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Circuit-Tracing at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders
Amy Kristl, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston MA
Introduction
Outcomes
About Leuven
About NERF
Research
Founded by IMEC, KU Leuven, and VIB
with funding from Flemish Government
Home of KU Leuven,
the world’s oldest
Catholic university
Boasts the
“longest bar”
Interdisciplinary
research
initiative with
the goal of
understanding
the brain and its
function
world’s
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Home of the original
Stella Artois brewery
Belgian waffles
Injections into the LP and
superior colliculus reliably
labeled neurons in the
superior colliculus and
retina, respectively. This
virus will be used to guide
future optogenetics and in
vivo imaging experiments.
Currently hosts
five laboratories
Science frequently
discussed over
coffee at JAVA
About the Farrow Lab
Retina 5x
Personal
The lab studies the retina
and downstream brain areas
involved in innate visuallyguided behaviors through a
computational lens that aims
to understand the brain’s
computational power.
• Refined skills in histology and surgery
• Discovered interests in computational
neuroscience and biotechnology
• Adapted to an entirely new culture
• Travelled to ~20 cities across Europe!
Activities
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Stereotaxic viral injections into the
pulvinar, superior colliculus
Histology: Perfusions, slicing,
immunostaining, slide preparation
Confocal imaging to observe labeling
Training mice for other experiments
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to my supervisor Karl
Farrow, fellow co-op Leighanne Wang, and
the Farrow lab for their support during this
co-op; Northeastern University and KU
Leuven for funding; Naomi ZingmanDaniels and Logan Griffiths for poster
assistance.
Retina 40x