Wow, very honored and grateful! Just got the call a few minutes ago... Quite overwhelming. A testament to the work of so many people -- grad students, postdocs, collaborators, friends -- working together over so many years. And quite a bit of serendipity and luck, too.
A fly-through through the fly brain... A new rendering by Y. Bando (Toshiba Memory Corp/MIT), K. Hiwada (Toshiba Memory Corp), R. Gao (MIT/Janelia), S. Upadhyayula (HMS/Janelia), S. Asano (MIT), Y. Aso (Janelia), E. Betzig (UC Berkeley/Janelia), E. Boyden (MIT).
One of my favorite movies from our paper on cortical column and whole-brain imaging with nanoscale resolution (synthneuro.org/publications/p…) - Movie 3, "Synaptic proteins and their associations to neuronal processes in layers IV and V of the mouse primary somatosensory cortex."
MIT News: announcing Archon, a new fluorescent voltage indicator for imaging neural activity. We found it by inventing a robotic method for doing directed evolution in mammalian cells. Paper to appear today in Nature Chemical Biology.
Very honored and excited to have been named an HHMI Investigator. Looking forward to heading into some completely new areas of science. And congratulations to the other new investigators as well! hhmi.org/2018-investiga…
We are working on a cookbook-style protocol for learning expansion microscopy, designed for beginners with only basic biology experience -- would anyone want to try and beta-test it, and give us feedback? Email us at [email protected] ! #expansionmicroscopy
Just published in @natBME: expansion revealing (ExR), a 20x #expansionmicroscopy method that evenly separates proteins from each other for better antibody labeling, and nanoprecise imaging, on ordinary microscopes. Link to PDF: rdcu.be/cUyAO
In Science, today: What if we run expansion microscopy backwards? Announcing implosion fabrication -- a new way of making nanotechnology, inexpensively and quickly! The news article, from MIT News. 1/4
In Science today: in a collaboration between Eric Betzig's group and our group, we used lattice light sheet microscopy to image expansion microscopy specimens, resulting in a ~1000x speedup in nanoresolution imaging. Paper: science.sciencemag.org/content/363/64… 1/5 news.mit.edu/2019/mapping-b…
Just published: the light-activated protein melanopsin provides a tool for optogenetically controlling glial cells, which make up perhaps half of the cells of the brain. Such tools could help probe how glia contribute to processes like memory formation. rdcu.be/bgAnX
I was on the Media Lab Disobedience Award jury that picked BethAnn as a winner for her work fighting sexual harassment in STEM. To continue to show solidarity and support, I have notified my hosts that I will delay my visit until this very concerning situation has been addressed.
