Conveners
M-PLEN2 Plenary Session | Session plénière - N. Ji, Univ. of California at Berkeley
- Francis Lin (University of Manitoba)
Description
Speakers:
Prof.
Na Ji
(Berkeley)
03/06/2019, 09:30
Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)
Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)
Physics has long employed optical methods to probe and manipulate matter on scales from the infinitesimal to the immense. To understand the brain, we need to monitor physiological processes of single synapses as well as neural activity of a large number of networked neurons. Optical microscopy has emerged as an ideal tool in this quest, as it is capable of imaging neurons distributed over...