What’s new:
August 2023: Read our new paper on how the edge of visual stimulus can induce orientation columns in the mouse superior colliculus. Congratulations and thanks to Yajie, Rongwen, and Katharine, for years of careful and hard work!
May 2023: Read our two collaborative studies with the Gong lab at the School of Optometry and with the Chen lab at Nutritional Science & Toxicology, where microscopes in the Ji lab were used to image the lens cells and neurons in aging dentate gyrus in vivo.
April 2023: Congratulations, Qinrong, on having two papers published in the same month! Read our invited review on adaptive optics for optical microscopy and learn about our adaptive optical two-photon fluorescence microscopy designed to image the mouse retinal at high resolution in vivo.
December 2022: Kevin and Yuhan submitted their Ph.D. theses. Congratulations, Dr. Fan and Dr. Yang!
August 2022: Hyeonggeon (Ed) Kim has joined the Ji lab as a graduate student from the AS&T program. Welcome, Ed!
August 2022: Cristina is moving to New Haven to start her assistant professor position in Yale Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations, Cristina!
July 2022: Dr. Iksung Kang has joined the Ji lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
June 2022: Read our PNAS paper on ultrafast two-photon imaging of blood flow in the living mouse brain and the accompanying commentary on how we achieved a “FACED lift” for blood flow imaging. Congratulations, Guanghan, Jian, and Qinrong, and our collaborators from the Tsia lab!
May 2022: Congratulations, Emma, for winning the I.L. Chaikoff Memorial Award received for “outstanding achievement and excellence in research in the Cell & Developmental Biology and Neurobiology emphases” with her honor’s thesis in our lab!
November 2021: Read our paper on applying focal plane adaptive optics to Bessel foci, which enabled volumetric recording of synaptic calcium and glutamate activity at high resolution in Nature Communications. Well done, Wei, and collaborators in both Ji and Isacoff labs!
October 2021: Congratulations, Cristina, for being selected as an ISFS (Intersections Science Fellows Symposium) Fellow!
October 2021: Congratulations to Cristina, Anderson, and collaborators on the publication of the adaptive module paper at Nature Methods. Well done!
April 2021: Guanghan submitted her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Meng (and the first PhD graduate from the Ji lab)!
March 2021: Guanghan won the Best Presentation Award of the “High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy” Conference at SPIE Photonics West. Congratulations, Guanghan!
December 2020: Our paper on using adaptive optics for aberration-free remote focusing of two-photon fluorescence microscopy of up to 800 µm axial range was published in Biomedical Optics Express. Good job, Yuhan, Wei, and Kevin!
November 2020: In a collaboration with Thorlabs, Kevin and Jose used a Bessel focus scanning two-photon fluorescence microscope for high-speed volumetric imaging of vasculature in the mouse brain (at 99 volumes per second!). Go Bessel Vessel!
Ji lab, spring 2020
