DARPA wants a dream neural interface. They can wait 4 years, but they want a complete plan now (abstracts due Feb 25, full proposals April 14).
This is a direct quote from the announcement for the Neural…
Intersectional strategies are rapidly growing in sophistication. Unfortunately, it still takes time to generate mice and make crosses as needed, so short cuts are handy.
The CRE-DOG technique, from Connie Cepko’s lab, induces expression in…
The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience is holding an imaging course Jan 11-20, 2016.
They have a really excellent line up of lecturers. A range of topics will be covered: two-photon imaging, FLIM, FRET, endoscopy, uncaging, optogenetics, SPIM, image analysis, instrumentation (alignment, system design), …
Applications are due in a few days, Nov….
The 2015 Kavli Futures Symposium on “Next Generation NeuroTechnologies” will be Sept 26 in NYC. Freeman, Ji, Svoboda, Pillow, and others are all speaking. Here’s a link. Registration is filling up fast.
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The preprint for the wide field of view 2-photon system we built has been updated. Check it out at bioRxiv.org.
Preprint servers are a great way to share work-in-progress. ArXiv and…
Excerpt from “How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist”:
We were still working under a Joint Service contract, managed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. One day, after we had been at it…
The Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience course is Jun 9-19 in Paris. Application deadline is March 30. Lots of great people will be teaching, including Valentina Emiliani, Isabel Llano, Brad…
It’s an ad for a Japanese company’s fiber optic network. In the US, we call these Rube Goldberg machines. In Japan, they’re called Pythagorean Switches (actually). In the UK, they’re called Heath Robinson machines.
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Yes, that’s what you think it is. Courtesy of a compressed sensing + streak camera rig made by Liang Gao, Jinyang Liang, Chiye Li & Lihong V. Wang.
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Today is Thanksgiving in the US. So here’s a avian-themed post. There was a spirited neuroethological debate at a bar during SfN involving the above video. I just caught the tail end of it. The controversial account is that headfixed mice on treadmills, when shown this video, will…
On the same day I was invited to the White House Conference on the BRAIN Initiative, we also received a personal letter from a man serving a life sentence for a triple homicide. Nicely,…
There’s still time to register for Barrels XXVII.
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Dendritic Processing in Somatosensory and Visual Cortices
Moderator: Robert Sachdev, Yale University/Charité-Berlin
Arthur Konnnerth, Technische Universität München
Matthew Larkum, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Jeff Magee,…
