2-Photon Microscopy
🔬 Femtonics LtD. - Budapest, HU
🥼 MPFI - Jupiter, FL, USA
I worked with resonant and acousto-optic ultrafast 3D 2-Photon microscopes to study the 3-dimensional
functional architecture of the mouse brain. To visualize neurons and smaller functional elements such as
dendritic spines, model animals were first operated to express a fluorescent protein in their nervous tissue.
In vivo imaging was performed after a cranial window has been implanted to study the brain's response to sensory
stimuli and to understand the neural basis of visual perception.
- Lee, K. S., Vandemark, K., Mezey, D., Shultz, N., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2019). Functional synaptic architecture of callosal inputs in mouse primary visual cortex.Neuron, 101(3), 421-428.
- Szalay, G., Judak, L., Szadai, Z., Chiovini, B., Mezey, D., Palfi, D., ... & Katona, G. (2016). Fast three-dimensional two-photon scanning methods for studying neuronal physiology on cellular and network level.Orvosi Hetilap, 157(18), 724-724.
During this work I quickly realized my preference towards computational methods and the development of new technologies instead of the wet-lab work. Therefore I shifted my field towards computational neuroscience.