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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 33: Bioimaging

BP 33.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 15:00–15:30, BAR/0205

Expanding the Bag of Optical Tricks for (Neuro)Biology — •Fabian F. Voigt — Department for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA — Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany — Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine, Erlangen, Germany

Seeing is believing and thus, optical imaging techniques are extremely useful to study brain structure and function. I will present several projects aimed at providing the neuroscience community with bet- ter instrumentation: These range from open-source light-sheet micro- scopes for imaging cleared tissue ( https://mesospim.org/ ) to novel multi-immersion microscope objectives that take inspiration from scallops and astronomical telescopes as well as utilizing metasurfaces for improving light collection efficiency in light-sheet microscopy.

Keywords: light-sheet; metasurface; oblique plane microscopy