At IMB, imaging technologies include transmission electron microscopy (TEM), white light and fluorescence microscopy, dynamic calcium imaging, voltage dependent dye mediated imaging, optogenetics, confocal and two-photon laser scanning microscopy (LMS), low light level optical scanning, positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (CT).
Research interests include basic science and clinical implications of neurotransmitter metabolism, the function of glial cells, water and ion transport in tissues, dynamic imaging of large scale neural activity patterns, neural development and plasticity, construction and distribution of 3D atlases, and metabolic processes followed over time in tissue samples and intact organisms.
Imaging techniques at the institute
Realtime functional imaging
- Responsible research unit: Neural Development and Optical Recording
- Contact person: Joel Glover
Two-photon imaging
- Responsible research unit: Letten Centre
- Contact person: Rune Enger
Norbrain slide scanning facility
- Responsible research unit: Neural Systems Laboratory
- Contact person: Trygve Leergaard
Confocal microscopy
- Responsible research units: Synaptic Plasticity Group, Neurotransporter Group and Chromatin Regulation in Stem Cells Group
- Contact person: Philippe Collas
Electron microscopy
- Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience
- Contact person: Mahmood Reza Amiri Moghaddam
Non invasive optical imaging in rodents
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Responsible research unit: Diet and oxidative stress
- Contact persons: Rune Blomhoff