Welcome to SfN’s Optogenetics Training Series. Advance your understanding of how to optimize optogenetics techniques in your research.

We invite neuroscientists at any training and career stage, institution, and geography, with all levels of familiarity and proficiency with optogenetics, to engage with the series’ resources created for you by more than 20 global neuroscience leaders.

You have unparalleled opportunities to enhance your knowledge about how to use optogenetics techniques appropriately, effectively, and rigorously:

• Learn from and ask for advice from experts pioneering optogenetics approaches to advance various research objectives.
• Find out how to design and conduct rigorous experiments using optogenetics methods in a diversity of lab environments.
• Understand how optogenetics techniques are evolving so you can implement the newest technologies.

Training Modules

The series’ eight training modules, organized in partnership with neuroscientists Kamran Khodakhah (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Alexandra Nelson (University of California, San Francisco), and Veronica Alvarez (NIH Intramural Research Program/NIAAA), consist of short lectures and demonstration videos, written articles, and recommended reading lists you can access anytime. View some or all of the content in the order you prefer.