Title: Capabilities and Collaborations: Charting the NINC’s second decade
The NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation (NINC) core has grown rapidly over its first decade adding many new instruments which extend our community’s capabilities for measuring key aspects of brain structure and function. This presentation will highlight these new instruments, including our 3-photon microscope, functional ultrasound imaging system, multiphoton mesoscope, lattice and conventional lightsheet microscopes, among others. Capitalizing on these new capabilities will foster new collaborative projects and inform the directions for NINC’s development in its second decade.
Title: Blood Tests for Brain Health: Inside CFNBI
The Core Facility for Neurology Biomarker Innovation (CFNBI) uses state-of-the-art technologies to support neurological fluid biomarker research across the discovery, validation and implementation continuum. This presentation will describe how biomarker testing can inform on physiological and pathological changes occurring within the central nervous system and be leveraged into multiple contexts of use. We will further highlight the wide array of analytical platforms and biomarker expertise CFNBI can offer researchers involved in both clinical and pre-clinical research programs.