Neurotech symposium on the brain spotlights new discoveries
From left, Joe Fetcho, co-director of Cornell Neurotech; David Tank, Karel Svoboda, Winfried Denk and Chris Xu, co-director of Cornell Neurotech. Researchers plumbing the mysteries of the brain gathered to share their discoveries at the inaugural Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium, Sept. 29 in the Biotechnology Building. The daylong symposium featured three of the winners of the prestigious Brain Prize - Winfried Denk, Ph.D. '89; Karel Svoboda '88; and David Tank, M.S. '80, Ph.D. '83 - all graduates of Professor Emeritus Watt Webb's applied physics laboratory. The three built on their work in the Webb lab to develop multiphoton microscopy as an essential tool in brain research, allowing observation of minute brain structures and dynamic brain functions in real time.
