NSF funds UC Santa Cruz development of multifocus structured illumination microscope
The National Science Foundation has awarded UC Santa Cruz $700,000 for the development of a multifocus structured illumination microscope. Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Sara Abrahamsson will lead the project.
Summer Mentoring High School Students
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Designing Optics in UCSB Nanofab
We are also developing large volume 3D imaging systems to study the function of entire neural circuits in living animals using fluorescence indicators of neural activity. (See previous work in this field: Abrahamsson et al, 2016).
Nanofabrication of diffractive optics components by SaraLab Ph.D. Student Eduardo Hirata and Junior Specialist Gustav Pettersson at the beautiful UC Santa Barbara nanofabrication facility.