Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where is the Dark Matter

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• Mark Ellisman, Professor of Neurosciences, Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California at San Diego
• Friday 21 September 2012, 11:00-12:00
• MRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

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A grand goal in neuroscience research is to understand how the interplay of structural, chemical and electrical signals in and between cells of nervous tissue gives rise to behavior. We are rapidly approaching this horizon as neuroscientists make use of an increasingly powerful arsenal of tools and technologies for obtaining data, from the level of molecules to nervous systems, and engage in the arduous and challenging process of adapting and assembling neuroscience data at all scales of resolution and across disciplines into computerized databases. This talk will highlight projects where development and application of new contrasting methods and imaging tools have allowed us to see otherwise hidden relationships between cellular, subcellular and molecular constituents of nervous systems. New chemistries for carrying out correlated light and electron microscopy will be described, as well as recent advances in large-scale high-resolution 3D reconstruction with TEM and SEM based methods. The Whole Brain Catalog (WBC), a Google Earth-like open-source virtual model of the mouse brain, will also be described. The WBC is as an example of an open access bioinformatics framework and web-based tool whose purpose is partly to facilitate integration of 3D image data from multiple microscopy methods and to enable the linking of information derived from other analytical approaches to imaging data.

This talk is part of the MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars series.

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