Have you read the latest BRAIN Initiative Alliance newsletter? BRAIN scientists are invited to share their tools with the scientific community in the Toolmakers Newsletter. These newsletters spotlight BRAIN Initiative investigators with tools, technologies, or theories ready for distribution to the larger research community to advance neurotechnology.
The BRAIN Initiative® Alliance (BIA) released its third Toolmakers Newsletter of 2023! This issue showcases four neuroscience tools, repositories, and pieces of software to highlight the research teams developing and using them to help us understand more about the brain:
- Dual Independent Enhanced Scan Engines for Large field-of-view Two-Photon imaging (Diesel2p) by Dr. Spencer Smith, a two-photon microscope with two scanning engines that can simultaneously image two brain regions at the same time during multiphoton optogenetic stimulation.
- Neuroscience AntiBody Open Resource (NABOR) by Dr. Melina Fan, an open source repository of antibodies for neuroscience applications that provides detailed information on each antibody including its protein, plasmid sequences, antigen sequence, and more.
- Pinpoint by Dr. Daniel Birman, a piece of planning software that helps neuroscientists visualize multi-probe trajectories in 3D to aid experiments and surgeries.
- Postsynaptic Accelerated Sensor of Action Potentials (postASAP) by Dr. Rafael Yuste, a genetically-encoded voltage sensor that is compatible with two-photon microscopy and measures electrical activity in dendrites and dendritic spines.
Check out the current issue here and in BIA News!
Are you a BRAIN researcher with a resource ready to share? Fill out the new web form for your tool to be considered for the BIA’s Toolmakers’ Resources webpage and a chance to be featured in a future newsletter!
Are you a BRAIN researcher and interested in being featured at this year’s BIA satellite event at Society for Neuroscience (SfN)? Please complete your application by tomorrow, August 25, 2023. You will be notified in September if you have been selected. For more information about previous BIA Toolmakers social events, please visit the BIA webpage.