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2016年04月15日

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

日 時 2016年04月15日(金) 16:00 より 17:00 まで
講演者 Dr. Ertan Bas
講演者所属 Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
場 所 山手地区2号館西2階 セミナー室
お問い合わせ先 窪田芳之 (大脳神経回路論研究部門 yoshiy@nips.ac.jp)
要旨

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.