Overview

Frontiers in Neurophotonics is an opportunity to meet fellow researchers and students from around the world, discuss and discover the latest advances in live cell imaging techniques put in perspective by experimental challenges in the field of neuroscience.

The school will combine tutorials given by experts in photonics and neuroscience and hands-on experiments involving advanced optical approaches to measure, manipulate and follow molecular events in living neuronal cells.

Topics to be covered include:

• Tracking cell migration and maturation in live brain slices. To learn more...
• Video-rate multimodal imaging in vivo. To learn more...
• Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering microscopy. To learn more...
• Imaging protein trafficking in and out of dendritic spines. To learn more...
• Single membrane receptor tracking. To learn more...
• Fluorescence lifetime approaches. To learn more...
• Photobleaching and Photoactivation techniques. To learn more...
• Two-photon calcium imaging in axons and dendrites
• Mapping synaptic connections between neurons

The school is supported with funds from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (Neurophysics Training Program Grant), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovation.