New imaging technique sheds light on adult zebrafish brain
NeuroNex Technology Conference
Wednesday, July 18 and Thursday, July 19, 2018
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The goal of the NSF NeuroNex initiative is to clear major technological hurdles in order to better study and understand the brain. Thank you to those who who made the 2018 NeuroNex Technology Conference possible. Please stay tuned for next year’s details. Co-organizers: Chris Xu, Joe Fetcho, Mert Sabuncu, Chris Schaffer, and Nilay Yapici. For details please visit: http://neuronex.cornell.edu
Gerald Rubin to speak at Cornell Neurotech seminar, Sept. 24, 2021 4PM
The annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Seminar will feature Gerald M. Rubin. The seminar will be held in G10 Biotechnology on Sept. 23, 2021 at 4pm. The seminar title will be:
Generating and using wiring diagrams of brain: Lessons from the Drosophila connectome
Gerald Rubin is a Senior Group Leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus. He is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Genetics, Emeritus, at University of California Berkeley. His early work pioneered tools for germ line transformation using P-element transposons in the fruit fly Drosophila. This and other genetic tools allowed him to reveal signaling pathways downstream of tyrosine kinases. He went on to lead the project to sequence the fly genome. In recent years he has focused on revealing principles of how the brain gathers, stores and processes information. Rubin and his team develop advanced tools and methods to find, map, and analyze the neuronal circuits underlying learning, memory, sleep regulation, visual perception, and female-female aggression in Drosophila.
Early career scientists named 2017 Mong Fellows in Cornell Neurotech
Ten new Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech will work under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance technologies that promise to provide insight into how brains work, as well as strategies to fix them when they don’t. Read the full Cornell Chronicle article here.
NeuroNex—a Radical Collaboration
An engineer and a neuroscientist gathered a group of Cornell scientists and engineers to tackle a frontier of science—the brain. Now, they form a hub.
by Jackie Swift, CornellResearch
Read the article and learn more here.
$9M grant will create neurotech research hub at Cornell
Aug. 1, 2017
By Syl Kacapyr for the Cornell Chronicle
As neuroscientists examine challenging questions about the complexities of the central nervous system, new tools to be developed at Cornell will provide them with an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of the brain thanks to a five-year, $9 million grant…Read the full article here.
3-photon imaging of mouse brain activity is published in Nature Methods
Dimitre G Ouzounov, Tianyu Wang, et al. record spontaneous activity from up to 150 neurons in the hippocampal stratum pyramidale at ~1-mm depth within an intact mouse brain.
Using three-photon microscopy at 1,300-nm excitation, the authors of a recently published Nature Methods paper, demonstrated that functional imaging of GCaMP6s-labeled neurons can be achieved beyond the depth of two-photon microscopy. The method creates opportunities for noninvasive recording of neuronal activity with high spatial and temporal resolution deep within scattering brain tissues.
Neurotech symposium on the brain spotlights new discoveries
Researchers plumbing the mysteries of the brain gathered to share their discoveries at the inaugural Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium, Sept. 29 in the Biotechnology Building.
The daylong symposium featured three of the winners of the prestigious Brain Prize – Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89; Karel Svoboda ’88; and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83 – all graduates of Professor Emeritus Watt Webb’s applied physics laboratory. The three built on their work in the Webb lab to develop multiphoton microscopy as an essential tool in brain research, allowing observation of minute brain structures and dynamic brain functions in real time.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff began the day with thanks for the “extraordinary generosity” of the Mong Family Foundation, guided by Stephen Mong ’92, M.Eng. ’93, MBA ’02, which enabled the university to launch Cornell Neurotech and sponsored the symposium. Cornell Neurotech’s efforts to understand how the brain produces behavior, thoughts and feelings “are vital goals with life-changing implications, and I am grateful to Stephen Mong and the Mong Family Foundation for enabling Cornell faculty and staff to strive toward them,” Kotlikoff said.
Early career scientists named as inaugural Mong Fellows in Neurotech
The inaugural Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech were named on June 17 and went to three pairs of early career scientists. They will work jointly under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance technologies that promise to provide insight into how brains work, as well as strategies to fix them when they break. Read more…
Cornell Neurotech launched with multimillion dollar gift
Cornell Neurotech, a collaboration between the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, will launch thanks to a multimillion dollar seed grant from the Mong Family Foundation, through Stephen Mong ’92, MEN ’93, MBA ’02.