Optics and the Brain (Brain)

Brain focuses on innovative research, tools and techniques to increase fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system.

The USA BRAIN Initiative and the European Human Brain Project have identified the urgent need for new technologies that can probe the working brain across all levels from single neurons to entire behaving organisms.

Optics offers a unique toolkit for multiscale imaging the living and intact brain, while new genetic labeling strategies provide optical contrast to neural function and optogenetics permits the control of cellular function with light.

By bringing together an international group of leading engineers, optical and medical scientists, biologists, chemists and physicians, the meeting reflects the highly interdisciplinary area of research within this topic.

The meeting serves as a forum for discussion of existing and emerging techniques as well as future directions capable of shedding new light on the healthy and diseased brain.

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Chairs

Valentina Emiliani

Institut de la Vision, France,
Chair

Jennifer Lynch

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, United States,
Chair

Ashwin Parthasarathy

University of South Florida, United States,
Program Chair

Cristina Rodriguez

Yale University, United States,
Program Chair

Committee Members

• Valentina Emiliani, Institut de la Vision, France, Chair
• Jennifer Lynch, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, United States, Chair
• Ashwin Parthasarathy, University of South Florida, United States, Program Chair
• Cristina Rodriguez, Yale University, United States, Program Chair
• Abraham Beyene, Janelia Research Campus, United States
• Emily Gibson, University of Colorado at Denver, United States
• Michael Higley, Yale University, United States
• Evelyn Lake, Yale University, United States
• Timothy Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Vicente Parot, Pontificia Univ Catolica de Chile, Chile
• Qinrong Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong