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07 - 10 April, 2024
The Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort
Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
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Optics and the Brain
Brings together researchers working in all aspects of optics in the brain and 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.
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 of 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 this topic’s highly interdisciplinary area of research.
Pablo Blinder
Tel Aviv University, Israel
General Chair
Erin Buckley
Emory University/Georgia Tech, USA
General Chair
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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