Dear BME Community:

Your vote will determine the winner for this national contest!

Our super-resolution resolved dendrites and spines (from Huang and Chubykin labs) are now as the finalist at BRAIN initiative image/video contest:

https://braininitiative.nih.gov/2024-brain-initiative-show-us-your-brains-photo-video-contest

Our video is the one on the bottom right, titled:

Exploring the 3D Nanoarchitecture of Neuronal Membranes at Dendritic Spine by Labeling Channelrhodopsin-2

Data collected by graduate students: Hao-Cheng Gao (Biomedical Engineering) and Xi Cheng (Biological Science)

Among other impressive entries, our is the only one providing nanoscale ultrastructure of the spines and dendrites, the defining feature of neural connection and its function.

Cheers!

Fang

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Fang Huang
Reilly Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering, Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN  47907

office:
206 S Martin Jischke Dr

West Lafayette, IN 47907
Room # 2025

Phone: +1 765 494 6216