This project is a collaboration with Prof. Richard van Wezel and Dr. Naoki Kogo from the Donders Institute at Radboud University.
Through an innovative all-optical approach, the ELEANOR project aims to study the role of dendritic and synaptic properties of human neurons in transforming an ensemble of synaptic inputs into an output pattern. The all-optical approach is designed to generate a multitude of synaptic inputs at multiple dendritic locations with single dendrite-level precision and micron-level spatial resolution addressing a gap in existing approaches. The ELEANOR project will be a collaborative effort involving Prof. Richard van Wezel and Dr. Naoki Kogo from the Donders Institute at Radboud University.
About Imran Avci
Imran Avci received her PhD degree from the Integrated Optical Microsystems Group at the University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2012. During her PhD research, she developed an on-chip optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, with the goal of cost and size reduction of these bulky systems. Between 2013 and 2015 she was a postdoctoral researcher at Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School. She worked on a functional imaging system called OCT vibrography for assessing corneal biomechanical properties. In 2015, she received a VENI grant and returned to the Netherlands as a post-doctoral researcher at the Academic Medical Center (AMC). In 2016, she received a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship. She is an Associate Professor at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Biophotonics and Medical Imaging Group.