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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 13

Congratulations!!

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

Big congratulations to you and Michael!!!

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

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! 🚀

Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

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. 🌍🧠

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

Performance rivals desktops: ✨
Despite its size, our miniscope delivers resolution, speed, and field-of-view comparable to bench-top two photon microscopes.⚡📸

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

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. 🧩 🔍🧠

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

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. 🧩 🔍🧠

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

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. 🐁📈

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 10

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:

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thanks for the invitation! It will be exciting!

Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jun 29

I would really love to join if there is any chance!

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jun 15

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:)

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations and good luck for your new career stage Ruben!

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Mar 21

Glad to read the news that the Norwegian government has dropped the requirement that international PhD fellows must learn Norwegian www.khrono.no/regjeringen-...

Regjeringen vil fjerne omstridt norskkrav for utenlandske stipendiater

Regjeringen vil fjerne omstridt krav om norskkurs for utenlandske forskere og vurderer å myke opp reglene for studieavgift for internasjonale studenter, varsler den i stortingsmeldingen om forskningss...

www.khrono.no

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Mar 20

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...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yes!!! Finger crossed!

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Feb 14

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!

Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · Feb 12

I was interviewed by @nature.com about the risk of talent exodus following Norway’s new language law. I hope the new government and science minister will change the internationalisation policy ASAP.
@stortinget.no, @uhrno.bsky.social, @forskningspolitikk.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus

Mandatory language courses for foreign researchers could harm Norway’s ability to attract the best talent, Nobel laureate says, as rule prompts legal challenge.

www.nature.com

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Feb 3

Beautiful story and amazing discovery! Congratulations to @azvollan.bsky.social @Richard Gardner, @edvardmoser.bsky.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social and all others involved!

Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · Feb 3

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature

A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.

www.nature.com

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jan 23

Congratulations to @portugueslab.bsky.social ! Dr. Portugues and his lab is really pushing forward this exciting direction!

David Schoppik @schoppik.com · Jan 19

Another banger from @portugueslab.bsky.social taking lessons about the structure and organization of navigation circuits from the fly and mapping them in a vertebrate as only they can. Absolutely the lab to watch.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The representation of visual motion and landmark position aligns with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus

Sensory information is fundamental for navigation. Visual motion is used by animals to estimate their traveling distance and direction, and visual landmarks allow animals to tether their location and ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jan 20

Thanks for the re-post Ruben!

Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Jan 15

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...

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · Jan 15

The opportunity:
Spend 3-4 years in the @weijianzong.bsky.social working side by side with Nobel Laureates & other brilliant professionals in the international research environment at Kavli, located in the heart of beautiful Trondheim.

The team of professionals at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, organised like neural grid cell data across the snow in Trondheim

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Dec 29

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!

Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Dec 29

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!

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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · Dec 20

Congratulations Ruben! This is so exciting study!

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