Professor Pier Luigi Dragotti

One of the key goals of neuroscience is understanding how networks of neurons in the mammalian brain process information. Achieving this goal requires the ability to capture the dynamics of large populations of neurons at high speed and resolution over a large area of the brain. The best way to image fast is by using scanless microscopes and a particularly attractive candidate for highspeed 3D imaging is light-field microscopy (LFM). In collaboration with Dr A. Foust we have built a new lightfield microscope and new computational tools that eanabled us to image large number of neurons at 100Hz and our technology promises to image large polupations of neurons at 1KHz.