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 Advanced Neuroscience Imaging
In an exciting expansion of the Laboratory's neuroscience program, close on the heels of the establishment of the Beckman Neuroscience Center in 1992, an advanced neuroscience imaging facility is being constructed on the main campus just west of James Laboratory. The new building, named the Nancy and Edwin Marks Building, will house advanced imaging facilities for use in studies of the living brain--a great advance for neurobiology research. Karel Svoboda will use and further develop state-of-the-art laser-scanning microscopy to extend his ongoing studies of neuronal activity and synaptic plasticity in individual neurons in functioning brains of live animals. In addition, scientists from around the world will take courses in the Marks Building to learn how to use this sophisticated new technology. The imaging facility is scheduled to open in August 1999.
In another expansion of existing neuroscience facilities, the Laboratory is replacing the old visitors' cabins just north of the Beckman Neuroscience Center with a small building dedicated to computational neuroscience. The new facility, made possible by Laboratory Trustee William Murray, will be known as the Samuel Freeman Building. There scientists will use the latest computerized tools to model how the brain works.
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