I am so proud to coordinate this ambitious and exciting project in the next 4 years, collabrating with the top nanoscientist Christopher Dirdal at SINTEF to push the frontier of neurotechnology!
Congratulations!! Would like to dig into it more!
Thank @kavlintnu.bsky.social, the research council of Norwayfor the continues support of our work! We will provide more useful tools like #mini2p to the neuroscience!
👏 Dr.Zong received the NTVA (Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences) Honorary Award for Breakthrough Technology 2025 (www.ntva.no/aktuelt/nyhe...). This is a huge encouragement for the team to continue pushing our research forward
Congratulations!!
Big congratulations to you and Michael!!!
Grateful to the brilliant students and collaborators pushing neurophotonics forward - and to Sainsbury Wellcome for the opportunity to share our work. Excited for what this mini scope will reveal next! 🚀
Opening new neuroscience horizons:
With this tool, we can study dendritic computation and network dynamics under naturalistic behavior: an essential step toward understanding the neural basis of cognition. 🌍🧠
Performance rivals desktops: ✨
Despite its size, our miniscope delivers resolution, speed, and field-of-view comparable to bench-top two photon microscopes.⚡📸
Seeing truly small structures: 👁️
Thanks to innovations like hollow-core photonic fibers, we can now resolve activity in individual dendritic spines - not just cell bodies - even during movement. 🧩 🔍🧠
Seeing truly small structures: 👁️
Thanks to innovations like hollow-core photonic fibers, we can now resolve activity in individual dendritic spines - not just cell bodies - even during movement. 🧩 🔍🧠
Freedom to behave: 🤸♀️
Traditional two-photon setups are bench-bound, head-fixed systems. Our mini scope weighs only ~2-3 g, allowing mice to explore, climb, and jump while we image calcium signals in real-time. 🐁📈
Exploring the Brain - One Spine at a Time 🔬
Just chatted with @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social about our latest work, miniaturising two-photon microscopy for neuroscience at @kavlintnu.bsky.social
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/mini-...
A few highlights:
Thanks for the invitation! It will be exciting!
I would really love to join if there is any chance!
It is my great honor to host the visit of Prof. Liqun Luo at the @kavlintnu.bsky.social. The talk was so inspiring with amazingly beautiful discoveries! Thank @m-bmoser.bsky.social and @edvardmoser.bsky.social for joing the host, and Emre and Nathalie for showing the visitor the beauty of Norway:)
Congratulations and good luck for your new career stage Ruben!
Glad to read the news that the Norwegian government has dropped the requirement that international PhD fellows must learn Norwegian www.khrono.no/regjeringen-...
Exciting news! 👏 Our lab got another grant from the Norwegian Research Council to enhance the miniature 2-photon microscope! 🎉. A huge thank-you to the #TTO in NTNU for supporting the funding application! Check below for more details of the project:
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/1...
JOIN US LIVE TODAY for a unique art/science experience!
Nobel Laureate @m-bmoser.bsky.social & the musical ensemble @trondheimsolistene.bsky.social play on our neural networks in the @embl.org #KafatosLecture "The Power of Science: Uncovering the Algorithms of the Brain" at @isfit.bsky.social
Yes!!! Finger crossed!
This problem has became toxic to the researches in the country, and thanks Edvard to make it exposed to the world. Let us hopes things will change!
Beautiful story and amazing discovery! Congratulations to @azvollan.bsky.social @Richard Gardner, @edvardmoser.bsky.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social and all others involved!
Congratulations to @portugueslab.bsky.social ! Dr. Portugues and his lab is really pushing forward this exciting direction!
Thanks for the re-post Ruben!
Attention! Zong lab
is recruiting!! Two Ph.D and postdoc positions in neuroscience 🧠 are available!! Apply if you are strongly interested in applying cutting-edge
@TheMini2P 🔬 for frontier systems neuroscience studies!!!!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Thanks for your reply. It was exciting to hear that the long stock shift version is on the way. Keep us updated and I am looking forward to trying it!
Hey this is really what people waiting for. Thanks for making it happened! Have you tried to image it with 920nm laser? It will be cool if it can be used with GCAMP and excited with single laser!
Congratulations Ruben! This is so exciting study!
Good luck and enjoy the beautiful weather!
