Program

Two days of premier online presentations from leaders in the field of wearable miniature microscopes and novel applications in neuroscience research.

The digital forum will include a virtual poster presentation. All sessions are password protected. If you don't know or have lost the password, please contact [email protected] for information on accessing the presentation.

Thursday, August 19

• Session I (9:30 AM MDT, 16:00 UTC)
• Chair | Ben Scott
• Zoom link
  • 9:30 AM Introductory Remarks
  • 10:00 AM
    • Nicolò Accanto
    • Holographic Endoscopy
  • 10:40 AM
    • Tycho Hoogland (Presentation is currently unavailable)
      
    • Multi-site and high-frame rate circuit interrogation with light-weight miniscopes
  • 11:20 AM
    • Laura Waller (Presentation is currently unavailable)
      
    • 3D miniature microscopes for neural activity tracking
• Session II (1:00 PM MDT, 19:00 UTC)
• Chair | Emily A. Gibson
• Zoom link
  • 1:00 PM
    • Lei Tian
    • Towards wearable large-scale neural recording by Computational Miniature Mesoscope
  • 1:40 PM
    • John Kymissis
    • MicroLEDs as a new light source for Miniscopes and superresolution microscopy
  • 2:20 PM
    • Juliet Gopinath
    • Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy with Bend-Insensitive Commercial Fiber
  • 3:00 PM
    • Liangyi Chen
    • Fast high-resolution miniature two-photon microscopy from 1.0 to 2.0
• Poster Session (4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 22)
  • Gather.town link
  • Gather.town map with poster titles and locations

Friday, August 20

• Session III (10:00 AM MDT, 16:00 UTC)
• Chair | Lei Tian
• Zoom link
  • 10:00 AM
    • Jason Kerr (Presentation is currently unavailable)
    • Three-photon head-mounted microscopes for imaging deep cortical layers in freely-moving animals
  • 10:40 AM
    • Daniel Aharoni
    • Developing new tools for imaging network dynamics in freely behaving animals
  • 11:20 AM
    • Ben Scott
    • Voluntary head restraint systems for rodents
• Session IV (1:00 PM MDT, 19:00 UTC)
• Chair | John Kymissis
• Zoom link
  • 1:00 PM
    • Denise Cai
    • The brain in motion: visualizing how ensemble fluidity supports memory updating
  • 1:40 PM
    • Daniel Dombeck
    • Exploring the mouse navigation system with high-resolution imaging and virtual reality
  • 2:20 PM
    • Mark Schnitzer (Presentation is currently unavailable)
      
    • Past, present and future uses of micro-optics for in vivo brain imaging
• Closing Remarks (3:40 PM MDT, 21:40 UTC)

Poster Presentations

• Joel Bonilla
  • Poster Position: 20
  • Title: Towards a preclinical model of comorbid alcohol and heroin addiction
• Victoria Chang
  • Poster Position: 19
  • Title: Reverse translation of a preclinical model of heroin addiction
• Nicholas Fayette
  • Poster Position: 15
  • Title: GABAergic and glutamatergic ventral pallidum neurons differentially encode motivation for heroin
• Ana Concalves
  • Poster Position: 14
  • Title: Instructive signals during locomotor adaptation
• Connor McCullough
  • Poster Position: 13
  • Title: Analysis of simultaneous in vivo two-photon imaging and extracellular electrophysiology using a novel head-mounted miniature microscope
• Carley Miller
  • Poster Position: 18
  • Title: A role for ventral pallidum glutamate neurons in the effects of stress on heroin sensitization
• Dr. Xioyu Peng
  • Poster Position: 12
  • Title: Vagus nerve stimulation modifies the neural representation of a skilled reach in motor cortex
• Brandi Wiedmeyer
  • Poster Position: 17
  • Title: Perineuronal nets in the ventral pallidum regulate relapse to heroin seeking
• Dane Winter
  • Poster Position: 16
  • Title: Screening the therapeutic efficacy of kappa opioid receptor agonists in a preclinical model of heroin addiction
• Kevin Zitelli
  • Poster Position: 11
  • Title: Dual color imaging in freely-behaving rodents using head-mountable one photon miniscope

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