs-Russell-Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Abstract:
Seeing is believing and thus, optical imaging techniques are extremely useful to study brain structure and function. I will present several 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/ ) to novel multi-immersion microscope objectives that take take inspiration from scallops and astronomical telescopes.