Michelle Pang
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
Student Employee, Digital Learning Strategy
All Publications
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Sustained deep-tissue voltage recording using a fast indicator evolved for two-photon microscopy.
Cell
2022
Abstract
Genetically encoded voltage indicators are emerging tools for monitoring voltage dynamics with cell-type specificity. However, current indicators enable a narrow range of applications due to poor performance under two-photon microscopy, a method of choice for deep-tissue recording. To improve indicators, we developed a multiparameter high-throughput platform to optimize voltage indicators for two-photon microscopy. Using this system, we identified JEDI-2P, an indicator that is faster, brighter, and more sensitive and photostable than its predecessors. We demonstrate that JEDI-2P can report light-evoked responses in axonal termini of Drosophila interneurons and the dendrites and somata of amacrine cells of isolated mouse retina. JEDI-2P can also optically record the voltage dynamics of individual cortical neurons in awake behaving mice for more than 30min using both resonant-scanning and ULoVE random-access microscopy. Finally, ULoVE recording of JEDI-2P can robustly detect spikes at depths exceeding 400mum and report voltage correlations in pairs of neurons.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.013
View details for PubMedID 35985322
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Developmental Biology: Neurons That Divide Together Wire Together.
Current biology : CB
2018; 28 (12): R715–R717
Abstract
Retinotopic maps represent a fundamental organizing principle of visual system wiring. A recent study illustrates how careful coordination of developmental strategies can simultaneously create a diverse array of cell types and establish a complex wiring diagram.
View details for PubMedID 29920268