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2016-04-15 Lab Seminar

Large scale axonal reconstruction: How to find a needle in a haystack

Date 04.15.2016 16:00 〜 17:00
Speaker Dr. Ertan Bas
Speaker Institution Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
Location Yamate 2nd Bldg. 2F West Seminar room
Contact Yoshiyuki Kubota,  yoshiy@nips.ac.jp
Abstract

he structure of axonal arbors controls how signals from individual neurons are routed within the mammalian brain. However, the arbors of very few long-range projection neurons have been reconstructed in their entirety, as axons with diameters as small as 100 nm arborize in target regions dispersed over many millimeters of tissue. We introduce a platform for high-resolution, three-dimensional fluorescence imaging of complete tissue volumes that enables the visualization and reconstruction of long-range axonal arbors. This platform relies on a high-speed two-photon microscope integrated with a tissue vibratome and a suite of computational tools for large-scale image acquisition and analytics.