Imaging the Brain: From Molecules to Circuits and Beyond

Determination of structure provides important insights into function at all scales. This ancient principle was established initially for large structures like bridges and skeletons and more recently for cells and molecules. New imaging technologies make it possible to determine molecular, cellular, tissue and organ structure with unprecedented resolution and visualize changes causing/associated with changes in function. State-of-the-art imaging at the molecular, cellular, circuit, whole animal (rodent) and whole animal (primate) scales will be discussed, addressing the challenges of bridging spatial and temporal scales.

Event Sessions

Media for each talk can be played by clicking on icons in the "Media" column, or by clicking on the individual talk titles below and then the attachment file at the bottom of the page.

Speakers	Media	Session Title
Fred Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Howard Hughes Medical Institute		Welcome & Opening Remarks
Daniel Colón-Ramos Yale University		Building the Brain: Dynamic in vivo Imaging of Synapse Assembly and Function
Mark Ellisman University of California, San Diego (UCSD)		Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
Harald Hess Howard Hughes Medical Institute		Reverse Engineering the Fly Brain: Getting the Circuit Diagram
Na Ji UC Berkeley		High-Speed Volumetric Imaging of Brain Activity
Erik Jorgensen University of Utah/HHMI		Imaging Exocytosis and Endocytosis at Synapses Using Electron Microscopy
Philipp Keller Howard Hughes Medical Institute		Whole-Animal Imaging with High Spatio-Temporal Resolution
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Howard Hughes Medical Institute		Navigating the Cellular Landscape with New Imaging Technologies
Atsushi Miyawaki RIKEN Brain Science Institute		Genetically Encoded Tools for Brain Analysis
Alipasha Vaziri The Rockefeller University		Optical Tools for Unraveling Whole-Brain Neuronal Circuit Dynamics Underlying Behavior
Mark Ellisman University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Howard Hughes Medical Institute Nick Spitzer University of California, San Diego (UCSD)		Question & Answer Session, Closing Remarks