Sculpted Light in the Brain

Presented by Bruker, Thorlabs, and Science

June 19th to 21st, 2024

Hosted at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Paris, France

Thanks for joining us in Paris for SLB 2024!

We hope everyone had a great time in Paris. Be on the lookout for an after conference survey to provide feedback. For those that receive travel awards, we will also be reaching out shortly with information regarding reimbursements.

Kavli Exploration Award: LOI due July 8th!

For those that attended SLB 2024, you are now eligible to apply for the Kavli Exploration Award for Sculpted Light. Follow the links below for the full Request for Proposal (RFP) as well as the application portal.

RFP

APPLICATION PORTAL

Call for future SLB organizers

If you would like to join us in organizing future SLB events, please let us know by sending an email to sculptedlightinthebrain@gmail.com.

SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH

13:00pm	Registration / Coffee
13:30pm	Welcome Address
13:40pm	Anne Takesian : "Diverse Cortical Layer 1 Circuits for Auditory Processing"
14:10pm	Mriganka Sur : "Multiphoton imaging of functional networks in organoids: impact of neurodevelopmental disorders"
14:40pm	(Selected Talk) YoungJu Jo : "KALI family channelrhodopsins: from structure-guided engineering to in vivo applications"
15:00pm	Networking Coffee Break
16:00pm	(Selected Talk) Jonathan Gill : "Multiscale Interrogation of Neural Connectivity in vivo Using Precision Optogenetics"
16:20pm	Sponsor Talk: Bruker
16:40pm	(Keynote) Valentina Emiliani: "All-optical circuits manipulation with...sculpted light"
17:20pm	Poster Session/Reception

THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH

8:30am	Welcome Coffee
9:00am	Kaspar Podgorski: "Fast and flexible light shaping for in vivo two-photon microscopy"
9:30am	Aseema Mohanty: "Miniaturizing beam shaping technology using nanophotonics"
10:00am	(Selected Talk) Laura Camila Gomez : "Advancing 2-photon population voltage imaging for the exploration of cortical circuit dynamics"
10:20am	Coffee Break
10:40am	Nicolas Pegard: "Sculpting light through the brain to track arousal biometrics"
11:10am	Vicente Parot: "Multiplane volume mapping by virtual array imaging"
11:40am	Sponsor Talk: Thorlabs
12:00pm	Lunch
13:40pm	Ahmed Abdelfattah: "Chemigenetic voltage indicators for optical monitoring of neural activity"
14:10pm	Stéphane Dieudonné: "AOD-based random-access two-photon microscopy : a solution for all-optical electrophysiology in 3D"
14:40pm	(Selected Talk) Christiane Grimm: "A Rhodopsin-based GEVI for two-photon voltage imaging"
15:00pm	Networking Coffee Break: Sponsored by Light Conversion
16:00pm	(Selected Talk) Sang Min Han: "Neural circuit dynamics estimation and control using multiphoton holography optogenetics"
16:20pm	Agostina Palmigiano: "Feature-dependent mechanisms underlying reshuffling of activity by optogenetic perturbations"
16:50pm	Brent Doiron: "Diverse Neuronal Responses Produce Low Dimensional Variability in Cortical Circuits"
17:20pm	Poster Session / Reception

FRIDAY, JUNE 21ST

8:30am	Welcome Coffee
9:00am	Tommaso Fellin: "Extended field-of-view imaging in miniature two-photon microscopes through aberration corrected GRIN lenses"
9:30am	Ian Oldenburg : "Holographic Dissection of Cortical Microcircuits"
10:00am	(Selected Talk) Hayley Bounds: "Causally Connecting Cortical Codes to Visual Perception"
10:20am	Coffee Break
10:40am	Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy: "Optoelectronics for the neurobiology of social behavior"
11:10am	José-Alain Sahel: "Sculpting the Future of Vision Restoration"
11:40am	Sponsor Talk: Science
12:00pm	Lunch
13:40pm	Emmanuel Beaurepaire: "Color and multicontrast multiphoton imaging of brain tissue"
14:10pm	Cristina Rodriguez: "Next-generation optical microscopy methods for deep tissue in vivo imaging of the nervous system"
14:40pm	(Selected Talk) Sarah E. Montgomery: "Ultrathin endomicroscopy for deep in vivo brain imaging"
15:00pm	Networking Coffee Break
16:00pm	Aleena Garner: "Illuminating predictive processing in cortical circuits"
16:30pm	Hyeyoung Shin : "Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of perceptual inference"
17:00pm	Michael Hausser: "Illuminating causal links between neural circuit activity and behavior"
17:30pm	Closing Remarks

CONFERENCE MAP (MAISON INTERNATIONALE)

ABOUT

Sculpted Light in the Brain is a recurring conference (founded in 2017) aimed at fostering collaborations between neuroscientists, computer scientists, optics researchers, and other scientists who share the common interest of using and developing novel technologies to observe and control neural activity in the awake, behaving brain. “Sculpted Light” refers to a broad class of methods where light is shaped to probe neural function.

This meeting aims to promote future collaboration opportunities by gathering established scientists and the next generation of researchers from these fields to discuss future technologies that will enable real time optical communication with the living brain.