The 15th European Microscopy Congress

Manchester Central, United Kingdom

was held on 16th - 21st September 2012

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Plenary Speakers - Professor Jeff Lichtman

Jeff Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. He received an AB from Bowdoin (1973), and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University (1980) where he worked for 30 years before moving to Cambridge in 2004. He is a member of the newly established Center for Brain Science.  

Lichtman’s research interest revolves around the question of how mammalian brain circuits are physically altered by experiences, especially in early life.  He has focused on the dramatic re-wiring of neural connections that takes place in early postnatal development when animals are doing most of their learning.  This work has required development of techniques such as “Brainbow” transgenic mice to visualize neural connections and monitor how they are altered over time.  

Recently his efforts have focused on developing new electron microscopy methods to map the entire wiring diagram of the developing and adult brain.  This "connectomics" approach has as one of its aims uncovering the ways information is stored in neural networks.