Towards Bidirectional Optical Brain Interfaces
Bidirectional optical brain interfaces is promising to resolve functional connection of neural circuits in vivo, through the integration of neural imaging and optogenetics stimulation. However, due to physical limitations of the imaging hardware and tissue optics, current optical methods meet bottlenecks in speed, depth, and scale, etc. In this talk, I will introduce our recent efforts toward this exciting field, including random-access wide-field microscopy, scanning wide-field tomography, cross-region all-optical physiology, and optical decoding of neuronal activities, etc.
Bio: Lingjie Kong is a full professor at the Department of Precision Instrument at Tsinghua University. He received a Ph.D. degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University and continued the postdoctoral research at Harvard University, Janelia Research Campus/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Purdue University, sequentially. His research interests include biomedical optics and its applications. Specifically in neurophotonics, he has developed multiple techniques for imaging faster, deeper, and wider. Besides, he has proposed novel concepts and techniques of optical sensing and intelligent prognosis. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.