In this 2006 #JNeurosci Symposium, Deisseroth & colleagues explored advances in #optogenetic technology. The authors presented their Symposium at the SfN annual meeting that year. www.jneurosci.org/content/26/4...

Don't miss the 5th #Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference at the Multiscale Imaging Center (MIC), Münster from November 17-19, 2026 @uni-muenster.de @sfb1348.bsky.social
www.aiche.org/sbe/conferen...

Congratulations to the founders of #optogenetic ion channels in neurons for winning a nobel prize! Here's to many more decades of optogenetic experiments, that open the door to real time specific molecular manipulations and make science feel like magic! Some of my favorite movies below to celebrate.

To celebrate their achievements, we're highlighting relevant papers 📝

In the first, Hegemann and colleagues demonstrate Aion as an #optogenetic silencing tool for inhibition of neuronal activity, which can be switched between active and inactive with millisecond precision

doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Illuminating early #AlzheimersDisease: #optogenetic approaches to restoring #sleep-dependent slow oscillation

Tri H. Doan, Zhe Liu, Igor Timofeev, Dmitry Gerashchenko, Ksenia V. Kastanenka @kastanenka.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...