Imaging the Brain: From Molecules to Circuits and Beyond

Event Dates (Pacific Time): 
Friday, December 8, 2017 - 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Event Chairs:

Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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
File Welcome & Opening Remarks

Daniel Colón-Ramos
Yale University
File Building the Brain: Dynamic in vivo Imaging of Synapse Assembly and Function

Mark Ellisman
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
File Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight

Harald Hess
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
File Reverse Engineering the Fly Brain: Getting the Circuit Diagram

Na Ji
UC Berkeley
File High-Speed Volumetric Imaging of Brain Activity

Erik Jorgensen
University of Utah/HHMI
File Imaging Exocytosis and Endocytosis at Synapses Using Electron Microscopy

Philipp Keller
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
File Whole-Animal Imaging with High Spatio-Temporal Resolution

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
File Navigating the Cellular Landscape with New Imaging Technologies

Atsushi Miyawaki
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
File Genetically Encoded Tools for Brain Analysis

Alipasha Vaziri
The Rockefeller University
File 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)
File Question & Answer Session, Closing Remarks