Topic: multiphoton microscopy

The Sarvestani Lab at Cornell University is recruiting a postdoctoral scientist in systems neuroscience to study how visual and motor systems across the brain and body support perception and embodied cognition. Projects use cross-species behavioral experiments, multiphoton microscopy, electrophysiology, motion capture, and wireless sensors in tree shrews and rats.

This talk will present a low-cost protocol for fabricating an easily constructed femtosecond (fs) fiber laser system suitable for routine multiphoton microscopy (1060–1080 nm, 1 W average power, 70 fs pulse duration, 30–70 MHz repetition rate). Concepts well-known in the laser physics community essential to proper laser operation, but generally obscure to biophysicists and biomedical engineers, will be clarified. The parts list (~$13K US dollars), the equipment list (~$40K+), and the intellectual investment needed to build the laser will be described. A goal of the presentation will be to enga