Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Founder of Sculpted Light in the Brain Conference. Interested in using Multiphoton Optogenetics to study Neural Circuits
Ian Oldenburg
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We are hiring a postdoc! We study neural activity and movement using holographic optogenetics, imaging, and recordings in awake mice.
My first postdoc, Masashi, is starting his own lab, so now we have an opening.
Seeking candidates excited about circuits, optics, coding, or ephys. oldenburglab.com
Decoding the motor system through the use of multiphoton holographic optogenetics.
Nature research paper: Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour
go.nature.com/4pFLw7V
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
The Constitution is being shredded by this president and his Project 2025 team now in the White House- from abolishing agencies created by Congress, to seizing spending power, to accepting bribes (emoluments), to war and tariffs without Congress.
We must not normalize this.
Ian Oldenburg
With Masashi launching his new lab, we’ll be recruiting a new postdoc in the Oldenburg Lab.
Work: high-precision multiphoton holography, neural coding, motor cortex circuits, all-optical physiology.
If you’re interested, just reach out.
Email me if you're interested
Last summer @cshlaboratory.bsky.social I met their poet-in-residence Liza Katz Duncan, and we ended up talking about one of academia’s biggest problems: our lack of communication with the broader public. She wrote a great essay about it. www.strangepilgrims.com/p/we-need-to...
Proud to share that my first postdoc, Masashi Hasegawa, will be starting his own lab as a Chica and Heinz Schaller Research Group Leader at Heidelberg University! He’ll be continuing our holography-based work on cortical circuits. Phenomenal scientist, even better human.
Rutgers Health put together a gorgeous new research video, with lots of shots from our lab throughout.
They even lit our holography rig in wildly impractical but very snazzy colors!
vimeo.com/1158839664?f...
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