Optics and the Brain (Brain)

Brain focuses on innovative research, tools and techniques to increase fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system.

The USA BRAIN Initiative and the European Human Brain Project have identified the urgent need for new technologies that can probe the working brain across all levels from single neurons to entire behaving organisms. Optics offers a unique toolkit for multiscale imaging the living and intact brain, while new genetic labeling strategies provide optical contrast to neural function and optogenetics permits the control of cellular function with light.

By bringing together an international group of leading engineers, optical and medical scientists, biologists, chemists and physicians, the meeting reflects the highly interdisciplinary area of research within this topic. This meeting serves as a forum for discussion of existing and emerging techniques as well as future directions capable of shedding new light on the healthy and diseased brain.

Chairs

Eirini Papagiakoumou

Institut De La Vision Paris, France,
Chair

Ashwin Parthasarathy

University of South Florida,
Chair

Wesley Baker

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, United States,
Program Chair

Vicente Parot

Pontificia Univ Catolica de Chile, Chile,
Program Chair

Committee Members

• Eirini Papagiakoumou, Institut De La Vision Paris, France, Chair
• Ashwin Parthasarathy, University of South Florida, Chair
• Wesley Baker, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, United States, Program Chair
• Vicente Parot, Pontificia Univ Catolica de Chile, Chile, Program Chair