GT Neuro Seminar Series
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“High-speed Imaging of Real-time, Brain-wide Activity”
Elizabeth Hillman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
There is a crucial biological system that reaches every crevice of the brain, and yet goes unstudied by most neuroscientists. It is the vascular system, the network of vessels that carries oxygen-rich blood to hardworking nerve cells, called neurons. Elizabeth Hillman, PhD, a principal investigator at Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, studies neurovascular coupling — or how neural activity in the brain drives changes in brain blood flow. Despite its importance, little is known about this critical aspect of brain function.
This presentation can be seen via BlueJeans
Contact:
Chris Rozell, faculty host