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Tsai Wen Chen
Researcher at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Publications - 25
Citations - 10820
Tsai Wen Chen is an academic researcher from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Calcium imaging & Biological neural network. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 25 publications receiving 8714 citations. Previous affiliations of Tsai Wen Chen include National Yang-Ming University & University of Göttingen.
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Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity.
Tsai Wen Chen,Trevor J. Wardill,Trevor J. Wardill,Yi Sun,Stefan R. Pulver,Sabine L. Renninger,Amy Baohan,Amy Baohan,Eric R. Schreiter,Rex Kerr,Michael B. Orger,Vivek Jayaraman,Loren L. Looger,Karel Svoboda,Douglas S. Kim +14 more
TL;DR: A family of ultrasensitive protein calcium sensors (GCaMP6) that outperformed other sensors in cultured neurons and in zebrafish, flies and mice in vivo are developed and provide new windows into the organization and dynamics of neural circuits over multiple spatial and temporal scales.
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Optimization of a GCaMP calcium indicator for neural activity imaging.
Jasper Akerboom,Tsai Wen Chen,Trevor J. Wardill,Lin Tian,Lin Tian,Jonathan S. Marvin,Sevinç Mutlu,Sevinç Mutlu,Nicole Carreras Calderón,Nicole Carreras Calderón,Nicole Carreras Calderón,Federico Esposti,Bart G. Borghuis,Bart G. Borghuis,Xiaonan Richard Sun,Andrew Gordus,Michael B. Orger,Michael B. Orger,Ruben Portugues,Florian Engert,John J. Macklin,Alessandro Filosa,Aman Aggarwal,Aman Aggarwal,Rex Kerr,Ryousuke Takagi,Sebastian Kracun,Eiji Shigetomi,Baljit S. Khakh,Herwig Baier,Leon Lagnado,Samuel S.-H. Wang,Cornelia I. Bargmann,Bruce E. Kimmel,Vivek Jayaraman,Karel Svoboda,Douglas S. Kim,Eric R. Schreiter,Eric R. Schreiter,Loren L. Looger +39 more
TL;DR: GCaMP5 fluorescence provides a more reliable measure of neuronal activity than its predecessor GCaMP3, which allows more sensitive detection of neural activity in vivo and may find widespread applications for cellular imaging in general.
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An optimized fluorescent probe for visualizing glutamate neurotransmission
Jonathan S. Marvin,Bart G. Borghuis,Bart G. Borghuis,Lin Tian,Lin Tian,Joseph Cichon,Mark T. Harnett,Jasper Akerboom,Andrew Gordus,Sabine L. Renninger,Tsai Wen Chen,Cornelia I. Bargmann,Michael B. Orger,Eric R. Schreiter,Jonathan B. Demb,Wen-Biao Gan,S. Andrew Hires,Loren L. Looger +17 more
TL;DR: An intensity-based glutamate-sensing fluorescent reporter with signal-to-noise ratio and kinetics appropriate for in vivo imaging is described and its utility for visualizing glutamate release by neurons and astrocytes in increasingly intact neurological systems is validated.
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Genetically encoded calcium indicators for multi-color neural activity imaging and combination with optogenetics.
Jasper Akerboom,Nicole Carreras Calderón,Nicole Carreras Calderón,Nicole Carreras Calderón,Lin Tian,Lin Tian,Sebastian Wabnig,Matthias Prigge,Johan Tolö,Andrew Gordus,Michael B. Orger,Michael B. Orger,Kristen E. Severi,John J. Macklin,Ronak Patel,Stefan R. Pulver,Trevor J. Wardill,Trevor J. Wardill,Elisabeth Fischer,Christina Schüler,Tsai Wen Chen,Karen S. Sarkisyan,Jonathan S. Marvin,Cornelia I. Bargmann,Douglas S. Kim,Sebastian Kügler,Leon Lagnado,Peter Hegemann,Alexander Gottschalk,Eric R. Schreiter,Eric R. Schreiter,Loren L. Looger +31 more
TL;DR: Red, single-wavelength GECIs, “RCaMPs,” engineered from circular permutation of the thermostable red fluorescent protein mRuby are described and 2-color calcium imaging is demonstrated both within the same cell (registering mitochondrial and somatic [Ca2+]) and between two populations of cells: neurons and astrocytes.
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Thy1-GCaMP6 Transgenic Mice for Neuronal Population Imaging In Vivo
Hod Dana,Tsai Wen Chen,Amy Hu,Brenda C. Shields,Caiying Guo,Loren L. Looger,Douglas S. Kim,Karel Svoboda +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that GCaMP6 Thy1 transgenic mice are useful for long-term, high-sensitivity imaging in behaving mice and are shown to be effective for in vivo imaging of genetically defined neuronal populations in vivo.