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Whole-brain calcium imaging with cellular resolution in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2015
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Title
Whole-brain calcium imaging with cellular resolution in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2015
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1507110112
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Jeffrey P. Nguyen, Frederick B. Shipley, Ashley N. Linder, George S. Plummer, Mochi Liu, Sagar U. Setru, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Andrew M. Leifer

Abstract

The ability to acquire large-scale recordings of neuronal activity in awake and unrestrained animals is needed to provide new insights into how populations of neurons generate animal behavior. We present an instrument capable of recording intracellular calcium transients from the majority of neurons in the head of a freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans with cellular resolution while simultaneously recording the animal's position, posture, and locomotion. This instrument provides whole-brain imaging with cellular resolution in an unrestrained and behaving animal. We use spinning-disk confocal microscopy to capture 3D volumetric fluorescent images of neurons expressing the calcium indicator GCaMP6s at 6 head-volumes/s. A suite of three cameras monitor neuronal fluorescence and the animal's position and orientation. Custom software tracks the 3D position of the animal's head in real time and two feedback loops adjust a motorized stage and objective to keep the animal's head within the field of view as the animal roams freely. We observe calcium transients from up to 77 neurons for over 4 min and correlate this activity with the animal's behavior. We characterize noise in the system due to animal motion and show that, across worms, multiple neurons show significant correlations with modes of behavior corresponding to forward, backward, and turning locomotion.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 2%
Germany 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Unknown 508 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 160 30%
Researcher 84 16%
Student > Bachelor 53 10%
Student > Master 48 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 5%
Other 74 14%
Unknown 85 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 118 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 104 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 60 11%
Engineering 48 9%
Physics and Astronomy 40 8%
Other 63 12%
Unknown 98 18%
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#1,925
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