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Imaging Activity: Merocyanine 540 35th Anniversary Celebration
August 3-4, 2007

Friday Afternoon, August 3, Meig’s Room. Kohtaro Kamino, chair

1:00 PM Rodolfo Llinas: Voltage-sensitive dye imaging? so what's all the fuss, dither, flap and agitation about?

1:25 PM Bradley Baker: First generation protein voltage sensors.

1:50 PM Thomas Knopfel: Voltage Sensitive Fluorescent Proteins: Applications in vitro and in vivo.

2:15 PM Guy Salama: Genetically Encoded Calcium Sensors in Heart Cells.

2:40 PM George Augustine: Optogenetic tools for stimulating and monitoring synaptic circuitry.

3:05 PM Britton Chance: Intrinsic fluorescence changes linking electrical activity to mitochondrial metabolism.

3:30 PM Liang-shi Li: A new class of voltage-sensitive dyes based on mesoscopic electron transfer.

3:55 PM coffee

4:05 PM Alan Waggoner: New directions in genetically targetable fluorescent probes.

4:30 PM Peter Saggau: Fast Three-dimensional Optical Imaging.

4:55 PM Dejan Vucinic: Neurospy: open source microscopy.

5:20 PM Brian Salzberg: Intrinsic optical (and mechanical) signals from mammalian nerve terminals.

5:45 PM Dejan Zecevic: Dendritic signaling in the mitral cell glomerular tuft.

6:10 PM Srdjan Antic: The Dynamics of Action Potentials in Axons and Thin Dendrites.

6:35 PM Bill Ross: Calcium waves in dendrites: a cellular event invisible to VSDs.


Saturday Morning, August 4, Speck Auditorium, Rowe Laboratory. Alan Waggoner, chair

9:00 AM Bill Frost: Conventional and optical recording for studying network structure in the mollusk Tritonia.

9:25 AM Kevin Briggman: Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of behaviors and choices in the leech CNS.

9:50 AM

Michael Schemann: Neuroimaging in the human enteric nervous system.


10:15 AM Greg Carlson: VSD imaging of local hippocampal pathways and interactions.

10:40 AM Gene Civillico: State dependent input integration in barrel cortex studied with VSDs in vivo.

11:05 AM coffee

11:15 AM Meyer Jackson: Using voltage sensitive dye to image synaptic plasticity in hippocampal slices.

11:40 AM Alan Fine: Resolving how LTP and LTD are expressed at visualized hippocampal synapses.

12:05 PM Matt Wachowiak: Imaging from the olfactory bulb in the behaving rat: how sniffing shapes odor coding.

12:30 PM Ryota Homma: 2-photon imaging of activity of many juxtaglomerular neurons in the olfactory bulb.


Saturday Afternoon, August 4, Speck Auditorium, Rowe Laboratory. Brian Salzberg, Chair

1:30 PM Masae Kinoshita: Periventricular neurons in the optic tectum of rainbow trout.

1:55 PM

Katsu Sato: Spontaneous depolarization wave in the embryonic brain.


2:20 PM Arthur Konnerth: First images: Activity patterns in the mouse visual cortex at eye opening.

2:45 PM

Bill Kristan: Using voltage-sensitive dyes to study circuit development.


3:10 PM Ying-wan Lam: Using photostimulation to map the thalamocortical circuitry.

3:35 PM Carl Petersen: Functional interactions between sensory and motor cortex.

4:00 PM Vincent Pieribone: Voltage sensitive dye recordings in mouse barrel cortex.

4:25 PM coffee

4:35 PM Anna Roe: Light emitting cortices: VSD, OI, and AF?

5:00 PM Varda Lev-Ram: Tracking synaptic specific proteins.

5:25 PM Tetsuo Sakai: Optical mapping of experimental tachy-arrhythmia in the isolated rat atrium.

5:50 PM Benjamin Kaup: Measuring voltage pulses in sea urchin sperm.

6:15 PM Jian-young Wu: Imaging spontaneous and evoked cortical waves in vivo.

6:40 PM

Kohtaro Kamino: Epilogue



Peter Kaskan: "Intrinsic-signal optical imaging reveals conserved features of primate visual cortex"