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Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
Abstract
Using concepts from astronomy, optics, and machine learning, my laboratory develops microscopy methods for imaging the brain at higher resolution, greater depth, and faster time scales. In this talk, I will describe our recent work, including a machine-learning-based adaptive optics system that can be implemented in commercial microscopes to improve in vivo imaging resolution, a high-throughput volumetric imaging method for mapping excitatory synaptic transmission, and a kilohertz-frame-rate two-photon microscope capable of recording population voltage activity from hundreds of neurons simultaneously.
Na Ji
UC Berkeley
Na Ji studied chemistry and physics as an undergraduate in the University of Science and Technology of China and later a graduate student at University of California Berkeley. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2005 under the guidance of Yuen-Ron Shen in Physics Department of UC Berkeley. In 2006, she moved to Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and worked with Eric Betzig on improving the speed and resolution of in vivo brain imaging. She became a group leader in Janelia in 2011. In 2017, she moved to the University of California, Berkeley as the Luis Alvarez Memorial Chair in Experimental Physics and is now a Professor in Department of Physics and Department of Neuroscience. She is also affiliated with the Bioengineering, Biophysics, and Vision Science Graduate Programs, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and serves as a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In addition to imaging technology development, her lab applies the resulting techniques to outstanding problems in neurobiology.
Hosted by - Christopher Miranda (Schnitzer Group)
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