Hard work of Baran, Peter, Wolfger et.al. It took a while to establish everything in house, but more to come soon. Special thanks to our reviewers.
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Months-long tracking of neuronal ensembles spanning multiple brain areas with Ultra-Flexible Tentacle Electrodes (UFTEs)
The abstract submission deadline for the 2024 Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation @PhotonicsWest conference is extended until August 16⏳ Don't miss this (extra) opportunity to present your research! Please submit your abstract here: spie.org/BO202@SPIEtweets
Introducing "data-to-paper": autonomous AI research! We've let it play with the large CDC Health Survey Dataset. Went to lunch. When back, it had already chosen several research topics, wrote data analysis codes, interpreted results and wrote 5 transparent, reproducible papers.
Our paper on fluorescence lifetime voltage imaging of neurons is out! We combine kilohertz frame rate, micrometer spatial scale, and picosecond lifetime resolution in vivo. Check out the videos and original thread below. @ChengHuangThuscience.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
excited to share @stephaniedwill new paper! We found we could induce CSF flow in the awake human brain, by presenting intense visual stimuli. This shows that neuronal activity can drive fluid flow, and suggests neurovascular coupling contributes! journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
Great event today at @nyuniversity announcing the strategic partnership with @kaistpr - with @NYCMayor and president Yoon of Korea @President_KR. This is likely a major step forward for both universities.
Immensely proud of our Daniela for being selected as the @BASISIndBK#class2022 valedictorian! Her speech highlighted how much she gained from her tremendous teachers and peers and encouraged her classmates to "stay curious". Looking forward to her next steps @BarnardCollege 👩🎓🔥
Class of 2022, you will always be remembered for your keen intelligence, wit, creativity, leadership, sarcasm, kindness, activism, and so much more. Thank you for the impact you made on our school community, and thank you @per_simmons_ for beautifully capturing graduation.
In 2017, w/ the group of @Stefan_W_Hell we published #MINFLUX. Its capacity for nm resolution in a fluorescence microscope under ambient conditions raised lots of attention. Widespread application, though, has been limited, I believe due to technical and conceptual complexity 👇
When history defines your thinking, and 80-year old events are painfully present: Why we just inaugurated a memorial for 40 killed children at our institute. A thread.
A special day for me: >22 years ago I thought we could perhaps see the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way with an earth-sized radio telescope. We calculated its appearance, colored it orange/red, coined the term 'shadow', published it, & now we see!
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We're so excited for our beloved daughter Daniela's upcoming years in her college of choice @BarnardCollege at @Columbia. A mere 17 short years ago, she was born a few blocks away at Columbia's @nyphospital.
Congratulations to the new members of the Barnard Class of 2026! We are so excited to welcome you to campus for the next four years. This is only just the beginning ✨ #Barnard2026#WelcomeBC26barnard.edu/news/barnard-col…
Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature.
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Wow, what a remarkable new element in the eye’s bio-photonic mosaic! Cone mitochondria as directionally selective microlenses… Kudos to the authors of this @ScienceAdvances paper.
.@Wei_Li_Vision discovered that mitochondria in cone photoreceptors have a dual purpose: They act as the cell's powerhouse, but also as a microlens, concentrating light. #NEIfundedbit.ly/3hvSQSi
Bruce Trumberg, @NIBIBgov director and winner of this year’s Britton Chance award discusses his personal history at #Bios@PhotonicsWest and @NIBIBgov Covid-19 effort over the past two years
@SPIEtweets tweeps: promising evidence from San Francisco's sewage that Covid-19 wave is receding (data.covid-web.org/). Viral loads appear returning to baseline already on Jan. 12. Indirect measure but it apparently has faster response times than PCR tests @PhotonicsWest
🔥 Exciting new research by @ronen_segev and colleagues on non-innate navigational learning by goldfish has set Twitter on 🔥 2022 already has its best neuro-research paper with Umbrella Academy & @elonmusk memes
I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (authors.elsevier.com/a/1eEnu…).
Merrily flashing coronas in this year’s #christmaslights show in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Ironically appropriate - perhaps a new city mascot idea for NYC?
The really 🔥 stuff came when we turned the system on. In GCaMP6 mice we observed rapid fluorescence dips, targetable with 0.1mm accuracy. We traced these transients back to an accurately predictable effect of localized temperature rise: fluorescence decreased by >1% per degree.
Beyond dimensions, we wanted our scaled model to harness the remarkable toolbox of (mouse-optimized) fluorescent indicators. FLUS accomplishes this by combining a 512-channel spherical US array with cortex-wide fluorescence widefield imaging through a concentric fiber bundle.
MR-guided focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) is the gold-standard noninvasive intervention in human brains, targeting tissue lesions or subtle effects like BBB opening & neuromodulation. But scaling MRgFUS from 15→1cm brains implies focal dimensions of ~0.3mm through intact skulls!