Name: Geoff Greene Position: Chief Scientific Applications Officer What does your job entail? When I’m not traveling, I spend most of my time in the office helping our existing or prospective customers to better understand how our systems can help them with their specific research projects. Most of what I do is work in a pre-sales technical support or consulting role. This involves working with customers to...
Read MoreDr. Charles Gerfen is studying the mouse thalamus with the MBF Virtual Slice extension module for Neurolucida and Stereo Investigator. Virtual Slice is a powerful tool that enables scientists to create, view, and analyze an entire specimen in a single high-resolution image. By using optical sectioning with the Zeiss ApoTome, his images are remarkably clear and bright. Here is what the National Institute of Mental...
Read MoreOn Monday, March 1, the Brain Institute at the University of Utah hosts its March Symposium – Imaging Neurons. We are pleased to report that two of the neuroscientists speaking at the event are MBF Bioscience customers. Dr. Erik Jorgensen, a biology professor at the University of Utah will discuss fluorescence electron microscopy. Dr. Karl Deisseroth, a professor of bioengineering and psychiatry and behavioral sciences...
Read MoreDr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa is on a quest to find better therapies for the fight against brain cancer. He and his team of neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University study stem cells in the brain's subventricular zone to better understand how brain tumors are formed. Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa gives the keynote talk "Brain Cancer: Current Paradigms" at the Fifth Annual Neuroscience Research Forum. Hosted by the Vermont Chapter...
Read MoreBy 2020 we'll all be astronauts. Or so hopes British industrialist Sir Richard Branson. The Virgin Group tycoon predicts the next decade will see a space station on the moon and a manned mission to Mars. But while space tourism would certainly be exciting, the human brain is the big thing to watch in the next ten years according to the recent Times Online article...
Read MoreMen and women are different, not just physically, but mentally. How and why are there these profound differences? Find out Thursday night at Burlington, Vermont's ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center's Café Scientifique. As part of an ongoing series of science related discussions, Dr. Cynthia Forehand, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Vermont, hosts a discussion on gender-related differences in the human...
Read MoreStress is something we’d all like to have a little less of. Though it is a natural, genetic response that allows us to adapt to various situations, stress can certainly impede upon daily life. If allowed to reach chronic levels, stress can "cause damage and accelerate disease," one of the main points of Dr. Bruce McEwen’s 2002 book The End of Stress As We Know...
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