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Cell-type specific voltage imaging of neural spiking, oscillations, waves, and memory dynamics

Date:

Donnerstag, 09. 10. 2025 - 11:00a.m. -
12:00p.m.

Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Mark Schnitzer

Affiliation:

Stanford University, USA

Host:

Prof. Dr. Jan Gründemann, DZNE Bonn

Venue:

DZNE Lecture Hall, Venusberg-Campus 1/99, 53127, Bonn

Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81187367747?pwd=eG5YPyAtlnklEeIzuA2JpBzLRhOtay.1

Meeting ID: 811 8736 7747 | Passcode: 043269

Abstract: Fluorescent genetically encoded voltage-indicators report the membrane voltages of targeted cell-types. Recent advances in the development of these indicators have enabled optical voltage-imaging experiments capturing the spiking dynamics of up to 3 neuron classes at once in the brains of behaving mammals. We recently used this capability to uncover a new form of interaction between an existing short-term memory and the formation of a long-term memory. Fluorescent voltage-indicators also have the capability to reveal the brain’s electrical oscillations and waves. However, until recently, voltage-imaging instrumentation lacked the sensitivity to track spontaneous or evoked high-frequency voltage oscillations in neural populations. I will describe optical voltage-sensing technologies that capture neural oscillations up to ~100 Hz. With these techniques, we have uncovered synchronized coupling between electrical oscillations of distinct frequencies in specific neuron-types of the hippocampus and neocortex. We have also imaged sensory-evoked excitatory-inhibitory neural interactions and traveling electrical waves in the visual cortex, and discovered previously unreported forms of traveling voltage waves in the hippocampus. Overall, optical voltage-imaging has widespread applications for probing spiking patterns, oscillations, and neuron-type interactions in healthy and diseased brains.