Wed Oct 21 · 6:30pm
Lectures on Tap — How Scientists Identify What Neurons Do in the Brain
Biophysicist Didar Ciftci, who holds a Cornell PhD and co-developed light-based molecular barcoding for visualizing RNA as a postdoc at Harvard, explains how scientists move from seeing a neuron “light up” to knowing what kind of cell it is. The talk centers on MIDAS, a new method that matches neurons imaged during behavior with their molecular identities afterward, linking what a neuron is to what it does.